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A group of foundations and other grant makers are backing a small investment in one of the Trump administration’s favorite workforce ventures: apprenticeships. The Ballmer Group, Annie E. Casey Foundation and several other funders will back a $1 million grant to connect young people to career training opportunities. 

Elected officials, philanthropic organizations, and the new child protection office in Los Angeles County are all moving forward on a plan to put one person in charge of securing grants and donations targeted at preventing child maltreatment and improving outcomes for vulnerable children and families.

Charitable giving in the United States rose by 7.1 percent last year to a new high of $358.38 billion, according to Giving USA, an annual report by the Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

The Virginia-based Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has announced a $500,000 grant to their long-time partners, the College Advising Corps, to provide personalized college advising to high-achieving, low-income students from around the nation using video conferencing and screen sharing, among other technologies.

Busy week? No problem, we got you covered. Here is a rundown of all the funding leads, news, analysis and opinion pieces produced by The Imprint. News, Opinion and Analysis A major proposal to overhaul federal child welfare financing is being pushed by the Alliance for Children and Families, the American Public Human Services Association and the National Organization of State Associations for Children.

Hogg Foundation Houston, Texas (512) 471- 5041 http://www.hogg.utexas.edu The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded eight grants totaling roughly $10 million. The grants are part of an ongoing initiative to help youth, aged of 14 – 25, who are experiencing mental health challenges as they transition from adolescence into young adulthood.

Annie E. Casey Foundation Baltimore, Maryland www.aecf.org The Annie E Casey Foundation has awarded the Milwaukee-based membership organization, The Alliance for Children and Families, a $100,000 grant. The grant will be used to implement a program run by The Alliance that supports child and family behavioral health service providers, as they transition from a traditional residential care approach to a new model that emphasizes a child- and family-centered values approach.

Busy week? No problem, we got you covered. Here is a rundown of all the funding leads, news, analysis and opinion pieces produced by The Imprint. Money and Business Why the Administration for Children and Families is using the rules of fight club on its Unaccompanied Minors contractors A $6 billion block grant for youth development via community-based organizations?

The unmanageable surge of unaccompanied minors in U.S. border states caused a drastic increase in federal spending last fiscal year, and the total is likely to double for fiscal year 2015.