The Youth Development Fund will award $1,500,000 to nonprofits providing positive violence intervention, prevention, and response services throughout the City of Boston.
Donor Name: City of Boston
State: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $60,000
Details:
Funding Priorities
They’re prioritizing applicants providing positive violence:
- prevention
- intervention, and
- response services throughout the City.
The focus is on youth and young adults between the ages of 10 and 25. Their goal is to increase the number and variety of youth development programs. These programs should contribute to metrics that prevent youth and young adult violence.
The Fund will prioritize the following types of organizations:
- Boston-based nonprofits in neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by gun or youth violence
- Youth-serving groups with a focus on outreach and engagement of high-risk and proven-risk youth and young adults, or other specified underserved youth population
- Organizations using the Positive Youth Development framework or Meaningful Youth Engagement practices, or both
They’re also concentrating on supporting programs that use evidence-based prevention strategies to shape individual behaviors and relationship, community, and societal factors that influence the risk for violence. Examples of evidence-based Youth Violence Prevention strategies include but are not limited to:
- strengthening youth and young adults’ developmental skills
- connecting youth to caring adults and a safe space when not in school
- creating protective community environments, and
- intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk.
Funding Information
The maximum grant award is $60,000. Awards will vary in size.
Eligibility Criteria
Nonprofit, youth-serving organizations and those using eligible fiscal agents are invited to apply.
For more information, visit City of Boston.