Children and Youth Community Grants
Forecasted
Children and Youth Community Grants support nonprofits delivering early learning, academic support, and violence prevention to help underserved youth thrive and move toward self-sufficient adulthood.
Funder: Hampton Roads Community Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): April 2027 (Online application)
Funding Amounts: Program support for up to three years
Summary: Supports nonprofits helping underserved children and youth achieve kindergarten readiness, academic success, and safer paths toward self-sufficient adulthood.
Key Information: Applicants must speak with an HRCF program officer before applying.
Description
Hampton Roads Community Foundation’s Children and Youth Community Grants support programs that improve young people’s lives in southeastern Virginia and help them move toward self-sufficient adulthood. Funding can begin promising services or continue and expand existing programs, with particular attention to underserved or underperforming children and youth. Priorities include academic achievement, socio-emotional development, and protection from violence.
Supported work includes early learning centers, kindergarten-readiness summer programs, and curriculum development for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Literacy, remedial education, tutoring, and after-school programs should help public school students who are behind academically improve grades, advance to the next grade, and graduate on time. Evidence-based youth development and violence intervention or prevention programs should reduce property and violent crime, or risky behavior, among youth age 18 and under who are at risk of violence.
