Is your organization working with others in your community to help adolescents build relationships, explore their identities, and prepare for college or careers? Do you work with young people who struggle with transitions to adulthood because of structural factors such as poverty and homelessness? Are you using innovative strategies to offer learning and development opportunities beyond the traditional classroom? If so, The Wallace Foundation would love to hear from you and learn more about your important work.
Donor Name: Wallace Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/04/2022
Grant Size: $200,000
Details:
Wallace is seeking expressions of interest from groups of organizations that are working together to promote youth development, are seeking financial support to strengthen their work and can help us determine new directions for our Learning and Enrichment programs.
They seek not individual organizations, but groups of organizations working together in formal or informal partnerships to support adolescent youth development. They could fund, for example, a partnership between a school district, the community’s office of health and human services and an out-of-school time intermediary to work with community partners to support unhoused adolescent youth’s physical, mental and educational needs. Each group of organizations selected will receive grants averaging $200,000 for a year of work, as well as access to other supports such as peer learning and technical assistance.
Wallace has three goals for this effort:
- To support innovative partnerships that serve youth and strengthen the communities in which they reside;
- To learn about those partnerships’ strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improvement; and
- To use what we learn during this period – which they are referring to as an exploratory phase – to inform the design of future Wallace initiatives.
Funding Information
Each group of organizations selected to participate will receive, on average, a grant of $200,000.
Eligibility Criteria
They are looking for partnerships among organizations that:
- Work at the systems-level, i.e. they work across sites or programs in a cross-sector partnership that includes public or private entities such as county or municipal offices, business organizations or coalitions, non-profit organizations, neighborhood development corporations, higher education institutions, community organizers and school districts;
- Have an existing or emergent strategy focused on adolescents, which we define roughly as youth aged 11 to 19, especially those who face systemic or structural challenges, such as poverty, homelessness and physical, mental or behavioral disabilities or others;
- Focus on learning and development opportunities for youth beyond the traditional classroom;
- Are already in place, not created for the purpose of applying for this grant opportunity; and
- Work at the local level (e.g., neighborhood, town, city or county) in the United States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands or Guåhan (Guam).
For more information, visit Wallace Foundation.
