Our June 2025 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This issue contains a message from Executive Director Elijah Wheeler, information about a new RFP for the Gear Up for Growth program, an update on The Basics MoCo, and more! This issue of the newsletter includes an update on [...]
Our April 2025 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter features our 2024 Annual Report, two ENOUGH initiative funding opportunities, and a FREE Immigration Rights Training on May 2. This issue also provides highlights from of an April 4 training with County youth development staff on using the Youth [...]
The Engaging Neighborhoods, Organizations, Unions, Governments, and Households (ENOUGH) initiative focuses on communities that have been disproportionately impacted by decades of disinvestment and harmful public policies that often systematized and reinforced race-based discrimination, limited wealth creation, and blocked pathways to economic mobility. The initiative is a state-led, place-based strategy to create poverty fighting opportunities driven by communities’ lived experience [...]
Our January 2024 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter includes information about the Community Needs Assessment Open Solicitation, a recap of our MoCo BOOST Holiday Party, and a selection of events coming up during Black History Month.
Our Nov./Dec. 2023 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This newsletter includes a celebration of retiring team member Kathy Boland, information about a new Open Solicicitation, a recap of our recent Advancing Youth Development training, and a program spotlight featuring MoCo ReConnect.
*DEADLINE EXTENDED* Application deadline: February 16, 2024, 5pm The Collaboration Council seeks written Letters of Interest (LOIs) or video Messages of Interest (MOIs) from organizations and qualified individuals who are engaged in demonstrable innovative, paradigm-shifting, community-based solutions to address community needs. The Collaboration Council will profile the selected applicants in its Community Needs Assessment and the selected applicants also [...]
Announcement of Funding Availability: Under 21 Substance Use Prevention Activity Mini-grants EXTENDED Application deadline: November 30, 2023 Funded by Montgomery County Government, the overall purpose of the mini-grants is to support underage and illicit substance use prevention activities throughout Montgomery County. Funds must be used to provide primary prevention activities to youth and young adults under 21 at risk for substance [...]
The MoCo ReConnect Drop-In & Reengagement Center in Wheaton seeks workshop facilitators to lead arts and entrepreneurship programs in our shared space. This new initiative, called the Youth Arts & Entrepreneurship Program, solicits local artists to facilitate programming that is hands-on, interactive, and youth focused. This program was conceived of and designed by young people interested in bringing arts [...]