Students who have experienced foster care or homelessness are often doing it all: managing complicated and ever-changing family situations, carrying out adult-level...
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Health, Food Access, Nutrition, Child/Youth Development | Amount: $15,000 - $50,000 | Deadline: May 31, 2019
For the past 13 years I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of students who enroll at our university. It...
The Economic Policy Institute shows how toxic stress in a child's life, which is disproportionately experienced by African American children, can disrupt...
Remember all those celebrations when the vastly overhyped Family First Prevention Services Act made it into law? Even some of those who...
When you are trying to make the shift to a restorative justice mindset, having even a few teachers, support personnel or administrators...
When a “mobile science lab” shows up after school at a branch library in Hartford, Conn., kids cluster around it. They look...
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Child Maltreatment, Child Abuse/Neglect, Community | Amount: $1,200,000 - $1,400,000 | Deadline: June 18, 2019
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Libraries, Higher Education, Health, Healthcare | Amount: $50,000 - $100,000 | Deadline: May 31, 2019
GRANT FOCUS: Drugs, Drug/Substance Abuse, Youth Drug Abuse, Youth Health/Welfare, Community | Amount: Up to $125,000 | Deadline: July 8, 2019
Christina Young remembers the day the cops came for her at school. She was fifteen years old — a sophomore at Murry...
GRANT FOCUS: Physical Activity, Child/Youth Health, Child/Youth Development, OST | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: June 15, 2019 or Oct. 15, 2019
GRANT FOCUS: Community Development, Child/Youth Health, Physical Activity | Amount: Up to $10,000 | Deadline: July 26, 2019 (LOI)
While many high school seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges across the country this spring, young people who have experienced foster care...
When I arrived in Oakland, Calif., to attend the Obama Foundation’s MBK Rising! convening in February, I was one of many community...
Mayor Randall Woodfin says Birmingham is ready for peace. With a call for communitywide investment, the mayor says it’s time for solutions...
The Center for American Progress provides a policy framework seeking to eliminate the stark and troubling racial disparities in maternal and infant...
When Randall Woodfin received the call that his older brother, Ralph Jr., had been shot, he rushed to the scene in the...
Geoffrey Canada is the recipient of the Richard Murphy Leadership Award for his extraordinary accomplishments in the youth services field in New...
GRANT FOCUS: Juvenile Justice, Reentry, Juvenile/Youth Offenders, Education, Job Training | Amount: Up to $750,000 | Deadline: June 24, 2019