GRANT FOCUS: Environmental Education, PreK-12, Civic Engagement, Schools | Amount: $500 - $1,500 | Deadline: Jan. 15, 2020
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Gun violence touches every community, but those most affected are also disproportionately exposed to poverty, poor education standards and fewer job opportunities....
Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute releases a new state-by-state report showing significant increases in the number of children without health insurance over...
We have so much work to do. So many lives to be saved. How is it that in the United States of...
Inside the red doors of a former church in Westbrook, Maine, more than 40 kids are eating dinner. It’s Friday evening and...
The Marguerite Casey Foundation recently announced Carmen Rojas, Ph.D. as its next president and CEO beginning in 2020. She succeeds founding president...
Each weekday afternoon, school buses in Waco, Texas, rumble down streets, pull up at designated stops and drop kids home. Some students,...
GRANT FOCUS: Juvenile Justice, Minority Youth, Youth Incarceration, Institutionalized Racism | Amount: Up to $7,523,237 | Deadline: Dec. 17, 2019
GRANT FOCUS: Community, Race/Ethnicity, Child/Youth Welfare, Refugee Children/Youth | Amount: $100,000 - $200,000 | Deadline: May 1, 2020
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Foreign Language Education, Youth Development, Civic Engagement | Amount: Up to $20,000,000 | Deadline: Dec. 18, 2019
When the Annie E. Casey Foundation launched the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) in the tough-on-crime era of the early 1990s, politicians...
GRANT FOCUS: Environmental Education, Education, Civic Engagement, Community | Amount: $50,000 - $100,000 | Deadline: Jan. 6, 2020
Issues raised by the school-to-prison pipeline in North Carolina can’t be pinpointed to just one factor. But, said Peggy Nicholson of the...
The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics releases the latest figures on suicide and homicide death rates among U.S. youth; highlighting the...
More than ever, I’m witnessing the power of youth leading movements and using the unique power of their voice to bring attention...
William S. White, who died this month, is remembered by after-school advocates as the philanthropist who punched up a little after-school program...
Researchers from Georgia State University surveyed homeless youth around Atlanta to create a comprehensive overview of their experiences, particularly in regard to...
Understanding how homeless youth are trafficked is important information for the organizations offering them services.
I am neither a man nor a person of color, but this past year I’ve worked in a program for men of...