Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers

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Youth Collaboratory
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Funding Opportunities

Family and Youth Service Bureau's Basic Center Program (BCP)

The primary purpose of BCP is to provide temporary, emergency shelter and counseling services to youth less than 18 years of age. Community-based organizations are funded to operate short-term shelters (including group home care and host family homes) and provide counseling services to youth who have run away or are experiencing homelessness or housing instability and who are not already receiving services from the child welfare or juvenile justice systems.

New Deadline: July 28, 2025

Family and Youth Service Bureau's Transitional Living Program (TLP) 

TLP funding provides street-based outreach, shelter and comprehensive supportive services to youth ages 16 through 21 for up to 18 months or, under extenuating circumstances, 21 months. In addition to shelter, TLPs provide comprehensive services that support participating youth's transition to self-sufficiency and stable, independent living. Through the combination of shelter and services, TLP youth are expected to show improvements in four core outcome areas: safe and stable housing, education or employment, permanent connections, and social and emotional well-being.

New Deadline: July 28, 2025

Family and Youth Service Bureau's Maternity Group Home (MGH)

The MGH program provides street-based outreach, safe, stable, and appropriate shelter, and comprehensive services for pregnant and/or parenting youth ages 16 to under 22 and their dependent child(ren) for 18 months and, and up to 21 months under extenuating circumstances. Service providers must accommodate the needs and safety of the dependent children to include facility safety standards for infants and children on the premises. MGH services include, but are not limited to, parenting skills, child development, family budgeting, and health and nutrition education, in addition to the required services provided under the Transitional Living Program (see above) to help MGH youth realize improvements in four core outcome areas. The MGH combination of shelter and services is designed to promote long-term, economic independence to ensure the well-being of the youth and their child(ren).

New Deadline: July 28, 2025

Office of Violence Against Women's Sexual Assault Services - Community-Based Services Program

This program supports nonprofit organizations that aim to enhance access to services for all survivors by providing community-based services in culturally specific communities. Applicants must have documented organizational experience in the area of sexual assault intervention or partner with an organization having such expertise. The goal is to establish, maintain, and expand sustainable, culturally specific intervention and related assistance for victims of sexual assault, which may include: 

  1. 24-hour hotline services providing crisis intervention services and referral;
  2. Accompaniment and advocacy through medical, criminal justice, and social support systems, including medical facilities, police, and court proceedings;
  3. Crisis intervention, short-term individual and group support services, direct payments, and comprehensive service coordination and supervision to assist sexual assault victims and family or household members;
  4. Information and referral to assist the sexual assault victim and family or household members;
  5. Community-based, culturally specific services and support mechanisms, including outreach activities for underserved communities; and
  6. Development and distribution of materials on issues related to the services described above.  

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline July 25, 2025; JustGrants deadline July 29, 2025

Office of Family Assistance's Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive - Adults (HEART)

This program support "healthy marriage promotion" activities as authorized under Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. This funding will be targeted exclusively to projects designed for adult individuals or adult couples, defined as persons who are age 18 and older. Applicants will be asked to submit proposals that are designed to implement programs that include a broad array of service provision strategies. These include curriculum-based skills development and services designed to support family strengthening activities through one or more of seven activities specified under the authorizing legislation: 

  1. Marriage and relationship education/skills (MRES);
  2. Pre-marital education;
  3. Marriage enhancement;
  4. Divorce reduction activities;
  5. Marriage mentoring;
  6. Public advertising campaigns; and
  7. Activities to reduce the disincentives to marriage. 

Deadline: July 29, 2025

Office of Family Assistance's Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life)

This program supports healthy marriage and relationship education activities, including parenting, and job and career advancement activities as authorized under Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. The Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life) grants will be targeted exclusively to projects designed to provide healthy marriage and relationship education skills, parenting (for young fathers and mothers as applicable), financial management, job and career advancement, and other activities, to youth that are high-school aged (grades 9-12) or in late adolescence and early adulthood (ages 14 to 24), including parenting and/or pregnant youth. Grants awarded will support family formation and healthy marriage promotion activities under the authorizing legislation, through marriage and relationship education/skills (MRES). Applicants must provide evidence of organizational capacity to implement their proposed project for the community specified.

Deadline: July 29, 2025

Office of Family Assistance's Family, Opportunity, Resilience, Grit, Engagement – Fatherhood (FORGE Fatherhood)

This program supports "activities to promote responsible fatherhood" under each of the three broad categories of promoting or sustaining marriage, responsible parenting, and economic stability activities authorized under Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. This funding will be targeted exclusively to projects designed for adult fathers, defined as fathers that are age 18 and older. Eligible fathers (or father figures) must have children who are age 24 or younger. Fathers will include those in the general population (or "community fathers"), as well as fathers who are returning, or have returned, to their families and communities, following incarceration. ACF is interested in funding a diverse range of projects, including varying project scopes and populations to be served.

Deadline: July 29, 2025

KFC Foundation's Kentucky Fried Wishes

The KFC Foundation supports community-based nonprofit organizations through capacity-building projects. It invests in projects that help expand program offerings, repair a critical infrastructure, or create new resources. If the total project cost is more than $10,000, it should not exceed $25,000. Preference is given to projects that can be completed within 6-12 months of receiving the grant. The current application window is July 14th - 31st and focuses on expanding access to food and shelter. Examples of projects could include: a food pantry remodel, creation of a community garden, upgrades to an animal shelter, or building repairs or renovations. 

Deadline: July 31, 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

Office of Violence Against Women's Grants to Enhance Community-based Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program

This program supports (1) the maintenance and replication of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking services in community-based programs that offer culturally specific services and other resources; and (2) the development of innovative community-based programming that improves access to services and resources for victims who face obstacles to using traditional services. Funds under this program must support:

  • Working with state and local governments and social service agencies to develop and enhance effective strategies to provide culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.  
  • Increasing communities’ capacity to provide culturally specific resources and support for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking crimes and their families.
  • Strengthening criminal justice interventions, by providing training for law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, and correctional facilities on culturally specific responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.  
  • Enhancing traditional services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through the leadership of culturally specific programs offering services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
  • Working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies highlighting culturally specific issues and resources regarding victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
  • Providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
  • Providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including emergency assistance.
  • Examining the dynamics of culture and its impact on victimization and healing. 

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline August 1, 2025; JustGrants deadline August 5, 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

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

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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

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