Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers

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Youth Collaboratory
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Funding Opportunities

Project for Awesome Grant

The core mission of the Project for Awesome (P4A) is to promote awareness of charities that are making the world a little bit of a better place and to raise funds for charities. In other words, they want to get people excited about lending their time, talent, and money to nonprofits! First, make sure the charity you’re interested in nominating is eligible for a P4A grant! The public can nominate a charity for a P4A grant by creating a video about an organization and submitting it to the P4A website during the annual submissions period (January 25, 2026 - February 8, 2026). Then, during the annual voting period, anyone can watch your video and vote on organizations that they would like to receive P4A funds.

Deadline: February 8, 2026

Office for Victims of Crime's FY25 Housing Assistance for Victims of Human Trafficking

This opportunity provides funding for housing and support services to victims of human trafficking. The primary focus of this program is to provide rapid rehousing (i.e., transitional housing and supportive services that assist human trafficking victims in moving as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieving stability). Projects under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes: (1) transitional housing, including funding for the operating expenses of a newly developed or existing transitional housing program; and (2) short-term housing assistance, including rental or utilities payment assistance and assistance with related expenses, such as payment of security deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to transitional housing.  

Deadlines: Grants.gov deadline February 24, 2026; JustGrants deadline March 3, 2026

Office for Victims of Crime's FY25 Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Human Trafficking

This opportunity funds projects to enhance the availability, quality, and delivery of services to assist minor victims of human trafficking. To address the safety, security, and healing of minor victims of sex and labor trafficking, services should be tailored to their specific needs. Organizations funded under this program are expected to propose programs adapted to the developmental stages of children and youth. Eligibility for services under this grant are limited to victims who were trafficked and began receiving services while under age 18; however, receipt of services can extend beyond the age of 18, as needed. Services may also extend to the victim’s eligible family members if these services impact the minor’s safety, security, and healing. 

Deadlines: Grants.gov deadline February 24, 2026; JustGrants deadline March 3, 2026

Office for Victims of Crime's FY25 Preventing Trafficking of Girls

This opportunity will develop or enhance prevention and early intervention services for girls who are at risk of, or are victims of, sex and/or labor trafficking. Funding will be provided to programs that replicate and scale up prevention and early intervention programs; and implement or enhance efforts to identify and provide comprehensive services to girls/young women who are at risk of, or are victims of, sex and/or labor trafficking through activities such as street outreach, partnerships with organizations that serve youth, partnerships with juvenile justice and child welfare systems, and/or collaboration with other key community stakeholders. 

Deadlines: Grants.gov deadline February 24, 2026; JustGrants deadline March 3, 2026

AE Foundation Community Grants

The AE Foundation works to promote the mental health and well-being of young people to empower authenticity and a better future for all. Now more than ever, it’s important to focus on the mental health and well-being of young people. The AE Foundation strives to fund local programs which support teens and young adults, and the application should center around a program or project that directly supports this population’s mental health and well-being to empower authenticity and a better future for all. 

Deadline: March 2, 2026

Department of Labor's YouthBuild 2025

DOL will award grants through a competitive process to eligible public or private non-profit organizations or Tribal entities to provide pre-apprenticeship occupational skills training, education, and job placement services to opportunity youth. YouthBuild prepares participants for quality jobs in various industry sectors, and includes wrap-around supportive services such as assistance in transportation, childcare, and housing. YouthBuild programs must offer participants construction training and hands-on experiences building affordable housing for their community. Programs may also include a Construction Plus component, providing vocational training in additional high-demand industries.

Deadline: March 2, 2026

Office for Victims of Crime's FY25 Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking

The purpose of the OVC ECM Program is to develop, expand, or strengthen a multidisciplinary approach to better respond to human trafficking. This collaborative approach should include victim and social service providers; law enforcement; prosecution personnel (local, state, and federal); survivors of human trafficking; and a range of other governmental and nongovernmental partners to work together to provide services for victims of trafficking and to investigate and prosecute traffickers. ECM task forces also train law enforcement and other stakeholders on how to identify victims of human trafficking and related offenses, and conduct victim-centered and trauma-informed investigations to prosecute traffickers.  

Deadlines: Grants.gov deadline March 11, 2026; JustGrants deadline March 18, 2026

Office for Victims of Crime's FY25 Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking

This opportunity will develop, enhance, and coordinate programs and activities geared toward improving outcomes for child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking. Outcomes for child and youth victims of human trafficking will be improved through the development and implementation of a statewide or Tribal jurisdiction-wide strategic plan addressing challenges related to identifying and serving child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking, as well as identifying, investigating, and prosecuting traffickers.  

