Deadline: 2-Feb-22
Application are now open for the United Way of Greater Atlanta’s College & Career Ready Grant Program. The program aims to improve college and career readiness by 10% or for 15,000 youth in communities with low Child Well-Being by 2027.
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Priority Area
They have four pathways through which they seek to create change:
- Academic Support: Improve academic outcomes by ensuring youth have access to the supports and experiences e.g., afterschool and summer experiences that foster academic outcomes, employability skills such as 21st century skills, leadership development, and planning for future careers as well as hands-on, project-based, quality mentoring and experiential enrichment opportunities targeted to increase youth’s engagement in learning and social-emotional development.
- Career Pathway: Cultivate developmentally appropriate opportunities for youth to build the soft and hard skills including youth apprenticeships that will make them competitive in the current and future workforce as well as providing personal growth and development and social/economic opportunities.
- College Planning: Support youth and their families in navigating the complexities of accessing and completing a post-secondary program including selection, enrollment, funding, and other supports that eliminate barriers as well as maximize young people’s ability to take advantage of their post-secondary options by increasing quality mentoring, leadership, service-learning opportunities and support for reducing school dropouts.
- Secure Housing and Basic Needs: Access to safe and stable housing, short-term crisis assistance, and sustained access to healthy food and comprehensive healthcare is fundamental for children, families and communities to move from crisis to stability, and to improve outcomes across all Child Well-Being metrics. Incorporating these fundamental elements into services for youth and their families are critical to reaching positive outcomes in education, employment and socio-emotional development.
Funding Information
- All applicants will be notified in late-April after United Way leadership volunteers complete their decision-making.
- The minimum grant award will be $25,000 for a one-year grant period.
- They anticipate awarding 4 organizations with grant awards ranging $35,000 – $100,000 for the Career Pathways funding opportunity.
- They anticipate awarding 50-60 organizations in the amount of $50,000 per organization for the Strengthening Academic Support funding opportunity.
- First time Awardees will participate in the Grantee Orientation to gain more information about grant expectations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit or working with a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit as their fiscal sponsor
- Career Pathways applicants cannot have an active grant from United Way of Greater of Atlanta, excluding any active grant awards issued from the following grant programs: Emergency Housing Assistance Program, Building Opportunities in Out-of-School Time (BOOST) grant, School-Age Help and Relief Effort (SHARE) grant, Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP), and United for Racial Equity and Healing Fund (UfREHF)
- The Strengthening Academic Support funding opportunity is open to any organization, regardless of previous United Way funding.
- Maintain a current registration with the Georgia Secretary of State office.
- Have an independent governing body consisting of at least nine voting members who are resident volunteers, that has the authority to decide policy and strategic direction with respect to the agency's programs, administration and finances, in accordance with the organization's By-Laws, and who shall meet at least four times per year. Paid staff must not be a voting member of the Board.
- Maintain a non-discrimination policy or plan that does not discriminate on the basis of race, cultural heritage, religion, gender, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or status as a qualified disabled or handicapped individual.
- Demonstrate financial management – All financial statements must show evidence of accounting principles in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures (GAAP) and include full disclosures and appropriate notes for such things as leases, loans, investments and affiliated party transactions.
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