United Way of Greater New Haven (UWGNH) has launched a third year of the Summer Youth Fund grant to assist youth agencies in Greater New Haven in acquiring the resources needed to provide safe and meaningful experiences for young people as they learn valuable relationship building skills.
Donor Name: United Way of Greater New Haven
State: Connecticut
Cities: Selected Cities
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $15,000
Grant Duration: 4 months
Details:
United Way of Greater New Haven (UWGNH) is committed to helping families make sure their children get a strong start, can access programs that continue to spark their learning, and that caregivers, youth agencies, and youth workers have the skills and resources to support children’s healthy growth and development. They believe that when all children have access to a quality education, they have brighter futures and help make their community stronger. With the input from the past year of working with youth agencies, school systems, childcare providers, parents/guardians, and young people, UWGNH is releasing another Summer Youth Fund grant opportunity to assist youth agencies in Greater New Haven to have the resources they need to provide safe and meaningful experiences that will help children and young people rebuild relationships with peers and trusted adults.
The goal of this year’s Summer Youth Fund will once again be to help meet the learning and relationship needs for a spectrum of students – the most disengaged and those who are engaged but need additional support. Eligible youth organizations must provide summer programs (June – September) that safely serve young people through in-person (prioritized) or hybrid programming. This grant will not support programs that will be fully remote or online.
Funding requests could include but are not limited to:
- additional staffing required to meet safe staff-children ratios;
- adding specific training and/or curriculum to support the social and emotional learning needs of students;
- additional equipment such as tents and tables to offer outdoor activities; and
- support for program communications to foster promotion, recruitment, and family follow up to maximize access and enrollment.
Some of the additional goals for the grant include:
- Engaging community partners, young people, and UWGNH staff, volunteers, and Board members in the grant review and recommendation process.
- Continued listening and responding to the needs of valued community partners.
- Reporting on themes of capacity building and technical assistance that could better meet the needs of youth agencies to have the necessary skills and resources to support their young people and their families.
- Reporting on impact and effectiveness of programs and share best practices and learnings across the grant cohort to be applied to future school and afterschool programming.
Funding Information
Funding awards will be competitive, will have a maximum award of $15,000, and awards could be made for a portion of the total funding request.
Grant Period
June 1 – September 1, 2023
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be a tax-exempt agency operating in greater New Haven:
- Not-for-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status
- Government agency
- School or academic institution
- Faith-based organization
- Have a documented fiscal sponsorship
- Be an existing youth program with a location serving young people in New Haven, Hamden, Branford, East Haven, or West Haven.
- Serve “young people” – defined for the purposes of this grant as individuals in kindergarten through grade 12.
- Provide in person summer programming (or at minimum hybrid programming where every participant receives both in-person and virtual activities).
- Have provided youth programming for a minimum of at least 2 years.
- Have a Non-Discrimination Policy.
- Serve young people and families who are included in the ALICE and below population (e.g., lower-income households).
- Prioritization will be given to programs that have demonstrated the ability to successfully serve underserved communities such as but not limited to, communities of color, low-income families, immigrant families, female-headed and/or single-parent households, and families who have children with disabilities
For more information, visit Summer Youth Fund.
