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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Child/Youth Grief, Bereavement, Child/Youth Mental Health, Child Welfare
Deadline: July 19, 2021
“The New York Life Foundation, in partnership with the National Alliance for Grieving Children, accepts grant proposals through the Grief Reach Program. This competitive grant program began in 2011 as a partnership between the National Alliance for Grieving Children and the New York Life Foundation. The goal is to provide funding to expand the reach and capacity of organizations that offer local bereavement services for youth focused on unmet needs and diverse populations.
Community Expansion Grants: These grant funds may be used to expand services to bereaved children and youth. Categories are:
(1) Geographic Expansion: You are expanding your services into a new geographic location.
(2) Number Expansion: You are expanding to serve more children and families where you are already located.
(3) Population Expansion: You are expanding to a new age or population group, such as pre-school, LGBTQ, Opioid crisis, families bereaved during the pandemic, etc.
(4) Program/Service Expansion: You are starting new programming or services to the same children and families, such as a specific programming for suicide survivors.
Capacity-Building Grants: This grant awards funds to enhance organizational capacity, development, and effectiveness. It must support one of six major categories:
(1) Planning activities: Organizational assessments; strategic planning; fund development; communications/marketing; recruiting or maintaining volunteer support; business planning.
(2) Staff/board development: Leadership training; defining the board’s role; recruitment of new board members; strengthening governance.
(3) Strategic relationships/collaboration: Technical assistance; consultant support; restructuring; mergers; or business planning
(4) Internal operations: Improvements to financial management, human resources, or volunteer management; development of evaluation systems and training; facility planning.
(5) Technology improvements: Improving IT capacity through upgrades to hardware and software; networking; updating websites, and staff training to optimize the use of technology.
(6) New Organization: Specifically, for an organization under 3 years old to conduct an organizational needs assessment or strategic planning.”
Funder: The New York Life Foundation and the National Alliance for Grieving Children
Eligibility: Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations serving bereaved children.
Amount: Community Expansion: $15,000 or $25,000 or $50,000
Capacity-Building: $10,000 or $20,000
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