Funding Opportunity Number: CNCS-GRANTS-01232015
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Education | Employment, Labor and Training | Food and Nutrition | Health | Housing | Law, Justice and Legal Services
Eligible Applicants: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Agency Name: CNCS
Closing Date: 2015-03-17
Award Ceiling: $10,000,000

Description: The Social Innovation awards grants to grantmaking institutions, referred to as ?intermediaries.  ? These intermediaries in turn competitively select, provide grants to, and otherwise support high-performing community-based nonprofit organizations to implement evidence-based programs in the areas of healthy futures, economic opportunity and youth development.  The intermediaries and the nonprofits must match the grant funds they receive one-to-one in cash from non-federal sources.
Link: www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?opp…