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January Newsletter 
Education
Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program
Purpose: The purpose of this program is to facilitate the enrollment, attendance, and success in school of homeless children and youth; and ensure homeless children and youth have equal access to the same free, appropriate, public education as provided to all other students. These funds can be used to facilitate coordination and collaboration among local educational agencies, service providers, and community agencies.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies
Amount: Up to $250,000
Projected Number of Awards: 48
Deadline: Thursday, February 4, 2021

After School Education and Safety
Purpose: These programs are created through partnerships between schools and local community resources to provide literacy, academic enrichment and safe, constructive alternatives for students in kindergarten through ninth gradeFunding 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. The application is for new grantees as well as existing grant recipients who wish to increase funding.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: ASES programs at elementary and middle/junior high schools. Nonprofit organizations may apply, but the local educational agency or the public agency must agree to act as the fiscal agent of the grant.
Amount: Maximum of $133,169.40 for Elementary Schools. Maximum of $177,559.20 for Middle Schools.
Projected Number of Awards: N/A
Deadline: Thursday, February 18, 2021

New! Learning Communities for School Success Program
Purpose: LCSSP provides funds to local education agencies 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: Up to $2,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: N/A
Deadline: Friday, March 5, 2021

Health, Social Services, Housing and Transportation 
San Francisco Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative
Purpose: This Initiative complements San Francisco’s funding of nonprofit services and resources for low-income residents and aims to maintain and expand these vital services by deploying financial assistance, professional services, assessment tools, and other resources to address key challenges facing the sector, including the high costs of real estate.
Funder: SF OEWD, Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development
Applicant: 501(c)3 or fiscally-sponsored organizations located in San Francisco County
Amount: Varies $75,000-$1,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: N/A
Deadline: Friday, January 29, 2021

New! Enhancement and Expansion of Treatment and Recovery Services for Adolescents, Transitional Aged Youth, and their Families (Family TREE)
Purpose: The purpose of this program is to enhance and expand comprehensive treatment, early intervention, and recovery support services for adolescents (ages 12-18) and transitional aged youth (ages 16-25) with substance use disorders (SUD) and/or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders (COD), and their families/primary caregivers
Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Applicant: Nonprofit and public agencies
Amount: Up to $545,000
Projected Number of Awards: 17  
Deadline: Monday, February 8, 2021

The Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Grant Round 6
Purpose: AHSC provides funding for affordable housing developments (new construction or renovation) and transportation infrastructure. This may include sustainable transportation infrastructure, such as new transit vehicles, sidewalks, and bike lanes; transportation-related amenities, such as bus shelters, benches, or shade trees; and other programs that encourage residents to walk, bike, and use public transit.
Funder: Governor’s Office of Planning & Research
Applicant: Local governments, Transportation and transit agencies, Non-profit and for-profit housing developers, Joint powers authorities, K-12 school, college and university districts
Amount: $1,000,000-$30,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, February 11, 2021

New! Richmond Fund for Children and Youth RFP 
Purpose: 
The RFP’s aims is to solicit program proposals from non-profit organizations and public agencies to provide services to children and youth from birth to 24 years old in Richmond and North Richmond. The focus areas include behavioral health, education support and employment training, after school enrichment, youth violence prevention, access to basic needs and case management.
Funder: City of Richmond
Applicant: public agencies and non-profit community-based organizations, including organizations with a non-profit fiscal agent, that serve children, youth and disconnected transitional-aged young adults
Amount: $30,000-$200,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Monday, February 22, 2021

Justice 
Proposition 64 Public Health & Safety Grant Program
Purpose: The purpose of this grant program is to fund projects that assist with law enforcement efforts, fire protection efforts, or other local projects addressing public health and safety associated with the implementation of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA).
Funder: Board of State and Community Corrections
Applicant: Local governments (i.e., Counties, Cities, and City/County) in California that do not ban both indoor and outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation, or retail sale of cannabis or cannabis products.
Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: N/A
Deadline: Friday, January 29, 2021

