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Grants and Funding Opportunities

  • CHW Community Benefit and Mercy Foundation invite you to participate in a FREE grant writing workshop on June 10!  -- more...

  • “Finding Funding: A Guide To Federal Sources For Youth Programs”. It's 166 pages of lists of specific programs and funding sources that is amazingly thorough. Check it out.

Ongoing Grant and Funding Resource:

  • CA Dept of Education Funding --Available funding through The California Department of Education. Search for funding available through the California Department of Education

  • California Afterschool Network Funding To view funding opportunities listed by deadline date, and view other funding related resources, visit California Afterschool Network Funding 
     
  • Funding opportunity through National Office of Youth Development within Deptartment of Health and Human Services focusing on youth development programming.Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Replication of Evidence-based Programs -- web link
     
  • California After School Network  - grant and funding opportunity listing

  • Non-Profit Resource Center Sacramento - Local Funding Opportunities  Web link

  • Sierra Health Foundation  http://www.sierrahealth.org/

Community General Funding Sources

  • GABY focuses on giving, service, and grantmaking for “living well” -- Gaby Grants Advisory Board for Youth -- Gift of Giving; Learn to Serve; Grantmaking for environmental change...learn more. Visit Gaby to learn how youth can make a difference.

  • The American Honda Foundation funds youth-related projects in the fields of youth education and science education. Next deadline: August 1, 2010.
    More info http://corporate.honda.com/america/philanthropy.aspx?id=ahf

  • The Captain Planet Foundation funds hands-on environmental projects for children and youths. They will fund as many projects as its annual resources allow. In order to be considered for funding, proposals must: focus on hands-on involvement, and include children and young adults ages 6-18 (elementary to high school) with adult supervision.  Multiple Deadline Dates: September 30, and December 31st each year.  For more information: http://www.captainplanetfoundation.org/default.aspx?pid=3&tab=apply  Deadline Date:  9/30/2010







Funding Guides and Resources

Grants Resources Compiled by Youth Today:

Youth Today’s Grants E-Blast
Week of July 6, 2010
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College & Careers

Grant: Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success - To develop model programs to support veteran student success in postsecondary education by coordinating services to address the academic, financial, physical and social needs of veteran students.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: Nineteen awards ranging from $250,000 to $400,000 each.
Contact: http://bit.ly/96O6Xe.
 
Grant: Transition programs into higher education for students with intellectual disabilities - To support model demonstration programs that promote the successful transition of students with intellectual disabilities into higher education.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education (IHE) and consortia of IHEs.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: Twenty five awards ranging from $100,000 to $500,000 each.
Contact: http://bit.ly/dhG8rt.
 
Grant: Coordinating center for transition and postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities - To establish a coordinating center for institutions of higher education that offer inclusive comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education, organizations with expertise in the education of students with intellectual disabilities.
Deadline: Aug 2.
Amount: $330,000 (one award).
Contact: http://bit.ly/cHAqjb.
 
Education
 
Grant: Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy - To support the development of literacy skills for adult primary caregivers and their children.
Funder: The Barbara Bush Foundation.
Eligibility: Public organizations and nonprofits.
Deadline: Sept. 10.
Amount: $65,000 (one award).
Contact:http://bit.ly/aI2n7b.
 
Health

Grant: Health and wellness initiative for women attending minority institutions - To provide support to minority institutions to develop and implement new health and wellness projects, as well as sustain existing programs and health promotion activities on campus focusing on young, minority and college women.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges and universities.
Deadline: July 21.
Amount: Eight awards of $100,000 each.
Contact:http://bit.ly/a11Kc5.

Grant: School-based health centers capital program - To support school-based health centers to expand their capacity to provide primary healthcare services to school-age children.  
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Eligibility: School-based health centers.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $50 million for about 1,000 awards.
Contact: http://bit.ly/cUNpVo
 
Parenting
 
Grant: Pregnant and parenting teens and women - To develop and implement programs to assist pregnant and parenting teens and women.
Funder: U.S.Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: States, U.S. territories and tribes.
Deadline: Aug 2.
Amount: Twenty-five grants of $500,000 to $2 million a year.
Contact:http://bit.ly/dc6Gqi.
 
