Gang Reduction Intervention Task Force
The purpose of the Gang Reduction and Intervention Task Force (GRIT) is to provide ongoing direction to a partnership of agencies working together towards achieving better outcomes for youth, with an emphasis on youth empowerment, engagement, and avoiding gang influence and membership.
The GRIT program is aimed at:
Developing and supporting a network of partner agencies and programs;
Repairing, strengthening and restoring our youth, families, community and service providers;
Coordinating additional resources for agencies through cross-sector collaboration.
Young people who are connected and are a part of an accepting village of community services, providers, and mentors, will build stronger protective attributes that will keep them away from gang involvement or will enable them to resist gang activities and violence.
Important GRIT Documents:
Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes and Notes
April 24, 2023
July 25, 2022
June 27, 2022
May 23, 2022
April 25, 2022
March 28, 2022
February 28, 2022
Previous meeting notes are available on request from GRIT@drcyakima.org
Strategic Committee
Meeting Minutes and Notes
Village Meetings
Meeting Notes
July 20, 2022
Previous meeting notes are available on request from GRIT@drcyakima.org
The GRIT Village
The purpose of the Village is to bring together a wide range of sectors, agencies and organizations that can provide services to youth and their families, with the ultimate hope that such services will steer youth away from gang involvement. The Village should also raise awareness of the barriers and challenges to reducing gang violence, collaborate on community-wide activities and programming for youth with the goal of keeping youth out of gangs, and to educate its members, and the community on the services and opportunities available to youth and families in Yakima.
Who makes up the GRIT Village?
Any agency, non-profit corporation, faith-based organization, community group, or other interested party or organization may participate in the Village meetings. There is no official "membership" in the Village, but it is limited to those who can provide useful feedback, can collaborate to provide services, or can provide educational information to members of the Village regarding youth programming or gang affiliation or violence prevention.
If your organization is interested in participating, please contact us at info@drcyakima.org.
Grant Opportunities
Deadline: Open
Our community giving program focuses on addressing behavioral health issues, with a particular emphasis on funding programs that help historically underserved communities, including people of color and low-income populations. Premera Social Impact invites proposals that can make changes in the areas of behavioral health, health equity and the intersection of homelessness and behavioral health.
Hello Alice Small Business Grant
Deadline: July 21, 2023
Eligible businesses must:
· Be a for-profit business located and registered in one of the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia
· Have less than $1M in 2022 gross annual revenue
· Have a commitment to their customers and community
· Have a clear plan for how the funds will help them achieve a significant growth milestone in 2023
Deadline: August 1, 2023
Small grants ranging from $500 to $1000 will be awarded to youth running programs across the US. Running clubs, events, or other organizations with the IRS 501(c)(3) designation are eligible to apply. Elementary and middle schools that provide organized after-school running programs are eligible, as well. No grants will be given to individuals under any circumstance. All applicants must be an official 501(c)(3), school, parent booster club, PTA, or a similar entity and meet our stated criteria.
SAFE (Society of Aviation and Flight Educators)
Deadline: August 31, 2023
SAFE’s K-12 Classroom Teacher Grant Program offers four $250.00 grants designed to encourage K-12 classroom teachers to incorporate aviation-themed lessons into their normal curriculum. Aviation and aerospace topics are the perfect adjunct for teaching science, math, history, and even art. Aviation and aerospace are topics that generate enthusiasm with all types of learners and all ages of students.
Morgan Stanley Children’s Mental Health Innovation Award
Deadline: July 14, 2023
Morgan Stanley is looking for new or piloted projects from direct-service organizations that will help address the far-reaching challenges of stress, anxiety, depression or other mental health issues in children and young adults on a national or local level in the U.S. Projects must tackle specific issues and address unmet needs, with a goal of reducing stigma, increasing access to care, improving equity in mental health, enabling early identification/prevention or enhancing intervention, especially among disadvantaged and vulnerable populations.
Deadline:
· Grants.gov – July, 24, 2023
· Just Grants – August 7, 2023
Applicants must describe how their proposed project/program will integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family partnerships into their project plan and budget. Depending on the nature of an applicant’s proposed project, youth and family partnership could consist of one or more of the following:
· Individual-level partnership in case planning and direct service delivery (before, during, and after contact with youth-serving systems).
· Agency-level partnership (e.g., in policy, practice, and program development, implementation, and evaluation; staffing; advisory bodies; budget development).
· System-level partnership (e.g., in strategic planning activities, system improvement initiatives, advocacy strategies, reform efforts).
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support emergency planning for state, local, and Tribal juvenile justice residential facilities.
Deadline: None
Organizations can register here to receive technology donations. Technology recipient organizations must be engaged in education or employment for individuals who are:
At-risk or marginalized
Economically disadvantaged
Experiencing homelessness or housing instability
Justice involved
Once accepted, applicant organizations are eligible to receive equipment donated by individuals and businesses through Digitunity.Eligible organizations must be based in the United States. They may include nonprofit organizations, government agencies, or schools (public or private).
Deadline: July 1, 2023
OUR FOCUS Our giving priorities include supporting programs or organizations in the areas of healthcare, housing, hunger, and education, especially those serving women and children. Our giving takes place throughout the United States where we operate stores, distribution centers, and our corporate office. Support is provided in the form of monetary gifts, gift cards, and merchandise in-kind.
