The following list was compiled by Scott Peterson of YouthBuild USA and Global Youth Justice, a link to contact Scott is located at the bottom of this list. If you find any of the links to be broken please contact both Scott and Rutgers SDFSC so that we can correct the problem. If you have any links that you think might be beneficial to others please contact Scott to have them included on the list.

Rutgers Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Project provide this information as a service to our site members. Inclusion on this list does not constitute the direct or indirect endorsement of any of the listed resources by the Rutgers Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Project

THE RESOURCE LINKS

100’s of them…..

Hundreds of Links to Funding and Resources to include both public and private resources and links to get connected to the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System, Foster Care System, Youth Service, Youth Employment and much more.

GETTING STARTED

http://www.grants.gov/

Find Grant Opportunities on Grants.Gov

http://www.grants.gov/applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jsp

Developing Quality Grant Proposals

http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/grant-proposals.html

Federal Grants Catalog at the Office of Faith and Community-Based Initiatives

http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/grants-catalog-05-2006.pdf

Federal Financial Grants Management Training – Calendar w/Locations.

https://www.circlesolutions.com/ocfo-rfmts/Locations.cfm#11

The White House – Office of the President

http://www.whitehouse.gov/our_government/

Office of Public Liaison at the White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/opl/

The White House Blog – Latest News !

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/

Office of National and Drug Control Policy at the White House (DFC Grants)

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/

U.S. Government Departments – Full Listing.

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml

Office of Justice Programs at USDOJ

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/

Community Capacity Development Office at the Office of Justice Programs

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/funding/appl_kit.html

State Contacts for Office of Justice Programs Funding

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/saa/index.htm

Funding Opportunities from the Office of Justice Programs

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/funding/solicitations.htm

Reentry Web-Site from U.S. Department’s of Labor, Justice and more.

http://www.reentry.gov/

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/index.html

State Contacts for Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Funding

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/statecontacts/resourcelist.asp

Funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/funding/FundingList.asp

National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Juvenile Justice

https://www.nttac.org/index.cfm?event=funding

Recovery Acting BJA State Allocations – Map

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/recoveryJAG/recoveryallocations.html

Funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance at OJP/USDOJ

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/funding/current-opp.html

Funding from the National Institute of Justice at OJP/USDOJ

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/funding/welcome.htm

Funding from the Office of Victims of Crime at OJP/USDOJ

http://www.ovc.gov/fund/welcome.html

National Center for Victims of Crime

www.ncvc.org

National Institute of Justice at the OJP/USDOJ

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/

Office of Violence Against Women at USDOJ

http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/open-solicitations.htm

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services at USDOJ

http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/

The National Criminal Justice Reference Center

http://www.ncjrs.gov/

Grants and Funding from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service

http://www.edfunders.org/about/members.asp

Juvenile Justice Today (JJTODAY) at Youth Today.

http://www.youthtoday.org/index.cfm/JJToday

Stimulus Funds and Youth Work Site on Youth Today

http://www.youthtoday.org/publication/article.cfm?article_id=2740

Funding Opportunities at the Administration for Children, Youth and Families/USDHHS

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/

Opening Funding Resources from the Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF)

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open.html

Funding Opportunities at the Family and Youth Services Bureau at ACYF

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/grants_fysb.html

Funding by Category at Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF)

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/

National Clearinghouse on Families & YouthBuild USA

http://www.ncfy.com/

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at USDHHS

http://www.samhsa.gov/grants/2009/fy2009.aspx

Outstanding Juvenile Justice Consultant – Ms. Marion Mattingly

Wmattingly@aol.com

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at SAMHSA within USDHHS

http://prevention.samhsa.gov/

Health Resources and Service Administration at USDHHS

http://www.hrsa.gov/

The Center for Mental Health Services at USDHHS

http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at the USDOT

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

U.S. Department of Education State Contact Information

http://www.ed.gov/about/contacts/state/index.html?src=gu

Funding Opportunities at the U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edpicks.jhtml?src=ln

