The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Seeking applications for funding for enhancing drug court services, coordination, and substance abuse treatment and recovery support services. This program furthers the missions of DOJ and HHS by providing resources to state, local, and tribal governments and state, local, and tribal courts to enhance drug court programs and systems for nonviolent substance-abusing offenders.  More information

Department of Education 

$15,000.000

These grants will: allow eligible entities to expand and develop innovative practices in education that can serve as models of best practices; support partnerships between eligible entities and the private sector and philanthropic community; and support eligible entities in identifying and documenting best practices that can be shared and taken to scale based on demonstrated success.

Validation grants provide funding to support practices, strategies, or programs that show promise, but for which there is currently only moderate evidence  that the proposed practice, strategy, or program will have a statistically significant effect on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates and that, with further study, the effect of implementing the proposed practice, strategy, or program may prove to be substantial and important. An applicant for a Validation grant may also demonstrate success through an intermediate variable strongly correlated with these outcomes, such as teacher or principal effectiveness.  PDF

The initiative will emphasize:

• reducing the overrepresentation of youth of color with mental and/or substance use disorders in the juvenile justice system;
• incorporating mental, substance use and co-occurring screening and assessment practices throughout the juvenile justice system; and
• recognizing the important roles of evidence-based practice, treatment, and trauma-informed services.

Community Service Grants: This type of grant is unrestricted in nature - meaning that the funds for this grants process may be used to benefit a wide variety of charitable projects or needs.

Field of Interest Grants: This type of grant makes awards based on matching applicant requests with the purposes of the fund from which the grant monies originate.

Morgan-Carlson-Reynolds Field of Interest Fund: This fund assists families dealing with cancer or diabetes, people with substance abuse, and the community with projects recommended by William and Kathleen Roehm, friends and family.

Help For Kids Fund: Assists youth (birth to 18 years of age) with medical expenses. These medical expenses will have incurred due to lack of funds by the parents or guardians.

John Edward McLaughlin Family Fund: Provides financial assistance to religious and/or non-religious charitable activities in Randolph, New York.

Karl Peterson Fund & Lynn Foundation Fund: Provides financial assistance to religious and/or non-religious charitable activities within the Chautauqua Region.