Project Grant SGA10023GR0007

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $749,000 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) to create and evaluate a toolkit for youth-led civic engagement. The project aims to develop technologies that build community engagement, support social connections, and improve youth mental health and community wellbeing. The toolkit will include data and software tools to enable...

Through a $500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women under the Consolidated And Technical Assistance Grant Program to Address Children and Youth Experiencing Domestic and Sexual Violence and Engage Men and Boys as Allies (CFDA 16.888), the nonprofit organization Peace Over Violence will provide intervention and prevention services to participants in the Para Los Ninos Youth Workforce Services program in Los Angeles, California. The goal is to...

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $327,000 Project Grant under their IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to Youthbuild Mexico (YBM) to strengthen the leadership capacity of participants and graduates of its Jovenes con Rumbo (Youths with Purpose or JCR) program in Mexico City and Guanajuato. The grant will provide training to approximately 260 young people in leadership, organizational development, peacebuilding, and alliance building. YBM will also foster youth-led...

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...

This Project Grant award of $441,430 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports the development of a teen-led digital intervention to reduce negative social comparison on social media and its impact on anxiety and depression in adolescents. The study empowers 15-18 year old participants to design, pitch, and create the intervention, with collaboration from technical experts. In Phase 1, 25 teens receive training...

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...

The Youth Mentoring Connection (YMC) will provide mentoring and positive youth development activities for 300 underserved youth in Los Angeles, California through a $681,818 grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Specifically, YMC will implement its Mentoring Making Resiliency Real program from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The program will connect at-risk youth ages 13-17 with caring adult mentors...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,437,530 was provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the YouthBuild program (CFDA 17.274). The grant funds a pre-apprenticeship program delivered by People Acting In Community Endeavors Inc. (PACE), a non-profit organization in Massachusetts. The program will provide underserved youth ages 16-24 who have previously dropped out of high school with education, occupational skills training, leadership...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) provides $593,943 in funding to the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) for its FY 2025 program. The award supports ACYPL's initiatives to facilitate international political and cultural exchanges that promote cross-cultural understanding, democratic values, and leadership...

This $165,000 Project Grant awarded by the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) will support the Federacion de Entidades Vecinalistas del Paraguay (FEDEM) to raise citizens' awareness of their civil and labor rights and provide employment and entrepreneurship skills training in neighborhood associations across four municipalities in the greater Asuncion metropolitan area. The goal is to strengthen the community social fabric to better...