Funding Opportunity for Community-based and Tribal Organizations (US)

Deadline: 23-Jun-21

The Center at Sierra Health Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to strengthen the capacity of emerging grassroots community-based organizations and Tribal organizations throughout California to use innovative programs/practices for substance use disorder prevention.

This funding opportunity is focused on youth and families from communities of color and other marginalized populations that are disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs, criminalized for substance use, and that often have less access to prevention, treatment and information about substance use disorder supports. These include American Indian/Alaskan Native, African American, Asian-Pacific Islander, and Latinx communities in California, as well as youth of color who are part of the LGBTQ2S+ community, youth with disabilities or those who have life experiences that increase the risk of substance use disorder, including being system-impacted and formerly incarcerated, youth who have experienced the foster care system and youth experiencing homelessness.

This funding will prioritize community-based organizations and Tribal organizations that utilize the following approaches:

Partnerships with schools, school districts and county offices of education
Engaging youth and youth adults with disabilities and/or youth and families facing housing insecurity
Engaging non-traditional partners
Incorporating cultural and community-driven approaches to healing the harms from the War on Drugs.

Awarded funds will be used to strengthen the capacity of emerging grassroots community-based organizations and Tribal organizations throughout California to use innovative programs/practices for substance use disorder prevention among youth ages 12-26. These programs/practices must be healing-centered, trauma-informed, culturally and linguistically appropriate and use a social justice youth development approach.

Funding Information

Awards will range from $50,000 to $300,000 over two years for 501(c)(3) community-based organizations, Tribal organizations and coalitions/collaboratives.

Eligibility Criteria

Organizations must meet the following minimum requirements:

Located in the state of California.
Provide services in the state of California.
Are a 501(c)(3) community-based organization or Tribal organization5 with established and trusted community relationships. Fiscal sponsorships are eligible. Also, open to coalitions of organizations and collaboratives, as long as the backbone organization is an eligible applicant.
Applicant organization must not have an active Elevate Youth California grant. Fiscal sponsors are the exception and are allowed to submit for a new fiscally sponsored project that was not awarded a previous Elevate Youth California grant.
Have demonstrated experience partnering with young people of color and other marginalized communities disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs.
Applicant organizations and collaborative partners must deeply engage and reflect the proposed communities served that are disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs. Grantee partners should have a history of working with impacted communities, including representation on the board and staff, clients served and neighbourhoods served.
Applicant organizations and their partners must have demonstrated evidence of inclusivity and shall not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status in any of its activities or operations.
Applicant organization must not have an annual budget in 2020 that exceeds $1,000,000.
Applicant organizations must demonstrate a need for capacity building within the organization and be able to provide a work plan to address those needs.
Applicant organizations must have paid or volunteer staff members.
Applicant organizations must take innovative approaches to program implementation.