Deadlines: Grants.gov deadline March 11, 2026; JustGrants deadline March 18, 2026

Office for Victims of Crime's FY25 Services for Victims of Human Trafficking

This opportunity will develop, expand, and strengthen victim service programs for victims of all forms of human trafficking throughout the United States and its territories. This program provides funding for comprehensive and specialized services for victims of all forms of human trafficking and is intended for victim services programs serving adults or a combination of adults and minors/youth. 

Deadlines: Grants.gov deadline March 11, 2026; JustGrants deadline March 18, 2026

Office for Victims of Crime's FY26 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside (TVSSA) Program

OVC is seeking population certifications from federally recognized Tribes to signal their intent to apply for the noncompetitive FY 2026 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Formula Grant Program.

Deadline: March 23, 2026

The Charles and Joan Hermanowski Family Foundation

The Foundation focuses on all aspects of a child’s life up to age 21. The Foundation provides support to qualifying charitable organizations that are involved in arts, education, health and welfare services. Amount requested may not exceed $10,000. 

Deadline: March 31, 2026

AmeriCorps State and National Grants

AmeriCorps improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. AmeriCorps brings people together to tackle some of the country’s most pressing challenges through national service and volunteerism. AmeriCorps members serve with organizations dedicated to the improvement of communities and those serving. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations that engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is a person who does community service through AmeriCorps. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits. After successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.

Deadline: March 31, 2026

Emma Carey Groh Trust

The Emma Carey Groh Trust provides grants to group homes, orphanages, and homeless shelters for programs that specifically benefit children, including children with disabilities. Average grant size is around $4,000. 

Deadline: May 1, 2026

Bass Pro Shops & Cabela's Outdoor Fund: Local Impact Grants

The Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Corporate Giving Program seeks to positively shape the future of the outdoors in company communities in Canada and the United States. The company supports local organizations and projects that engage communities near their retail locations and aligns with its conservation pillars of Conserving Wildlife and Connecting New Audiences to the Outdoors. Project examples includes youth fishing clinic, adaptive kayak launch, equipment request for a gear library, or local train maintenance project. Grant awards are up to $5,000.

Deadline: Rolling

Foundation for Grieving Children

The Foundation for Grieving Children, Inc. / F4GC is the first national public charity specifically designed to raise funds for the benefit of children, teens, young adults and their families following the death of a loved one. The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations and programs which: 

  • Assist, counsel, educate and comfort children and families who have experienced the death of a loved one;
  • Educate bereavement, healthcare, education, social service, business, criminal justice and other professionals and society to the needs of the bereaved.

Deadline: Rolling

Hearst Foundation's Funding in Social Services

The Hearst Foundations fund direct-service organizations that tackle the roots of chronic poverty by applying effective solutions to the most challenging social and economic problems. The Foundations prioritize supporting programs that have proven successful in facilitating economic independence and in strengthening families. Preference is also given to programs with the potential to scale productive practices in order to reach more people in need - preference includes youth development. Minimum grant size is $100,000. 

Deadline: Rolling

Free Webinars and Trainings

Developing Tomorrow’s Workforce Today
Responsible Business Initiative for Justice
January 29, 2026

Elevating Coaching Through Intentional Mentorship
Coach-Mentor Training/US Soccer Foundation
February 4, 2026

Effective Management Series: Outreach and Marketing Training 
National Victim Assistance Academy (NVAA) 
February 9, 19 & 26, 2026 (schedule); Application required.

Volunteering Redefined: Ideas from the Field
Idealist
February 19, 2026

2026 Youth Homelessness Index Webinar
National Homelessness Law Center
March 3, 2026

SOAR Online Course Catalog 
Office of Trafficking in Persons (OTIP)
Self-paced trainings to build and enhance skills in preventing and responding to human trafficking.

Upcoming Events

National Mentoring Summit
MENTOR
February 4-6, 2026
Washington, D.C.

Youth Compensation Summit
Youth Economic Empowerment Collective
February 19, 2026
Virtual

Elevate 2026
Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
February 24-26, 2026
Virtual

2026 National Summit on Youth Homelessness + Hill Day
National Network for Youth
March 12-13, 2026
Washington, D.C.

We Keep Us Safe: Collective Action in a Resilient Anti-Trafficking Movement
Freedom Network USA
March 25-26, 2026
Virtual

Rooted in Action: NYEC Annual Forum
National Youth Employment Coalition
March 30-April 1, 2026
Houston, TX

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