Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers

By
Youth Collaboratory
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Funding Opportunities

Rural Youth Leaders

Calling all creative changemakers in rural communities. Rural Youth Leaders is a new collaborative initiative rooted in place, culture, and the transformative power of youth leadership. Rural Youth Leaders is launching two groundbreaking programs this year:

  • Youth Fellowship for emerging leaders aged 18-24 who are:
    • Engaged in creative arts and cultural traditions
    • Invested in supporting & strengthening their rural places
    • Committed to their own success & the success of their communities
    • Capable and willing to lead in the rural place they call home.
  • Stewards Network for the people who steward and support creative young leaders in their local communities including educators, artists, culture bearers, creative practitioners, and any other youth advocate who uses creative practices and/or cultural traditions to support rural young people of any age.

Deadline: June 16, 2025

KidsGardening's Lots of Compassion Grant

Together, Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day and KidsGardening designed the Lots of Compassion Grant program to support local leaders looking to transform vacant lots into gardens to help grow compassion in their community. In 2025, 10 grantees will receive $20,000 each to transform a vacant lot into a garden. A total of $200,000 will be awarded annually. Nonprofit organizations, school districts, universities, religious organizations, or other tax-exempt organizations in the United States and U.S. territories are eligible to apply.
Groups and individuals are also eligible to apply by partnering with a fiscal sponsor who has achieved tax-exempt status.

Deadline: June 16, 2025

Teshinsky Family Foundation

The Teshinsky Family Foundation is dedicated to helping people develop skills to enter sustainable careers, leading to successful lives and personal liberty. To do so, it is necessary to challenge the established secondary education paradigm, as increasing numbers of young people are looking for alternatives. The Career Pathways Training Grant aims to support direct service training programs for post-secondary career pathways that meet the following criteria:

  • Direct Training aligned with career opportunities at no cost to participants.
  • Employment Pipeline in high-wage, sustainable careers with growth potential.
  • Support Services to overcome hurdles known to impede job applicants.

​Deadline: June 23, 2025

U.S. Department of Justice's Grants to Prevent and Respond to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth

Funding supports comprehensive, community-based efforts to develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth (ages 0-24) impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking. Three purpose areas funded through this opportunity include: services and training, creating safer communities for youth, and providing school-based services. 

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline June 30, 2025; JustGrants deadline July 2, 2025

Karma For Cara (K4C) Microgrant Program 

By providing microgrants in varying amounts up to $1,000, K4C helps young citizen leaders execute and magnify their initiatives to help repair our world. Students 18 years of age and under may apply for funds between $250 and $1,000 to complete service projects in their communities throughout the United States. Whether you plan to turn a vacant lot into a community garden, rebuild a school playground or help senior citizens ready their homes for the winter, K4C wants to hear what project you’re passionate about. They fund microgrant applications supporting a wide variety of projects and events; evidence of your creativity and ingenuity only serves to fuel the likelihood that your application will be successfully funded. Microgrants are awarded four times a year.

Deadline: July 1, 2025 and Quarterly Each Year

Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health Innovation Awards

These awards aim to seed fund transformative mental healthcare solutions for children across the U.S. It helps address the lack of investment in youth mental health, connect innovative ideas with capital, and build capacity for nonprofits. There are two award categories: the Innovation Awards ($100,000 each) which are open to all, and the Next Gen Innovation Awards ($25,000 - $50,000 each) which are open to nonprofits founded and/or led by leaders under 32 years old, with more than two years in operation.

Deadline: July 7, 2025

Morgan Stanley Children's Mental Health Innovation Awards

This funding aims to seed fund transformative mental healthcare solutions for children across the U.S. It helps address the lack of investment in youth mental health, connect innovative ideas with capital, and build capacity for nonprofits. U.S.-based 501(c)(3) public charities with an annual total revenue under $5 million are invited to submit innovative ideas for advancing children’s mental health. There are two award categories: the Innovation Awards ($100,000 each) which are open to all, and the Next Gen Innovation Awards ($25,000 - $50,000 each) which are open to nonprofits founded and/or led by leaders under 32 years old, with more than two years in operation. 