Kresge Foundation PHEARLESS Grant
Deadline: July 6, 2023
For the 2023-2024 cohort of the initiative, 15 teams of PHEARLESS leaders will be selected from communities around the country. Each four-person team will include two rising public health leaders and two rising community leaders. Together, the cohort will form a network that will learn from one another and help create new models for community-led efforts to improve equitable health outcomes community-wide.
Participants in the 12-month program will work through four modules and a culminating capstone activity, including both virtual sessions and an in-person component. Each team will receive a grant of $100,000 to support their activities.
Deadline: July 1, 2023
Students 18 years of age and under may apply for funds between $250 and $1,000 to complete service projects in their communities throughout the United States.
Oriental Trading Company - Fundraising Grant
Deadline: Open
Fundraising grant: We support organizations and programs in the following areas: Education, Youth, Healthcare, and Human Services. In particular, we support organizations and programs that serve to improve the lives of children and youth, with an emphasis on education and youth programs or which are dedicated to improving or providing healthcare and human services.
Sony – Social Responsibility Grants
Deadline: Open
Within the U.S., Sony focuses the majority of its charitable giving on art, culture, technology and the environment, with a particular emphasis on education in each of those areas. While support in other areas may also be considered, the Company seeks to apply its financial, technological and human resources to the encouragement of the creative, artistic, technical and scientific skills required of tomorrow's workforce.
Children and Youth Resilience Challenge
Deadline: July 7, 2023
Promoting youth resilience – their ability to adapt in the face of adversity – is critical to avoiding long-term negative mental health outcomes. The Children and Youth Resilience Prize Challenge will award prizes to innovative community-led solutions to promote resilience in children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and other man-made or natural disasters. The Challenge is recognized as part of the President’s Unity Agenda and Mental Health Strategy.
Community-Based Reentry Program Support Grants Request for Proposals
Deadline: July 5, 2023
The Washington State Department of Commerce, Office of Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention/Community Safety Unit (Commerce) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) soliciting applications from tribal partners or nonprofit community-based organizations. This program will support reentry services to currently or formally incarcerated people who are incarcerated or have exited juvenile or adult correctional facilities in Washington.
Commerce is soliciting proposals from those qualified and interested in participating in projects to provide housing, employment services, family reunification, transportation, communication, education and other basic needs services.
Deadline (Letter of Intent): June 30, 2023
The Here to Be grant seeks organizations that are community-led, creating equity in wellbeing, and serving populations most impacted by systemic inequity. We recognize that planetary health is a fundamental condition for wellbeing and this year, we also seek to fund organizations that are contributing to a healthy planet as it relates to our collective wellbeing.
Office of Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention
Deadline: July 2, 2023
Commerce is soliciting projects from those qualified and interested in participating in projects to facilitate crime prevention efforts in communities across the state through neighborhood organizing, law enforcement-community partnerships, youth mobilization and business engagement.
Commerce expects to award multiple contracts for this solicitation.
Deadline: None
The Foundation divides its charitable resources to benefit the following focus areas
· Disaster Relief
· Basic Needs (Food, Clothing and Shelter)
· Disabilities
· Education (Elementary education to college education with a focus on engineering, science, mathematics and technology)
· Health – Wellness, research, disease prevention, and treatment
· Japanese-American Cross Cultural Enrichment
Deadline: None
Costco Wholesale’s primary charitable efforts specifically focus on programs supporting children, education, and health and human services in the communities where we do business.
United States-Japan Foundation
Deadline (LOI): June 30, 2023
The United States-Japan Foundation (USJF) invites applications for its Pre-College Education grants program.
Through the program, grants will be awarded to support innovative K-12 education projects that help young Americans and Japanese learn about each other’s society, culture, and country and learn to work together on issues of common concern.
Deadline: None
Our Interconnected Priorities:
· Thriving Children: We support a healthy start and quality learning experiences for all children.
· Working Families: We invest in efforts to help families obtain stable, high-quality jobs.
· Equitable Communities: We want all communities to be vibrant, engaged and equitable.
Deadline: August 1, 2023
The JustPax Fund has traditionally awarded grants of up to $25,000/year for gender, environmental, and economic justice projects. Justice challenges are spiritual, social, political, practical and personal. They are woven together in an entrenched paradigm that infects every institution, from the religious to the secular. Many of our longest standing cultural artifacts depend on their perpetuation and our corresponding belief that they cannot or should not change. But change they must, and now. The JustPax Fund seeks to support projects that offer a new paradigm, a more gracious path forward.
Youth Violence Prevention Program
Deadline
· Grants.gov – June 12, 2023
· JustGrants – June 26, 2023
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding for applicants to develop and/or enhance strategies to prevent youth violence, including youth gang involvement and youth gang/group violence. This solicitation is focused on youth who are at risk of committing violence. Strategies funded through this solicitation may work in coordination with community violence intervention strategies that target youth at the highest risk of violence, but the focus for this solicitation is on delivering prevention and early intervention services for at-risk youth.
Deadline: June 30
If your school or non-profit organization believes in the role of fine instruments in your program, and can show evidence of need and commitment to raising matching funds, you are a strong candidate for the Classics for Kids matching grant program.
Deadline: None – this program helps non-profits share their causes
Raise awareness, attract donors, and recruit new volunteers using Google search ads. Google Ad Grants shows your message to people searching for nonprofits like yours.
Each qualifying nonprofit has access to up to $10,000 per month in search ads shown on Google.com. Additional Google Ads may be purchased in a separate account.
Deadline: Letter of Intent - Ongoing
“We look for organizations that align with our mission to empower individuals and organizations to make a significant difference in the quality of life of those often forgotten.”
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