News Community Foundation Update (5/18/13) News and staff announcements from community foundations around the country.... Posted: 5/18/13 Columbus Foundation Announces Grants Totaling Nearly $1.5 Million The grants include a total of $875,000 for strategic investments in projects and programs designed to improve outcomes for Columbus-area youth and $605,208 to the Weinland Park community to boost summertime youth development programs.... Posted: 5/11/13 Coca-Cola Foundation Awards $3.8 Million to Fight Obesity in Georgia The grants will support statewide and city-led initiatives to promote physical activity and nutrition education in schools and communities, as well as Atlanta-area nonprofits working to reduce obesity rates.... Posted: 5/11/13 Pew Charitable Trusts Awards Nearly $8.5 Million to Improve Lives of Poor Children Grants were awarded to forty-six nonprofits working to help young people overcome obstacles to academic success, reduce the effects of abuse or exposure to violence on youth, and intervene when abuse occurs.... Posted: 5/09/13 Richard King Mellon Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Pittsburgh YMCA The Y will use the funds to bolster programs that promote healthy living, youth development, and social responsibility at five urban branches, as well as expand a scholarship program.... Posted: 5/04/13 More youth news...

Requests for Proposals Mass Mentoring Project Invites Proposals from Youth Groups for Capacity Building Projects Deadline: August 30, 2013 Through the Technical Assistance Project, MMP provides resources to help organizations improve their service delivery and serve as many young people as they can in the highest quality way possible.... Posted: 5/17/13 Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation Invites Applications for Research Grants Deadline: June 14, 2013 (Letters of Intent) Grants of between $25,000 and $50,000 will be awarded for research on cardiomyopathies affecting children aged 18 years and younger.... Posted: 5/17/13 HASTAC Invites Applications for Project: Connect-Youth Summer Programs Competition Deadline: June 10, 2013 Grants of up to $10,000 each will be awarded to support hands-on summer learning opportunities for youth focused on making the Web more civil, safe, and empowering for all.... Posted: 5/12/13 LibertyGives Foundation Invites Applications for Projects Benefiting Colorado Youth Deadline: June 28, 2013 Grants of up to $150,000 will be awarded for programs benefiting underprivileged and at-risk youth in Colorado.... Posted: 5/09/13 National Alliance for Grieving Children Invites Applications for Child Bereavement Programs Deadline: July 08, 2013 Grants of $10,00, $15,000, $25,000, and $100,000 (over two years) will be awarded in support of programs that bring grief support services to youth from ethnically diverse or low-income communities not served by existing bereavement programs.... Posted: 5/08/13 More youth RFPs...

Newsmakers Douglas W. Nelson, President, Annie E. Casey Foundation: Leveraging Resources to Help Disadvantaged Families PND spoke with the president of the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation about the impact of the economic slowdown on the outcomes for kids in the U.S., the foundation's Making Connections initiative, and the philanthropic response to 9/11.... Posted: 10/30/02 Geoffrey Canada, President/CEO, Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.: Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth Through a Place-Based Strategy PND spoke with HCZ president Geoffrey Canada about the crisis facing low-income kids and the lessons he has learned over a twenty-year career dedicated to improving outcomes for children and youth.... Posted: 10/17/02 Michael Bailin, President, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation: A High-Engagement Approach to the Field of Youth Development The EMCF president spoke with PND about the foundation's decision to depart its longstanding program areas, its new high-engagement approach to grantmaking, and the similarities and differences between that approach and venture philanthropy.... Posted: 9/27/02

Connections The Role of Risk: Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth With Varying Risk Profiles Posted: 4/16/13 Partnerships for Learning: Community Support for Youth Success Posted: 2/09/13 Learning at Not-School Posted: 1/25/13 The Recession's Ongoing Impact on Children, 2012 Posted: 1/01/13 Child Poverty and Its Lasting Consequence Posted: 10/21/12

Off the Shelf Kids Taking Action by Pamela Roberts. Posted: 4/08/03 The Season of Hope: A Risk Management Guide for Youth-Serving Nonprofits by Barbara B. Oliver, John C. Patterson. Posted: 10/22/02

On the Web Michigan NightLight http://www.michigannightlight.com/ Posted: 6/12/12 Reading Is Fundamental http://www.rif.org/ Posted: 2/07/12 The DuSu http://thedusu.com/ Posted: 10/11/11 GenerationOn http://generationon.org/ Posted: 1/04/11 Pathfinder http://www.afterschoolpathfinder.org/ Posted: 9/21/10

NPO Spotlight SOS Children's Villages International Posted: 5/07/13 Ounce of Prevention Fund Posted: 1/01/13 Flashes of Hope Posted: 10/09/12 Raising A Reader Posted: 7/26/11 National Summer Learning Association Posted: 6/07/11

Special Issues Funding for Children & Youth Posted: 10/01/02