Deadline: July 7, 2025

U.S. Department of Justice's Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking Program

Funding enhances the safety of rural victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking by supporting projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural areas. This program supports cooperative efforts among law enforcement officers, prosecutors, victim service providers, and other related parties to investigate and prosecute sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking; treatment, advocacy, counseling, legal assistance, or other victim services for victims in rural communities; or programs addressing sexual assault. Funds must be used for one or more of the following purposes:

  • To identify, assess, and appropriately respond to child, youth, and adult victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking in rural communities, by encouraging collaboration
  • To establish and expand nonprofit, nongovernmental, State, Tribal, territorial, and local government victim services in rural communities to child, youth, and adult victims;
  • To increase the safety and well-being of women and children in rural communities; and
  • To develop, expand, implement, and improve the quality of sexual assault forensic medical examination or sexual assault nurse examiner programs.

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline July 8, 2025; JustGrants deadline July 10, 2025

U.S. Department of Justice's Grants to Engage Men and Youth in Preventing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program

The purpose of this funding is to engage men and youth in preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Funds under this program must be used to implement education, training, or other programming that enables men and youth to serve as allies in the prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Applications that fare well in merit review and substantively address one or more of the priorities listed below, to the extent consistent with the program’s authorizing statute, may receive priority consideration for funding: 

  1. Measures to combat human trafficking and transnational crime, particularly crimes linked to illegal immigration and cartel operations, that support safety and justice for trafficking victims who have also suffered domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking.
  2. Projects to provide victim services, especially housing, and improve law enforcement response in rural and remote areas, Tribal nations, and small towns that often lack resources to effectively combat domestic violence and sexual assault.
  3. Projects designed to uplift, promote positivity, or improve the self-esteem of men and youth as capable allies in the prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.  

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline July 8, 2025; JustGrants deadline July 10, 2025

American Legion Child Welfare Foundation

The primary purpose of the American Legion Child Well-being Foundation (CWF) is to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children and youth; and to aid in research, programs, and activities that benefit the welfare of children and youth. A program is considered an activity or set of activities that seek to achieve or complete specific objectives within a certain time. Research is considered an investigation or experimentation aimed at discovering and interpreting facts or revisions of accepted philosophies to create new or revised theories. CWF only funds programs that meet the essential criteria of direct benefit to the children of the United States, its territories, and its possessions.

Deadline: July 15, 2025

National Endowment for the Arts' Grants for Art Projects

Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides funding for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector. Applications from first-time and returning applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets are all welcome. This program funds arts projects in the following disciplines: Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Film & Media Arts, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Our Town, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts.

Deadline: July 17, 2025

Road Runners Club of America's Kids Run the National Grant Fund

The RRCA’s Kids Run the Nation Grant Fund provides financial support to running clubs, schools, and community-based nonprofits that are launching or currently offering inclusive youth running programs—welcoming children of all genders and abilities. Grants ranging from $500 to $1,000 are awarded annually through a competitive application and review process. 

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Department of the Interior's Youth Conservation Corps

This program’s projects employ participants and opportunities to gain work experience in public lands and natural resources management. Through their Bureau of Land Management (BLM) experience, youth gain an appreciation for public lands, learn about conservation-related careers, and become the next generation of public lands stewards. The BLM Youth Program also helps the agency accomplish mission-critical projects across all program areas. The BLM Youth Program partners with qualified youth and conservation corps through the Public Lands Corp (PLC) Program to engage individuals between the ages of 16 and 30 (inclusive) and veterans up to age 35 (inclusive), including tribal members. The PLC program mandates employing youth who are interested in working on conservation projects that protect public lands.   

Deadline: August 8, 2025

Roller Skating Foundation Grants

The Roller Skating Foundation is dedicated to promoting physical fitness and helping to build self-esteem among school-age children, as well as prevent involvement with drugs and crime. The Foundation seeks to support schools’ educational programs, promote physical fitness, and provide scholarships to deserving high school and undergraduate students. Grants are offered nationwide to schools, educators, nonprofits, and volunteers seeking assistance in accomplishing educational objectives and fitness-related goals. Interested applicants must be affiliated with a skating center.

Deadline: September 1, 2025

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Upcoming Events

Global Intergenerational Conference
Generations United
June 25-27, 2025
Louisville, KY

 

Community Action Agencies Annual Convention
National Community Action Partnership
August 27-29, 2025
Detroit, MI

 

2025 National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness
Point Source Youth
October 7-8, 2025
Baltimore, MD

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