Donor Name: All Stars Helping Kids
State: California
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Accelerator
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/31/2022
Grant Size: $25,000
Grant Size: 3 years
Details:
You work to improve the lives of youth/young adults (pre-K through 24 years old) through innovative approaches in Career Readiness/Access, Education Readiness/Access, and Wellness Readiness/Access.
- Career Readiness
- Your program or service helps youth/young adults prepare for or assists with finding a job, developing a skillset or life skills needed to be successful in a job or career e.g., workforce development, entrepreneurial training, trade school / apprenticeships, etc. Examples of All Stars grantees in this category include: The Hidden Genius Project, United Roots, Team, Inc., Razing the Bar, Youth Beat, Career Girls, and RepresentEd Leadership.
- Access to Education
- Your program or service helps youth/young adults strengthen their education performance and/or increases educational opportunities e.g., increases academic performance, reduces absentee/truancy, increases critical thinking or social skills, etc. Examples of All Stars grantees in this category include: Upward Roots, Camp Phoenix, San Francisco Achievers, Chapter 510, WriterCoach Connection and Audacity Performing Arts.
- PLEASE NOTE: Each year they receive a high number of applications from tutoring organizations. To help us better understand how your organization is INNOVATIVE in this space, please describe the methods, models, and/or approaches that make your program/service unique or more impactful than the other organizations in this space.
- Your program or service helps youth/young adults strengthen their education performance and/or increases educational opportunities e.g., increases academic performance, reduces absentee/truancy, increases critical thinking or social skills, etc. Examples of All Stars grantees in this category include: Upward Roots, Camp Phoenix, San Francisco Achievers, Chapter 510, WriterCoach Connection and Audacity Performing Arts.
- Health & Wellness
- Your program or service helps youth/young adults improve their mental or physical health e.g., improves emotional well-being, provides coaching that builds support and confidence, provides education on nutrition and exercise, etc. Examples of All Stars grantees in this category include Mindful Life Project, Oakland Lacrosse, Project Commotion, Camp Common Ground, BAWSI, My Digital Tat2, Oakland Genesis and Put Me In!
- PLEASE NOTE: Each year they receive a high number of applications from mentoring organizations. To help us better understand how your organization is INNOVATIVE in this space, please describe the methods, models, and/or approaches that make your program/service unique or more impactful than the other organizations in this space.
- Your program or service helps youth/young adults improve their mental or physical health e.g., improves emotional well-being, provides coaching that builds support and confidence, provides education on nutrition and exercise, etc. Examples of All Stars grantees in this category include Mindful Life Project, Oakland Lacrosse, Project Commotion, Camp Common Ground, BAWSI, My Digital Tat2, Oakland Genesis and Put Me In!
Funding Information
The Foundation reviews requests and awards grants up to $5,000 based on the project and the availability of funds.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizational Criteria
- Your nonprofit is in good standing with the IRS (registered 501(c)3, in the process of filing, or fiscally sponsored).
- Your nonprofit is not an affiliate or chapter of a larger nonprofit or national organization.
- Your annual budget is between $50,000 (min) and $750,000 (max).
Program Criteria
- Your program(s) is already serving/operating in one of the following Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara.
- Most (> 50%) of the youth/young adults served by your program/service qualify as under resourced or underserved. This includes but is not limited to:
- Family qualifying as low income
- Attending a Title I school
- Ethnic background
- Gender identity
- Under employed or Unemployed
For more information, visit All Stars Helping Kids.
