The Healthy Food Financing Handbook

The Food Trust and The Reinvestment Fund have published a handbook for public health and community development organizations that outlines ...

Webinar: Transportation Departments & Safe Routes to School

In June, the Safe Routes to School National Partnership will host a webinar on how communities can work with their local transportation depa...

Summer Food Services Program Provides Meals for Low-Income Students While School’s Out

Throughout the nation, roughly 29 million children rely on free or reduced-cost school lunches funded through the National School Lunch Pr...

The Effect of Longer School Days in ExpandED Schools

The After School Corporation (TASC) has released an initial evaluation of its ExpandED Schools initiative, a network of 11 elementary and m...

Update: Additional Grant to Support Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced several grant opportunities that will fund programs that support to ex-offenders – i...

First Annual Report of Strong Cities, Strong Communities Initiative Released

Last month, the White House released the first annual report of Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) – an initiative launched in 2011 ai...

Webinar: Nashville Promise Neighborhood's Data Collection Strategy

The Nashville Promise Neighborhood – a 2011 Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grantee – has been working hard to collect data about their comm...

Juvenile Justice Resource Hub Launched

The Juvenile Justice Resource Hub , a joint initiative of the National Juvenile Justice Network, the MacArthur Foundation and the Juvenile J...

HHS Announces Community Economic Development Funding Opportunities

Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the availability of funding for two Community Economic Developme...

i3 Funding Announced: Validation and Scale-Up Grants

The U.S. Department of Education has announced funding for the 2013 Investing in Innovation (i3) Scale-Up and Validation grants. This annou...

Second Chance Act Funding Announced

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced three funding opportunities through the Second Chance Act . Aimed at reducing recidivism and i...