Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers

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Youth Collaboratory
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Funding Opportunities

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation seeks to dramatically improve the lives of underserved communities across the globe by supporting scalable, innovative, and impact-first solutions that leverage existing systems and stakeholders. Its goal is to find social entrepreneurs with dynamic products or services that have a proven ability to positively impact the lives of underserved people, and nurture those organizations at the early stages by providing capacity, capital, and community. Borrowing from its venture capital legacy, we find exceptional entrepreneurs and provide them with:

  • Capacity: The core of DRK's model is deep and extensive operational and technical support for each portfolio organization, both through dedicated hands-on Board service and specialist capacity-building resources for fundraising, board and organizational development, leadership, financial support, and scaling strategy,
  • Capital: DRK provides up to $300,000 in either unrestricted grant funding or investment capital over a three-year period, and
  • Community: DRK convenes its portfolio and alumni annually, facilitating connections and community.

Deadline: Rolling

RedRover Relief Safe Housing Grants

RedRover offers grants of up to $60,000 to nonprofit domestic violence and animal organizations across the U.S., as well as homeless shelters to become pet friendly. Funding may be used to build or renovate spaces dedicated to housing the pets, begin a foster program to care for pets, pay for temporary boarding for pets, or a combination of services that will best serve your community. Grant funds may also be used for routine veterinary care, emergency veterinary care, and pet deposits. In addition to helping people and pets find safety together, these grants are meant to help build collaborative relationships within your community. Organizations will be expected to work together to identify the needs for these services in their communities and find the best ways to fill them. 

Deadline: June 1, 2025 & September 1, 2025

AWS Imagine Grants Program

AWS Imagine Grants Program goal is to empower nonprofit organizations to prioritize technology as a mission-critical component of their projects by providing support for organizations pursuing technology-driven goals. As part of the program, we are seeking proposals for pilot projects, proofs of concept, or existing programs that utilize technology in a new or expanded way. Awards are provided in three categories, based on an organization’s goals and the stage of their technology adoption journey:

  • The Pathfinder - Generative AI award provides support for highly innovative, mission-critical projects that leverage generative AI.
  • The Go Further, Faster award provides support for highly innovative projects that leverage the cloud.
  • The Momentum to Modernize award provides support for infrastructure projects that allow nonprofits to transform and enhance their core mission operations with technology, such as migrating servers to the cloud and modernizing new and existing applications.

Deadline: June 2, 2025

U.S. Department of Justice's Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program

Funding supports transitional housing and support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance as a result of a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Funds under this program must be used for the following purposes:

  • Transitional housing, including funding for the operating expenses of newly developed or existing transitional housing.  
  • Short-term housing assistance, including rental or utilities payments assistance and assistance with related expenses such as payment of security deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to transitional housing.  
  • Support services designed to enable a minor, an adult, or a dependent of such minor or adult, who is fleeing a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline June 9, 2025; JustGrants deadline July 11, 2025

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

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

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

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