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House Appropriations Panel OKs DoEd Funding Hike, More Race to the Top Grants

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Education approves an 11.8% increase in funding for the Education Dept. (DoEd) next year, including a one-year extension of President Obama's signature K-12 competitive grants initiative: the Race to the Top program. The bill financing the departments of Lab... read more 07/20/2010 4:40 PM

Senate, House Set Different Funding Levels for WIC in FY 2011

As lawmakers continue to slog through an array of spending bills for next year, Senate and House appropriators are setting significantly different funding levels for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) for FY 2011. The Senate Agriculture Appropriations... read more 07/22/2010 4:30 PM

Child Welfare

(CHILD NUTRITION) FNS Sets Reimbursement Food Funding Programs
The Food & Nutrition Service (FNS) at the Agriculture Dept. (USDA) offers the annual adjusted payment rates for the Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Effective: Through June 30. The rates are for meals and snacks served in child care centers, day care homes outside-school-hours car... read more 07/20/2010 4:56 PM

Education

(EDUCATION) Advocates Applaud House Subcommittee Vote to Increase Afterschool Funding
Afterschool advocates applauded a House subcommittee's vote to set aside an additional $35 million in FY 2011 funding for federal afterschool funding programs. The bill financing the departments of Labor, Health & Human Services and Education, was approved on a party-line vote of 11 to 5 by a... read more 07/19/2010 4:44 PM

(EDUCATION) School Reforms Should Reach Beyond Race to the Top, Experts Say
Despite the emphasis on comprehensive education reform in the federal $4.3 billion Race to the Top competition, the reform picture is still dominated by a continued pursuit of piecemeal initiatives, such as pay for performance, teacher tenure, school restructuring and myriad other stand-alone soluti... read more 07/23/2010 07:30 AM

Federal Funding Notices - At Risk Youth

(CHILDREN'S HEALTH) HHS Offers $7M in State Minority Health Grants
Agency: Health & Human Services Dept. (HHS) (Office of Public Health and Science); Program: State Partnership Grant Program to Improve Minority Health (CFDA Number: 93.296) (Funding Opportunity Number: MP-STT-10-001); Eligibility: Public/private entities and/or community-based minority serving o... read more 07/19/2010 4:36 PM

(OBESITY) HHS Releases $5M Healthy Weight Grant Notice
The Health and Human Services Dept. (HHS) launches the competition for a $5 million grant competition that will create the Prevention Center for Healthy Weight, a national effort to share promising community-based and clinical interventions to prevent and treat child and adult obesity. Deadline: Au... read more 07/19/2010 1:40 PM

Federal Funding Notices - Education

(EDUCATION) Agency Sets Aside $9.7M for Historically Black Colleges, Universities
Agency: Housing & Urban Development (HUD) (Office of University Partnerships, OUP); Program: Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) Program (CFDA Number: 14.520) (Funding Opportunity Number: FR-5415-N-04); Eligibility: HBCUs; Funding: $9.7 million for multiple awards (see Insider'... read more 07/23/2010 4:58 PM

(EDUCATION) HUD Provides Funding for Tribal Colleges Outreach
Agency: Housing & Urban Development (HUD) (Office of University Partnerships, OUP); Program: Tribal Colleges & Universities Program (TCUP) (CFDA Number: 14.519) (Funding Opportunity Number: FR-5415-N-06); Eligibility: Tribal colleges and universities; Funding: $6.3 million for multiple award... read more 07/20/2010 2:56 PM

Note From the Editor

(ONLINE) New Publication Will Focus on Public Safety
CD Publications, publisher of Children & Youth Funding Report and other funding news services, is launching Public Safety Funding Report, a new online publication devoted exclusively to private and federal funding for the public safety sector. Coverage includes grants for police and fire d... read more 07/23/2010 3:22 PM

On Capitol Hill

(YOUTH) Experts Advocate Different Approach to Funding Youth Programs
As congressional appropriators work to fund the multiple programs that aid needy and at-risk youth, experts urge lawmakers to take a deeper look at the government's traditional approach to funding large social service programs Since 1990, there have been 10 instances in which an entire federa... read more 07/23/2010 3:10 PM

