Coming up soon! Oakland Fund for Children and Youth plans on investing $17-$18 million annually across nine strategies including parent engagement, youth development, student success, and comprehensive after-school programs. OFCY’s 2019-2022 cycle RFP will be released in late November.

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Grants In Education
21st CCLC & ASSETs
Purpose: To support the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children,
particularly students who attend high poverty and low-performing schools.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Institutions of higher education, local educational agencies, nonprofit organizations, other organizations or agencies
Amount: 21st CCLC $50,000 -$112,500; ASSETs $50,000 -$250,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Tuesday, November 13, 2018

New! California State Preschool Program Expansion FY 2018-19
Purpose: To expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide with an emphasis on full-day/full-year services. To expand CSPP services, this RFA funding opportunity is available to existing CSPP contracted agencies, to existing contracted agencies that do not have a CSPP contract, or to new agencies without Early Learning and Care Division (ELCD) program contracts.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Institutions of higher education, local educational agencies, nonprofit organizations, other organizations or agencies
Amount: The minimum allocation amount will be $125,579
Projected Number of Awards: Varies (Total funding available $112 million)
Deadline: Tuesday, December 18, 2018

New! California Environmental Literacy Project
Purpose: To assist with providing high-quality instructional resource materials and professional learning opportunities for collaborative teams of educators through the Environmental Education Grant Program.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Only California County Offices of Education (COE) or County Superintendents of Schools are eligible to apply as the lead agency of the partnership and the official applicant.
Amount: $72,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: Up to 5
Deadline: Wednesday, December 19, 2018

New! 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

New! 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. Maximum of $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

Social Services

New! CalWORKs Mental Health Program
Purpose: It is the intent of these specifications, terms, and conditions for Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services (hereafter BHCS or County) to seek proposals to provide services designed to remove mental health barriers to employment for CalWORKs Welfare to Work (WTW) recipients in Alameda County.
Funder: Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: $1,944,900 per contract year
Projected Number of Awards:
Deadline: Monday, November 19, 2018

New! Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health
Purpose: To improve perinatal health outcomes and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in perinatal health outcomes by using community-based approaches to service delivery, and to facilitate access to comprehensive health and social services for women, infants, and their families.
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $950,000
Projected Number of Awards: 100
Deadline: Tuesday, November 27, 2018

New! Early Head Start Expansion and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Grants
Purpose: To expand access to high-quality, comprehensive services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families through Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships, or through the expansion of Early Head Start services.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, private organizations
Amount: Varies $750,000 to $8 million
Projected Number of Awards: 60
Deadline: Friday, November 30, 2018

New! Migrant and Seasonal Early Head Start Expansion and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Grants
Purpose: To expand access to high-quality, comprehensive services to low-income, migrant and seasonal infants and toddlers and their families through Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships, or through the expansion of Early Head Start services.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, private organizations
Amount: Varies $500,000 to $1 million
Projected Number of Awards: 8
Deadline: Friday, November 30, 2018

 

Justice Grants
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
New! JUMP StArts
Purpose: To support high-quality arts education and artists-in-residence programs for youth engaged in the juvenile justice system. These may be students who have been arrested, are on probation, or are incarcerated at a juvenile justice facility.
Funder: California Arts Council
Applicant: California-based nonprofit arts organization or arts-based unit of government
Amount: Up to $50,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Wednesday, December 19, 2018

New! Arts In Schools
Purpose: To augment and enhance the work of classroom teachers and school-based arts programs by bringing arts resources from within the local community into the school culture, not to supplant credentialed arts teachers.
Funder: California Arts Council
Applicant: California-based nonprofit arts organization or arts-based unit of government
Amount: Up to $18,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Wednesday, January 09, 2019

New! Reentry Through the Arts
Purpose: To support arts and culture programs for adults who have served time in correctional institutions. Projects utilize arts and culture as part of a holistic approach to support adults who have been incarcerated to re-integrate into and contribute to their communities.
Funder: California Arts Council
Applicant: California-based nonprofit arts organization or arts-based unit of government
Amount: Up to $50,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Wednesday, January 09, 2019

New! Creative California Communities
Purpose: To support meaningful, collaborative, creative placemaking projects that animate, activate, and celebrate communities. Projects support community goals and encourage increased engagement in arts and cultural activities with community members.
Funder: California Arts Council
Applicant: California-based nonprofit arts organization or arts-based unit of government
Amount: Up to $150,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Wednesday, January 09, 2019

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.
Economic & Workforce Development Grants
Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP)
Purpose: To eligible national and regional non-profit organizations and consortia to purchase home sites and develop or improve the infrastructure needed to
set the stage for sweat equity and volunteer-based homeownership programs for low-income persons and families.
Funder: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Applicant: public or private non-profit organizations, or a consortium of public or private non-profit organizations
Amount: Varies $450,000 to $10 million
Projected Number of Awards: 4
Deadline: Monday, November 12, 2018

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

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