Congrats to the Family Emergency Shelter Coalition (FESCO), which was awarded $81,320 by the Alameda County Department of Housing and Community Development and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through their Continuum of Care grant program. This grant will support FESCO’s transitional housing site, Banyan House, in providing temporary housing and wraparound support services for homeless families with children in Alameda County. FESCO was also awarded a grant from the Drysdale Community Foundation to support services for homeless families.
Congratulations to the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District for its successful CalEd grant application to the California Center on Teaching Careers.
We would also like to congratulate Familias Unidas, which was awarded a grant from the Chevron Foundation to support mental health services for vulnerable youth.
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Grants in Education
New! After School Education and Safety (ASES)
Purpose: To provide literacy, academic enrichment and safe, constructive alternatives for students in kindergarten through ninth grade.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Public agencies, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $122,850 to $163,800
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
New! NSF Hispanic Serving Institutions grant
Purpose: To increase the retention and graduation rates of students pursuing associate or baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Funder: National Science Foundation
Applicant: Institutions of higher education
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 43
Deadline: Tuesday, March 06, 2018
New! California Learning Communities for School Success Program
Purpose: To support programs aimed at improving student outcomes by reducing truancy and supporting students who are at risk of dropping out of school or are victims of crime.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies
Amount: Varies $15,000 to $2 million
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Wednesday, March 14, 2018
New! Statewide Sector Navigators
Purpose: To supply in-demand skills for employers, create relevant career pathways and stackable credentials, promote student success, and get Californians into open jobs.
Funder: California Community College Chancellor’s Office
Applicant: California Community College District
Amount: $372,000 per Sector Navigator grant
Projected Number of Awards: 1 per sector (10 sectors)
Deadline: Friday, March 16, 2018
Upcoming
Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grants to Developers for the Opening of New Charter Schools & the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: Varies $150,000 to $250,000
Projected Number of Awards: 15
Promise Neighborhoods Implementation Grants
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 3
Projected Deadline: April 16,2018
Social Services
New! Tribal Practices for Wellness In Indian Country
Purpose: To connect individuals and community to culture with the long-term goals of building resiliency; reducing morbidity and mortality due to heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes; and reducing risk factors for all chronic disease among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $100,000 to $150,000
Projected Number of Awards: 28
Deadline: Tuesday, February 20, 2018
New! Collegiate Behavioral Health Prevention, Identification, and Intervention Grant Program
Purpose: To develop a comprehensive, collaborative, well-coordinated, and evidence-based approach to: (1) enhance services for all college students, including those at risk for suicide, depression, serious mental illness, and/or substance use disorders that can lead to school failure; (2) prevent mental and substance use disorders; (3) promote help-seeking behavior and reduce stigma; and (4) improve the identification and treatment of at- risk college students so they can successfully complete their studies.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Institutions of higher education
Amount: Up to $102,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: 18
Deadline: Tuesday, February 20, 2018
2018 VA GPD Transition In Place NOFA
Purpose: To continue providing ‘‘Transition in Place’’ (TIP) grants and new applicants that will serve the homeless Veteran population through a TIP housing model to facilitate housing stabilization.
Funder: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $1,250,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: 20
Deadline: Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Continuum of Care Reform Expansion
Purpose: To deliver trauma-informed, culturally relevant outpatient Specialty Mental Health Services to children in the foster care system as part of Continuum of Care Reform.
Funder: Contra Costa County Mental Health Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Friday, February 23, 2018
2018 VA GPD Per Diem Only NOFA
Purpose: To provide transitional housing beds under VA’s Homeless Providers GPD Program models.
Funder: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 100
Deadline: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
New! Supportive Services Programs
Purpose: To fund and support organizations who provide responsible stewardship for funds and programs and who approach services from the viewpoint of collaboration.
Funder: Alameda County Social Services Agency
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
New! Wraparound Services Program
Purpose: To provide countywide expanded family-based service programs or “wraparound” services to children and youth in foster care under the Wraparound Services Program (Wrap). Mandatory bidders conference February 8, 2018.