Adult Reentry Grant Program Warm Handoff Reentry Services Cohort II
Purpose: The Adult Reentry Grant program provides funding for community-based organizations to deliver reentry services for people formerly incarcerated in state prison.
Funder: Board of State and Community Corrections
Applicant: Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status
Amount: Up to $500,000
Projected Number of Awards: 30
Deadline: Friday, February 5, 2021

New! Juvenile Justice Emergency Planning Demonstration Program
Purpose: This program will support the development, improvement, and/or implementation of emergency planning activities for state, tribal, county, and local juvenile justice residential facilities.
Funder: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Applicant: City or township governments, County governments, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Independent school districts, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, State governments.
Amount: Up to $150,000
Projected Number of Awards: 3
Deadline: Tuesday, February 16th, 2021

New! Opioid Affected Youth Initiative
Purpose: Objectives include implementing programs and services that address public safety concerns, intervention, prevention, diversion, and treatment services for children, youth, and families directly impacted by opioid abuse
Funder: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Applicant: City or township governments, County governments, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Independent school districts, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, State governments.
Amount: $750,000-$1,500,000
Projected Number of Awards: 12
Deadline: Monday, February 22, 2021

Economic & Workforce Development
New! Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals
Purpose: For the purposes of this program, eligible applicants include: accredited institutions of higher education or accredited professional training programs that are establishing or expanding internships or other field placement programs in mental health in psychiatry, psychology, school psychology, behavioral pediatrics, psychiatric nursing (which may include master’s and doctoral level programs), social work, school social work, SUD prevention and treatment, marriage and family therapy, occupational therapy, school counseling, or professional counseling, including such programs with a focus on child and adolescent mental health, trauma, and transitional-age youth.
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: Accredited institutions of higher education or accredited professional training programs
Amount: Up to $480,000
Projected Number of Awards: 92
Deadline: Thursday, January 21, 2021

Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities
Purpose: The guiding principles of the program are to: (1) support state and local governments, tribes, and territories through capability- and capacity-building to enable them to identify mitigation actions and implement projects that reduce risks posed by natural hazards; (2) encourage and enable innovation while allowing flexibility, consistency, and effectiveness; (3) promote partnerships and enable high-impact investments to reduce risk from natural hazards with a focus on critical services and facilities, public infrastructure, public safety, public health, and communities; (4) provide a significant opportunity to reduce future losses and minimize impacts on the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF); and (5) support the adoption and enforcement of building codes, standards, and policies that will protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the public, take into account future conditions , and have long-lasting impacts on community risk-reduction, including for critical services and facilities and for future disaster costs.
Funder: Department of Homeland Security
Applicant: State governments and local communities
Amount: N/A
Projected Number of Awards: 125
Deadline: Friday, January 29, 2021

New! Mental Health Awareness Training Grants
Purpose: The purpose of this program is to: (1) train individuals (e.g., school personnel, emergency first responders, law enforcement, veterans, armed services members and their families) to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental disorders, particularly serious mental illness (SMI) and/or serious emotional disturbances (SED); (2) establish linkages with school- and/or community-based mental health agencies to refer individuals with the signs or symptoms of mental illness to appropriate services; (3) train emergency services personnel, law enforcement, fire department personnel, veterans, and others to identify persons with a mental disorder and employ crisis de-escalation techniques; and (4) educate individuals about resources that are available in the community for individuals with a mental disorder.
Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Applicant: State, city or county governments, public or private universities or colleges, CBOs
Amount: Up to $125,000
Projected Number of Awards: 141
Deadline: Friday, February 5, 2021

New! YouthBuild
Purpose: Award grants through a competitive process to organizations providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to at-risk youth, ages 16 to 24, while performing meaningful work and service to their communities
Funder: Department of Labor
Applicant: Public or private non-profit agencies
Amount: $700,000-$1,500,000
Projected Number of Awards: 75
Deadline: Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

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