Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers

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Youth Collaboratory
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Funding Opportunities

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

This funding supports the development, expansion, and strengthening of victim service programs for all victims of crime throughout the United States and its territories. Award recipients will increase the quality and quantity of victim services in the following categories: 

  • Category 1: Services to Child and Youth Victims (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve child and youth victims of crime. Child and youth victims are persons who were age 17 or younger when the victimization took place.
  • Category 2: Services to Elder Victims of Abuse, Fraud, and Exploitation (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve victims of elder fraud, abuse, and exploitation. For purposes of this NOFO, victims of elder fraud, abuse, and exploitation are persons who were age 55 or older when the victimization took place.
  • Category 3: Services to Other Crime Victims (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve other victims of crimes (not child or elder victimization), excluding human trafficking. 

Victim services may include, but are not limited to, emergency assistance, case management, shelter and housing, medical and dental care, victim advocacy, transportation, childcare, legal services, and employment assistance.

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline August 15, 2025; JustGrants deadline August 20, 2025

Office for Victims of Crime's Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence Program

This opportunity provides funding for shelter and transitional housing and other assistance to victims of domestic violence and their companion animals, which under this program means pets, service animals, emotional support animals, and horses. This opportunity will:

  • Increase the number of shelter beds and transitional housing options to meet the needs of victims of domestic violence who need shelter or housing for themselves and their companion animals.
  • Provide assistance with expenses incurred for relocation or temporary shelter, housing, boarding, or fostering of the companion animals that are related to securing the safety of the animal(s).
  • Locate and secure safe housing for a victim who is fleeing a situation of domestic violence and the victim’s companion animal(s).  
  • Delivery of training for law enforcement, victim service providers and other stakeholders on the link between domestic violence and the abuse and neglect of animals, the needs of victims of domestic violence, best practices for providing support services to such victims, best practices for providing such victims with referrals to victim services, and the importance of confidentiality.  
  • Provide training for service providers on (1) the link between domestic violence and the abuse and neglect of companion animals; (2) the needs of victims of domestic violence; (3) best practices for providing or referring support services for such victims; and (4) best practices in designing and delivering services that protect victims’ confidentiality.  

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline August 15, 2025; JustGrants deadline August 20, 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

The Bolger Foundation

The focus of The Bolger Foundation is conservation and preservation; those underprivileged and underserved; health, including mental health; community; and education. The Bolger Foundation favors capital projects, such as (but not limited to) hard costs related to the construction or purchase of new facilities, building renovations and improvements, purchase of capital equipment and furnishings, and/or other one-time capital needs. The project to be funded must have a budget of less than $5 million, and grants range from $10,000 to $250,000.

Deadline: September 1, 2025

The J.W. Couch Foundation Grants

The Foundation believes that impact is best accomplished through partnerships with local organizations that know the people and communities they serve. It invests in and supports efforts to protect the environment, further conservation and preservation initiatives, and save historical architecture that preserves community heritage. It also supports initiatives that promote wellness and mental health and organizations seeking to provide and further education for all communities. The Foundation's 2025 focus areas include: animal welbeing, early childhood education, teachers, and getting outside.

Deadline: September 26, 2025

American Heart Association's Social Impact Funds

The Social Impact Funds support community-led transformation by strategically deploying capital to social entrepreneurs who are tackling three vital social drivers of health: healthcare access and quality, food security, and economic empowerment. The Association that are translating evidence-based science research and clinical know-how into solutions that address these drivers. Currently the Association has the following funding opportunities available: 

  • Nationwide, general project funding
  • Fight food insecurity
  • Special initiative: loneliness and isolation

Deadline: None

Free Webinars and Trainings

What Non-Profit Media Professionals Need to Know to Thrive in Today’s Evolving Digital Media Landscape
Child Welfare League of America
August 20, 2025

2025 State of Developmental Relationships
Search Institute
August 20, 2025

Enhancing Mentoring Excellence: Exploring the New 5th Edition of the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring
MENTOR
August 21, 2025

Trash & Treasure
A Way Home America
August 29, 2025

Not Another “Self-Care” Webinar
All Justice Clearinghouse
November 4, 2025

Upcoming Events

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

 

Youth Justice in Action Conference
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
October 14-16, 2025
Minneapolis, MN

Job Openings