Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded for July-August 2009

Lincoln Financial FoundationFort Wayne, Ind.http://www.lfg.com • Our Piece of the Pie, Hartford, Conn., $30,000 for the AmeriCorps program. • Boys & Girls...

Successful Rural Nonprofits

Nonprofits in rural areas might learn from successful youth-serving agencies whose practices are described in a new report by the Bridgespan Group,...

Child Welfare: A Summer Review

With vacations and some summer projects in the works at Youth Today, it’s been awhile since we posted to the ChildWelfare Today...

Extending Foster Care to Age 21: Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for States

Chapin Hall and National Governors Association This Web conference examines the possible impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions...

CNCS Gets Bigger Budget Hike – for Now

New Funds Fuel Education Reform “Race”

A new education initiative called Race to the Top, which will funnel $4.35 billion in Recovery Act money to states that agree...

Windfall

  If you run an effective college readiness program and were banking on crucial federal funding that failed to come through, do...

Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Simplified or joint forms, the elimination of face-to-face interviews, a centralized system for eligibility processing and presumptive...

Measuring Nonprofit Sustainability

Is there a tool to measure nonprofit sustainability during times of economic distress? A new report by New York-based consultancy TCC Group,...

GAO: Recovery Act Shoring Up Distressed States

States generally are using federal Recovery Act funds “to stabilize budgets and cope with fiscal distress,” according to a new update on...

Report: Nonprofits Financially Stressed

File this one in the “tell-me-about-it” folder: A late-June survey of nonprofits by the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins...

New Recovery Act “Green” Training Grants on the Street

A couple of the listings today are about a new set of Recovery Act competitive grants – totaling $500 million in all...

CNCS coverage at Youth Today.

Youth Today’s coverage of the goings-on at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNSC) has garnered a significant level of interest...

Nonprofits and government agencies have new opportunities to tap Recovery Act dollars.

Nonprofits and government agencies have new opportunities to tap Recovery Act dollars to boost their capacity to serve disadvantaged individuals under the...

Connected by 25 Reports

Both reports cover youth aging out of the foster care system. Financing Housing Supports for Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care outlines...

Governments Delay Grant, Contract Payments

  Here’s another sign of how the recession is affecting youth services: About half of youth-oriented groups that responded to a recent...

Californians Balk at Cutting Youth Program

Californians voted overwhelmingly last month against a state proposition that would have diverted childhood development funding to help balance the state’s $42...

Obama Budget Offers Growth and Cuts

The warm hope that President Barack Obama would reinvigorate youth programs with new federal funding has met the cold reality of the...

Grants Awarded for June 2009

Nord Family FoundationAmherst, Ohio(440) 984-3939http://www.nordff.org • The Children’s Development Center, Amherst, Ohio, $40,000 for general operating support. • Boys & Girls Clubs...