posted by admin on Jan 22

Department of Justice 2nd Chance Act Mentoring Grants

DOJ seeks applications under the FY 2010 Second Chance Act Mentoring Grants to Nonprofit Organizations. Funding Opportunity: BJA-2010-2482, CFDA Number: 16.812.

The Second Chance Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-199) helps ensure the transition individuals make from prison or jail to the community is safe and successful. Section 211 of the Act authorizes grants to nonprofit organizations and federally recognized Indian tribes that may be used for mentoring projects to promote such reintegration.

Each proposal must include the following program components:
• Mentoring offenders during incarceration, through transition back to the community, and post-release
• Transitional services to assist in the reintegration of offenders into the community
• Training on offender and victims issues

DOJ Mentoring Grant

posted by admin on Jan 20

The MetLife Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are partnering for the ninth year to recognize, sustain, and share the work of innovative partnerships between community groups and police to promote neighborhood safety and revitalization. Awardees will receive grants ranging from $15,000 to $25,000. Cash grants will be awarded in the following two categories:

Neighborhood Revitalization Awards (six awards ranging between $15,000 and 25,000 each): These awards celebrate exemplary collaboration between community groups and police that yields crime reduction as well as economic development outcomes such as real estate development, business attraction, and job growth.

Special Strategy Awards (five awards of $15,000 each): This award recognizes community and police partners who have achieved significant accomplishments in applied technology, aesthetics and greenspace improvement, diversity inclusion and integration, drug market disruption, gang prevention and youth safety, and/or seniors and safety. Eligible applicants must be member organizations of partnerships that include, but need not be limited to, community organizations and police.

MetLife Foundation

posted by admin on Jan 15

Sprint has launched the 2010 application period for its Character Education Grant Program. Now in its third year, the program makes awards to school districts and individual schools to facilitate character education among K-12 students. Applications will be accepted for programs that address youth leadership, youth volunteerism, a positive school culture, and dropout prevention.

Eligible applicants: All U.S. public schools (K-12) and U.S. public school districts

Sprint Character Education Grant

posted by admin on Jan 13

Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Initiative recognizes nonprofit organizations and individuals working to improve their communities. It focuses on areas such as education, community development/neighborhood preservation, arts and culture, and health and human services.

Applications are sought in two categories:
1. Neighborhood Builders: Grants of $200,000 each to two nonprofit organizations that are focused on local neighborhood priorities in each of the Bank’s 45 markets

2. Local Heroes: Grants of $5,000 each to nonprofit organizations selected by five recognized individuals in the targeted markets.

Bank of America Foundation Grant Notice

posted by admin on Dec 21

The Ford Foundation has announced a five-year, $80 million initiative to ensure Americans get the support they need to stabilize incomes, cope with unemployment and keep the jobs they have. The initiative will focus on two related areas that will strengthen programs and policies that improve job quality for U.S. workers, especially low-wage employees and help states modernize the delivery of existing public programs to ensure working Americans are able to meet basic needs when their wages are too low to support a family.

Ford Foundation to Improve Economic Stability for Workers

For more information about other grant funding opportunities please click on Grant Resources.