Education Resource Directory for all USDOE

http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list_by_territory.cfm?territory_cd=AA

Office of Vocational and Adult Education

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/index.html?src=oc

Center for Disease Control – One of the Federal Governments Best Agencies!

http://www.cdc.gov/

Correctional Education Association

www.ceanational.org

Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.doleta.gov/findit.cfm

Department of Labor – Shared Youth Vision Approach.

http://www.doleta.gov/ryf/

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)

www.cns.gov

CNCS Programs – AmeriCorps, SeniorCorps, Learn and Serve and VISTA, etc..

http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/programs/index.asp

CNCS Programs – Martin Luther King Day, Next Generation and Challenge Grants, etc..

http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/initiatives/index.asp

Be a Peer Reviewer for CNCS

https://egrants.cns.gov/espan/pr_main/newaccount.jsp

The Foundation Center On-Line

http://foundationcenter.org/

USA Freedom Corps

http://usafreedomcorps.gov/

United States Sentencing Commission

http://www.ussc.gov/

Connect for Kids – Join the Update – a leading National E-News !

http://www.connectforkids.org/

Crime and Justice News by Criminal Justice Journalists – Daily News (outstanding)

http://cjj.mn-8.net

The Crime Report - Check it out – great daily news and more !

http://TheCrimeReport.Org/

The Future of Children

The Brookings Institution and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton

http://www.futureofchildren.org/info-url2815/info-url.htm

The Administration for Children, Youth and Families – Become a Peer Reviewer

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/grantreview/

American Youth Policy Forum – Resources, Research, E-News and Capitol Hill Forums

http://www.aypf.org/

Campaign for Youth Justice – Get Involved to stop trying youth under 18 as Adults!

http://www.campaignforyouthjustice.org/

Children’s Defense Fund – Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign

http://www.childrensdefense.org/helping-americas-children/cradle-to-prison-pipeline-campaign/

The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) – Join and/or learn about CJJ!

http://www.juvjustice.org/

Coalition for Juvenile Justice State Contacts

http://www.juvjustice.org/states.html

Contact Your Members of Congress, State Governors, State Legislature, etc..

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

National Criminal Justice Association - Are you a Member?

http://www.ncja.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Family Justice, Inc.

http://www.familyjustice.org/

The National Partnership for Juvenile Services: Juvenile Detention and Corrections

http://www.npjs.org/njda.html

Grant Station – an Interactive Grant Web-Site to help write and locate grants

http://www.grantstation.com/index.asp

Youth Service America (National Service Briefing, Grants, Resources, etc..)

http://www.ysa.org/

Global Youth Service Day is the world’s largest service event – get your youth involved.

http://ysa.org/GlobalYouthServiceDay/tabid/254/Default.aspx

Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice – A Global Effort – Outstanding.

http://www.juvenilejusticepanel.org/en/

National Association of Peer Programs

http://www.peerprograms.org/

National Fund for Workforce Solutions: Improve employment, labor, training for low-income.

http://www.nfwsolutions.org/overview.html

National Youth Leadership Council

http://www.nylc.org/

Reentry Policy Council – great Resources – High Quality.

http://www.reentrypolicy.org/

The Justice Center at the Council of State Governments

http://www.justicecenter.csg.org/

Prisoner Reentry Initiative at John Jay College

http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/centersinstitutes/pri/events.asp

Youth Today-The Largest Independent National Newspaper on Youth Issue more – Join today.

http://www.youthtoday.org/about/about.cfm

Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement

http://www.pacefunders.org/mission.html

Mentor More Youth – The National Website Dedicated to helping you Recruit Mentors

http://www.mentoryouth.com/

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America – Become a Big for Little !

