With grants up to $400,000 over two and a half years, Elevate Youth California’s Supporting Capacity Building for Community Organizations funding will strengthen the capacity of emerging grassroots community-based organizations and Tribal organizations throughout California to use community-based programs and practices for substance use disorder prevention among youth ages 12 to 26.
Donor Name: California Department of Health Care Services
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/20/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $400,000
Grant Duration: 2 years 6 months
Details:
Elevate Youth California (EYC) is a program of the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) funded through Proposition 64 (Prop 64). This statewide program provides funding and technical assistance for organizations that are developing or increasing community substance use disorder prevention, outreach and education focused on youth. Sierra Health Foundation: Center for Health Program Management (The Center) is contracted to support the implementation of EYC.
Awarded funds will be used to strengthen the capacity of emerging grassroots community-based organizations and Tribal organizations throughout California to use evidence-based or community-driven practices for substance use disorder prevention among youth and young adults ages 12-26. These programs/practices must be healing-centered, trauma-informed, culturally and linguistically appropriate, and use a social justice youth development approach. For this funding opportunity, capacity building is defined as the investment in the effectiveness and future sustainability of an organization. Capacity-building activities or projects aim to build on the operational, programmatic, financial or organizational infrastructure of an organization to strengthen their ability to fulfill their mission over time and have a positive impact on their communities.
This funding opportunity supports a combination of programming and capacity-building activities. Programming can be used as the basis for a capacity-building activity. For example, policy advocacy training could be used to strengthen the policy and systems change focus of youth activities, a new technology for tracking clients could be piloted with program activities, or new partnerships could be established to add a new dimension to existing program activities.
Funding Information
- $100,000 to $400,000 for 30 months (2 years, 6 months) for 501(c)(3) community-based organizations, Tribal organizations and coalitions/collaboratives.
- Up to 20% of direct costs may be requested as indirect costs
Capacity-building activities that are supported by this funding opportunity include the following:
- Create and begin implementing a three- to five-year fund development plan
- Program evaluation training and resources, including technology upgrades to track youth and organizational successes
- Staff training on related content (e.g., healing-centered practice, trauma-informed organizational policies, secondary/vicarious trauma)
- Strategic communications plan development and implementation
- Policy advocacy training
- Partnership development
- Establishing new collaborations/coalitions
- Grassroots organizing training
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations must meet the following minimum requirements:
- The organization must have an office located in California.
- The organization must provide services in California and capacity-building activities must be located in California.
- The organization must be a 501(c)(3) community-based organization or Tribal organization with established and trusted community relationships. Fiscal sponsorships are eligible. Also open to coalitions of organizations and collaboratives, as long as the backbone organization is an eligible applicant.
- Applicant organization must not have an active Elevate Youth California grant. Fiscal sponsors are the exception and are allowed to submit for a new fiscally sponsored project that was not awarded a previous Elevate Youth California grant.
- The organization must have demonstrated experience partnering with young people of color and other marginalized communities disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs.
- Applicant organizations and collaborative partners must deeply engage and reflect the proposed communities served that are disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs. Grantee partners should have a history of working with impacted communities, including representation on the board and staff, organizational leadership, clients served and neighborhoods served.
- Applicant organizations and their partners must have demonstrated evidence of inclusivity and shall not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status in any of its activities or operations.
- Applicant organization must not have an annual budget in 2022 that exceeds $1 million. Pass-through, non-reoccurring funding for COVID-19 immediate relief (i.e., food, shelter, utility assistance, etc.) can be excluded from the 2022 budget requirement. For Tribal organizations that have a department leading this work, the $1 million budget is applicable to the department’s budget and not the Tribal organization’s budget.
- Applicant organizations must demonstrate a need for capacity building within the organization and be able to provide a work plan to address those needs.
- Applicant organizations must have paid or volunteer staff members.
- Applicant organizations must take community-driven approaches to program implementation.
Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants, including community-based organizations and Tribal organizations (including 638s and urban Indian clinics) are expected to:
- Support youth engagement that focuses on youth activism, specifically in communities disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs
- Possess cultural humility and responsiveness with staff and organizational leadership who reflect the racial, ethnic and cultural community they intend to serve
- Prioritize harm reduction and public health solutions that focus on positive messages to prevent substance
use disorder - Develop culturally and linguistically appropriate social justice youth development, peer-to-peer support and mentoring programs that are healing-centered, trauma-informed and focused on youth ages 12-26
- Utilize an intersectional approach to health equity through policy, systems and environmental change
For more information, visit DHCS.
