Project Grant CPIMP191186

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (CFDA 19.415 - Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges) provides $3,080,000 to Family Health International (FHI 360) to implement the Sports Visitor and Sports Envoy programs. These programs aim to address U.S. foreign policy goals and promote key U.S. values related to education, community engagement, and diversity through sports-based people-to-people...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,989,542 to Texas Tech University System to develop and study a curriculum that leverages sports to teach STEM content and practices to historically underserved youth aged 8-11. The project, titled "Using Positive Youth Development Principles and Sports to Enhance STEM Knowledge, Practices, and Identity Among Historically Underserved Youth Aged 8–11", will be implemented over...

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $1,374,194 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 93.361) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to develop and test an innovative, community-based "Meet Me on the Pitch" intervention that integrates sports, mentoring, and behavioral health services to improve the health and well-being of refugee and immigrant "newcomer" youth. The intervention, co-designed with youth and their coaches, aims to address...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women provides $315,000 in funding over 36 months for the "Grants to Engage Men and Boys as Allies in the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls" program (CFDA 16.888). The Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, in partnership with several local organizations, will implement "Project TeamUp Hartford County" to: 1) train male coaches in Hartford County middle and high...

This $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, supports the "Cooperative Agreements to Promote Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention and School-Based Surveillance" program (CFDA 93.079). The award will fund Education Training & Research Associates (ETR), a non-profit organization, to implement evidence-based interventions and conduct...

This $657,757.00 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to reduce nutrition insecurity and malnutrition among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries. The grant funding will support an innovative combination of participatory systems thinking methods, quantitative data, and modeling to characterize food environments and understand how individual, household, and...

The Project Grant award of $445,500 from the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families under the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program (CFDA 93.060) supports Able Works, a non-profit organization in Menlo Park, California, in delivering comprehensive youth development initiatives. The grant funding enables Able Works to implement educational programs targeting adolescent health and social development, with a focus on teaching strategies for...

This $559,632 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and test a theoretical coaching framework to address systemic challenges faced by Black disabled high school students in accessing meaningful STEM learning opportunities. The key products and services to be delivered through this collaborative research project include: 1) Establishing a partnership with a cohort of Black disabled high school students to center their...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), through the Delinquency Prevention Program (CFDA 16.548), has awarded The Skills Center Inc. a $250,000 Project Grant to provide an array of sports-based youth development services for 50 minority middle and high school girls annually over a 3-year period. The program, titled "Tampa YES," will deliver trauma-informed, positive youth development programming that includes individual education plans, tutoring, mentoring,...

This Project Grant award of $538,026 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, CFDA 47.076, supports a participatory study examining how curricula and practices in a community-based youth development program at the Downtown Boxing Gym in Detroit, Michigan nurture and support STEM engagement among Black and Latinx youth. The project aims to (1) explore how out-of-school learning spaces can broaden participation of underrepresented youth in STEM,...