This solicitation expired April 16, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT.

Program Area:

Vulnerable Populations

Purpose:

Preventing intimate partner violence (IPV) begins with ensuring that young people’s first relationships are healthy ones. IPV is an important determinant of health and well-being and often begins in adolescence with conflict in relationships. The Building Healthy Teen Relationships program will support the creation and evaluation of comprehensive community-based models of prevention that aim to decrease relationship violence and increase positive, protective relationship skills.

Read the news release, New Multimillion Dollar Grant Initiative for Building Healthy Teen Relationships.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals


• Overview

Total Awards:

• Up to eight grants will be awarded for a period of up to 48 months.
• Each grant award will be up to $250,000 per year, with a maximum award of $1 million for the full grant period.

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

Applicant organizations must be either public entities, such as a unit or department of government or school board or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Private foundations as defined under Section 509(a) are not eligible to apply.

Preference will be given to sites that demonstrate specific examples of the following strengths within their proposed partnership:

• Having experience leading successful collaborative ventures among community-based organizations, government, business and other decision-makers.
• Demonstrated results that rely on creativity and leadership to address a social issue.
• Proven track record of engaging youth as leaders.
• Clear evidence of youth involvement in developing proposal and plans for continued involvement in leading the project.
• Strong community presence of organizational structures that offer support and resources for youth in need of dating and sexual violence services.

Read the call for proposals for complete selection criteria.

Key Dates:

• March 3 (2:30 p.m. ET) and March 12, 2008 (11:30 a.m. ET)—Optional Web conference calls for potential applicants. Visit www.buildinghealthyteenrelationships.org to download the Web conference presentation or an archived recording.
• April 16, 2008 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of brief proposals submitted online.
• May 20, 2008—Applicants notified if invited to submit full proposals.
• July 8, 2008 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
• August 4–29, 2008—Site visits to finalists.
• November 15, 2008—Notification of awards and start of grants.

Note: The original online registration deadline of March 17, 2008, has been removed.

Contact:

Debbie Lee, deputy director
Building Healthy Teen Relationships, Family Violence Prevention Fund
debbie@endabuse.org
Office: (415) 252-8900 ext. 11

Related Materials:

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