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Congratulations to Hayward Unified School District for its award of $53,000 from the California Department of Social Services Refugee School Impact program. HUSD will use this funding to expand its existing Newcomer Services program to offer academic, mental health, and other support services to students who are refugees, asylees, and Special Immigrant Juvenile visa holders.

Congratulations to Unity Council for its award of $2,900,026 per year for five years from the Office of Head Start of the Administration for Children and Families to support its Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Concord for the next three years.

Congratulations to Monterey County Office of Education and nine other school districts in the county for winning a “Local Solutions to the Shortage of Special Education Teachers Grant” award of $3,056,500 over five years from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Grants In Education

New! Teacher Residency Grants
Purpose: To support the expansion of an existing or the development of a new teacher residency program. Residencies funded by Teacher Residency Grant funds may support residents earning a credential in any of the following credential areas: any of the Preliminary Education Specialist content areas; any general education or special education teaching credential earned concurrently with a Bilingual Authorization; Single Subject- Math or Science subjects.
Funder: California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
Applicant: Local education agencies, institutions of higher education
Amount: Up to $20,000 per resident participating in the Teacher Residency Grant Program
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Tuesday, January 15, 2019

ASES Frontier Transportation Grant
Purpose: To provide supplemental funding for existing ASES grantees that have transportation needs due to their after school program site being located in Frontier Areas as specified in California Education Code (EC) Section 8483.7(a)(5).
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies, other organizations or agencies
Amount: Maximum of $15,000 per site per school year
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Tuesday, January 22, 2019

After School Education and Safety (ASES)
Purpose: To provide literacy, academic enrichment and safe, constructive alternatives for students in kindergarten through ninth grade. Funding is designed to: (1) maintain existing before and after school program funding; and (2) provide eligibility to all elementary and middle schools that submit quality applications throughout California.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies
Amount: Maximum of $122,850 for elementary schools, $163,800 for middle schools
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Tuesday, January 22, 2019

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. The LCSSP is the result of Proposition 47, which reduced the penalties for certain non-serious, non-violent offenses and allocates 25% of the resulting statewide savings for LEA grants.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies
Amount: Minimum three-year grants for LEAs with 100 or less enrollment will be $15,000. Maximum LEA grants will be $2,000,000 for three-year grant
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Wednesday, January 23, 2019

New! San Mateo County Youth Commision RFP
Purpose: San Mateo County Health is seeking proposals for a provider with experience in youth development and a commitment to supporting the well-being of all youth in San Mateo County.

Funder: San Mateo County
Amount: Unknown
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, January 24, 2019

New! California Apprenticeship Initiative (CAI) -Agriculture or Rural Areas New and Innovative Grant Program
Purpose: To support apprenticeship-training programs that meet the following criteria 1) Serve rural students and communities and/or 2) Targets the agriculture industry. It is the intent of the Chancellor’s Office to consider applications that are supporting programs that address any part of the agriculture industry, which is not exclusive to agricultural production in rural areas.
Funder: Chancellor’s Office California Community Colleges
Applicant: California Community College Districts and California Department of Education Local Educational Agencies
Amount: Up to $100,000 – $500,000 per award
Projected Number of Awards: Varies (total funding- up to $4 million)
Deadline: Friday, January 25, 2019

Social Services
 

New! Title X Family Planning Services Grants
Purpose: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects, which shall provide family planning services to all persons desiring such services, with priority for services to persons from low-income families.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public and private nonprofit organizations
Amount: $100,000 to $22 million
Projected Number of Awards: 60 – 100
Deadline: Monday, January 14, 2019

New! Pharmacy Services to Patients of Special Programs for Youth (SPY) Clinics
Purpose: To provide pharmacy services to detained clients at the Juvenile Justice Center access to pharmacy services (primarily after hours and weekends).
Funder: San Francisco Department of Public Health
Applicant: Public agencies, private or nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Tuesday, January 15, 2019

New! Behavioral Health Training and Consultation Services
Purpose: To provide Behavioral Health Training and Consultation (BHTC) Services to Department of Children, Youth and Families behavioral health and other DPH-specified professional staff in ten different areas. The areas include cognitive behavioral therapy, data analytics consultation, prodromal psychosis, early childhood assessment/treatment consultation, and trauma-focused complex case consultation.
Funder: San Francisco Department of Public Health
Applicant: Public agencies, private or nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, January 17, 2019

New! Southeast Asian – Unserved and Underserved Ethnic and Language Populations
Purpose: To provide culturally-reflective prevention and early intervention mental health services to members of the priority population where they live, worship, socialize and access services in Alameda County.
Funder: Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services
Applicant: Public agencies, private or nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $580,000
Projected Number of Awards: 1
Deadline: Tuesday, January 15, 2019

New! Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D — Women, Infants, Children, and Youth (WICY) Grants
Purpose: To strengthen organizational capacity to respond to the changing health care landscape and increase access to high quality family-centered HIV primary health care services for low income, uninsured, and underserved WICY living with HIV.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: limited to current RWHAP Part D WICY funded recipients
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 35
Deadline: Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Justice Grants 

New! Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program Solicitation
Purpose: To increase the availability of civil and criminal legal assistance needed to effectively aid adult and youth victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking who are seeking relief in legal matters relating to or arising out of that abuse or violence, at minimum or no cost to the victims.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against Women
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations, Native American tribal organizations and governments, institutions of higher education
Amount: $600,000 to $800,000
Projected Number of Awards: 58
Deadline: Thursday, January 31, 2019

New! Prison to Employment Initiative Direct and Supportive Service Grants
Purpose: To support regional planning efforts, fund regional plan implementation, and provide resources for direct services to the formerly incarcerated and other justice-involved individuals. The funds offered under this RFA are for the implementation of regional plans to serve the formerly incarcerated and other justice involved individuals in California.
Funder: California Workforce Development Board
Applicant: Each region must designate one entity as the applicant and fiscal agent for each grant. Signature proof of this agreement must be included in the application.
Amount: Total funding available $34 million (up to $14 million for FY 2018-19 and up to $20 million for FY 2019-20)
Projected Number of Awards: 14
Deadline: Friday, February 15, 2019

New! Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program
Purpose: To provide 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.
Funder: Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC)
Applicant: Only California’s 58 counties are eligible to apply, individually or in partnership with other counties.
Amount: Funding is set aside to equitably distribute it between the small (population less than 200,001), medium (population 200,001-700,000), and large counties (population over 700,000). The funding threshold is up to $220,000 annually for small counties, up to $715,000 annually for medium counties, and up to $1,045,625 annually for large counties. Applications including multiple counties can apply for higher amounts, as detailed in the RFP.
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, April 25, 2019

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

 

Upcoming
Strong Workforce Program K12 Pathway Improvement Funding
Purpose: Create, support, and/or expand high-quality career technical education programs at the K-12 level that are aligned with and the workforce development efforts occurring through the Strong Workforce Program and regional priorities, to improve students’ transitions from secondary school to post-secondary and careers.
Funder: California Community College Chancellor’s Office
Applicant: Local educational agencies or consortia of LEAs, in collaboration with at least one community college
Amount: $150,000,000 available statewide, with specific allocations to regions
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Letter of Intent to apply February 15, 2019; proposal deadline March 15, 2009

Arts

Art Grant Programs
The California Arts Council is currently accepting applications for 14 of the agency’s grant programs, with funding available for youth programs, creative projects, and operating support. Click here to view the list of open programs.

 

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