The City of Boston is excited to announce the 2024 Community Empowerment Small Grant Fund
Donor Name: City of Boston
State: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Through the 2024 Community Empowerment Small Grant Fund, the Office of Black Male Advancement (BMA) will award grants to support programs that expand one of the following seven focus areas:
- Mentoring and Out-of-School Time
- providing quality mentoring, literacy and out-of-school time programs when and where they are needed, offering developmentally appropriate learning environments that support social emotional and physical wellbeing.
- Youth and Young Adult Pathway
- providing educational and career pathways for youth and young adults navigating their own course to economic prosperity.
- Housing Mobility
- providing a continuum of housing opportunities, resources, and supports that are effectively resulting in pathways to affordable housing and homeownership.
- Economic Inclusion and Wealth Building
- supporting individuals to experience financial empowerment and economic mobility.
- Workforce Training and Development
- helping unemployed and underemployed individuals attain livable wage jobs and helping businesses with training for employees to support a pipeline of skilled workers.
- Fatherhood Engagement
- supporting fatherhood education, case management, and peer-to-peer support to strengthen positive father-child interaction, improve social and economic outcomes for fathers and their families and improve healthy relationships.
- Mental Health and Wellness
- helping support and improve the mental health and wellbeing of men.
Grant funds will be awarded to Boston non profit organizations providing proven or promising programs to bring their work to scale or deepen their impact serving Black men and boys throughout the City of Boston.
Funding Information
- Total Amount Available: $500,000
- Grant Range: Up to $20,000.
Eligibility Criteria
For your awareness, the following criteria will be used to review all applications:
- Recipients must be a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit or a community-based organization partnering with a fiscal sponsor (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit). No grants can be awarded to individuals or for-profit businesses.
Recipients must be located in Boston and support young men and boys that are Boston residents.
For more information, visit City of Boston.