Funding Alert: May Edition 2
The Funding Alert is a bi-weekly resource produced by Serve DC highlighting grant opportunities and resources for community-based, faith-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofits, and District Government agencies.
For Economic Development grants and opportunities, check out Obviously DC.
For all current District Government agency grant opportunities, visit the District Grants Clearinghouse.
 Funding Features
 The Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP) recognizes the impact of individual artists and humanities practitioners within the District and supports the vitality that those individuals bring to the local community. This grant opportunity encourages progress in the arts and humanities by sustaining, highlighting, and elevating the accomplishments of individual District-based artists and humanities practitioners.
Deadline 10 pm ET, Tuesday, June 13, 2023
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Want to make a difference in our city? Join Us in Service!
Board Position: 3-year Term on Serve DC's Commission for National and Community Service:
Serve DC is looking for engaged residents to join the Commission for National and Community Service. The Commission's purpose is to encourage community service and volunteer participation as a means of community and state problem-solving; to promote and support voluntary citizen involvement in government and private programs throughout the District of Columbia; to develop a comprehensive vision and strategic plan for community service initiatives in the District of Columbia; and to serve as the District's liaison between national and other state organizations in concert with the District of Columbia strategic plan.
Interested residents engaged in the nonprofit, youth, philanthropic, business, and labor communities are particularly encouraged to apply.
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Last Tuesday, May 9, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Mayor’s Office on Volunteerism and Partnerships (Serve DC) announced 13 nonprofit organizations that will receive $5.4 million in AmeriCorps grant funding for the 2023-2024 annual grant cycle. The AmeriCorps Competitive and Formula Grant awardees, whose work focuses primarily on student enrichment and academic readiness, will support more than 10,000 District youth in pre-K through grade 12, and create nearly 600 service member opportunities for District residents.
The following organizations will receive funding under Serve DC’s 2023- 2024 Competitive and Formula AmeriCorps portfolios:
- City Year
- Jumpstart for Young Children
- The Literacy Lab
- After School All Stars
- CASA DC*
- Foster and Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center
- Higher Achievement
- Kid Power
- Latin American Youth Center (LAYC)
- Relay Graduate School for Education
- SchoolTalk Inc*
- Teach For America
- Teens Run DC
*First time AmeriCorps grantees
The Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser
 May is #NationalMentalHealthAwarenessMonth.
We want to remind our residents of the mental health resources available 24/7.
If you need someone to talk to, certified clinicians are available:
(888) 793-4357- DC’s Mental Health Hotline | 988- Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Admission is free, but RSVP is REQUIRED. To request reasonable accommodations or translation, contact MOAPIA 7 days in advance at oapia@dc.gov or call 202-727-3120.
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