Project Grant D20AP00004

The Department of the Interior Insular Affairs awarded a $499,100 Project Grant to The Junior State of America Foundation to support the Insular Affairs Youth Civic Engagement Program for High School Students. The grant will fund the Foundation's Programs Team to execute civic education activities for high school students in California from June 2021 through March 2023. The grant is being awarded under the Department's Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program...

This $2,280,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.726 Juvenile Mentoring Program) will enable After-School All-Stars, a national non-profit organization, to expand and enhance its Rising Stars mentoring program. The program will target at-risk youth in grades 5-12 across 18 sites in 6 metropolitan communities, including Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Honolulu, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C. Over the 3-year...

The Inter-American Foundation awarded a $142,880 project grant to Jovenes Articulando Territorios AC under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) federal grant program. The grant funds a youth leadership and entrepreneurship program in Chiapas, Mexico from August 2022 to August 2025. The program aims to encourage indigenous Tseltal and Tsotsil young people to stay in school, start businesses based on local resources and culture, and build local leadership skills. It promotes...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration awarded a $1,725,000 Project Grant to Junior Achievement of South Florida Inc. under the YouthBuild (CFDA 17.274) program. This 40-month grant, effective February 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028, will provide comprehensive workforce development services to underserved youth ages 16-24. Key services include pre-apprenticeship training, particularly in construction skills, along with education, occupational skills training,...

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded $605,570 to the Oficina Para El Desarrollo Socioeconomico Y Comunitatrio under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Formula Grants program (CFDA 16.540) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2026. The funding will support Puerto Rico's Comprehensive Three Year Plan for 2021-2023 to advance work promoting civil rights, increasing access to justice, and...

Justice Innovation, Inc. received a $1 million Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) to implement the Justice Scholars Network at the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Staten Island from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The project aims to build capacity to prevent and reduce school violence through staff training in violence prevention, youth court, peer mediation, and...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.540 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) awarded a $590,509 Formula Grant to the Oficina Para El Desarrollo Socioeconomico Y Comunitatrio, a U.S. local government entity in Puerto Rico. This grant funding supports the implementation of Puerto Rico's three-year comprehensive plan for advancing civil rights, increasing access to justice, and developing more effective education and prevention...

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $494,674 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Youth Emergency Services, Inc. (doing business as Y E S House), a non-profit organization in Gillette, Wyoming. The funding will support a 3-year initiative to provide community-based and school-based mentoring services to 255 at-risk youth involved in the juvenile justice system across rural northeast Wyoming. Key program...

The Youth Action Project, Incorporated was awarded a $476,641.95 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the period of October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2022. The grant was awarded under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726), which aims to improve outcomes for at-risk and high-risk youth through the provision of mentoring services. Under this award, Youth Action Project, Inc. will deliver mentoring...

Kentucky State University will receive $681,818 under a three-year Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The award is part of the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726), which aims to improve outcomes for at-risk youth through mentoring services. Under the award, Kentucky State University will expand its existing after-school mentoring program targeting at-risk African American and Hispanic males...