Project Grant S215K230166

The Illinois State Alliance of YMCAs was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215). The grant funding will support the organization's initiative for "Youth Development, Physical Education and Water...

The YMCA of Honolulu received a $791,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects federal grant program (CFDA 84.215). The funding will support the YMCA's expansion of its preschool program from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. As...

Head Start and Early Head Start Services - Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago, Inc. Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago, Inc. received a $17.5 million Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families under the Head Start program (CFDA 93.600), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030. This five-year award funds comprehensive early childhood education and family support services designed to promote school readiness among low-income...

The YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles was awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects (CFDA 84.215) program. The funding will enable the YMCA to provide high-quality and high-impact STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering,...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Delinquency Prevention Program (CFDA 16.548) to Metropolitan Family Services (MFS), a non-profit organization in Chicago, Illinois. The 36-month grant will fund the development and implementation of violence prevention programs for high-risk youth at Harlan Community Academy High School in the Roseland community. MFS will use a trauma-informed, restorative...

GRANT AWARD SUMMARY All Chicago Making Homelessness History received a $4,095,956 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development under the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP, CFDA 14.276), awarded June 1, 2026, with completion scheduled for November 30, 2028. The grant funds a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness in Chicago, Illinois, serving unaccompanied youth...

Safe Children Coalition, Inc. (doing business as YMCA) received a $700,000 Project Grant award from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families under the Basic Center Program (CFDA 93.623), effective September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2028. This award funds the operation of a community-based emergency shelter facility providing temporary housing and crisis intervention services to runaway and homeless youth under 18 years of age in Florida. The program delivers up to 21 days of...

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Metropolitan Los Angeles was awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215). The funding will support literacy initiatives for children from birth through 12th...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753). The funding supports the expansion of the organization's Youth Mentoring Program, which aims to provide positive youth development programming and long-term one-on-one mentoring services to 300 at-risk youth and families in the West and Far South Sides of...

The Metropolitan Family Services (MFS) will receive $2 million through September 2025 under the Department of Justice's Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative program to expand the delivery of community violence intervention and prevention services in Chicago, Illinois. MFS will use the funding to build upon its existing Communities Partnering 4 Peace network of 16 community-based organizations that provide hyper-local violence reduction services. Specifically, MFS...