This RFP aims to solicit program proposals from non-profit organizations and public agencies to provide services to children and youth from birth to 24 years old in Richmond and Unincorporated North Richmond.
Donor Name: City of Richmond
State: California
City: Richmond
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $1.86 million
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Richmond Fund for Children and Youth (RFCY) is pleased to release the 2021-2024 Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit program proposals from non-profit organizations and public agencies to provide services to children and youth in Richmond and North Richmond, California.
They look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with strong community agencies to best serve the needs of Richmond’s children and youth.
Grants awarded through this RFP process will be for a one-year period, July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 (FY 2023-2024). The total projected amount available for FY2023-2024 grant awards through this RFP is approximately $1.86 million; however, there is approximately $5.6 million available in FY 2023-2024 to renew grant applications for FY 2021-2022 and FY 2022-2023 grantees and award funds to new grantees in FY 2023-2024.
Goals
Per the Charter, the Fund will support services for young people that fulfill the following goals:
- To ensure that Richmond’s children, youth, and young adults are physically, emotionally, mentally, and socially healthy, educated, successful in school, and live in stable safe and supported families and communities
- To increase safety for children, youth, young adults, their parents/guardians, families and the communities in which they live by preventing problems and enhancing the strengths of children, youth, young adults and their families
- To ensure young people are provided with gender responsive, trauma-informed, population specific and culturally competent services
- To strengthen collaboration among public agencies and community-based organizations around shared outcomes among all service providers for children, youth, young adults and their parents/guardians
- To ensure an equitable distribution of resources to all of Richmond’s young people in recognition of the importance of investment in their futures from birth through young adulthood
- To fill gaps in services and leverage other resources whenever feasible
Priority Areas
- Behavioral Health: Mental Health and Wellness
- Education Support and Employment/Training Support
- Out of School, After‐School, Sports and Enrichment
- Youth Violence Prevention
- Access to Basic Needs
- Information, Guidance, and Case Management
Eligibility Criteria
- Entities eligible to receive funding shall be public agencies and non-profit community-based organizations, including organizations with a non-profit fiscal agent that serve children, youth and disconnected transitional-aged young adults. For-profit agencies are not eligible for funding. An applicant that is a community-based organization must be tax-exempt under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
- Location: Entities eligible to receive funding include those (1) located outside but in close proximity (approximately 15 mile radius) to Richmond to the extent that those entities serve children, youth and disconnected transitional-aged young adults who reside in Richmond or unincorporated North Richmond, and (2) located in Richmond or unincorporated North Richmond that serve children, youth, and disconnected transitional-aged young adults in Richmond or unincorporated North Richmond, regardless of the residence of the children or youth.
For more information, visit City of Richmond.
