April 2018 Grants Newsletter 
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the Family Emergency Shelter Coalition (FESCO), which was awarded $25k by the Firedoll Foundation. This grant will support FESCO’s emergency, transitional, and permanent housing and wraparound support service programs for homeless families with children in Alameda County.
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Education

New! AB109 Direct Services: Career Technical Education
Purpose: To provide a CTE and/or Employment Training Program in Alameda County that utilizes evidence-based practices (EBP) to recruit and retain students in a program of study and training with a demonstrated ability to achieve significant gains in the target population’s completion of a certified or credentialed training program that will enable them to obtain employment in a high skill, high wage, or high demand occupation and retain employment in that sector(s) beyond 60 days.
Funder: Alameda County
Applicant: Education organizations, nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, small businesses, and individuals
Amount: Total available $2,027,847
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, April 12, 2018

New! Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grants to Developers for the Opening of New Charter Schools
Purpose: To expand opportunities for all students, particularly traditionally underserved students, to attend charter schools and meet challenging State academic standards; provide financial assistance for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of public charter schools.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Charter Schools
Amount: Varies $150,000 to $250,000
Projected Number of Awards: 30-45
Deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018

New! AB109 Direct Services: Expanding Access and Supporting Success for Returning Citizens in Higher Education
Purpose: To establish evidence-based program aimed at supporting formerly incarcerated students and returning citizens in being able to access higher education and find success through their matriculation so that they can achieve their graduation goals (credential or degree)
Funder: Alameda County
Applicant: Institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, and partnerships/coalitions
Amount: Total available $1,027,847
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, May 03, 2018

Migrant Education Program
Purpose: To ensure that all migratory students can meet the same challenging state academic standards that all children are expected to meet. Funding supports high quality comprehensive educational programs to help overcome educational disruption, cultural and language barriers, social isolations, varying health related problems and other factors that inhibit the ability of such children to succeed in schools.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local education agencies
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 20
Deadline: Monday, May 07, 2018

Computer Science for All
Purpose: To provide all U.S. students the opportunity to participate in computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) education in their schools at the preK-12 levels.
Funder: National Science Foundation
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 24
Deadline: Wednesday, May 09, 2018

New! Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Program
Purpose: To increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting the implementation of Evidence-Based practices that prepare, develop, or enhance the skills of educators.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $1,000,000 to $6,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 5-8
Deadline: Thursday, May 17, 2018

New! California Apprenticeship Initiative New and Innovative Program Grant
Purpose: To expand the apprenticeship to fields in growing and emerging industries that do not typically utilize apprenticeship training programs throughout California’s regional economies.
Funder: California Community College Chancellor’s Office
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education
Amount: Varies $100,000 to $700,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Friday, May 18, 2018

Upcoming

Promise Neighborhoods Implementation Grants
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 3
Projected Application Notice: May 29, 2018
Projected Application Deadline: June 29, 2018Teacher Quality Partnership
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: $750,000
Projected Number of Awards: 10-12
Projected Application Notice: April 6, 2018
Projected Application Deadline: June 7, 2018Arts in Education Model Development & Dissemination
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: $500,000
Projected Number of Awards: 20-25
Projected Application Notice: April 6 2018
Projected Application Deadline: June 4, 2018Education Innovation and Research Program (Expansion Grants)
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 0-3
Projected Application Notice: April 10, 2018
Projected Application Deadline: May 31, 2018

Education Innovation and Research (Mid-phase Grants)
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 4-8
Projected Application Notice: April 10 2018
Projected Application Deadline: May 31, 2018

Education Innovation and Research (Early-phase Grants)
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 8-14
Projected Application Notice: April 10 2018
Projected Application Deadline: May 31, 2018

Arts in Education National Program
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 1
Projected Application Notice: April 12, 2018
Projected Application Deadline: June 11, 2018
Social Services

Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV Prevention
Purpose: To help school districts and schools develop and implement sustainable program activities to:1) Reduce HIV infection and other STDs among adolescents; and 2) Reduce disparities in risk for HIV infection and other STD infection.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $12,000 to $350,000
Projected Number of Awards: 135
Deadline: Friday, April 13, 2018

New! Equity Grants Program
Purpose: Focus on serving specific geographic communities, in areas that offer the greatest opportunity to advance TSFF goals. Neighborhoods and cities were selected based on high numbers of people of color and people with limited economic opportunity, and high risk of displacement and
Funder: San Francisco Foundation
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $25,000 to $150,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Friday, April 13, 2018

SMART FY 18 Sexual Violence Prevention Initiative
Purpose: To implement the requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, and promotes innovation and best practices in protecting the public from sexual violence.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $5,000 to $350,000
Projected Number of Awards: 1
Deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018

New! School-Based Health Center Capital (SBHCC) Program
Purpose: The agency is expected to give up to 100 awards to currently operational school-based health centers for the purpose of increasing “access to mental health, substance abuse, and childhood obesity-related services.” The purpose of grant expenditures is limited to “minor alteration/renovation (A/R) projects and/or the purchase of moveable equipment, including telehealth equipment.” Personnel and services are not allowable expenses of the grant.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $100,000
Projected Number of Awards: 100
Deadline: Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Full Service Partnerships
Purpose: To maximize the recovery, resilience and wellness of all eligible Alameda County residents who are developing or experiencing serious mental health, alcohol or drug issues.
Funder: Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services
Applicant: Community based organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 11
Deadline: Tuesday, April 17, 2018

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

New! Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Nutrition Training Program
Purpose: To establish and enhance nutrition centers of excellence to improve access to comprehensive, community-based, nutrition-centered, and culturally competent coordinated care by increasing the availability of practitioners trained in MCH nutrition that are able to meet the needs of MCH populations.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 8
Deadline: Monday, May 07, 2018

Transitional Living Program and Maternity Group Homes
Purpose: To implement, enhance, and/or support effective strategies for successful transition to sustainable living for runaway and homeless youth ages 16 to under 22 and/or pregnant and parenting youth ages 16 to under 22 and their dependent child(ren).
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $100,000 to $283,322
Projected Number of Awards: 63
Deadline: Monday, May 14, 2018

New! Family Strengthening Scholars
Purpose: To build capacity in the research field to focus on questions that have direct implications for healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $10,000 to $25,000
Projected Number of Awards: 3
Deadline: Tuesday, May 29, 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
New! Innovations in Community-Based Crime Reduction Program
Purpose: To reduce crime, increase trust, and improve community safety as part of a comprehensive strategy to advance neighborhood revitalization.
Funder: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 10
Deadline: Monday, April 30, 2018New! Second Chance Act Comprehensive Community-Based Adult Reentry Program
Purpose: To develop and implement comprehensive and collaborative programs that support people who are reentering communities from incarceration who are at medium- to high-risk of reoffending, reduces recidivism, and improves public safety.
Funder: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations, and Native American tribal governments
Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 12
Deadline: Tuesday, May 01, 2018New! Second Chance Act Ensuring Public Safety and Improving Outcomes for Youth in Confinement and While Under Community 
Purpose: To support reentry strategies that address treatment services for youth with co-occurring substance abuse problems and mental health disorders, reentry services for gang-involved youth, and training and technical assistance to improve community supervision practices for juveniles who are placed on probation or are being released from secure confinement.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $450,000 to $1,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 5
Deadline: Thursday, May 24, 2018Upcoming
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
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, 2018Art 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