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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Mentoring/Mentorships, At-risk Youth, Juvenile Justice, Youth Development
Deadline: Oct. 29, 2026
“This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Multistate Mentoring Programs. This opportunity supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth populations that are at risk or high risk for delinquency, victimization, and going into the juvenile justice system. Mentoring services can be one-on-one, group, peer, or a combination of these types. Funding will support:
- 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 under adult supervision.
- Mentoring services to youth who demonstrate need but have not participated in mentoring services due to limited or lack of mentoring programs in their community or a shortage of trained and screened mentors, new mentoring matches, as well as existing mentoring matches through program completion.
Category 1: Mentoring Organizations (1 state)
Category 2: Mentoring Organizations (2 to 10 states)
Category 3: Mentoring Organizations (11 to 44 states).”
Funder: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
Eligibility: Mentoring organizations that have been in existence for at least three years… Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, city or township governments, county governments, state governments, special district governments, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), Native American tribal governments, others.
Amount: $1,000,000 – $4,000,000
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