New Funding Opportunity: National Mentoring Programs

This solicitation from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention invites eligible applicants to propose the enhancement or expansion of initiatives that will assist in the development and maturity of community programs providing mentoring services to high-risk populations that are underserved due to location, shortage of mentors, special physical or mental challenges of the targeted population, or other analogous situations identified by the community in need of mentoring services. Applicants are limited to national organizations.

The due date for applying for funding under this announcement is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on April 22, 2010.

For more information, go to http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/funding/FundingDetail.asp?fi=171.