http://www.bbbs.org/site/c.diJKKYPLJvH/b.1539751/k.BDB6/Home.htm

Top consultant on Mentoring – Dr. Susan Weinberger

http://www.mentorconsultinggroup.com

Mentor Resource Center

http://www.edmentoring.org/online_res3.html

Act 4 Juvenile Justice –Getting the Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Act Reauthorized

http://www.act4jj.org/

Association for Conflict Resolution Education

www.ACRnet.org

National Office of Communities in Schools – Helping Kids Stay in School

http://www.cisnet.org/

National Bar Association

http://www.nationalbar.org/index2.shtml

National Youth for Justice – Teaching Youth about the Law

http://www.youthforjustice.org/

Street Law, Inc.

http://www.streetlaw.org/en/index.aspx

Division for Public Education at the American Bar Association

http://www.abanet.org/publiced/

Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago

http://www.crfc.org/

After School Alliance

http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/

Center for Workforce Development at the Institute for Education Leadership

www.ncwd-youth.info

National Youth Employment Coalition

www.nyec.org

National Child Labor Committee

http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/

National Network for Youth - Giving Homeless Youth a Voice

http://www.nn4youth.org/

National Network of Youth Ministries

http://www.youthworkers.net/

Peer Review for the Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS

https://grants.hrsa.gov/webReview/

Peer Review for the Substance and Mental Health Services Administration at HHS

http://www.samhsa.gov/grants/emailform/index.asp

Apply to a consultant for OJJDP at the NTTAC

https://www.nttac.org/index.cfm?event=consultant

Join the Juvenile Justice Committee at the ABA

http://www.abanet.org/dch/committee.cfm?com=CR200000

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – The Largest Private National Reading Program in the U.S.

http://www.imaginationlibrary.com/

Start a local Imagination Library Chapter – email Ddotson@Dollyfoundation.com

The Historic Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans is an ideal and affordable location for Conferences, Trainings and your Meetings. Support New Orleans – they still need us.

http://www.hotelmonteleone.com/ Lisa Thompson in sales: lthompson@hotelmonteleone.com

America’s Promise Alliance – Join the Alliance!

http://www.americaspromise.org/APA.htm

The Corps Network – Strengthening America through Service and Conservation.

http://www.nascc.org/

Students Against Drunk Driving

www.sadd.org

Recording Artists Against Drunk Driving

www.radd.org

National Alliance to End Homelessness

www.endhomelessness.org

PAX United – Conflict Resolution, Mediation and much more!

http://www.paxunited.org/

First Book – providing disadvantaged children with books and more

http://www.firstbook.org/site/c.lwKYJ8NVJvF/b.674095/k.CCA8/First_Book_Homepage.htm

National Council to Prevent Delinquency – Outstanding Anti-Graffiti Resources

http://www.anti-graffiti.org/

The Sentencing Project

http://www.sentencingproject.org/

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

http://www.nwrel.org/index.php

National Organization for Youth Safety

www.noys.org

UNICEF – Support the United Nation’s Fund for the Most Vulnerable Children and Youth.

http://www.unicef.org/

Public Private Ventures

http://www.ppv.org/ppv/index.asp

Brooklyn Academy of Music

http://www.bam.org/

The Special Olympics. Find your State and Local Branch and Get Involved!

www.specialolympics.org

The 16^th Annual Education and Law Conference in Maine this July 19-23, 2009

www.edlaw.org

Save the Children

http://www.savethechildren.org/

Global Youth Enterprise Conference in 2009

http://www.youthenterpriseconference.org/

National Association of Police Athletic Leagues

http://www.nationalpal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=30

FOUNDATIONS
Criminal & Juvenile Justice, Foster Care, Youth Development, Service and more !

