Project Grant SIN65019GR0082

This $1,200,000 Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program, aims to leverage soccer as a common language to foster dialogue, cooperation, and cross-cultural understanding between 350 Palestinian and 350 Israeli youth. The "Game Changers" activity will create shared spaces on the soccer field to teach values of tolerance and coexistence, build cross-cultural knowledge and...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (CFDA 19.415 - Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges) provides $1,774,962.00 to the University of Tennessee to implement the FY 2024 Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP). The purpose is to increase opportunities for girls, women, people with disabilities, and marginalized communities to participate in society through sports-focused programs that address U.S....

The Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc. (Rural CAP) will provide statewide training and technical assistance to promote justice and reduce delinquency rates for Alaska Native youth through its Resource Basket Training and Technical Assistance Center. Funded by a $1 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Tribal Youth Program, Rural CAP will increase tribal communities' and service providers' capacity...

The Young Women's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chicago (YWCA) will receive $350,000 under a three-year Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. The grant is part of 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). Under the award, the YWCA will implement a train-the-trainer program to incorporate education and training on...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a $9,655,000 cooperative agreement for the Bangladesh Integrated Youth Activity (BIYA) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program. Through this 5-year award, which commenced on June 22, 2023, USAID aims to increase the meaningful participation of Bangladeshi youth within their communities and in the economy. The prime awardee, Cooperative For Assistance And Relief Everywhere, Inc. (CARE), is a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $308,978 to the University of Texas at Arlington to design and validate a diversity intervention training program focused on teaching employees specific skills to be allies for one another and for marginalized groups. The project aims to (a) assess the long-term effectiveness of this type of training longitudinally and (b) develop an online version of the...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $722,500 Cooperative Agreement on August 21, 2023 to Youth Collaboratory Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building program (CFDA 14.259). This funding will support the delivery of technical assistance, training, and capacity-building services to help HUD's customers, including state/local governments, public housing authorities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations,...

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 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to investigate how a community-based youth development program in Detroit, Michigan nurtures and supports STEM engagement among Black and Latinx youth. The $538,026 award, running from October 1, 2024 to April 25, 2025, will utilize a mixed-methods approach to collect and analyze survey, interview, and video data to: (1) examine how youth learn STEM in informal...

This $990,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.753 Congressionally Recommended Awards) supports a holistic health, wellness, and violence prevention program for a severely underserved group, particularly young and teenage girls, facing increasing mental health challenges exacerbated by COVID-19 and rising community violence. The grant recipient, The Justice Education Center Inc., a non-profit organization...