Violence
 
Grant: Family violence prevention and services - To expand and enhance responses to and local services available for children exposed to domestic violence.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: State and tribal domestic violence coalitions, nonprofits.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $450,000 to fund three awards.
Contact:http://bit.ly/banGVG.
 
Youth Development
 
Grant: Training Program for Federal TRIO Programs - The training program provides grants to train the staff and leadership personnel employed or participating in projects funded under the Federal TRIO Programs to improve the operation of these projects.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutes of higher education, public and private nonprofits and organizations.
Deadline: July 29.
Amount: Eight to 10 awards ranging from $350,000 to $450,000 each
Contact:http://bit.ly/b7LfhV.
 
Grants Still Open...from our last e-blast
Child Welfare

Grant: Expanding Services for Children and Youth - To expand and enhance responses to and local services available for children exposed to domestic violence.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: State and tribal domestic violence coalitions and nonprofits.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $450,000 for three grants of about $150,000 each.
 
Grant: Family violence leadership - To develop an academy to promote leadership within the domestic violence field by members of underrepresented groups.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Tribal organizations, nonprofits, culturally specific institutes, state domestic violence coalitions and faith-based organizations.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $500,000 (one award).
 
Grant: Family violence technical assistance and resource development - To gather and disseminate information on best practices and available technical assistance for programs serving children exposed to domestic violence and to provide technical assistance to Expanding Services for Children and Youth grantees.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Nonprofits and for-profits.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $250,000 (one award).
Grant: Project to Avoid Increasing Delinquencies (PAID) through collaborations with other agencies or programs - To demonstrate and evaluate projects that incorporate PAID child support strategies, such as early intervention and linkages with access and visitation services, to improve family outcomes.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: State agencies.
Deadline: July 23.
Amount: $300,000 for three grants.
Contact:www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-OCSE-FD-0034.
 
Grant: Child support and family savings - To support collaborations among state IV-D agencies and Assets for Independence (AFI) program grantees to help low-income parents and individuals receive financial education, including child support information, that can build individual development accounts to be used for education, homes and small businesses.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility:State IV-D agencies, and/or their umbrella agencies, where an AFI grant is in progress.
Deadline: July 23.
Amount: $255,000 for three awards.
Contact:www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-OCSE-FD-0113.
 
Grant: Post-release services for unaccompanied alien children - For comprehensive home studies and/or post-release services for children and sponsors based on the requirements outlined in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Nonprofits and for-profits.
Deadline: July 26.
Amount: $3 million for two grants.
Contact:www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ORR-ZU-0078.
 
Grant: Maternal, infant and early childhood home visiting (Title V) - To strengthen and improve the programs and activities of Title V; improve coordination of services for at-risk communities; and identify and provide evidence-based home visiting programs to improve outcomes for families who reside in at-risk communities, which will be identified through a statewide assessment of needs and existing resources. 
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: States, District of Columbia and territorial governments.
Deadline: July 9.
Amount: $90 million for 56 grants.
 
Grant: Reducing long-term foster care - To address issues that cause children and youth to remain in foster care longer than three years.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility:States, tribes and counties.
Deadline: Aug. 9.
Amount: $17 million for five awards.
Contact:www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CT-0022.
 
Grant: National resource center for abandoned children - A center to provide training and technical assistance to build the capacity of programs that serve abandoned infants, young children and their families.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits and for-profits.
Deadline: Aug. 2.
Amount: $1.1 million (one award).
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CB-0026.
 
Grant: Residential services for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) - To provide temporary shelter care and other related services for UAC in government custody.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility:Unrestricted.
Deadline: July 19.
Amount: $45 million for 15 grants.
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ORR-ZU-0074.
 
Grant: National domestic violence hot line - To provide information and referral services, counseling and assistance to victims of domestic violence, their children and other family members.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility:Nonprofits.
Deadline: July 19.
Amount: $3.2 million (one award).
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-EV-0016.
 
Grant: Native Hawaiian and American Indian organization child care grants - To increase the availability, affordability and quality of child care programs in underserved areas.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility:Native Hawaiian and American Indian nonprofits and others.
Deadline: July 26.
Amount: $2 million for two awards.
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-OFA-YN-0027.
 
Grant: Child welfare funds - To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth; and to disseminate knowledge possessed by well-established organizations on what works.
Funder: American Legion Child Welfare Foundation.
Eligibility:Nonprofits.
Deadline: July 15.
Amount: In the previous grant round, the foundation awarded a total of $530,700 to 18 nonprofits.
Contact: www.cwf-inc.org/grantseekers/overview.
Civic Engagement

Grant: Pesticide environmental stewardship - To address pesticide risk reduction, integrated pest management (IPM), IPM in schools, children's health issues related to pesticides and research methods for documenting IPM adoption or the reduction of risks associated with changes in pesticide use.
Funder: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Eligibility: States, tribes and organizations; public educational institutions; and public agencies or instrumentalities of a state.
Deadline: July 26.
Amount: $530,000 total for about 11 awards.
 
Grant: Lead agency for Global Youth Service Day - To attend the Youth Service Institute and for ongoing training and technical assistance from Youth Service America to ensure a successful Global Youth Service Day.
Funder: State Farm Companies Foundation.
Eligibility: Local, regional or statewide organizations across the United States and from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario or New Brunswick.
Deadline: July 15.
Amount: $2,000 each.
Grant: Change for Children - For sustainable community action projects, programs or ideas related to the Special Olympics, diabetes awareness or volunteerism.
Funder: Do Something and The Jonas Brothers Change for the Children Foundation.
Eligibility: Individuals age 25 and under.
Deadline: July 15.
Amount: 10 projects will receive $1,500 each.
Contact:www.dosomething.org/grants/changeforthechildren.
 
Grant: Friends for Change - To encourage youths to get together with friends to help the planet.
Funder: Disney and Youth Service America.
Eligibility: Schools, organizations and individuals planning service projects.
Deadline: July 15.
Amount:75 grants of $500 each.
Contact: www.ysa.org/grants/announcements/disneys-friends-change-grants-deadline-july-15.
 
Grant: 2010 Healthy Sprouts Award - To plan a garden in 2011 with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18.
Funder: The National Gardening Association and Subaru.
Eligibility: Schools and organizations.
Deadline: Oct. 1.
Amount: 30 grants that will include $500 gift certificates to the Gardening with Kids catalog, among other items.
Contact: www.kidsgardening.com/grants/healthysprouts.asp.
Grant: Books for Children - For donations of new, quality, hardcover children's books to small, rural public libraries.
Funder: The Libri Foundation.
Eligibility: Libraries within the 50 states, including school libraries that also serve as public libraries.
Deadline: Aug. 15.
Amount: Grants are provided in the form of books.
Contact:www.librifoundation.org/apps.html.
 
Grant: Small grants to libraries - To take traveling exhibitions and other types of humanities public programming to libraries across the country.
Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $2,500 each for 30 grants.
Contact: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/SGL_Alcott.html.
 
Grant: Environmental training for youths - To introduce youth to natural resource careers through hands-on work with, and training by, natural resource professionals employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Funder: U.S. Department of the Interior.
Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments; independent school districts; public housing authorities; Native American tribal organizations; higher education institutions; nonprofits and for-profits; and small businesses.
Deadline: Sept. 29.
Amount: $430,000 for 11 awards ranging from $20,000 to $151,000.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=53282.
College & Careers
 
Grant: Alaska native-serving and native Hawaiian-serving (ANNH) institutions - To help eligible institutions of higher education become self-sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income ANNH students.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education with an undergraduate population of at least 20 percent native Alaskan or 10 percent native Hawaiian.
Deadline: July 14.
Amount: 26 grants of up to $2 million each.
Contact:http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-14228.pdf.
 
