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YOUTH TODAY GRANTS E-BLAST

Youth Todays Grants E-Blast
Week of Oct. 15, 2007
2007 Youth Today
Compiled by Erika Fitzpatrick

Arts

Grant: Support for field trips that may involve museum, environmental or science projects, artistic and cultural experiences, and civics or community service projects.
Funder: Target Corp.
Eligibility: Educators, teachers, principals, paraprofessionals or classified staff.
Deadline: Nov. 1.
Amount: Up to 1,600 grants of $1,000 each.
Contact: Website

Grant: Arts Connect All - To enable more students with disabilities to experience social, cognitive and cultural development through arts learning alongside their peers without disabilities
Funder: VSA arts.
Eligibility: Nonprofits arts organizations partnering with public schools in the certain cities are eligible.
Deadline: Dec. 7.
Amount: Up to 10 awards of $15,000 each.
Contact: www.vsarts.org/x273.xml

Child Welfare

Grant: Youth education and welfare - For original research and writing on policies of the National Parent Teacher Association concerning the education and/or welfare of children, including at-risk youth.
Funder: National Parent Teacher Association.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates at accredited graduate schools.
Deadline: Nov. 16.
Amount: Two grants of $5,000 each.
Contact: www.pta.org/fellowship/RFP-Fellowships.pdf

Civic Engagement

*Grant: Teaching American history - For projects that raise student achievement by improving teachers knowledge, understanding and appreciation of traditional American history.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Local educational agencies partnering with higher education agencies, a nonprofit history or humanities organization, or a library or museum.
Deadline: Dec. 10.
Amount: $50 million will fund up to 65 grants.
Contact: Website

*Grant: Del Monte Do Something Good For You - For youth-led, youth-targeted healthy living projects.
Funder: The Food of Del Monte and Do Something.
Eligibility: Individuals under age 25.
Deadline: Nov. 9.
Amount: $2,500.
Contact: Website

Grant: Support for field trips that may involve museum, environmental or science projects, artistic and cultural experiences, and civics or community service projects.
Funder: Target Corp.
Eligibility: Educators, teachers, principals, paraprofessionals or classified staff.
Deadline: Nov. 1.
Amount: Up to 1,600 grants of $1,000 each.
Contact: Website

Grant: Young Explorers - Providing youth with opportunities to pursue research, conservation and exploration-related projects consistent with National Geographic's existing grant programs.
Funder: National Geographic.
Eligibility: Individuals ages 18 to 25.
Deadline: Ongoing.
Amount: $2,000 to $5,000.
Contact: Website

Education

Grant: Youth education and welfare - For original research and writing on policies of the National Parent Teacher Association concerning the education and/or welfare of children, including at-risk youth.
Funder: National Parent Teacher Association.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates at accredited graduate schools.
Deadline: Nov. 16.
Amount: Two grants of $5,000 each.
Contact: Website

Grant: Love Your Veggies - To help elementary schools develop fresh fruit and vegetable programs starting in March 2008 and lasting through the 2008-2009 school year.
Funder: Hidden Valley Ranch Dressings.
Eligibility: Elementary schools.
Deadline: Nov. 30.
Amount: $10,000 to each school.
Contact: www.loveyourveggiesgrants.com/apply.html#

Faith

Grant: Community organizing and economic development projects to break the cycle of poverty, including those assisting at-risk youth.
Funder: Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
Eligibility: Anti-poverty organizations working to change institutions.
Deadline: Nov. 1.
Amount: Grants average $32,000 each.
Contact: www.usccb.org/cchd/grant.shtml

Health

*Grant: Healthy children - To test the effectiveness of a Somerville, Mass., child obesity program by providing three urban areas with training, tools and funding to surround children with healthier eating options and opportunities for active living. Three other sites will be selected to serve as control sites.
Funder: Children in Balance, an umbrella initiative of the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University.
Eligibility: Six communities similar to Somerville in size, diversity and level of community readiness.
Deadline: Letters of intent by Nov. 15.
Amount: Three intervention cities will receive $300,000 over two years, plus training and tools; control sites will receive $10,000 in 2008-2009, plus training and tools.
Contact: www.childreninbalance.org

