| Children and Youth Funding Report Stories posted week of 7/3/10 - 7/9/10 |
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Story of the WeekDiscussion Highlights How to Navigate HUD Grants Maze "Although delayed by several months, the U.S. Housing & Urban Development Dept. has finally started its grant making season," says Ray Sweeney, long-time professional grant writer, federal funding consultant, editor of CD Publications' Federal & Foundation Assistance Monitor and one of the h... read more 07/08/2010 05:51 AM |
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| (BUDGET 2011) After Stall, House Moves Ahead With Some Funding Bills The House Appropriations Committee, anticipating the overall spending limit in the budget enforcement resolution it passed last week, began consideration of the 12 individual appropriations bills that will fund discretionary programs for FY 2011. Six of the appropriations subcommittees have comple... read more 07/09/2010 4:43 PM |
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| (BUDGET 2011) House Passes One-Year Budget Resolution By a five-vote margin, the House passes a budget enforcement blueprint that sets spending levels for appropriations committees now working on the FY 2011 budget well below what was requested by President Obama. The so-called "budget enforcement resolution" sets discretionary spending for FY 2011 a... read more 07/09/2010 4:51 PM |
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| (CHILD WELFARE) ACF Seeks New Strategies for Welfare-to-Work Programs The Administration for Children & Families (ACF) is seeking new strategies to improve its Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration and Evaluation Project (STEDEP), which offers support for subsidized jobs to underemployed families and at-risk youth, according to a July 7 Federa... read more 07/07/2010 4:01 PM |
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| (EDUCATION) Duncan Asks Funders to Support Reform, Help With Innovation Fund Match In an unusual appeal, Education Secy. Arne Duncan asks private education funders to support K-12 education reforms and help applicants to the $643 million Investing in Innovation (i3) competition to meet their 20% match requirements. Duncan held a conference call with about 230 education grant make... read more 07/08/2010 5 PM |
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| (FUNDING TIPS) USAC Offers Tips for E-Rate Applicants As schools prepare to file this fall for their E-Rate funding -- which helps provide high-speed Internet connections to aging or under-equipped K-12 facilities -- the agency that distributes the money is posting some time-saving tips. The Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) offers some... read more 07/07/2010 4:05 PM |
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| (EDUCATION) HHS Offers $1M to Reduce Risky HIV/AIDS Behavior Agency: Health & Human Services Dept. (Office of Public Health & Science); Program: Minority Community HIV/AIDS Partnership: Preventing Risky Behaviors among Minority College Students (CFDA Number: 93.004) (Funding Opportunity Number: MP-HHP-10-001); Eligibility: National nonprofits; Funding... read more 07/07/2010 4:05 PM |
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| (DISABILITIES) DoEd Offers $1M to Establish Vocational Rehabilitation Center Agency: Education Dept. (Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services) (Nat'l Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research); Program: Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTCs): Effective Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Service Delivery Practices (CFDA Number: 84.133B-... read more 07/09/2010 08:43 AM |
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| (EDUCATION) DoEd Provides $50M for Charter Schools Replication Grants Agency: Education Dept. (DoEd) (Office of Innovation and Improvement); Program: Grants for Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools (CFDA Number: 84.282M; Eligibility: Nonprofits and nonprofit charter management organizations; Funding: $50 million for five to eight awards (there is... read more 07/09/2010 1:57 PM |
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| (SPECIAL EDUCATION) Education Dept. Provides Funding for Employment Policy Center Agency: Education Dept. (Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services) (Nat'l Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research); Program: Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTCs): Center on Employment Policy & Measurement (CFDA Number: 84.133B-4); Eligibility: State... read more 07/09/2010 11:43 AM |
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| (EDUCATION) DoEd Offers Funding to Improve Indian Education Agency: Education Dept. (DoEd) (Office of Postsecondary Education); Program: Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI) (CFDA Number: 84.031X); Eligibility: Institutions of higher education and tribes; Funding: $3.6 million for five-year Individual Development grants (eight) and five-ye... read more 07/08/2010 2:01 PM |