Grant: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - To support reforms, innovations and significant improvements of postsecondary education that respond to problems of national significance and serve as national models.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education (IHEs) or combinations of IHEs and other public and private nonprofit institutions and agencies.
Deadline: July 29.
Amount: $27 million for 37 grants.
Contact: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-14235.pdf.
Grant: Service learning - For community colleges interested in organizing and hosting regional workshops on service learning.
Funder: American Association of Community Colleges.
Eligibility: Community colleges.
Deadline: Aug. 6.
Amount: $2,000 mini-grants to four colleges.
Contact:www.aacc.nche.edu/Resources/GrantOpps/Pages/default.aspx.
Grant: Predominantly black institutions formula grants - To plan, develop, undertake and implement programs to enhance the capacity of these institutions to serve more low- and middle-income black American students.
Funder:  U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education with an undergraduate enrollment that is at least 40 percent black American students.
Deadline:  Aug 20.
Amount: $10.8 million, minimum award is $250,000
Education

Grant: Full-Service Community Schools - To coordinate academic, social and health services through partnerships between schools and community-based organizations.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Consortia of local educational agencies and one or more community-based organizations.
Deadline: July 23.
Amount: $5 million for eight to 12 awards ranging from $275,000 to $500,000 each.
Contact:http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-13781.htm.
Grant: Smaller Learning Communities - To support the restructuring of large public high schools into smaller units for the purpose of improving academic achievement.
Funder: U.S.Department of Education.
Eligibility: Public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students.
Deadline: Aug 6.
Amount: 14 awards of $2.5 million each.
 
Grant: STEMester of Service - To engage educators and students in addressing critical environmental needs and connecting them to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curricula, specifically science and technology.
Funder: Learn and Serve America.
Eligibility:  Middle schools with large populations of disadvantaged youth in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Washington and Wyoming.
Deadline: July 15.
Amount:  $5,000 each for 10 awards.
 
Grant: Italian language studies - To launch or expand the teaching of Italian in local public or private elementary, intermediate or high schools.
Funder: National Italian American Foundation.
Eligibility: Nonprofits, community groups and schools.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $1.125 million for grants ranging from $500 to $15,000
Grant: Educational facilities clearinghouse - To provide technical assistance and training on the planning, design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of public nursery and pre-kindergarten, kindergarten-through-grade-12 and higher education facilities.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: State or local educational agencies; institutions of higher education; or other public or private agencies, organizations or institutions.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $1 million (one award).
 
Grant: High school graduation initiative - To implement effective, sustainable and coordinated dropout prevention and re-entry programs in schools that serve students in grades 6 through 12 and that have above-average dropout rates or are middle schools whose students will attend such schools.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Local and state educational agencies.
Deadline: July 28.
Amount: $45 million for 50 awards averaging $900,000 each.
Grant: Recovery Act: early learning mentor coaches - To pay resource coaches to provide on-the-job guidance, technical assistance and training to teachers, home visitors and family child care providers who work in Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Federally funded Head Start and Early Head Start agencies.
Deadline: July 19.
Amount: $25 million for up to 150 grants.
Contact:www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/
HHS-2010-ACF-OHS-ST-0120.
 
Grant: Science and math grants for grades 6 through 12 - For projects that make science and mathematics more engaging for students.
Funder: Toshiba America Foundation.
Eligibility: Public and private schools.
Deadline: Aug. 2 for grants of more than $5,000.
Amount: Applications for $5,000 each are accepted on a rolling basis; requests for more than $5,000 are reviewed twice a year.
Contact: www.toshiba.com/taf/612.jsp.
 
Grant: Office Depot funds - For the priorities of serving, teaching and inspiring children, youth and families; supporting civic organizations and activities that serve community needs; and
disaster relief.
Funder: Office Depot Foundation.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Nov. 15.
Amount: Most grants average $1,000 each.
Contact: www.officedepotfoundation.com/funding.asp.
 
Grant: Education and special education research - To expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of education from early childhood through postsecondary and adult education.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit agencies and institutions. 
Deadline: Sept. 16.
Amount: Grants will range from $91,500 to $2 million each.
Contact: http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/
2010-1/020410c.pdf.
 
