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Here are two recent federal grant opportunities:
Supporting Effective Educator Development
- Funder: Department of Labor
- Expected number of awards: 85
- Cost sharing required? Yes
- Due date: June 1, 2026
- Award range: average award $1 million
- Eligibility: For profit organizations, nonprofits, independent school districts, and city, state, and tribal governments.
- Description: The SEED program provides funding to increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices that prepare, develop, or enhance the skills of educators to improve student outcomes. These grants will allow eligible entities to develop, expand, and evaluate practices that can serve as models to be sustained and disseminated. Applicants can receive competitive preference points to projects or proposals that will be carried out by State educational agency grantees.
- Link to full RFP: https://www.ed.gov/grants-and-programs/teacher-preparation-grants/supporting-effective-educator-development-grant-program-84423a
General Departmental Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (GDSRAE)
- Funder: Department of Health and Human Services
- Expected number of awards: 43
- Cost sharing required? No
- Forecasted Post Date: June 22, 2026
- Estimated award range: $300,000 to $450,000
- Eligibility: Nonprofits, for profit organizations, small businesses, independent school districts, institutes of higher education, housing authorities, and city, state, county, special district, and tribal governments
- Summary: The Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau announces the availability of funds under the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program. The purpose of the SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teach participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. The services are targeted to participants that reside in areas with high rates of teen births and/or are at greatest risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The goals of SRAE are to empower participants to make healthy decisions, and provide tools and resources to prevent pregnancy, STIs, and youth engagement in other risky behaviors. Successful applicants are expected to submit program plans that agree to: 1) use medically accurate information referenced to peer-reviewed publications by education, scientific, governmental or health organizations; 2) implement sexual risk avoidance curricula and/or strategies with an evidence-based approach to integrate research findings with practical implementation that aligns with the needs and desired outcomes for the intended audience; and 3) teach the benefits associated with self-regulation, success sequencing for poverty prevention, healthy relationships, goal setting, and resisting sexual coercion, dating violence, and other youth risk behaviors such as underage drinking or illicit drug use without normalizing teen sexual activity.
