Funding by Topic: Youth
Summaries of funding programs are provided by RAC for your convenience.
Please contact the funder directly for the most complete and current
information. You can also browse a list of inactive
funding programs.
National Funding Programs
Do Something Community Action Projects
Grants to help young people implement or expand a community action project, program, or organization.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Do Something
Do Something Disaster Grants
Grants to young people across the US and Canada with a project idea around the themes of disaster preparedness and emergency response.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Do Something
Do Something Feed the Need Program
Do Something invites young people to conduct food drives in their schools and local communities.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Dec 15, 2009
Sponsor: Do Something
Family Unification Program (FUP)
Vouchers to public housing authorities which provides rental assistance to families whose lack of adequate housing is a primary cause of parents being separated or near-separated from their children.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Dec 3, 2009
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
FedEx Social Responsibility Program
Core giving areas are emergency and disaster relief, pedestrian and child safety, education, and health and human services.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: FedEx
General Mills Champions for Healthy Kids Grant Program
Grants for programs to encourage communities to improve the eating and physical activity patterns of young people.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Jan 15, 2010
Sponsor: General Mills Foundation
Kroger Company Foundation
Capital campaigns, start up grants, and funding for special projects. Focuses only on areas where company has operations.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide, only in areas of company operations.See http://www.thekrogerco.com/operations/operations.htm for details.
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Kroger Company Foundation
Learn and Serve America Summer of Service FY10
Grants for collaborative efforts to implement community-based service-learning projects during the summer months.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Dec 10, 2009
Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service: For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations
Microsoft Unlimited Potential: Community Technology Skills Program Grants
Grants to provide nonprofit organizations with funding to support technology training programs.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Microsoft Community Affairs
Public Welfare Foundation
Grants to provide services to disadvantaged populations in the areas of criminal and juvenile justice, health reform, and workers' rights.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Public Welfare Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Unsolicited Grants
Grants to address health care workforce, innovative health care solutions, and health care to vulnerable populations.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Statewide Family Network Grant
Grants to enhance state capacity and infrastructure to the needs of children and adolescents with emotional disturbances.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Nov 25, 2009
Sponsor: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
William Randolph Hearst Foundations Health Grants
Provides funding to improve access to quality health care for underserved populations in rural and urban areas.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
State and Regional Funding Programs
"Diamonds Back" Youth Field Building
Funding to build or renovate baseball fields for Arizona youth.
Geographic Coverage: Arizona
Application Deadline:
Dec 31, 2009
Sponsor: Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation
Agricultural Youth Injury Prevention Grants
Funding designated for community grants targeted at prevention of farm-related injury in young people (less than 19 years of age).
Geographic Coverage: Iowa
Application Deadline:
Feb 27, 2010
Sponsor: Iowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health
New Jersey Health Initiatives 2010
Support for projects that foster positive intellectual and emotional development and prevent violence and related health-risking social behaviors (e.g., substance abuse, physical aggression, delinquency) in young men at risk ages 14–24.
Geographic Coverage: New Jersey
Application Deadline:
Jan 28, 2010
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust Grants
Grants for people in need including the elderly, disabled adults and/or children, as well as women, youth and families.
Geographic Coverage: Arizona
Application Deadline:
Sep 8, 2009 Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
The Rapides Foundation Healthy People Grants
Provides grants to parishes in Central Louisiana for a variety of healthcare issues.
Geographic Coverage: Eligible Louisiana parishes in the Delta region: Allen, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, and Winn
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
William T. Kemper Foundation Grants
Provides grants for health, human services, the arts, and the environment.
Geographic Coverage: Missouri, Kansas, and western Illinois
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
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