Private Funding

(OUTDOORS) Fund for Wild Nature
Deadline: Feb. 1. The Portland, OR-based Fund for Wild Nature provides money for youth campaigns designed to save and restore native species and wild ecosystems, including actions to defend wilderness and biological diversity. The fund provides support for advocacy, litigation, public policy work... read more 07/21/2010 4:53 PM

(ARTS) American Music Center
Deadline: Jan. 15. The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program supports efforts that spread more widely the work of contemporary American composers. Other goals include: programs that develop audiences for contemporary American music through record distribution and other retail markets; and... read more 07/22/2010 4:50 PM

(ENVIRONMENT) Patagonia
Deadline: Aug. 31. The Patagonia Environmental Grants Program provides support to small, grassroots activist organizations with provocative direct-action agendas, working on multi-pronged campaigns to protect the environment. Patagonia funds local groups working to protect local habitats in the U... read more 07/20/2010 11:10 AM

(NEW FUNDING) Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition
Deadline: Sept. 20. Ashoka, a global community of leading social entrepreneurs, and Staples Inc. have announced the launch of the fourth annual Staples/Ashoka Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition. The competition is open to existing and new Youth Venture teams made up of young people between the a... read more 07/19/2010 12:40 PM

(RECREATION) Mantis Awards
Deadline: March 1. The Nat'l Gardening Assn. and Mantis Garden Tools launch their 2011 Mantis Awards—which will give away 25 Mantis Tiller/Cultivators to the best educational garden programs that enhance the quality of life in their host communities.... read more 07/23/2010 3:54 PM

(REGIONAL FUNDING) Ameriprise Financial
Deadline: Sept. 1. The Ameriprise Financial Community Relations Program is committed to giving back to company communities throughout the United States by supporting nonprofit organizations whose shared goal is to improve the lives of individuals from all walks of life. The company's community o... read more 07/21/2010 05:16 AM

(REGIONAL FUNDING) James Irvine Foundation
Deadline: Aug. 6. The California-based James Irvine Foundation provides funding for a range of programs that assist California programs that address the needs of youth and families. The foundation's Creative Connections Fund supports the expansion of diverse, relevant arts and cultural offerings... read more 07/21/2010 1:16 PM

(CHILDREN) Libri Books for Children
Deadline: Jan. 23 (tentative). The Libri Foundation is offering its first round of donations for 2011. The foundation donates new, quality hardcover children's books for small, rural public libraries across the country. Eligibility: A library should... read more 07/22/2010 2:53 PM

(EDUCATION) Arca Foundation
Deadline: Sept. 1. The Arca Foundation, a family foundation started in 1952, provides a range of grants in the pursuit of social equity and justice -- particularly for the underserved. For more than 50 years, the Arca Foundation supports a broad variety of issues, including worker and civic partic... read more 07/21/2010 06:16 AM

(EDUCATION) GreenWorks Grants
Deadline: Dec. 1. The Project Learning Tree's GreenWorks grants are designed to help educators implement environmentally conscious community action and service-learning projects. Projects should address an environmental issue and involve students fro... read more 07/22/2010 1:47 PM

(HEALTH) Avon Breast Health Grants
Deadline: Aug. 27. The Avon Breast Health Outreach Program (BHOP) awards grants that help organizations link medically underserved women to breast health education and screening services. Grants are available to community-based organizations in the U.S that are implementing a program that provides... read more 07/20/2010 10:10 AM

(OUTDOOR RECREATION) Nat'l Trails Fund
Deadline:Dec. 15. The Nat'l Trails Fund, a giving program overseen by the American Hiking Society, funds building and protecting hiking trails. In the past, the fund has awarded nearly $382,000 to 105 grassroots organizations all over the country working to establish, pro... read more 07/22/2010 3:49 PM

(TEENS) AE Foundation
Deadline: Rolling. The AE Foundation, the giving arm of the clothing retailer, funds teen programs in areas where it has stores. It operates 724 stores in 49 states. Pittsburgh, PA, AE's headquarters, receives preference in funding. The... read more 07/22/2010 4:49 PM

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