*Grant: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - For evidence-based programs to decrease or diminish the effects of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).
Funder: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the FASD Center for Excellence (managed by Northrop Grumman).
Eligibility: State agencies, juvenile or tribal courts, local government organizations, federally recognized tribes and private nonprofit organizations.
Deadline: Juvenile courts (due Nov. 29); local organizations (Nov. 8); and state programs (Nov.15).
Amount: Varies; consult requests for proposals for details.
Contact: www.fasdcenter.com/index.php?q=home

Grant: Family health and education - For centers that reduce barriers to community living for people with disabilities and to address families' lack of access to services, advocacy and other assistance.
Funder: U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.
Eligibility: Any public or private entity in states that do not already have a center.
Deadline: Dec. 18.
Amount: $1 million for up to 11 awards.
Contact: Website

Grant: Healthy outcomes - To improve the health and well-being of youth and prepare them to be healthy adults.
Funder: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: School districts, and state, county and tribal governments.
Deadline: Nov 21.
Amount: $32 million is available for 85 awards.
Contact: Website

Grant: Obesity prevention - School-based research projects to improve knowledge of healthy food choices, active lifestyles and behavioral modification programs.
Funder: U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits, educational institutions and others.
Deadline: Nov. 16, March 16, July 16.
Amount: $275,000 over a two-year period.
Contact: Website

Grant: Love Your Veggies - To help elementary schools develop fresh fruit and vegetable programs starting in March 2008 and lasting through the 2008-2009 school year.
Funder: Hidden Valley Ranch Dressings.
Eligibility: Elementary schools.
Deadline: Nov. 30.
Amount: $10,000 to each school.
Contact: Website

Grant: Conference grants - For disseminating knowledge about mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment to influence practices.
Funder: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Oct. 31.
Amount: Up to $50,000 each.
Contact: Website

Grant: Head Start-university partnerships - To identify and assess strategies and interventions that develop and sustain the Head Start teacher behaviors likely to improve outcomes in young children.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Higher education agencies and nonprofits.
Deadline: Nov. 20.
Amount: $1.5 million for up to 10 awards.
Contact: Website

Grant: GE Healthcare - For programs that focus on youth education and/or promote healthy lives.
Funder: General Electric.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Nov. 1, Feb. 1, May 1.
Amount: $1,000 to $50,000.
Contact: Website

Life Skills

Grant: Community-Based Job Training Grants - To support work force training for high-growth/high-demand industries through the national system of community and technical colleges.
Funder: U.S. Employment and Training Administration.
Eligibility: A community or technical college, a community college district, a state community college system or a one-stop career center in partnership with a local workforce investment board.
Deadline: Oct. 31.
Amount: $125 million for 75 awards.
Contact: www.doleta.gov/sga/sga.cfm

Grant: Verizon Foundation - For programs in literacy, domestic violence prevention and technology to improve health care.
Funder: Verizon Foundation.
Eligibility: Elementary and secondary schools registered with the National Center for Education Statistics and nonprofits.
Deadline: Open.
Amount: In 2007, the foundation will distribute about $72 million.
Contact: Website

Grant: Capacity building for community development and affordable housing.
Funder: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Eligibility: Enterprise Community Partners (formerly The Enterprise Foundation), Local Initiatives Support Corp., Habitat for Humanity and YouthBuild USA.
Deadline: Dec. 12.
Amount: Nearly $30 million.
Contact: Website

Grant: Staples Foundation for Learning - For programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth.
Funder: Staples.
Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations.
Deadline: Dec. 7.
Amount: $5,000 to $25,000.
Contact: www.staplesfoundation.org

Grant: "Light the Way" - For a library conducting exemplary outreach to underserved populations, including youth in nontraditional family settings, such as teen parents, foster children, gay youth and justice-involved youth.
Funder: Association for Library Services to Children and Candlewick Press.
Eligibility: Libraries.
Deadline: Dec. 3.
Amount: One grant of $5,000.
Contact: Website

Grant: Assets for Independence - To help low-income people become economically self-sufficient by teaching them about economic and consumer issues and establishing matched individual development accounts.
Funder: U.S. Administration on Children and Families.
Eligibility: A broad range of public and private organizations, including those that provide services to youth who are saving for higher education.
Deadline: Three times a year on June 15, Nov. 1 and March 15.
Amount: $18 million for 50 to 60 awards.
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/assetbuilding

