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Grants Awarded for June 2010

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Battle Creek, Mich.(269) 968-1611http://www.wkkf.org Note: The following grants are all part of America Healing, Kellogg’s new initiative to promote racial...

Weekly Notes: New funding from OJJDP; Scathing report on Luzerne scandal; PROMISE Act goes viral; and more

***A couple of new solicitations from OJJDP: Group Mentoring Research and Evaluation Program: To evaluate the effectiveness of group mentoring programs at...

Separating “Innovation” Fact from Fiction

Many nonprofits are innovating, but lack the ability to move promising practices to scale because of a lack of funding, according to...

$45 Million Committed for Matching Social Innovation Grants

First lady Michelle Obama and Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Patrick Corvington announced today that several foundations and private philanthropists...

Summer Jobs Funds Caught in Congressional Wrangling

About $1 billion for summer jobs for the nation’s youth is still hung up in Congress over disputes on unrelated measures –...

Three Names in Mind at Justice for OJJDP Job

This article was corrected on May 27 Sources close to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention say three people are...

Fellowships Aim to Advance Child Abuse and Neglect Field

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Chapin Hall have teamed up on a program to develop the workforce focused on preventing child...

GAO Takes Aim at Runaway/Homeless Youth Grant Program

The government watchdog agency says the federal runaway and homeless youth grant program needs work, reports Youth Today’s John Kelly. In a...

New Funding from OJJDP: Juvenile Sex Offenders, Exposure to Violence, Indigent Defense

Of course, the one time we get the Weekly Notes done early, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention adds really...

Fed Grants Process for Runaway/Homeless Needs Work, GAO Says

The Family and Youth Services Bureau needs to improve the application process used in awarding grants to service providers for runaway and...

Congress: Dithering on Summer Jobs

With Memorial Day, the traditional start of the summer job season, rapidly approaching, Congress is still dithering over allocating money for seasonal...

Budget Directors Signal Probable Cuts for Youth Programs

The president’s budget director fired a warning shot at federally funded youth programs today, saying the government wastes money on too many...

Report Examines Growth of African-American Family Foundations

African-American family foundations, which tend to favor giving to locally based social service organizations, especially programs focused on children and youth, have...

Rep. Miller Takes Questions on Juvenile Justice Reauthorization

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) spoke today about reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) in an interview on Juvenile...

Millennial Donors: A Study of Millennial Giving and Engagement Habits

Millennials, or Generation Y, represent a growing population of donors in the nonprofit field. This report examines the giving, volunteering and...

Foundation Growths and Giving Estimates

The 2009 decline in giving by foundations was the largest on record, with the more than 75,000 grant-making U.S. foundations reducing...

Grants Awarded for May 2010

The Hearst FoundationsNew York(212) 586-5404http://www.hearstfdn.org • Partnership for After School Education, New York, $80,000 for general support. • Zero to Three,...

Foundations Put Up i3 Matching Funds; Promise Neighborhoods Opens

Youth Today’s Jamaal Abdul-Alim reports on a U.S. Department of Education announcement that 12 national foundations have pledged to add $500 million...

Weekly Notes: Funding for violence prevention, Luzerne update, and more

We’ve been hard at work here on a crazy cover story for the May issue of Youth Today, and a few other...

Competition Opens for Promise Neighborhood Planning Grants

The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced the long-awaited $10 million planning grants competition for the Promise Neighborhood program – an...