The Amity Foundation is accepting applications for its End Exploitation and Create a Safer Community for Women (Program Area 20).
Donor Name: Amity Foundation
State: California
County: Los Angeles County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,200,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
This project will create a safer community for women, children, and families by equitably helping survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking lead a life free from sexual coercion, force, fraud, perpetration, manipulation, and criminal involvement by helping victims leave a life of abuse, violence, and fear by empowering them to reach their full potential through their journey of personal and professional development, emotional healing, physical safety, wellbeing, peer support, mentorship, and service as evidenced by the use of trauma informed evidence-based mental health practices as the core clinical programmatic and participant tools of engagement to evaluate behavioral health goals and objectives and utilize these outcomes as well as participant input to help inform mental health services, create opportunities for continued innovative, culturally competent practices for sexually exploited women and Transitional Age Youth (TAY) age 18 and up.
Funding Information
- Funding Amount Available: $1,275,000
- Minimum amount of each award: $50,000 per year for three years ($150,000)
- Max amount: $400,000 per year for three years ($1,200,000)
Project Period
All funds shall be spent within 36 months of the contract start date.
Geographic Area Requirement
Applying organizations must have provided services within the County of Los Angeles for at least two years prior to the date of application.
- Fiscal sponsors must be based in the State of California.
- Funded projects must be located within the County of Los Angeles.
- Applicants must identify the specific location(s) to be served and provide ZIP code information.
Eligibility Criteria
- This funding opportunity is open to organizations that provide direct services to individuals and families and that have a minimum of 2 years of experience providing services in the Program Area for which they are applying. This includes:
- Non-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service.
- Organizations applying through a fiscal sponsor.
- By the contract execution date, you must have a signed agreement in place with a fiscal sponsor that has been approved in writing by Amity, or the award will be rescinded.
- An acceptable fiscal sponsor will be a nonprofit organization that demonstrates sufficient experience as determined by Amity. Experience includes providing fiduciary oversight, financial management, insurance, and/or other administrative services to smaller organizations outside of / in addition to the applicant.
- Fiscal sponsors must be based in California, must be registered with the California Secretary of State for a minimum of one year prior to the application deadline, and must have a status of “Good Standing.”
- The fiscal sponsor must be willing to obtain insurance at the required amounts of coverage, and name the applicant (provider organization), the County, and Amity as additional insured.
- Amity will, at its sole discretion, determine if a fiscal sponsor’s documentation is sufficient and acceptable, or if additional information is needed. Amity reserves the right to not accept an applicant based upon review of a fiscal sponsor’s experience and documentation.
- Business entities (e.g., Limited Liability Corporation [LLC] determination, Professional Corporation determination).
- All applicants (or fiscal sponsors, if the applicant is applying with a fiscal sponsor) must be registered with the California Secretary of State for at least one year prior to the application deadline and have a status of “Good Standing.”
- Organizations / fiscal sponsors (if applicable) must be registered to do business in Los Angeles County / City of Los Angeles (business license) at the time of award.
- If you are applying with a fiscal sponsor, DO NOT provide the fiscal sponsor’s annual budget information. All applicants should provide their own organization’s annual budget / financial documents to fulfill the requirements
- Funding CANNOT go to projects that benefit Amity Foundation. Projects that take place on Amity campuses, recruit participants through Amity, or may, in any other way, benefit Amity Foundation will not pass eligibility requirements.
- No funds are to be used for law enforcement purposes.
For more information, visit Amity Foundation.
