New Refugee Microenterprise grants

Discretionary Funds for Refugee Child Care Microenterprise Development Project

Description

This grant initiative will provide microenterprise business opportunities to refugee women focusing on child care mentoring programs that will facilitate integration into the U.S. cultural norms and State Child Care requirements. It will assist in English language acquisition, advance educational attainment (GED) and improve economic opportunities through application of acquired job skills in a market where there is a shortage of child care providers. Through the grant, mentors will help women establish agreements or contracts with State or county child care offices so they may qualify for State/county child care reimbursement as child care service providers. 

Link to Full Announcement

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2012-ACF-ORR-RG-0530

Discretionary Grants Awards for Refugee Microenterprise Development Projects

Description

The Administration for Children and Families; (ACF) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has supported microenterprise development projects since 1991 through the award of discretionary grants to a variety of public agencies, community economic development agencies, local mutual assistance associations, and voluntary agencies. Organizations with successful programs have typically been those with a long-term commitment to microenterprise, particularly in the areas of providing access to lending and in its adaption to the refugee experience. Grantees under this program have committed agency resources to support refugee programs. Their work in refugee microenterprise development has been consistent with the agency’s overall mission. 

Link to Full Announcement

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2012-ACF-ORR-RG-0290

BJA FY 12 Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program

 [Description provided by MANY] Application Deadline: June 7, 2012
The BCJI application requires a consortium of partners (hereinafter referred to as “cross-sector partnership”) to work together to design a strategy addressing a targeted crime problem and respond to the scope of this solicitation.
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OJJDP FY 2012 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program

Description

OJJDP’s Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation (FIRE) program supports methodologically rigorous research and evaluation studies that inform policy and practice consistent with the Department of Justice’s mission. OJJDP is focusing this year’s FIRE program solicitation on funding studies of school-based practices, environment, and achievement that relate to reducing student victimization and the risk of delinquency. The goal of this year’s FIRE program is to foster new and ongoing rigorous, scientific research and evaluation that has practical applications for the development of effective school programs, policies, and strategies that will foster positive youth development and reduce the risk of victimization and delinquency. This program is authorized by the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2012, Pub. L. No. 112-55, 125 Stat. 552, 617, and 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5631. 

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BJA FY 12 Smart Probation: Reducing Prison Populations, Saving Money, and Creating Safer Communities

Description

At yearend 2010, there were an estimated 4,887,900 adults under supervision in the community either on probation or parole—the equivalent of about 1 out of every 48 adults. Many people on supervision do not successfully complete their community supervision.1 According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 16 percent of probationers were incarcerated as the result of a new sentence or revocation of their current probation. These failure rates are a key reason prison populations continue to swell nationally. State-level data from BJA’s Justice Reinvestment Initiative indicate that in some states probation and parole revocations account for up to 65 percent of prison and jail admissions annually.The purpose of this program is to improve probation success rates, which would in turn improve public safety, reduce returns to prisons and jails, and save taxpayer dollars. Funds can be used to implement evidence-based supervision strategies to improve outcomes for probationers.FY 2012 appropriations under the Second Chance Act made funding available for Smart Probation projects, in addition to providing federal awards to state and local governments and federally recognized Indian tribes for demonstration reentry projects. 

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Public Welfare Foundation awards social justice grants

[from Philanthropy News Digest] The Public Welfare Foundation in Washington, D.C., has announced twenty grants totaling more than $5.7 million to social justice organizations around the country.

Awarded through the foundation's workers' rights and criminal and juvenile justice programs, the grants will be used to help organizations provide and expand their services. In addition, two companion projects received a total of $570,000 through the foundation's Special Opportunities Fund to enhance civil legal services for the poor.

Grants announced by the foundation included $250,000 over eighteen months to the Boston-based Crime and Justice Institute to boost its capacity to provide expert technical assistance and training to local criminal justice government agencies and help two California counties reform their pretrial services; $250,000 over two years to the Chicago-based Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, which works to protect youth against wrongful convictions in the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems; $500,000 over two years to the American Rights at Work Education Fund in Washington, D.C., in support of its efforts to support the rights of workers to organize and bargain collectively; and $200,000 over two years to the MomsRising Education Fund in Bellevue, Washington, for general operating support.

For a complete list of grantees, visit the Public Welfare Foundation Web site.

“Public Welfare Foundation Announces New Grants.” Public Welfare Foundation Press Release 2/17/12.

Foundation Center Orientation

Friday, January 20, 2012  

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

This session introduces attendees to the kinds of resources and services available through the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Foundation Center, a Cooperating Collection of The Foundation Center in New York City. This session is recommended specifically for those who are new to grantseeking or just unfamiliar with what we offer.

Please call the Foundation Center at 412-622-6277 to register for this program. Email registrations will not be accepted.

Location:

International Poetry Room - 2nd Floor

4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Contact:

Foundation Center

(412) 622-6277

Immigrant Integration Awards

[from Philanthropy News Digest] The Migration Policy Institute's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy has announced that it is accepting applications for the 2012 E Pluribus Unum Prizes.

The J.M. Kaplan Fund provides support for the awards in order to focus attention on successful integration initiatives and to model programs for others around the United States who might also undertake such efforts.

The national awards program provides $50,000 prizes annually to exceptionally successful immigrant integration initiatives. The program is designed to highlight and reward outstanding efforts that help immigrants and their children join the mainstream of U.S. society or that bring immigrants and native-born Americans together to build stronger, more cohesive communities.

The program is open to individuals, nonprofit and community organizations, businesses, religious groups, and government entities, agencies, and officials operating in the United States. Awards are given for existing initiatives that can be evaluated according to the award selection criteria (significance, impact, and influence) based on their operations to date. The awards are not intended to support the launch of new initiatives. Prize money must be used by each awardee to advance their integration initiative. Complete program information, selection criteria, and application instruction are available at the awards program Web site.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP