Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers

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Youth Collaboratory
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Funding Opportunities

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

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program

This program supports collaborations between state agencies, local government, Tribes, and community- and faith-based organizations to address the challenges that reentry and recidivism reduction pose for moderate to high-risk juvenile offenders returning to their communities from juvenile residential or correctional facilities. For the purposes of this NOFO, youth receiving reentry services include emerging adults (i.e., ages 18-25), which if under juvenile justice jurisdiction can receive services. This NOFO includes two categories: 

  • Category 1: Improving Youth Reentry - Category 1 will provide funding to states, local governments, and Tribal governments in partnership with interested persons (including federal corrections and supervision agencies), service providers, and nonprofit organizations to provide comprehensive reentry services for moderate to high-risk youth before, during, and after release from confinement. 
  • Category 2: Strengthening Community-Based Youth Reentry Programs - Category 2 will provide funding to nonprofit organizations to support transitional services to assist in the successful reintegration of youth into the community. 

Deadlines: Grants.gov deadline March 30, 2026; JustGrants deadline April 6, 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

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March 25, 2026

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March 26, 2026

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April 21, 2026

Upcoming Events

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March 5, 2026
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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
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Rooted in Action: NYEC Annual Forum
National Youth Employment Coalition
March 30-April 1, 2026
Houston, TX

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