Despite the country’s longest-ever period of economic growth, the share of U.S. children living in high-poverty neighborhoods is on the rise in...
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Race/Ethnicity, Minority Students, Human Services | Amount: Up to $450,000 | Deadline: July 26, 2019
The Urban Institute evaluates the effectiveness and sustainability of providing housing and services to high-need families in the child welfare system. The...
GRANT FOCUS: Community, Community Development, Poverty, Family Support | Amount: $400,000 | Deadline: July 29, 2019
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Welfare, Poverty, Hunger, Women/Girls Empowerment, Healthcare Access | Amount: Up to $50,000 | Deadline: June 30, 2019
Geoffrey Canada is the recipient of the Richard Murphy Leadership Award for his extraordinary accomplishments in the youth services field in New...
Karen Baynes-Dunning is the interim president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after its board voted unanimously to name...
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Child/Youth Health, Education, Social Welfare, Poverty | Deadline: Apr. 30, 2019 | Amount: Unspecified
With limited access to education and lucrative employment, young parents and their children suffer disproportionately high poverty rates, yet they are often...
Steve Goodman’s new book, “It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity and the Power of Transformative Teaching,” challenges the focus on grit as...
Subject: Education, Environment, Health, Poverty | Deadline: Sept. 17, 2018 (LOI) | Amount: $5,000 - $15,000
Elizabeth Eden chose the wrong morning to eat a poppy seed bagel for breakfast. Then she chose the wrong hospital to give...
In education, we push “college for all” while wearing university swag and celebrating acceptance letters. We spend more time talking about who...
You can only find the entrance to the RightWay Foundation if you’re really looking for it. Hidden deep within the parking structure...
Subject: Social Justice, Environment, Poverty, Civil/Human Rights | Deadline: Apr. 10, 2018 (letters of intent) | Amount: Up to $25,000
More than 30 years ago, when I was a reporter for a daily newspaper, I was assigned a story about what looked...
I had the privilege to bear witness to the vast beauty, power and resiliency of girls and women of color speaking their...
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Health, Child/Youth Development, Poverty | Deadline: Aug. 4, 2017
It’s been 50 years since the idealism of Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administration’s War on Poverty placed economic injustice...
At the National Youth-At-Risk Conference held in Savannah, Georgia, last spring, 82 youth workers and educators signed up to see if they...