Grant: Recovery Act Race to the Top - To encourage and reward states that are creating the conditions for education innovation and reform.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: States, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Deadline: Aug. 2.
Amount: $4 billion will be awarded in two phases; grants range from $20 million to $700 million each.
Contact: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov:80/
2009/E9-27427.htm.
Health
Grant: Healthy living grants - To encourage healthy lifestyles in communities across the nationin these three categories: nutrition and physical fitness, alcohol, substance abuse and smoking prevention and violence prevention.
Funder:  American Medical Association.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: July 15.
Amount: 15 to 20 grants of $5,000 each.
 
Grant: Reducing obesity among adolescents and young adults with disabilities from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds - Programming and research related to reducing obesity and obesity-related health conditions among disabled, ethnically-diverse adolescents and young adults.
Funder: U.S.Department of Education.
Eligibility: States, nonprofits, for-profits and institutions of higher education, tribes and tribal groups.
Deadline:  Aug 10.
Amount: One award of no more than$400,000
 
Grant: Tribal maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting - To provide high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services to pregnant women and families with young children aged birth to kindergarten.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Tribes and tribal organizations.
Deadline: July 26.
Amount: $3 million for 15 grants ranging from $100,000 to $500,000.
Grant: Training and technical assistance for refugee-serving agencies - To address the special health and mental health risks, challenges and needs of refugees, and to assist agencies in providing the highest quality services to refugees.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits and for-profits.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $500,000 (one grant).
 
Grant: The Carol M. White Physical Education program - To initiate, expand and improve physical education for students in grades K through 12.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Local education agencies and community-based organizations.
Deadline: July 19.
Amount: Nearly $40 million for 93 awards ranging from $100,000 to $750,000 each.

Grant: Youth health and well-being - For national programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children, address a significant funding gap or critical opportunity, have a long-term impact in terms of replication or reach, produce measurable results and are sustainable.
Funder: Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Sept. 7 (for letters of inquiry).
Amount: Not specified.
Contact: http://rmhc.org/what-we-do/grants/how-to-apply.
 
Grant: Active Living Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity - For research to inform the policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity among children and adolescents, decreasing their sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eligibility: Public or private nonprofits.
Deadline: Open (until July 1, 2011).
Amount: $1.5 million for grants of up to $150,000 each.
Contact: www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21121&cid=xem-emc-fa.
 
Grant: Local Funding Partnerships 2011 - For community-funder partnership projects designed to improve the health of vulnerable people.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eligibility: Independent and private foundations, family and community foundations, and corporate and other philanthropies.
Deadline: Stage 1 brief proposals, June 30; stage 2 full proposals, Nov. 10.
Amount: Up to 12 matching grants of $200,000 to $500,000 each.
Contact: www.localfundingpartnerships.org.
Homeless/Runaway
 
Grant: Street Outreach - To conduct outreach services designed to build relationships between grantee staff and runaway, homeless and street youth.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Public agencies and nonprofits.
Deadline: July 19.
Amount: $8.5 million for 85 grants of up to $200,000 each.
Contact:http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=54920.
 
Grant: Basic Centers - Alternative shelters for runaway and homeless youth who might otherwise end up in the custody of law enforcement or in the child welfare, mental health or juvenile justice systems. Centers provide youths with safe and appropriate shelter; individual, family and group counseling, as appropriate; and after care.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits and coordinated networks of such entities.
Deadline: July 19.
Amount: $15.8 million for 120 grants of up to $200,000 each.
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CY-0002.
Juvenile Justice
 
Grant: Tribal youth justice fellowship - To help the federal government improve its partnership with federally recognized tribes on tribal justice matters and support for tribal children and youth.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice.
Eligibility: Individuals.
Deadline: July 19.
Amount: $125,000 (one award).
Contact:
Grant: Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence - For projects that increase well-being and improve health by removing the obstacles caused by violence.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eligibility: Partnership proposals must include an eligible nominating funder and a nonprofit applicant organization. Consult notice for complete details.
Deadline: Sept. 1.
Amount: Eight matching grants of between $50,000 to $200,000 each.
Contact:www.localfundingpartnerships.org/html/apply/special/ss-programdetails.html.
 
Grant: National Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention ("ACEs") - To set up these centers, which aim to reduce youth violence in defined high-risk communities by implementing and evaluating evidence-based prevention approaches.
Funder: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit universities and university-associated teaching hospitals.
Deadline: Dec. 6.
Amount: $5.2 million for up to four awards this fiscal year.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=52740.
Mentoring
 
Grant: Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program - To create and maintain one-on-one mentoring relationships between children of incarcerated parents and caring, supportive adult volunteer mentors.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: 80 awards ranging from $200,000 to $1 million each.
Contact:www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CV-0070.
 
Grant: Mentoring Children of Prisoners statewide projects - To create and maintain one-on-one mentoring relationships between children of incarcerated parents and caring, supportive adult volunteer mentors.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits in: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Arizona, North Carolina, Louisiana, Virginia, Alabama and Missouri.
Deadline: July 30.
Amount: $15 million for eight grants.
Contact:www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CV-0083.
Recreation
Grant: NAMM Foundation program grants - To advance access to music education and music making for people of all ages.
Funder: The NAMM Foundation.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Sept. 30.
Amount: Not specified.
Safety
 
Grant: Recovery Act: data on Internet crimes against children - To fund activities that will support the future development of the National Internet Crimes Against Children Data System.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Eligibility:DOJ-funded Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces must be the lead applicants, but may include partners with special expertise in certain components of the project.
Deadline: July 15.
Amount: $905,000 (one award).
Contact: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2010/ARRA%20NIDS.pdf.
Sexual Behavior

Grant: Project HOPE: Helping Organizations Provide Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention for women and girls - To provide HIV/AIDS prevention education to U.S. women and girls at risk for infection or those who are living with a positive diagnosis.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits and community-based and tribal organizations.
Deadline: July 21.
Amount: $500,000 (one award).
Contact: www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=11663.
Grant: Young women's HIV/STD mobilization project - To provide accurate and comprehensive information on HIV/AIDS/STD prevention and healthy behaviors to maintain both mental and physical health for young women ages 13 to 24.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Eligibility: Nonprofits, tribal organizations and community-based organizations.
Deadline: July 15.
Amount: Three to five awards ranging from $150,000 to $250,000 each.
Grant: Informed decision-making in youths at risk for HIV/AIDS - For interdisciplinary formative research projects exploring the neurological basis of HIV/AIDS risk avoidance decision-making among adolescents.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility:Public, state, private and Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education; historically black colleges and universities; tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs); and public and private nonprofits, for-profits, schools and other types of organizations.
Deadline: Aug. 31.
Amount: $2.6 million for four to six projects.
Substance Abuse

Grant: Youth/young adult alcohol prevention trials - To advance the science of alcohol prevention and treatment through evaluations of multi-component community programs, with a specific focus on adolescents and young adults.
Funder: National Institutes of Health.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Dec. 2.                                  
Amount: $1 million for one to two awards.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=54447.
 
Grant: Rapid Response/special opportunities in drug policy - To promote policy change and advance drug policy reform at the local, state and national levels.
Funder: Drug Policy Alliance.
Eligibility: Time-sensitive projects that respond to or take advantage of sudden and strategic public education efforts and campaigns to block drug war initiatives or advance drug policy reform.
Deadline: First business day of the month.
Amount: $200,000 for grants of $15,000 to $20,000.
Contact: www.drugpolicy.org/about/jobsfunding/grants/rapid.
Youth Development
 
Grant: Youth development - To evaluate, replicate and disseminate innovative and effective programs that help disadvantaged youth reach their full potential.
Funder: Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation.
Eligibility: Program in the greater metropolitan areas of Baltimore; Boston; Madison and Milwaukee, Wis.; Philadelphia; San Francisco; and Washington, D.C.
Deadline: July 28.
Amount: $5,000 to $30,000 each.
Contact: www.rmyf.org/content.cfm?u=aboutus.