Call for Proposals for Healthy Eating Research

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced its call for proposals for  Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obe...

Application for MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards Program

MetLife Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are partnering for the tenth year to recognize, sustain and share th...

The Department of Education Hosts National Youth Summit

On February 26, 2011, The Department of Education will be hosting a national youth summit in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama has set...

The Department of Education Creates New Online Data Tool

Recently, Secretary Arne Duncan announced the launch of an online tool designed to help educators, parents, students, and policy makers “hav...

Funding Supports Job Training at Community Colleges

Community colleges are increasingly being called upon as a partner in connecting skilled workers to employment . Enrolling more than 11.8 m...

Free Webinars: Delivering on the “Promise” of Better Neighborhoods and Communities with Results-Based Accountability

The Results Leadership Group is hosting a series of free bi-weekly webinars: Delivering on the “Promise” of Better Neighborhoods and Communi...

National Summit On Quality in Home Visiting Programs

The National Summit on Quality in Home Visiting Programs: Connecting Research to Policy and Practice will be held in Washington, D.C. on Fe...

HRSA Announces Community Health Center Planning Grants

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has issued a planning grant notice to support the development of comprehensive comm...

DOJ Grants for Youth Mentoring

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) recently announced two grant programs to support mentoring programs that ...

Choice Neighborhoods Applicant List Available

The Department of Housing and Urban Development recently posted a complete list of applicants for Choice Neighborhoods Planning grants and ...

Help Me Grow Replication RFP

The Help Me Grow National Technical Assistance (NTA) Center, based at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center is seeking three replication sit...

Engaging Parents to Improve Academic Outcomes for Children

Parent engagement has been proven to be important for children’s academic achievement. A recent report from the Harvard Family Research Proj...

Grant for Neighborhood Revitalization in Rural Areas Announced

The Rural Innovation Fund Notice  is now available on grants.gov. Last month on the Financing Community Change blog , we introduced HUD'...

How to Engage Business Partners in Workforce Development

Corporate Voices for Working Families and United Way Worldwide recently released   Supporting the Education Pipeline: A Business Engagement...

Seeking Public Comments on 2011 Social Innovation Fund

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) released the draft Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the 2011 Social Innova...

LISC Awards Social Innovation Fund Grants to 47 Community Organizations

As one of the 11 Social Innovation Fund grantees, the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC)  will award grants to 47 community orga...

Conducting a Community Needs Assessment

A needs assessment is a tool that enables communities to identify local strengths and challenges and then use this information to develop a ...

MacArthur Foundation Introduces Public-Private Partnership to Preserve Affordable Rental Homes

Over the past 10 years, the United States lost two million units of federal assisted rentals due to expired government subsidies, demolition...