Deadline: 29-Jul-2025
The Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive (HEART) Program will provide funding for projects that support activities to promote healthy marriages and/or relationships to ultimately strengthen families.
This funding will be designed for adult individuals or couples (age 18 and older). Projects will provide a broad array of healthy marriage and relationship promotion activities and services designed to integrate skills-based healthy marriage education, along with additional services to address relationship skills and job and career advancement opportunities.
Objectives
- This project will help ACF to continuously improve programming and increase positive outcomes for individuals, couples, families, and children.
- The objectives of this program include:
- Adults, including those who are married or interested in marriage, gain skills and tools that allow them to strengthen their relationships, especially with a romantic partner.
- Parents learn how to work together with their co-parent(s), in support of their children.
- Family structure is strengthened, including an increase in healthy marriages.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 34,650,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,250,000
- Award Floor: $400,000
Duration
- They plan to fund a five-year project period. The project period has five one-year budget periods.
Outcomes
- The short-term outcomes of this program include:
- Improved skills that lead to healthier relationships and marriages.
- Improved skills that lead to better parenting and co-parenting.
- Improved knowledge of and access to factors impacting economic well-being. The long-term outcomes of this program include:
- Improved individual well-being.
- Improved family functioning.
- Improved family stability, including an increase in number of marriages.
- Improved parenting and co-parenting skills.
Eligibility Criteria
- These types of organizations are eligible for an award:
- State, county, city, or township governments.
- Special district governments.
- Independent school districts.
- Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) and tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments).
- Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities.
- Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.
- For-profit organizations, including small businesses.
- Private institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.