The Department of Children, Youth and Their Families’ (DCYF) is requesting proposals for its 2024-2025 Community Grants.
Donor Name: San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/04/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) has administered San Francisco’s powerful investments in children, youth, transitional age youth and young adults (TAY/A) and their families through the Children & Youth Fund since 1991. The work brings together City agencies, schools and community-based organizations (CBOs) to help the City’s youth and families lead lives full of opportunity and happiness. DCYF and our partners have a proud history of funding high quality, culturally relevant and empowering services with a deep commitment to advancing equity and healing trauma.
DCYF envisions a strong San Francisco where all young people are supported by nurturing families and communities, physically and emotionally healthy, ready to learn and succeed in school and ready for college, work, and productive adulthood.
Funding Information
The 2024-2025 Community Grants RFP includes up to $2.55M in total available funding per year for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 fiscal years.
- Result Area: Ready to Learn and Succeed in School
- Service Area: Educational Supports
- Funding Strategy: Literacy Supports
- Grant Term: 1.5 years
- Allocation: $700K
- District: District 6
- Result Area: Enrichment and Skill Building
- Service Area: STEM & Environmental Sustainability
- Grant Term: 1.5 years
- Allocation: $500K
- District: Citywide
- Result Area: Ready For College, Work, and Productive Adulthood
- Service Area: Enrichment and Skill Building
- Funding Strategy: Identity Formation
- Grant Term: 1.5 years
- Allocation: $600K
- District: Districts 9 & 10
- Result Area: Youth Workforce Development
- Service Area: Youth Workforce Development
- Funding Strategy: TAY/A
- Grant Term: 1.5 years
- Allocation: $750K
- District: Citywide
Uses of funds
Per San Francisco City Charter Section 16.108, the following are eligible uses of the Children and Youth Fund: Services for children up to 18 years old and Disconnected Transitional Age Youth and Young Adults up to and including 24 years old, including:
- Affordable childcare and early education
- Recreation, cultural and after-school programs, including without limitation, arts programs
- Health services, including prevention, education, and behavioral and mental health services
- Training, employment and job placement
- Youth empowerment and leadership development
- Youth violence prevention and programs
- Youth tutoring and educational enrichment programs
- Family and parent support services
- Support for collaboration among grantees to enhance service delivery and provider capacity-building, and for community development efforts and
- Services responsive to issues of gender sexual orientation, and gender identification, including, but not limited to, services to address the needs of girls and LGBTQQ communities.
Examples of eligible uses of funds include, but are not limited to:
- Personnel costs, including fringe benefits
- Rent, lease, and occupancy costs
- Materials and supplies
- Food costs for youth program participants
- Transportation for youth
- Administrative costs up to 20% of the total contract amount (including administrative costs of subcontractors and fiscal sponsorship fees if applicable).
Agency Minimum Qualifications
- California Office of the Attorney General Compliance
- Agencies must agree to be in compliance with the California Office of the Attorney General’s registration.
- Approved City Supplier
- Agencies must agree to be an approved City Supplier and not be on the City Supplier Debarred list by the release of award decisions (tentatively scheduled for Monday January 13th, 2025).
For more information, visit DCYF.