Funder: Contra Costa Employment and Human Services Department
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Friday, March 02, 2018
Minority AIDS: Integration of HIV-related Mental Health and Primary Care
Purpose: To integrate evidence-based, culturally competent mental and substance use disorder treatment with HIV primary care and prevention services.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $485,000
Projected Number of Awards: 10
Deadline: Monday, March 05, 2018
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part F Dental Reimbursement Program
Purpose: To improve access to oral health care services for low income, uninsured, and underserved people living with HIV (PLWH) and to support related education and training for the delivery of dental care to PLWH.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 60
Deadline: Friday, March 23, 2018
New! Drug Free Communities – Competing Continuation
Purpose: To establish and strengthen collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies; as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Community-based coalitions
Amount: Up to $125,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: 120
Deadline: Thursday, March 29, 2018
New! Drug Free Communities – New
Purpose: To establish and strengthen collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies; as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Community-based coalitions
Amount: Up to $125,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: 120
Deadline: Thursday, March 29, 2018
New! Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program
Purpose: To learn how communities can successfully approach the goal of preventing and ending youth homelessness by building comprehensive systems of care for young people rather than implementing individual or unconnected projects that serve this population.
Funder: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $1,000,000 to $15,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 11
Deadline: Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Community Based Transitional Housing Program
Purpose: To provide transitional housing and support services. This program is intended to primarily target offenders released from state prisons and county jails. However, cities and counties may apply for funds to serve other populations that they believe will benefit from the Program’s services.
Funder: California Department of Finance
Applicant: Public agencies
Amount: Up to $2,000,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Monday, October 01, 2018
Justice Grants
OVW FY 2018 Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program Solicitation
Purpose: To create, maintain, and expand sustainable sexual assault services provided by culturally specific organizations, which are uniquely situated to respond to respond to the needs of sexual assault victims within culturally specific populations.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $300,000
Projected Number of Awards: 12
Deadline: Thursday, February 15, 2018
New! OVW FY 2018 Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Program Solicitation
Purpose: To provide culturally relevant services to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations, Native American tribal organizations
Amount: Up to $300,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: 20
Deadline: Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Juvenile Justice Prevention Act – Community Supervision Program
Purpose: To align the resources of the client’s family, school, and neighborhood to optimize preventive services and eliminate behaviors leading to chronic delinquency.
Funder: Alameda County
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 1
Deadline: Thursday, February 22, 2018
New! OVW FY 2018 Improving Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Grant
Purpose: To ensure that sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking are treated as serious violations of criminal law requiring the coordinated involvement of the entire criminal justice system and community-based victim service organizations.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $900,000 maximum
Projected Number of Awards: 58
Deadline: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
New! Community Capacity Fund Implementation Grants Round 3 Phase II
Purpose: To expand the number and diversity of community-based agencies that have the demonstrated capacity to effectively contract with Alameda County and specifically the Alameda County Probation Department to improve outcomes for the realigned population.
Funder: Alameda County Probation Department
Applicant: Community-based providers and nonprofits serving the reentry population in Alameda County in District 2, District 3 and District 4
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Monday, March 19, 2018
Upcoming
Be on the lookout for JAG RFPs from the California Board of State and Community Corrections in the coming months.
The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program provides critical funding necessary to support state and local initiatives, to include: technical assistance, strategic planning, research and evaluation (including forensics), data collection, training, personnel, equipment, forensic laboratories, supplies, contractual support, and criminal justice information systems.
Arts Grants
NEA Art Works I, FY2019
Purpose: To support artistically excellent projects that celebrate our creativity and cultural heritage, invite mutual respect for differing beliefs and values, and enrich humanity.
Funder: National Endowment for the Arts
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $10,000 to $100,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, February 15, 2018
New! Cultural Pathways
Purpose: To strengthen the capacity of small, new and emerging arts organizations that are rooted in communities of color, recent immigrant and refugee communities, and tribal or indigenous groups, and to anchor the cultural and creative work of these organizations into the cultural landscape of the state.
Funder: California Arts Council
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $20,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Friday, February 23, 2018
New! Reentry Through the Arts
Purpose: To support high-quality arts programs for adults who have been convicted of a criminal offense and have served time in correctional institutions.
Funder: California Arts Council
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $50,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, March 22, 2018
New! FY17-18 Arts Education
Purpose: To expand access to meaningful arts learning opportunities by supporting these activities in a diversity of settings and contexts.
Funder: California Arts Council
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, March 22, 2018
NEA Challenge America, FY2019
Purpose: To extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations — those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability.
Funder: National Endowment for the Arts
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $10,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, April 12, 2018
Art Grant Programs
The California Arts Council posts applications for various art grant programs. Click here to view the list of open programs.
Economic & Workforce Development Grants
Stand Down Grants
Purpose: To enhance employment and training opportunities or to promote the self-sufficiency of homeless veterans through paid work
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $7,000 to $10,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2020