The Heisman Trophy Youth Development Fund supports charitable organizations that integrate organized sports, academics, and youth development activities for young people up to age 18.
Donor Name: Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
State: Georgia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $25,000 – $50,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The Heisman Trophy Trust has always supported amateur athletics as a way to provide greater opportunities for young people to learn valuable life skills.
The goals of the Fund are to:
- engage young people in academics;
- teach teamwork, sportsmanship, leadership, and excellence with integrity; and
- make sports widely available to young people regardless of athletic ability.
The Heisman Trophy Youth Development Fund in the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta will provide project/program-specific funding support to sports-based youth development organizations in the Greater Atlanta region that align with the Fund’s goal of strengthening organizations that integrate organized Olympic sports, academics, and youth development activities.
Priority Groups
- have the potential for scale, i.e., serve substantial numbers of young people;
- are based in disadvantaged communities or operate on a minimum of five public school campuses;
- integrate academics with youth development and athletics, defined as physical activities that are directed by adult or youth coaches and involve rules, formal practice, and competition. Examples include baseball, cycling, basketball, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, martial arts, and track and field.
Organizations with annual operating budgets under $1M and to Black Indigenous and People Color (BIPOC) led and serving organizations defined as organizations that meet two of the following four criteria:
- Organizational leader is BIPOC;
- Majority of board members are BIPOC;
- Majority of youth served are BIPOC; and/or
- Staffing of the program/project of which funds are requested are representative of the youth population served
Funding Information
Grants will average $25,000 – $50,000 for each 12-month period.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations’ sports-based youth development programming must fall under the following definition: a methodology that uses sports to provide the support and opportunities for youth to be healthy contributing citizens now and as adults. A sports-based youth development program offers youth an experience in which they learn and master social and emotional skills along with life and leadership skills in a safe, fun, supportive and challenging environment. This experience involves caring relationships, facilitated learning, experiential learning, and vigorous physical activity;
- Indicate the social and emotional goals of the program;
- A plan to gather and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data to assess participants’ progress toward meeting those social and emotional goals or capacity to collaborate with Hello Insight (access will be funded through this grant) to measure social and emotional development.
- Teach teamwork, sportsmanship, leadership, and excellence with integrity;
- Make sports widely available to young people (up to age 18) regardless of athletic ability;
- Must be located and providing services within the Foundation’s service area; all grant funds must be spent within the service area;
- Must be classified by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service under Section 501(c)(3) of the I.R.S. code as a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, donations to which are deductible as charitable contributions under Section 170 (c)(2) and the I.R.S. determination must be current;
- Must be registered with the Georgia Secretary of State as a nonprofit
- Organizations are required to hold general liability insurance that covers their programming;
- No more than 20% of the grant can support equipment purchases; and
- Funding requests may not exceed more than 1/3 of an organization’s most recent annual expenses.
For more information, visit Heisman Trophy Youth Development Fund.
