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All posts tagged "mentoring"
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6.2KGuest Opinion EssayHow to Deepen Your Mentoring Relationship With Opportunity Youth
As Oprah says, “A mentor is someone that allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone that allows...
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1.5KGrantsYouth Development, Mentorship and Education Grants
Subject: Youth Development, Mentorship, Education | Deadline: Ongoing | Amount: $500 - $2,000
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10.1KGuest Opinion EssayHow Big Brothers Big Sisters Is Making Its Mentoring Programs More Inclusive for LGBTQ People
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning youth face extremely high rates of bullying, depression and homelessness. At school, they often experience bullying...
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayLos Angeles Meeting Foster Care Challenges With Simulation Labs, More Social Workers, Mentoring
I know from experience the precarious start so many of the children in the foster care system face. I myself was living...
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2.5KGrantsAt-Risk Youth Mentoring Program Grants
Subject: Mentoring, Youth Welfare, Mental Health, Youth Development | Deadline: June 28, 2018 | Amount: $500,000 - $4,000,000
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2.8KGuest Opinion EssayMentoring Programs Need to Experiment With What Works Best for Foster Youth
If you work with youth in foster care, you know that every child is unique with specific needs, strengths and opportunities. It...
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1.2KGrantsWestern and Midwestern Community Development Grants
Subject: Community Development, Safety, Workforce Development, Community Construction, Job Training | Deadline: June 1, 2018 | Amount: $2,500 - $25,000
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1.3KGrantsAt-Risk Youth and Youth Victims Mentoring Program Evaluation Grants
Subject: Mentoring, Research, Youth Mental Health, Youth Victims, Youth Delinquency | Deadline: May 30, 2018 | Amount: Up to $300,000
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1.5KGrantsYouth Vehicle Restoration/Preservation Education and Training Program Grants
Subject: Youth Development, Education, Job/Career Training, Mentoring | Deadline: Apr. 20, 2018 | Amount: ~$10,000
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4.4KGuest Opinion EssayMentoring Foster Youth in Rural America Is Harder But Badly Needed
Though mentoring has existed in my community of Dickinson, North Dakota for the past 23 years, youth in foster care, although most...
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1.8KGrantsYouth Sex Trafficking Victim Support Services Program Grants
Subject: Youth Welfare, Mentoring, Mental Health, Sex Crime, Youth Victims | Deadline: May 15, 2018 | Amount: Up to $450,000
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D.C.-Area Youth Development and Education Program Grants
Subject: Youth Development, Education, Youth in Poverty, Mentoring | Deadline: Feb. 7, 2018 (letters of intent)
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3.7KDreamersNorth Carolina Dreamers Volunteer, Mentor Young People
Ernesto Cervantes Trejo, 23, teaches Catholic confirmation classes to teens at St. Stephen Catholic Church in Sanford, North Carolina. Video: Roger Newton...
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2.4KNewsEx-Big Brother, Little Brother Team for Power Up, Providing Martial Arts, Mentoring
At a martial arts gym in Atlanta, kids sit in a semicircle around their sensei. He talks to them about persistence, about...
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2.5KNewsQ&A With Nancy Deutsch: Can After-school Programs Counter Extremist Recruiting?
In the wake of the deaths in Charlottesville, Virginia, and hate group rallies in other cities, Youth Today reporter Stell Simonton...
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Early Childhood Education, After-School, Mentoring, Literacy, STEM and Job Training Program Grants
Subject: Education, Afterschool, Mentoring, Literacy, STEM, Job Training | Deadline: Jan. 15, 2017
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Improving and Expanding Mentoring Programs for Youth Victims of Sex Trafficking Grants
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Mentoring, Mental Health, Youth Development, Sex Trafficking | Deadline: June 15, 2017
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5.1KNewsWhen Schools and Nonprofits Collaborate with Faith-based Organizations
Amachi is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that recruits volunteers from faith-based organizations to mentor the children of incarcerated parents. However, it has a...
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1.3KVideosYouth Worker Spotlight: The Need for Male Mentors
Debbie Dollar, a program manager for the Boys and Girls Club in Hogansville, Georgia, laments the fact that her program is staffed...
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2.4KNewsBig Safety Campaign in Chicago Uses Wide-scale Mentoring to Help Teens Reduce Reactivity
A major public safety campaign designed to cut crime in Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods relies heavily on mentoring and group work with...
