The San Diego Women’s Foundation (SDWF) is now accepting Letters of Inquiry from nonprofit organizations working to address the youth mental health crisis in San Diego County.
Donor Name: San Diego Women’s Foundation (SDWF)
State: California
County: San Diego County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000 or $75,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Inadequate access to services, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and stigma have contributed to the mental health crisis facing youth in the community. Those most acutely impacted include youth from communities of color, from families earning low-income, who identify as LGBTQ+, and/or who are a part of other historically marginalized groups.
SDWF will grant unrestricted funding to those providing mental health intervention services to junior high or middle-school aged (12-14 years old) youth in San Diego County.
Examples of the work foundation will support include, but are not limited to:
- Providing culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate mental health interventions (e.g. counseling, therapy, support groups, medication management, psychoeducation)
- Reducing stigma and barriers, and increasing access to mental health services and resources
- Fostering parent/caregiver/family engagement in youth mental health, as part of an intervention strategy
- Identifying, recruiting and training quality practitioners to fill staffing shortages, as part of an intervention strategy.
Funding Information
- The partners have shared that multi year funding provides stability, supports creativity, and promotes resilience among nonprofit organizations. Therefore, they have shifted to providing the option of one- or two-year grant terms, with fixed amounts of $50,000 or $75,000.
- The minimum grant to be awarded in this cycle is $50,000, which can be taken all in one year or split over two years in equal amounts of $25,000 per year. The maximum award is $75,000, and likewise, is available all in one year, or can be split over two years in the amount of $37,500 for each year.
- This grant cycle begins on July 1, 2024, with the one-year term ending on June 30, 2025, and the two-year term ending on June 23, 2026. SDWF expects to award between $200,000-$250,000 in July 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations must provide services in San Diego County and have tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status. An organization may serve as a fiscal sponsor for another organization that does not have tax-exempt status if a cooperative relationship between the two can be clearly demonstrated. The fiscal sponsor must be willing to administer the grant if awarded. Note: if you have a fiscal sponsor, the sponsor organization must be listed on the application. Please verify with your fiscal sponsor that they are not involved in any other applications before submitting.
- Collaborative proposals, in which two or more organizations share funding and work jointly to implement a program or connected services, are eligible for funding. One organization must serve as the applicant: the application must be submitted under that organization’s name and 501(c)(3), and funds will be granted to that organization to be dispersed among collaborators.
- An organization may submit only one proposal. This includes collaborations and fiscal sponsors. If more than one proposal is submitted from the same organization, all proposals from that organization will be ineligible for funding. An organization that has received or currently is receiving funding from SDWF is eligible to apply.
For more information, visit SDWF.
