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National Funding
Opportunities throughout the U.S.
Support for Mental Healthcare Solutions for Youth
Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health Innovation Awards
The Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health Innovation Awards program aims to fund mental healthcare solutions for children and young adults across the United States. This program focuses on new or piloted projects from direct-service organizations that will help address the far-reaching challenge of stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues in children and young adults. Projects must tackle specific issues and address unmet needs, with a goal of reducing stigma, increasing access to care, improving equity in mental health, and enabling early identification/prevention or enhancing intervention, especially among disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. Proposed projects can be on a national, regional, or local level; priority will be given to projects that can show feasibility of replicating the service to benefit children and youth in broader communities. Grants of $100,000 will be awarded to five finalists. These organizations will also have the opportunity to showcase their projects to other funders during the awards presentation day. The application deadline is July 15, 2022. Visit the Awards program website for details and to sign up for a briefing session on May 18 where applicants can ask questions about the program.
National and Local Programs Addressing Health Inequities Funded
Anthem Foundation
The Anthem Foundation strives to improve the health of humanity by addressing health inequalities and strengthening communities in America. Over the next three years, the Anthem Foundation will issue requests for proposals to support programs that address health inequities by demonstrating measurable and positive change in three key areas, including Maternal Health, Food As Medicine, and Substance Use Disorder. In all areas, support is provided to national programs promoting scalable and sustainable systemic change as well as local programs in California, Georgia, Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Virginia that support socially vulnerable populations with relevant interventions. The application deadlines and guidelines for each focus area are listed on the Foundation's website.
Grants Enhance Youth Justice Reform Efforts
The Annie E. Casey Foundation: Juvenile Justice Reform Projects Led by Young People
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is requesting proposals for projects that address youth justice reform led by youth or young adults who have been involved with the juvenile justice system. Priority areas for projects are restorative justice and practices, prevention practices that divert youth from initial contact with the juvenile justice system, expansion of community-based support for young people already engaged in the juvenile justice system, and solutions identified by youth or community members with direct experience with the justice system. The Foundation is also seeking organizations that have shown a commitment to racial equity and inclusion and that have actively engaged young people and families with justice system experience in its work. Two to four grants ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 will be provided. Nonprofit organizations throughout the country with 501(c)(3) status or with a fiscal sponsor are eligible to apply. The Foundation will hold a conference for potential applicants at 2 pm ET on May 11, 2022. Interested organizations should notify the Foundation of their intent to apply no later than May 18, 2022; the deadline for completed proposals is May 27, 2022. Visit the Foundation's website to learn more about this grant opportunity and to download the RFP (PDF).
Grassroots Activist Groups Supported
Resist
Resist offers support to grassroots groups engaged in activist organizing for structural social and economic change in the United States. General support grants of up to $4,000 are provided to groups who are building movements for justice and liberation and resisting systemic oppression through grassroots organizing, arts and cultural work, and resilience building. Resist's interests include community organizing and anti-racism projects, economic justice, environmental protection, LGBTQ rights, labor organizing, and Native American organizing, among others. Requests are reviewed four times per year; the upcoming deadline is June 3, 2022. Application guidelines are available on the Resist website.
Regional Funding
Opportunities for specific geographic areas
Funds for Environmental Initiatives in Virginia
Virginia Environmental Endowment
The mission of the Virginia Environmental Endowment is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital to encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, conserve natural resources, and promote environmental literacy. The Endowment provides competitive grants to nonprofit organizations through the following programs: The Virginia Program focuses on water quality, land conservation and use, the Chesapeake Bay, environmental education, climate adaptation, and other emerging issues. The application deadlines are June 15 and December 1, 2022. The James River Water Quality Improvement Program supports organizations that work to improve the water quality of the James River and its tributaries in Virginia. The application deadline is June 15, 2022. The Community Conservation Program supports conservation initiatives located within the counties of Craig, Franklin, Giles, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, and Roanoke, and the cities of Salem and Roanoke. The application deadline is January 15, 2023. Visit the Endowment's website for application guidelines for each grant program.
Grants Aim to Improve the Lives of Arizonans
Cardinals Charities
Cardinals Charities, the grantmaking program of the Arizona Cardinals, supports initiatives designed to improve the quality of life and enhance opportunities for children, women, and minorities in the state of Arizona. Grant requests of up to $5,000 are preferred, with priority given to grants that support special programs that have the greatest impact while addressing the most critical needs. Nonprofit organizations throughout the state are eligible to apply. Online applications will be accepted through June 7, 2022. Visit the Cardinals' website for more information.
Support for Maine's Animal Welfare Organizations
Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
The Elmina B. Sewall Foundation supports work in Maine to improve the well-being of people, animals, and the environment while fostering relationships that strive for social equity and community resilience. The Foundation provides grants ranging from $15,000 to $40,000 to animal shelters throughout Maine. Additionally, support will be provided to organizations working at the nexus of social services and animal well-being. General operating grants, as well as capital and capacity building project needs, will be considered. Online applications may be submitted through June 1, 2022. Visit the Foundation's website to learn more about the funding guidelines for animal welfare organizations.
Suicide Prevention Efforts in Alaska Funded
Alaska Community Foundation: GCI Suicide Prevention Grant Program
The Alaska Community Foundation is offering the GCI Suicide Prevention Grant Program, which funds projects and organizations whose goal is to reduce the rates of suicide in Alaska and promote mental wellness through strengthened community and personal connections. Grant requests of $1,000 to $20,000 are considered, with typical awards ranging from $5,000 to $10,000. Preference will be given to programs that are located in rural Alaska or programs that reach rural communities in Alaska (defined as outside of Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau). Nonprofit organizations, as well as tribes, schools, churches, and local government agencies, are eligible to apply. The 2022 grant cycle will close on June 15. Grant guidelines are available on the Alaska Community Foundation website.
Federal Funding
Opportunities from the U.S. government
Program Helps Street Youth
Department of Health and Human Services
The Street Outreach Program supports prevention and intervention services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of trafficking in persons. The Program seeks to build relationships between street outreach workers and runaway, homeless, and street youth to move youth into safe and stable housing and prepare them for independence. The application deadline is June 6, 2022.
Funding Supports Environmental and Water Activities
Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Finance Center Grant Program offers support for regional centers that will provide services for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funded water-related activities. The centers will also support multi-environmental media activities. Supported organizations will provide local governments, states, tribes, and non-governmental organizations with eligible services, such as support in administering funds, capacity building, technical assistance, training, reports and studies, tools, and other eligible activities to protect human health and the environment. Additional priorities include maximizing the potential for BIL funds to provide significant benefit to disadvantaged or tribal communities, tackling the climate crisis, and advancing environmental justice and equity. The application deadline is June 17, 2022.
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National Funding Opportunities
Support for Mental Healthcare Solutions for Youth
National and Local Programs Addressing Health Inequities Funded
Grants Enhance Youth Justice Reform Efforts
Grassroots Activist Groups Supported
Regional Funding Opportunities
Funds for Environmental Initiatives in Virginia
Grants Aim to Improve the Lives of Arizonans
Support for Maine's Animal Welfare Organizations
Suicide Prevention Efforts in Alaska Funded
Federal Funding Opportunities
Program Helps Street Youth
Funding Supports Environmental and Water Activities