The National Alliance for Children’s Grief is accepting applications for its Reach Grant Program to advance bereavement care for children and families across the United States.
Donor Name: National Alliance for Children’s Grief
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/11/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
NACG invites any organization that currently serves young people who have experienced a death of a loved one to apply for this competitive grant opportunity to enhance access to and increase grief support for youth and their families.
Focus Areas
For this cycle, they will have the following focus areas with three available funding amounts:
- New programming that is innovative for your community, ($20,000, $50,000 or $80,000)
- Expansion of programming that is innovative for your community. ($20,000, $50,000 or $80,000)
Funding Information
There are two separate 2-year grant opportunities and one 1-year grant opportunity included in this RFP. Each program will only be eligible to apply to one of these grant opportunities, as explained below:
- $80,000 OVER 2 YEARS GRANTS: grant award of $40,000 per year for two years. Only organizations with minimum annual organizational budgets of $267,000 will be eligible to apply for this grant level.
- $50,000 OVER 2 YEARS: grant award of $25,000 per year for two years. Only organizations with minimum annual organizational budgets of $167,000 will be eligible to apply for this grant level.
- $20,000 OVER 1 YEAR: grant award of $20,000 for one year. Only organizations with minimum annual organizational budgets of $133,000 will be eligible to apply for this grant level.
These grant funds may be used to expand services to bereaved children, youth, and families. Must fall into one of the following categories:
- Geographic Expansion: expanding your services into a new geographic location.
- Number Expansion: serving more children and families (unique) where you are already located.
- Population Expansion: expanding to a new age or population group, such as preschool, LGBTQ, Opioid crisis, etc…
- Program/Service Expansion: starting new programming or services to the new and/or same children and families, such as specific programming for suicide survivors; or an existing nonprofit that will start offering bereavement services to children.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. based 501(c)3 for at least three consecutive years.
- Provide 990 tax returns for at least two of the past three years.
- Provide audited financials for the most recent full fiscal year.
- Must provide a budget detailing specifically how requested funds will be used.
- Must be the entity that will provide the children’s bereavement services.
- Must have at least one paid staff person.
- Request amount must not be greater than 15% of the organization’s most recent fiscal year actuals for grants.
- The grant proposal must include cultural considerations of bereaved children based on the community you will be serving.
- Evaluation of proposed programming. All proposed programs must include an evaluation tool that meets the minimum requirements outlined in the grant agreement. Guidance on best practices will be given if you do not currently have an evaluation tool.
- If you are a part of a larger organization, for example, a hospice, hospital, university, etc., you will be required to submit your dedicated childhood bereavement program budget.
For more information, visit NYLF.