The Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation) announces the availability of approximately $3,500,000 for the first year of a three-year grant award to national nonprofit organizations that support youth development through planning, collaboration, and alliance building for youth-serving
credit:
organizations at the local and regional level, as well as direct programming to help children and youth succeed in school.
Activities supported through this competition will advance the Corporation?s strategic goals around supporting youth from disadvantaged circumstances in achieving better outcomes.
The Corporation plans to make two awards under this Notice of Funds Availability (Notice).
The first award will go to a nonprofit organization that can best advance a national agenda for helping America?s children and youth through mobilization of volunteers and identification of resources to support other youth serving organizations, as outlined in Part 1 of section I.A.
of this Notice.
The second award will be made to a national nonprofit that can implement a high-quality, innovative, direct service program that brings volunteers and other community resources into local schools on a national scale, as outlined in Part 2 section I.A.
of this Notice.
The Corporation reserves the right to make more than two awards under this Notice depending on the number and quality of applications received.
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:Full notice of funding availability
Additional Information of Eligibility:Eligible applicants are national nonprofit organizations (e.g.
national intermediaries, associations, alliances, consortia, and networks) and national public charities, faith-based and other community organizations, and national private foundations.
For the purposes of this competition, the Corporation defines a national nonprofit organization as an organization that has on-going, demonstrable relationships with youth serving organizations or public school systems in at least two states in each of the five clusters of the country used by the Corporation to organize its field operations.
The clusters are: 1) Pacific (AK, CA, HI, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY); 2) Atlantic (NJ, MD, DE, CT, DC, RI, MA, PA, PR/VI, NY, NH, VT, ME); 3) North Central (IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, NB, OH, SD, ND, WI); 4) Southern (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); and, 5) Southwest (AZ, AR, CO, KS, LA, MO, NM, OK, TX).
Full Opportunity Web Address:http://www.nationalservice.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=60Contact: Phone 202-606-7507
TTY number is 202–606-3472
Agency Email Description: Special Initiatives Hotline
Agency Email: Youth@cns.gov
Date Posted: 2008-06-26
Application Due Date: 2008-07-29
Archive Date: 2008-07-30