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The Next Gen Giving Circle is excited to announce that applications are open for our 2024 grantmaking cycle! Between June 3-July 26, 2024, we invite small nonprofits based in the Greater Washington region that work to advance economic justice and financial security of BIPOC individuals and families. We are accepting applications in English and Spanish! Visit https://www.nextgengivingcircle.org/grantmaking to learn more, sign up for our upcoming application webinars, and apply!

The following opportunities focus on fellowships and grants in the area of arts and culture. Please add additional opportunities in this category by submitting them as a reply to this post.

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Find out how you can be a warrior for food justice with joy. Looking for artists, gardeners, eco people, families, herbalists, Baltimoreans that love people to join the Garden Art Party movement. We want to plant a seed to spark some growth and get ur neighbors planting and eating goodness.. Come find out and tell us what you think. We have a full season planned this year of playing with plants, visual art, fashion, installations, music, good food and information and some good old dirt digging. We can't do it alone and why would we want to!
This interest meeting includes food, music and planting a garden with Afro Aspies Rock in honor of Autism Awareness month.

fmi: urbanearthsynapses@gmail.com

Young Futures has presented a Funding challenge.

Please see the overview below in addition to the link to learn more and apply! https://www.youngfutures.org/funding-challenge

Funding Challenge Overview

The Lonely Hearts Club Challenge is a $1 million commitment and open funding call for early-stage organizations and solutions focused on fostering meaningful social connection, teen belonging, and wellbeing in a tech-driven world. Galvanized by the work of the U.S. Surgeon General, and in partnership with the Foundation for Social Connection, this is the first of several high-need thematic challenges that Young Futures will issue over the next few years.

All challenges seek to help (pre)teens ages 10-19 thrive in a tech-driven world.

The first cohort of up to 10 grantee partners will be deeply committed to a youth-centered and empathetic approach to transforming the culture and norms of social connection and wellbeing in a digital age.

The Fund for State Children and Youth Policy

In 2023, the Annie E. Casey Foundation launched a fund to support policy changes in states to improve outcomes for young people ages birth through age 24. While there are a broad range of policy challenges and issues that impact the lives of young people, in 2024 the fund is seeking to support policies in three specific domains:

• Basic needs – This area focuses on state policies that promote access to health and mental health care, nutrition and food security, housing stability, and ensuring that children, youth, and emerging adults have and maintain permanency within a family system and are free of harmful government intervention, such as involvement in the child welfare system and in the juvenile justice system.
• Income and work supports – This area focuses on state policies that support access to paid and family medical leave and paid sick leave, access to quality, affordable child care, and the creation, expansion, and modernization of state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) and Child Tax Credits (CTCs).
• Post-secondary education – This area focuses on state policies that address barriers to accessing and completing college and/or trade schools.

The fund is especially interested in work that addresses the needs of young people facing the most significant obstacles, including:

• Young people of color in low-income families,
• Young people living in concentrated poverty,
• Young people currently or formerly in foster care,
• Young people affected by the justice system, and
• Young people in immigrant families.

https://www.nagle-associates.c...d-youth-policy-fund/

Do you know a student 18 or younger trying to bring their community together? Karma for Cara offers microgrants up to $1000 to support their work. Maybe there's a young person in your life who wants to turn a vacant lot into a garden, rebuild a playground, or connect students with elders. Share the application with your local school, house of worship, or neighborhood group.

Deadlines are January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1, 2023.

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Miles White Beneficial Society is a Quaker and Baltimore based foundation that gives grants of up to $5,000 to Baltimore City based organizations who run projects or programs designed to meet the basic human needs of the residents of Baltimore City, or that provide educational or enrichment programs to young people in Baltimore City. 

The funding cycle has now opened, and grant applications have a due date of March 8, 2024. The grant application can be found at mileswhite.org.

"The United Way of Central Maryland Changemaker Challenge is a social innovation competition to highlight and award ideas in Central Maryland - and applications are now open!

Finalists will be announced in mid-March, and each finalist will receive a $1,500 stipend for participation. More than $600,000 will be awarded to grantees, and each grantee will receive credit to create their own video and access to a one-stop entrepreneur community, The Lonely Entrepreneur."

Learn more here: https://uwcm.org/funding-oppor...es-for-organizations

"The BCYF Grassroots Fund addresses traditional gaps in Baltimore’s funding landscape by providing funding for grassroots, Baltimore-based, youth-serving organizations in support of an organization’s overall mission. The Grassroots Fund will award five-year grants in the amount of $50,000 per year to a select number of eligible organizations. In addition to financial support, organizations awarded a grant from the Grassroots Fund will also receive rigorous capacity-building support to help them sustain and grow.

Grassroots organizations are defined as community-accountable organizations with an annual operating budget of under $350,000. The Fund will prioritize organizations led by Black and Brown people."

Learn more here: https://bcyfund.org/2024grf/

Hello Weave Community,

I just joined and I am in the Silver Spring area.  I am ready to engage and would be particularly interested in seeing if others are near me as well. I am a fully bilingual (English/Spanish) scientist.

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Daniel

Empowering Futures is a dynamic one-day seminar designed exclusively for young women ages 14-24  who aspire to become leaders. The goal of this initiative is to offer young women with access to engaging workshops, professional headshots, panel discussions, networking opportunities, and a keynote speaker delivering a motivational message. The seminar aims to provide participants with valuable insights, skills, and networking opportunities to enhance their leadership capabilities and empower them to excel in their educational, professional, and personal journeys. Workshops & Panel discussions will cover Leadership Styles & Strategies, Communication & Negotiation Skills, Personal Branding & Networking, and Emotional Intelligence & Resilience.