Youthprise is currently accepting applications for the Culturally Grounded Wellness Grant.
Donor Name: Youthprise
State: Minnesota
City: Minneapolis and Saint Paul
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/27/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Neighborhoods like North Minneapolis, the East and Westside of Saint Paul, parts of South Minneapolis including George Floyd Square, and historic communities like Rondo and Frogtown have faced significant challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. These communities suffer from economic hardship, underinvestment, and higher crime rates compared to other parts of the region.
Youthprise envisions a Minnesota where the outcomes for youth are not determined by race, geography, or socioeconomic status. In alignment with this vision and recognizing the existing challenges, they have partnered with the Minnesota Institute for Trauma-Informed Education (MITIE) to bolster non-clinical, culturally centered, and community-based healing and wellness programs for youth of color. MITIE’s role will be to support the collection of data points that paint a full picture of how each organization is contributing to the health and well-being of youth of color in the community through engaging in continuous improvement cycles, reflective and restorative practices, storytelling, and asset mapping. Together the focus is on addressing the gaps in access and availability of such programs in the Twin Cities Metro areas.
Through this 18-month grant program, they will provide financial support of up to $75,000, prioritizing small organizations with annual budgets of $750,000 or less that are led by people of color and dedicated to serving youth of color. Additionally, selected organizations will benefit from capacity-building support through a cohort model. This model is designed to facilitate feedback, foster the sharing of learnings, and harness collective expertise as part of a broader initiative aimed at understanding and enhancing nonclinical supports for the health and well-being of youth identifying as youth of color.
Non-clinical mental health services encompass a variety of supportive care that do not involve traditional therapy. Examples include (but are not confined to):
- Peer support groups
- Meals
- Hotlines and helplines
- Self-help resources (books, apps, websites)
- Wellness activities (yoga, meditation, exercise)
- Community programs (workshops, classes)
- Creative arts therapies (art therapy, music therapy)
- Peer counseling and mentoring
- Sports (participating, attending a game)
- Spiritual support (drum circle, praise dance).
Grant Priorities
In addition to prioritizing small organizations with annual budgets of $750,000 or less, led by people of color and dedicated to serving the youth of color in the Twin Cities metro, this opportunity focuses on bringing joy, connecting individuals, building friendships and relationships through healthy, cultural, traditional, joyful so that young people are connected, heard, feeling belonged and supported. They have selected two priorities learn more about your organization’s practice:
- Racial Equity: The elimination of racial disparities and improving outcomes for everyone. It is the intentional and continual practice of changing policies, practices, systems, and structures by prioritizing measurable change in the lives of young people of color.
- Mental Health/Wellness: Non-clinical, culturally centered, and community-based approaches that address gaps in availability, as well as work that increases access to mental health and well-being services for underserved communities statewide.
Funding Information
- 20-25 local youth-serving community partners (subgrantees) to be selected.
- Organizations can request up to $75,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) youth, community-based, and economic development organizations, as well as local units of government and public school districts.
- Organizations must be located within the Twin Cities region.
- Organizations must align with the values of centering youth, advancing equity, and promoting safety and healing.
Eligible applicants also include organizations described above that have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor in lieu of a 501(c)(3) status.
For more information, visit Youthprise.