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| (EDUCATION) NEH Offers Grants Funding to Foster Teacher Collaborations Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); Program: Promotion of the Humanities-Professional Development (CFDA Number: 45.163, Funding Opportunity Number: 20101007-AB); Eligibility: Schools, states, other governmental entities, tribes, nonprofits and private institutions of higher educatio... read more 07/08/2010 1:51 PM |
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| (FUNDING TIPS) Group Posts Ideas on Meeting DoEd's Innovation Standards Even as the Education Dept. moves ahead with it multiple "innovation" competitive grants, an education group has posted tips that can help grants seekers meet the new guidelines that require "out-of-the-box" thinking. One of the biggest buzz words in education today is "innovation," much like how t... read more 07/06/2010 4 PM |
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| (FUNDING) What to Do When Funders Say They Don't Accept Applications Question: "We read all the grants opportunities posted in CYF, but we did notice that some organizations are starting to say that they are not now "accepting new applications." Should we cross off these funders, or is there another way to approach them." Grant Guru: Interesting question. There is a... read more 07/09/2010 12:06 PM |
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| (EDUCATION) Advocates Applaud House Vote in Favor of $10B Education-Funding Bill Education advocates applaud a $10 billion education funding bill that House Democratic leaders successfully attached to a budget supplemental bill last week. Advocates were also critical of President Obama for his threatened veto of the bill because it reduces money for K-12 education reform efforts... read more 07/08/2010 05:51 AM |
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| (EDUCATION) House Passes $10B Education-Funding Bill House Democratic leaders successfully attached a $10 billion amendment for education funding to a budget supplemental bill that the House considered last week. President Obama has threatened to veto the bill because it reduces money for K-12 education reform efforts. The amendment, a scaled-down ve... read more 07/07/2010 4 PM |
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| (EDUCATION) American Council of Learned Societies Deadline: Sept. 29 The American Council of Learned Societies' (ACLS) Digital Innovation Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowshi... read more 07/09/2010 10:43 AM |
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| (EDUCATION) Earthwatch Institute Deadline: Rolling. Elementary, middle and high school educators and students are eligible to apply for the Earthwatch Institute Education Fellowship Program. Earthwatch seeks high school students with limited experiences in the sciences who are creative and inventive thinkers. Leadership, commit... read more 07/09/2010 4:58 PM |
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| (EDUCATION) Lincoln Library Grants Deadline: Sept. 1 Through its Field Trip Grant Program, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum (ALPLM) offsets the transportation cost of visiting the presidential museum for teachers of grades 4-12 in U.S. public and nonpublic schools that have a low-income student enrollment greate... read more 07/07/2010 4:59 PM |
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| (HUMANITIES) Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Deadline: Sept. 15. The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is a nonprofit corporation established in 1964. When Keats, a children's book author, died in 1983, his will directed that royalties from his books go to the foundation to be used for the support of programs judged to be helpful to humanity. The f... read more 07/09/2010 4:53 PM |
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| (PUBLIC SAFETY) Tides Foundation Deadline: Aug. 16. The Death Penalty Mobilization Fund (DPMF), offered by the Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy Fund, supports strategic collaborations of local, regional and national nonprofit 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations working to abolish the death penalty at the state and/or federal... read more 07/09/2010 10:46 AM |
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| (YOUTH) Jonas Brothers/Change for the Children Grants Deadline: July 15. Just a reminder. The deadline is quickly approaching for these grants by the teen singing sensation Jonas Brothers Change for the Children Foundation and DoSomething.org. They offer grants for projects which improve communities through grassroots effor... read more 07/06/2010 10:03 AM |
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| (ED) Tennessee Schools Plan on Race to the Top Spending Strategy Tennessee schools won big in the Education Dept.'s Race to the Top Phase I competition, taking away a $500 million award to be spent over the next four years on K-12 education reform. Half of the money will be sent directly to the district and the other half will be spent on the state level. Distri... read more 07/06/2010 5 PM |
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