The Portland Children’s Levy is accepting applications for Mentoring Program.
Donor Name: Portland Children’s Levy
State: Oregon
City: Portland
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/21/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Mentoring Program Services Funding Priorities
The following program services, which are designated as eligible for PCL funding, were highly prioritized in PCL’s community engagement process.
- Program Services Eligible for PCL Funding: Applicants for funding must provide at least one of these services and may provide more than one.
- Offer activities to increase social connections, reduce isolation, and affirm identities among youth and families with similar identities.
- Support youth, ages 14-24, to complete a pre-apprenticeship program, prepare for employment and/or college and/or complete an apprenticeship, post-secondary credential program or college degree.
- Offer identity-specific support, opportunities and mental health resources for youth to express their feelings and heal from trauma, grief, and experiences of violence.
- Offer services that prevent youth from joining gangs and/or reduce gang involvement.
- Offer mentoring services that affirm the cultural, racial, gender, LGBTQAI+ identities of youth and families.
- Help youth develop leadership skills.
- Program Features: Community engagement also indicated that families value programs that have the following features. Applicants are not required to have these features to be eligible for PCL funding; however, programs with these features may score more highly.
- Consistent, long-term, professional mentors who work with youth over multiple years.
- Mentors who reflect the cultural, racial, disabilities, sexual orientation and/or gender identities of youth and families.
- Family engagement and language support, especially for parents who speak English as a second language and need support connecting with school communities and basic services.
- Transportation to services or services in places where youth and families naturally gather such as culturally specific organizations, community centers, school sites and with hours on weekends, evenings, and in the summer.
- Strengths-based, empowering approaches.
- System navigation across multiple systems, for families and youth, especially access to health and mental well-being services including addiction and harm reduction education for youth.
- Training for staff to create LGBTQAI+ and gender-welcoming environments.
- Trauma-informed, culturally responsive strategies for prevention and reduction of gang involvement.
Funding Information
- A range of $8.8 million to $10.7 million in funding will be available for a 36- month period.
- Maximum grant allowable is $2.5 million per application.
- Applicants must request a minimum grant of at least $300,000 and propose a year-one budget of at least $100,000.
- An organization’s total annual PCL grant request(s) cannot exceed 30% of the organization’s revenues in its last closed fiscal year.
Eligible Service Population
Proposed programs must directly serve children and/or youth, and their families, age 5 – 24 years old.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-profit corporations 501(c)(3), local education agencies, community colleges and universities are eligible to apply for PCL funding.
- Partnerships or collaborations of multiple entities must designate a lead entity to apply for funding, and if funded, take responsibility for reporting and billing. The lead entity may subcontract with partners to deliver portions of the proposed program.
- Applicant organizations must have at least $750,000 in annual revenue in the last closed fiscal year to be eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Portland Children’s Levy.
