Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers

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Youth Collaboratory
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Funding Opportunities

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

Childhood USA's Grants

Childhood USA’s mission is to inspire, promote, and develop solutions to end develop solutions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of children. Its thematic focus areas are: child safety online, supportive relationships and environments, and child focused response to abuse.

Deadline: September 15, 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

DWF Foundation Grants

The DWF Foundation has the sole aim of providing funds, resources and mentoring support to help individuals, groups and communities to achieve their full potential. It supports registered charities with an impact in one or more of the following areas: homelessness, health and wellbeing, employability, education, and environment and sustainability. Grants are given to initiatives that develop and improve local communities by:

  • Tackling a specific community issue.
  • Helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient.
  • Encouraging the involvement in the community of those too often excluded.
  • Enabling young people to develop skills for the benefit of the community.

Applicants from the United States are consider international applicants, and must contact via email and recieve approval to apply by the Foundation Manager. 

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Administration for Children and Families' Residential (Group Home, Shelter, Transitional Foster Care) Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children

The goal of this funding opportunity is to provide funding to organizations that can deliver high-quality and child-centered care, ensuring the safety and well-being of the children. Services must be available 24/7 with the ability to accept children at any time (as long as it aligns with state licensing requirements and is safe to do so). While children in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) care are under the legal custody of the federal government, they are physically cared for by the care provider. In this funding opportunity, the term "care provider" refers to the prime recipient and, if applicable, its subrecipient. At the time of application, care providers do not have to be licensed by an appropriate licensing agency to provide shelter, group home, or foster care services for children. However, care providers must be fully licensed prior to accepting children for placement within the timeframes specified in the funding opportunity.

Deadline: October 14, 2025

The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation

Foundation will consider grants for IRS-qualified non-profit organizations located within the United States. The Foundation aims to support organizations and programs for which a relatively small amount of funding might make a large difference. The Foundation will consider requests to support museums, cultural and performing arts programs; schools and hospitals; educational, skills-training and other programs for youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities; environmental and wildlife protection activities; and other community-based organizations and programs. Awards typically range from $1,000 to $20,000. 

Deadline: November 11, 2025

American Association of University Women's Community Action Grant

AAUW Community Action Grants seek to dismantle barriers to girls’ participation in STEM and create a pipeline of diverse talent in these fields. Grants offer up to $75,000 to support nonprofits and educational institutions dedicated to helping girls in grades K–12 build the skills, confidence, and preparation they need to thrive in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). These grants are designed to support programs that provide hands-on learning, mentorship from women in STEM, family involvement, and confidence-building experiences. AAUW is particularly interested in reaching girls from historically underrepresented communities, ensuring that all young women can succeed in STEM fields. 

Deadline: November 21, 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

Crisis Systems for All: Leveraging Data to Assess Outcomes Across Populations and Plan Your Community Crisis System Approach
SAMSHA
August 28, 2025

Trash & Treasure: Across all Levels
A Way Home America
September 4, 2025

21st Century Community Learning Centers and McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Programs: Building Collaborative Connections
CCLC National Technical Assistance Center
September 4, 2025

Bring the Fuzzy Future Into Focus: Practical Scenario Planning for Nonprofit Leaders
National Human Services Assembly
September 9, 2025

Making the Case for Investments in Data
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
September 9, 2025

Trash & Treasure: Community Weigh-In
A Way Home America
September 9, 2025

McKinney-Vento Basics: Essentials for a Strong Start
Schoolhouse Connections
September 10, 2025

Conversations with Youth: Insights on Mentoring Experiences
MENTOR
October 16, 2025

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

Upcoming Events

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, 2Risk Summit

Risk Summit
Nonprofit Risk Management Center
October 27-28, 2025
Reston, VA

Building Collective Power for Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Independent Sector
October 27-29, 2025
Atlanta, GA

Shared Voices, Stronger Futures: Youth Days in DC
National Youth Employment Coalition
November 5-7, 20205
Washington, DC. 

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