The Foundations Center – Listing of the top 100 Foundations with Links.

http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/topfunders/top100assets.html

The Foundation Directory On-Line – need to be subscribed.

http://fconline.fdncenter.org/

State and Local Foundation Directories

http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/topical/sl_dir.html

Grantmakers for Education Lists – About 150 Foundation Links!

http://www.edfunders.org/about/members.asp

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

http://philanthropy.com/

Annie E. Casey Foundation

www.aecf.org

Casey Family Programs

http://www.casey.org/Home

Charles Lafitte Foundation

http://www.charleslafitte.org/thefoundation.html

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

http://www.mott.org/

A link to the full submission guidelines is here

http://www.mott.org/Home/about/appprocedures.aspx#section3

Contact person/people: The letter of inquiry can be submitted on-line

http://www.mott.org/grantseeker/inquiryletterstep2.aspx

Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation

http://www.dfguggenheimfoundation.org/

Submission requirements are http://www.dfguggenheimfoundation.org/apply.html

Deer Creek Foundation

http://www.csuohio.edu/uored/FUNDING/DrCreekFdn.htm

Eckerd Family Foundation

http://www.eckerdfamilyfoundation.org/

Details here: http://www.eckerdfamilyfoundation.org/apply.asp

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

http://www.emcf.org

George Gund Foundation

http://www.gundfdn.org

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

http://www.hjweinbergfoundation.org/index.htm

Hitachi Foundation

http://www.hitachifoundation.org

Focus Area and Initiatives: http://www.hitachifoundation.org/grants/guidelines/index.html#online

The JEHT Foundation will be missed.

http://www.jehtfoundation.org

***The JEHT Foundation was a leader in funding Criminal and Juvenile Justice projects and sadly the public lost the JEHT Foundation as a result of the evil crook named Bernie Madoff !

Knight Foundation

http://www.knightfoundation.org

Submission Requirements: Complete on-line letter of inquiry. It is located at http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/

Lumina Foundation

http://www.luminafoundation.org

MacArthur Foundation

http://www.macfound.org

4answers@macfound.org is the email.

Open Society Institute (1 of 2)

Sentencing & Incarceration Alternatives– U.S. Justice Fund

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/sentencing/guidelines

Open Society Institute (2 of 2)

The After Prison Initiative – U.S. Justice Fund

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/after_prison/guidelines

Public Welfare Foundation

http://www.publicwelfare.org/

http://www.publicwelfare.org/ApplyGrant/Guidelines.aspx#deadlines

Smith Richardson Foundation

http://www.srf.org/

Submission Requirements

http://www.srf.org/databank/documents/conceptpapers.pdf

William T. Grant Foundation

http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/index.htm

The Pew Charitable Trusts

http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_category.aspx?id=72

Ford Foundation

http://www.fordfound.org/programs/kcf

Maurice Falk Fund

http://www.falkfund.org/applications.html

Rockefeller Brothers Foundation

http://www.rbf.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=472520

The Tow Foundation

http://www.towfoundation.org/about_mission.htm

Surdna Foundation

http://www.surdna.org/

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

www.wkkf.org/

Omidyar Network

http://www.omidyar.net/index.php

The Carnegie Foundation

http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/

Youth Justice Funding Collaborative

http://www.youthjusticefund.org/content.asp

Fund for Education Excellence

http://www.ffee.org/

EMPLOYMENT SITES

Looking for a job or know someone who is?

http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=international+ngo&bloc=1

https://tbe.taleo.net/NA4/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?cws=1&org=childrensdefense

http://www.crjustice.org/jobs.php

http://www.cof.org/Network/jobdescriplist.cfm?navItemNumber=2218

http://www.imsearch.com/searches.html

http://members.guidestar.org/GsEdit/showClassifiedResults.do?type=Jobs

http://www.independentsector.org/members/job_postings.htm

http://www.nonprofitprofessionals.com/current_searches.htm

http://www.nyrag.org/s_nyrag/sec.asp?CID=7255&DID=16340&mored=true

https://www.bridgestar.org/Jobs/Search.aspx

http://philanthropy.com/jobs/

http://www.phillipsoppenheim.com/

http://www.washingtongrantmakers.org/s_wash/sec_full.asp?CID=181&DID=315

http://www.urc-chs.com/careers/career-short.html

http://www.unfoundation.org/about-unf/employment/

http://www.marthamontagbrown.com/searches.html

http://www.soros.org/about/careers

http://www.clintonfoundation.org/about-the-clinton-foundation/careers

http://www.smallfoundations.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKRI7MPJqF&b=2433113

http://www.harrisrand.com/

Improving Boards, Committees
and more in the Private and Public Sector

Developing Advisory Boards

http://www.managementhelp.org/boards/advisory.htm

Developing A Board of Directors

http://www.managementhelp.org/boards/boards.htm

What is Stakeholder Involvement?