Management

Grant: Nonprofit worker scholarships - To help social sector nonprofit organizations develop strong leaders.
Funder: American Management Association and the Leader to Leader Institute.
Eligibility: Nonprofit employees with a minimum of three years of experience in social services work. They must be nominated by an executive director or the board leadership.
Deadline: Nov. 15.
Amount: Up to 75 nonprofit leaders will be awarded scholarships of nearly $2,000 for seminar attendance and other benefits.
Contact: Website

Parenting

*Grant: SpankOut Day USA - For events and programs for parents and caregivers on positive discipline and alternatives to physical punishment that take place between April 23 and 30, coinciding with National Child Abuse Prevention Month and SpankOut Day USA (April 30).
Funder: EPOCH-USA (End Physical Punishment of Children).
Eligibility: Nonprofits, schools and churches.
Deadline: Dec. 10.
Amount: Up to 20 $250 mini grants.
Contact: Website

Research

Grant: Graduate Research Fellowship - Topics of study include child abuse and neglect, youth violence and juvenile justice system policies.
Funder: U.S. National Institute of Justice.
Eligibility: Accredited U.S. universities on behalf of doctoral students in the final phase of their dissertations.
Deadline: Nov. 28.
Amount: 10 grants of $20,000 each.
Contact: Website

Recreation

Grant: NFL Grassroots Program - Financial and technical assistance to improve the quality, safety and accessibility of local football fields.
Funder: National Football League and the Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Nov. 30.
Amount: Up to $200,000 for capital improvement projects.
Contact: Website

Substance Abuse

Grant: Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award To fund the development and evaluation of innovative model programs and materials that enhance knowledge and understanding of neuroscience and the biology of drug abuse and addiction among K-12 students, the general public, health care practitioners and other groups.
Funder: U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Eligibility: For-profits, nonprofits and others.
Deadline: Jan. 25.
Amount: Up to $250,000 may be requested annually.
Contact: Web

Grant: Conference grants - For disseminating knowledge about mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment to influence practices.
Funder: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Oct. 31.
Amount: Up to $50,000 each.
Contact: Web

Grant: Substance Abuse Policy Research Program - To encourage experts in public health, law, political science, medicine, sociology, criminal justice, economics, psychology and other behavioral and policy sciences to address substance use issues.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations.
Deadline: Nov. 7 (brief proposals).
Amount: $4 million for awards ranging from $100,000 to $400,000 each.
Contact: Web

Youth Development

Grant: Research fellowships - To increase the supply of, demand for and use of high-quality research to improve youth outcomes and well being.
Funder: William T. Grant Foundation.
Eligibility: Mid-career influential researchers, policymakers and practitioners.
Deadline: Jan. 10.
Amount: Up to $175,000 per fellow and up to $25,000 to defray the costs of hosting a fellow.
Contact: Web

Grant: Child development - To encourage U.S. and international scientists to research family, child care, school and child development issues through analyses of data sets from the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.
Funder: U.S. NICHD.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits, among others.
Deadline: Nov. 16.
Amount: $50,000 per year.
Contact: Web

Grant: Tiger Woods Foundation - For youth development and education grants to underserved youth ages 5 to 17.
Funder: Tiger Woods Foundation.
Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations.
Deadline: Nov. 1; Feb. 1; May 1; Aug. 1.
Amount: $2,500 and $25,000.
Contact: Web

Grant: Changing Faces of America's Children Young Scholars - Research fellowships to identify and understand the challenges faced by immigrant families and their children.
Funder: The Foundation for Child Development.
Eligibility: U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents and people otherwise legally able to work in the U.S.
Deadline: Nov. 1.
Amount: $150,000.
Contact: Web

Grant: Lego Children's Funds For early childhood education and development, technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunities, and sport or athletic programs that concentrate on underserved youth. Special interest is paid to collaborative efforts and the use of matching funds to leverage new organizational dollars.
Funder: The Lego Group.
Eligibility: Nonprofits. Deadline: Nov. 1.
Amount: $500 to $5,000.
Contact: Web