IMPORTANT: The Learning Loss (Academic Support) and Career Pathways RFPs have been closed.
College and Career Ready creates a clear path for youth to get through school and ready for either higher education or high growth careers.
GOAL: Improve college and career readiness by 10% or for 15,000 youth in communities with low Child Well-Being by 2027
All Child Well-Being Mission Fund grants are organized into three major approaches: Direct Service, Systems Change, and Capacity Building. For more information on the Fund and what type of work falls into each of these approaches, click here.
Within the College and Career Ready Investment Priority Area, we have four pathways through which we seek to create change:
It is critical that we increase access to college and career ready opportunities for youth and young adults while addressing systemic issues such as poverty using a racial equity lens to eliminate barriers that young people face in their current educational and workforce environments. Our focus is to equip youth with high quality college and career opportunities that eliminate achievement gaps and lead to sustainable careers and greater economic prosperity. Regardless of race or zip code, all young people deserve the opportunity to graduate high school and have access to resources that truly connect them to higher education and high-growth careers.
To read more about the College and Career Ready Investment Priority Area and the Child Well-Being Mission Fund, click here.
The College and Career Ready Investment Priority area is requesting proposals from organizations providing services in the following two pathways. Applicants can apply to learning loss (academic support) and/or career pathway.
Learning Loss (Strengthening Academic Support: Direct Service Approach)
United Way of Greater Atlanta (United Way) and Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (Georgia DFCS) will collaborate to strengthen academic support by reducing learning loss (located on Learning Loss RFP).
Learning Loss refers to any specific or general loss of knowledge and skills or to reversals in academic progress, most commonly due to extended gaps or discontinuities in a student’s education. (Learn more about Learning Loss. Download the FAQs.)
Through the strategy of Academic Support, organizations will provide one or more of the following components: tutoring, mentoring, literacy programming, youth development programming or any activities that complement and reinforce the educational needs.
Priority given to organizations that utilize the following:
Career Pathway: Direct Service Approach
Cultivate developmentally appropriate opportunities for youth to build the soft and hard skills, including registered apprenticeships, that will make them competitive in the current and future workforce. Increase quality mentoring relationships that have powerful positive effects on young people - personal growth and development, and social and economic opportunities.
Competitive applicants will provide active supports, services and/or programming for young people that foster academic outcomes, leadership development, employability skills and planning for future careers specifically opportunities to engage in workplace readiness training and paid work experiences that increase skills, knowledge, and readiness for the world of work, including apprenticeships and certifications that align to industry needs and high demand careers.
Career Pathway: Systems Approach
Cultivate developmentally appropriate opportunities for youth to build the soft and hard skills, including registered apprenticeships, that will make them competitive in the current and future workforce. Increase quality mentoring relationships that have powerful positive effects on young people - personal growth and development, and social and economic opportunities.
Competitive applicants will articulate clear strategies that increase access to equitable education and economic opportunities that support family wage employment for low-income youth and youth of color and support inclusive economic growth and better economic mobility for the Greater Atlanta region. Strategies may include improving access to dual enrollment, Career Technical Agricultural Education (CTAE) and work-based learning opportunities; leveraging local & national partners’ efforts and best practices to influence racial equity practices across institutions that lead to systemic change. This approach could include 2 or more organizations collaborating to create system change.
The Career Pathway is open to organizations that provide career pathways for youth aged 14-24 who also meet at least one or more of the following criteria:
Priority given to organizations that utilize the following:
The grant process has five phases that will extend from January – May 2022. More information will be provided in the Applicant Orientation.
January
Applicant Orientation Webinar
Application opens Jan. 12, 2022
Application deadline: February 2, 2022
All applications submitted through FLUXX
No incomplete or late submissions accepted
Mid-February – Early April
Assessment of application
Follow up questions
Mid–Late April
United Way Leadership volunteers make grant decisions
All applicants notified
Late April – Mid May
Grantee Orientation
Development of measures
Finalize contract
United Way of Greater Atlanta will be accepting applications from January 12, 2022 – February 2, 2022 through our grants portal FLUXX. The link will to the application will go live on January 12, 2022.