http://cals-cf.calsnet.arizoa.edu/fcs/content.cfm?content=stakeholder

A Guide to Successful Public-Private Partnerships for Youth Programs

http://www.financeproject.org/publications/PublicPrivate_PM.pdf

Planning Guides – The 10 Step Guide to Planning a Youth Program

http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/planning/howto.asp

Creating a Quality Program

http://www.niost.org/publications/cns_6.pdf

One Day in the Life of a Program Coordinator

http://www.nwrel.org/learns/resources/startup/dayone.html

National Youth Development Information Center

http://nydic.org/

Starting an Effective Out-of-School Program

http://www.niost.org/publications/cns_5.pdf

Getting Your Youth Advisory Group from Here to There

http://www.twc.state.tx.us/svcs/youthinit/materials/yag1203.pdf

Board Development, Training, Accountability & Governance

http://www.boarddevelopment.org/role.cfm

Better Board Development – Effective Non-Profit Boards

http://www.nonprofitexpert.com/board_development.htm

10 “Stop” Signs on the Road to Board Recruitment

http://www.help4nonprofits.com/NP_Bd_10StopSigns_Art.htm

MORE and MORE

The U.K Launches their first Peer Panel/Youth Court in England.

http://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/news_at_glance/219940/sf_2.html

A big thank you to Mr. Simon Evans and the staff at NACRO !!!

The Next Big Thing: Teen Courts in America

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0OJX/is_5_31/ai_n25007534

Join TheMonthlyNews@GlobalYouthJustice.org to be launched on September 1, 2009 – join more than 6,840 already subscribed to get the new Monthly E-News around the world on Youth Court, Teen Court, Peer Court, Student Court and Youth Peer Panels. To “subscribe” send an email to TheMonthlyNews@GlobalYouthJustice.org – this is an initiative of the new Global Youth Justice, LLC from Scott Peterson.

Technical Assistance and Training on Youth Court and Teen Court is available by emailing technicalassistance@GlobalYouthJustice.org

The National Data Collection Report on Youth Court and Teen Court by George Washington University – The Hamilton Fish Institute is available here for free:

http://gwired.gwu.edu/hamfish/Publications/Serial

The upcoming new Global Youth Justice Website on Youth Court and Teen Court – to be launched on September 1, 2009. http://globalyouthjustice.org/

The 1^st Report to the Nation on Youth Courts and Teen Courts: 42 pages

http://servicewire.org/content/20090121/Stay-and-Get-Involved-Global-Youth-Justice-Movement-Teen-Courts-Youth-Courts-Studen

ABC Worldwide News Broadcast of the Federal Grantmaking Scandal at the United States Department of Justice in 2008. Emmy Award winning ABC Investigative Journalist Mr. Brian Ross and Justice Department whistleblower Scott Peterson with Mr. Earl Dunlap, CEO of the National Partnership for Juvenile Services. See what the Bush administration was doing with our tax payer dollars – not even our most vulnerable children and youth were off limits for these fools and Bush appointed OJJDP Administrator J. Robert Flores and OJJDP Career Deputy Administrator Marilyn Roberts.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5033256&page=1

Youth Today and the Breaking News Story from Patrick Boyle that exposed the OJJDP Grant Making Scandal – read all about – see the actual government scoring charts that were disregarded in favor of kick-backs and cronyism and no-bid contracts.

http://www.youthtoday.org/publication/article.cfm?article_id=1874

YouthBuild USA – one of America’s Premiere National Non-Profits Making a Difference like so many other of the awesome groups listed on this resource list.

http://www.youthbuild.org/site/c.htIRI3PIKoG/b.1223921/k.BD3C/Home.htm