Children and Youth Funding Report

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ACF to Launch Program to Help Get Homeless Youth off Streets

Agency: Health & Human Services Dept. (Admin. for Children & Families); Program: Basic Center Program (BCP) (CFDA Number 93.623) (Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2016-ACF-ACYF-CY-1121); Eligibility: Governments, public and nonprofit private entities, nonprofits and combinations of such entit...

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DoEd Approves States' Plans for Equal Access to Good Educators

The Education Dept. (DoEd) approves the District of Columbia and 17 states' plans to ensure that poor and minority student classrooms are not staffed by inexperienced, unqualified, underperforming or out-of-field teachers. The 17 states and the District of Columbia receiving approval of their plans...

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Special Travelers: Teaching to Learn vs. Teaching to Live

Special Travelers, LLC, provides special education-related services in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, as well as travel support to families throughout the East Coast.

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(CHILD NUTRITION) WIC Administrative Costs Wrongly Pegged at 40 Percent

House Republican leaders have mischaracterized the amount of money it takes to run the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), claiming that almost half of the program's $6.7 billion is eaten up with administrative costs, advocates say. The House Appropriation...

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(CHILDRENS HEALTH) NAACP Organization Poised to Heighten Effort in Support of WIC

The leadership of the NAACP, in  response to actions by conservative lawmakers aimed at rolling back health initiatives passed during the 111th Congress, met to spell out the organization's concerns, which include reduced funding for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program and t...

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(CHILDRENS HEALTH) HHS Grantee Will Establish Developmental Disorder Training Resource Center

Agency: Health & Human Services Dept. (Health Resources & Services Admin., HRSA); Program: Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network (CFDA Number: 93.110) (Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-11-135); Eligibility: Nonprofits and institutions of higher learning; Funding: An $834,000 a...

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(FUNDING TIPS) DOJ Launches Grants Tutorial as Competitions are Released

The Justice Dept's (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) launches an updated grants writing tutorial to help grants writers apply for the millions of dollars in competitive grants that DOJ will offer each year. The tutorial, which covers everything from researching a DOJ grant listing to making t...

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(YOUTH) Merck Family Fund Offers Youth, Communities Grants

Private Funder: Merck Family Fund (MFF); Opportunity: Sustaining Our Environment and Transforming Our Communities 2011 grants programs; Funding Focus: Youth, environment, education; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: Awards vary, up to $100,000 each; Deadline: Aug. 1. Sum...

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(EDUCATION) Wallace Foundation Offers K-12 Grants

Foundation: Wallace Foundation; Opportunity:Program grants; Funding Focus: Education, arts and culture, after-school, student achievement; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits, schools and colleges and universities; Funding: Multiple awards ranging from $40,000 to more than $1 million...

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(EDUCATION) DoEd to Provide Insights into Winning Race to the Top Grants

Just a quick heads-up here: on April 15 the Education Dept. (DoEd) will host the first in a series of public meetings related to the Race to the Top Assessment grants. Representatives from the two assessment consortia and a panel of experts will discuss the technology infrastructure needed to suppor...

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