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April 22, 2021

The following grants and funding opportunities are currently accepting applicants. These grants each relate to our Five Promises. If you have questions about these opportunities, please follow the links provided in each item.

Type: News

promises: A Healthy Start, Caring Adults, Effective Education, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

Meet and Greet: Promise Night Honoree Tim Finchem

October 18, 2019

In the hot seat today: Tim Finchem, the retired third commissioner of the PGA TOUR, whose contributions to the PGA TOUR, its tournaments and players, and the broader world of golf catalyzed a remarkable commitment to the positive development of children and youth

Type: News

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

America’s Promise Alliance Announces Grants for Five Communities to Support Young People’s Social, Emotional, Cognitive Growth and Development

September 19, 2019

Convenings will focus on supporting and engaging youth, promoting equity, and inspiring action across diverse communities.

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Press Release Type: Press Release

Community Partnership In Action

July 19, 2019

“We actually don’t have the answers, the answers are in communities and in the people we are investing in. They are the key to unlocking solutions.” -- Darren Walker

Type: News

TAG: How Learning Happens, SEL, Youth Engagement, Cross-sector collaboration

promises: Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League, Youth Re-Engagement

These Are Our Children

June 28, 2019

The heartbreaking photo of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his not-even-two-year old daughter, Valeria, made me want to simultaneously scream, envelop my own two young sons in a hug, and do something—anything—to help. Almost a year ago to the day, America’s Promise Alliance released a statement on the forced separation of children at the U.S. border. This image shows the appalling lack of progress we’ve made in a year.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Early Childhood, Special Populations, Hispanic/Latino

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

New In-Depth Analysis of High School Graduation Rates Reveals Progress Is Real, But Slowing, Indicating Urgency to Double Down on Equity Gaps

June 11, 2019

The ‘Building a Grad Nation’ Report’s First-Ever Secondary School Improvement Index Shows More Than Two Thirds of States Have Increased Graduation Rates and Other Measures Of Academic Achievement, Mitigating Concerns Around Diminished Graduation Standards

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Grad Rate Data

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Press Release Type: Press Release

Georgia LEADS the Way With Educational Supports For Foster Youth

May 30, 2019

In 2017, in partnership with the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, the Multi-Agency Alliance for Children (MAAC) began an educational coordination pilot called LEADS (Learn, Educate, Achieve, Dream, Succeed) with the goal of continuing the work of Project Graduate to increase high school graduation rates for students in foster care in Fulton and DeKalb counties—the counties where Atlanta sits.

Type: Opinion

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Relationships Shine at the Jobs for Michigan’s Graduates Career Development Day

May 09, 2019

The chatter of hundreds of high school students, teachers, mentors, and community volunteers fill the Lansing Convention Center in Lansing, Mich. with a hum of excitement. The students are about to face off in a series of competitions. Not as part of a spelling bee or sports event, but as a test of their employability skills.

Type: Opinion

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Action Platform: Pathways, Greater Stark County Urban League

A Summit to Remember

May 09, 2019

Last month, we publicly launched the YES Project with a panel at ASU + GSV that focused on the power of connection and how the business community, educators, policymakers, and philanthropists can help link youth to new opportunities.

Type: News

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: YES Project

Mentoring and Young People in Foster Care: Why Relationships Matter

May 08, 2019

BEST Kids is a nonprofit organization that provides one-on-one mentoring for over 150 youth in foster care in the Washington DC Metro area. We match caring and consistent adult mentors with youth to provide them not only the guidance and support they need to grow up, but also to help them navigate challenges specific to growing up in foster care.

Type: Opinion

promises: Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign