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Lumina Grants Aim to Boost College Completion

The Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education continues its college completion improvement strategy with $14.8 million in grants over four years, divvied into...

Pregnancy Prevention Grants Awarded

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $188 million in teen pregnancy prevention grants Thursday. Most of the grants...

HHS Grants to Help Pregnant Teens and Young Parents

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $27 million through two grant programs to states and tribal organizations...

Breaking Down the Juvenile Justice Grants (UPDATED Sept. 30)

***The Office of Justice Programs has released its 2010 grants over the past few weeks; the agency has until Oct. 1 to...

Justice Awards “Defending Childhood” Grants

Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at a meeting of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention last week to officially...

Gates Grants to Help Cities Boost College Completion

Four cities will receive $3 million each to develop innovative approaches to increase their college graduates rates, the Bill & Melinda Gates...

New Kresge Grants Will Help Put Disadvantaged Youths Through College

The Troy, Mich.-based Kresge Foundation announced last week a new higher education grant-making strategy designed to help disadvantaged populations enter and receive...

38 States Get Federal Adoption Bonuses

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it has granted adoption incentive awards totaling $39 million to 38 states and...

Promise Neighborhood Winners Revealed

The Obama administration on Tuesday named 21 winners in one if its most coveted youth-related grant programs: the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative. More...

New Juvenile Justice Grants Explained

***The Office of Justice Programs started to release announcements of its grants this week, and will continue to announce more until Oct....

Justice Names Major Mentoring Grant Winners

Some of the biggest organizations in youth work were winners of the Justice Department’s National Mentoring grants announced Wednesday. They are: *...

RWJ Anti-Obesity Grants Focus on Blacks, Hispanics

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a total of $2 million to five civil rights groups as part of its campaign...

Audit OKs ACF Process for Awarding Recovery Act Funds

Administration for Children and Families Child Care Bureau—Internal Control Review of the Process for Awarding American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds U.S....

Why a B&G Club Won a Coveted Education Grant

Literacy programs and parental home visitation are both popular ways to help children, but combining them might seem odd – except that...

Boys & Girls Clubs’ Funding Fate Unknown

The fate of a proposed $465 million federal authorization for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is as shrouded in...

Grants Awarded for September 2010

The Atlantic PhilanthropiesNew York(212) 916-7300www.atlanticphilanthropies.org Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families, Silver Spring, Md., $200,000 to enhance policy and advocacy capacity and...

Abstinence Survey Stirs Debate

A nearly two-year-old, federally-funded survey of teen and parent attitudes about sex has prompted new outrage among abstinence education supporters, just as...

The Case to Fund the Promise Neighborhoods Experiment

With Congress slashing President Obama’s Promise Neighborhood Initiative, the author of a book about the program on which that initiative is based,...

Source of Funding Grows

Evidence of a post-recession turnaround in contributions to nonprofits continues to slowly emerge, with the latest good news coming from a source...

The Excitement and Pain of Competing for Promise Neighborhoods Money

With President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) generating enormous excitement – 339 applications were filed in June for just 20 grants –...