Awesome list of open grants from MANY

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Youth Leadership Program
Application Deadline: May 31, 2012
The program will support the participation of high school youth and adult educators in intensive, substantive three- to four-week exchanges in the United States.
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Statewide Consumer Network Grant
Application Deadline: May 18, 2012
For the purposes of this funding opportunity, this program seeks to address the needs of underserved and under-represented consumers, such as veterans; those with histories of trauma; those from ethnic, racial, or cultural minority groups; and those who have been involved in the criminal justice system.
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BJA FY 12 Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program
Application Deadline: June 7, 2012
The BCJI application requires a consortium of partners (hereinafter referred to as “cross-sector partnership”) to work together to design a strategy addressing a targeted crime problem and respond to the scope of this solicitation.
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Drug Free Communities Mentoring Program
Deadline May 4, 2012.
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Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence
Deadline May 22, 2012.
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OVW Fiscal Year 2012 - Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Program
Includes providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking among others.
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OJJDP FY 2012 Mentoring Best Practices Research
Deadline May 1, 2012
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FY 2012 Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program
Deadline May 14, 2012.
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FY 2012 Local Mentoring Coordinator Program
Deadline May 14, 2012.
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Child Welfare - Education System Collaborations to Increase Educational Stability
Deadline May 29, 2012.
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Youth Environmental Outdoor Education and Camps
Deadline  April 23, 2012.
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OJJDP FY 2012 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program
Deadline May, 7, 2012.
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FY 2012 Second Chance Act Juvenile Offender Reentry Program for Demonstration Projects
Deadline May 14, 2012.
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Serving Adult and Youth Ex-Offenders through Strategies Targeted to Characteristics Common to Female Ex-Offenders
Deadline May 4, 2012.
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Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Planning Grants
Deadline May 1, 2012.
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Afterschool innovator awards

[from Philanthropy News Digest] The Afterschool Alliance and the MetLife Foundation are seeking nominations of exemplary afterschool programs serving middle school youth for the MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Awards.

Nominees are sought in four categories. The afterschool and digital learning category is for programs that have demonstrated success with leveraging digital technology to facilitate learning experiences, enhance technical skills, and strengthen critical thinking across core subject areas. The afterschool and arts category is for programs that have demonstrated success in using the arts as means to strengthen self-confidence and self-expression, to build community, and to improve academic and skills development. The afterschool and parent involvement/engagement category is for programs that have demonstrated success in creatively engaging parents to help them become more involved in students' learning both in and outside of school. The afterschool and school improvement category is for programs that have successfully utilized school improvement grant funding to help promote positive change and improved academic outcomes in partnering schools.

The awards aim to identify potentially lesser-known yet effective programs and the individuals running them. Nominees will be judged by the innovative nature of their approach and demonstrated effectiveness.

Program staff and directors are allowed and encouraged to nominate their own program, but a nominator does not have to be officially affiliated with a program to nominate it. Each of the five award winners will receive $10,000 for their program.

Winners will receive additional support (up to $1,500, plus media outreach assistance) to hold a Lights On Afterschool event on October 18, 2012, to announce the award. Additionally, awardees and other notable nominees will be recognized in nationally released issue briefs and the alliance's Afterschool in Action Compendium.

Visit the Afterschool Alliance Web site for complete program guidelines

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

Clinton Global Initiative announces new commitments

[from Philanthropy News Digest] At the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting atGeorge Washington University this past weekend, former President Clinton announced over nine hundred new projects that students and universities will undertake to improve the world.

New commitments announced at the two-day meeting include an expansion of Code the Change, a project of Stanford University student Sam King that hosts Code Jams in which computer science students provide up to twenty-four hours of pro bono volunteer services for nonprofit projects; the development, by Duke University student Patrick Oathout, of Uhuru, an online operating module that uses crowdsourcing technology to increase access to information among the international refugee community; the creation of Teach for Africa, a program byHarvard University student and Kenyan native Peggy Mativo that will provide trained teaching assistants to underserved schools in Nairobi, Kenya; and training workshops taught by Princeton University students Amanda Rees and Corinne Stephenson on how to build and operate solar drying units, enabling Kenyan farmers to dehydrate and preserve otherwise perishable produce.

Sponsored by the Victor Pinchuk and Peter G. Peterson foundations, as well as Microsoft, Laureate International Universities, Andy Nahas, Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Peter Kovler, the Prospect Fund, and Booz Allen Hamilton, CGI U 2012 convened more than one thousand students representing all fifty states, eighty-two countries, and over three hundred universities around a wide range of topics, from the global economic crisis and its impact on young people to the youth movement for global health. The second day of the event concluded with a day of service held in partnership with Rebuilding Together and the United Service Organizations.

To view a complete list of commitments made at this year's meeting, visit the Clinton Global Initiative University Web site. “President Clinton Hosted the Fifth Annual Clinton Global Initiative University Meeting at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.” Clinton Global Initiative University Press Release 3/31/12.