Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers

By
Youth Collaboratory
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Funding Opportunities

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

Office on Violence Against Women's Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program

The Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program is a 48-month funding opportunity seeking to support, strengthen, enhance, and expand existing restorative practice programs that prevent or address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline October 21, 2025; JustGrants deadline October 27, 2025

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Multistate Mentoring Programs

This funding supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth populations that are at risk or high risk for delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. Mentoring services can be one-on-one, group, peer, or a combination of these types. Applicants must initiate mentoring services to youth who are 17 years old or younger at the time of admission to the program. Mentors must be an adult (age 18 or older), or in cases where peer mentoring models are being implemented, an older peer and under adult supervision. Funding is encouraged to support new mentoring matches but can also support existing mentoring matches through program completion.  

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline October 21, 2025; JustGrants deadline October 27, 2025

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence

This funding opportunity seeks to develop support services for children exposed to violence in their homes, schools, and communities; and to develop, enhance, and implement violent crime reduction strategies that focus on violent juvenile offenders. The goals of the program are to: 1) reduce the incidence of violence through accountability efforts for juvenile offenders; 2) respond to victimization of children whether because of violence that occurs in the school, community or family; and 3) increase protective factors to prevent juvenile violence, delinquency, and victimization.

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline October 21, 2025; JustGrants deadline October 27, 2025

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Mentoring for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Use

This funding will enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth affected by opioids and other substance use, as well as their families. Mentoring services may include one-on-one, group, or peer mentoring—or a combination of these approaches. In addition to mentoring services, this funding may support supplemental activities that are consistent with the proposed mentoring model and have a clear connection to the mentoring program. Up to 20 percent of the total funds may be allocated for other non-mentoring direct services, such as mental health treatment, substance use treatment, or other supportive services identified and aligned with the project design. There are two categories of funding: local project sites, and statewide and regional. 

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline October 23, 2025; JustGrants deadline October 30, 2025

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Reducing Recidivism for Female Juvenile Delinquents

This funding supports the development, enhancement, or expansion of intervention programs for female juvenile delinquents. Funding will be used to develop and implement direct service programs for female juvenile delinquents to reduce reoffending or enhance or expand existing programs to meet their specific needs. The goal of this program is to reduce recidivism, reduce risk factors, and promote protective factors for female juvenile delinquents, and place them on a path toward success, stability, and long-term contribution to society by developing, enhancing, or expanding programs and services.  

Deadline: Grants.Gov deadline October 27, 2025; JustGrants deadline November 3, 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

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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