Key Responsibilities:
• Planning and Leading Practices:
Develop and implement training programs tailored to our youth’s skill levels, focusing on skill development, safety, and sportsmanship.

• Coaching During Practice/Games:
Provide guidance and instruction during practices/games, fostering teamwork and strategic thinking.

• Mentoring and Motivation:
Encourage and motivate our youth/players to reach their potential, providing constructive feedback on their performance.

• Communication:
Maintain open communication with parents/caregivers, sharing information about schedules, progress, and any concerns.

• Safety:
Ensure the safety and well-being of all youth/players during practices/games, adhering to safety guidelines and emergency procedures.

• Positive Environment:
Create a positive, inclusive, and supportive environment where all our youth/players feel valued and encouraged.

• Administrative Tasks:
Manage attendance records, youth/player evaluations, and other administrative duties as assigned

For more information, contact Eugene Pough, Executive Director at epough@pyfa215.org.

Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue investigative journalism and public policy in service of the common good. Sidney Hillman was the founding president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, a predecessor union of Workers United, SEIU. Sidney Hillman, an architect of the New Deal, fought to build a vibrant union movement extending beyond the shop floor to all aspects of working people’s lives.

The foundation invites nominations for the 2026 Hillman Prize. Prizes of $5,000 will be awarded as well as a certificate at the annual ceremony, to be held in New York City on May 5, 2026.

Prize categories include book (nonfiction), newspaper journalism (story, series, or multimedia; print or online); magazine journalism (longform; print or online), broadcast journalism (television, radio or podcast; at least 20 minutes in total package length), and opinion and analysis journalism (commentary and analysis in any medium). All Hillman Prize entries also will be automatically considered for the SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Justice.

The contest is open to journalists and subjects globally, although work must be widely accessible to a U.S. audience. Self-nominations are allowed. There is no limit to the number of entries one outlet or publication may enter.

For complete program guidelines, application instructions, and information about previous winners, see the Sidney Hillman Foundation website.

Deadline: January 30, 2026

The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) has announced the 2026 JAMS Foundation-ACR Initiative for Students and Youth, which will provide financial support for conflict resolution education and training (CRE) for PK-12 students and youth.

Populations to be served by the funding streams will be both youth in the PK-12 age range and adults working with these youth populations in ways that directly transfer CRE skills for adults to the youth populations.

The 2026 funding focus supports the work at the intersection of culture and conflict. This funding track will implement and evaluate the effectiveness of conflict resolution skills in navigating multicultural environments among middle school youth, grades 5 to 9 or a subset thereof. Culture is defined as a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize an institution or organization. The intent is to foster changes in school or school district policy by employing conflict resolution approaches to improve students’ peaceful interactions with their peers (primary), school personnel (secondary), and in their home environment (tertiary).

Requests for year-one funding may be up to $20,000, of the potential two-year funding cycle. While the proposed projects are two-year projects, decisions on funding for a second year will be contingent on evidence of benchmark accomplishments at the end of the first year of funding with a focus on the integration of the new service or expansion of the current services. For those who may seek a second year of funding, those requests may be for up to $40,000.

Eligible organizations include nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, educational institutions, and public agencies working in conjunction with nonprofit educational institutions or organizations.

An informational conference call will be held December 1, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. ET. Attendance is strongly advised but is not mandatory to apply.

Interested organizations or individuals are required to submit a one- to three-page initial project idea description by January 9, 2026, to grants@acrnet.org. The review committee will notify applicants if they have been selected to develop a full proposal for submission and review by February 20, 2026, with full proposals due May 4, 2026.

For complete program guidelines, application instructions, and to register for the conference call, see the Association for Conflict Resolution website.

Deadline: January 9, 2026 (Initial project ideas)

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of how climate change affects human health. Through the program, small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded.

BWF is particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: January 22, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET

Allen Family Philanthropies aims to build thriving and resilient communities in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

The organization has issued a request for proposals to accelerate Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) in the United States. NCS are some of the few shovel-ready climate change mitigation technologies available today, and they have broad public support.

To be effective, NCS must be implemented rapidly and rigorously, but there are numerous technical, social, economic, and other barriers to implementation. Recent research and a survey of NCS experts facilitated by the Science Philanthropy Alliance provide evidence that across all NCS pathways and barriers, science and technology solutions can help overcome barriers and accelerate implementation.

Allen Family Philanthropies believes that science and technology solutions can be catalytic in deploying high integrity NCS projects (Ellis et al. 2024). For this RFP, the organization is particularly interested in projects that develop, test, and deploy science and technology solutions for overcoming NCS implementation barriers recently identified by Brumberg et al. (2025) and Kroeger et al. (2025). These studies identified eight types of barriers: 1) material inputs, 2) finance, 3) markets, 4) adverse NCS impacts, 5) knowledge, 6) social and behavioral, 7) rules and laws, and 8) governments and organizations. The foundation believes that the collaborative development of generalizable science and technology solutions to overcome these barriers will be critical for NCS to meet their mitigation potential.

The foundation is particularly interested in U.S.-based projects consisting of diverse teams of scientists, practitioners, and key stakeholders (e.g., community members, landowners, state land managers, etc.) to co-develop, test, and deploy science and technology solutions addressing barriers to NCS implementation. A total of $10 million will be available to fund six to seven projects (each lasting up to three years in duration) via this RFP.

Projects must specify the proposed NCS pathway(s) and targeted barriers; must be intentionally designed to, in spirit, adhere to principles for high-integrity NCS projects; project teams must propose to advance the development and deployment of a generalizable solution to a particular barrier or set of barriers; projects must clearly explain why and how the proposed solution(s) is positioned to overcome the barrier, ideally by embedding the proposed project within an existing NCS project; and projects must articulate a study design for developing and deploying solutions.

Priority will be given to projects demonstrating expertise through partnerships (for example, a project team focused on developing new technology to alert unregulated grazing on protected grasslands using remotely sensed data would likely benefit from a partner with strong ties to landowners, an expert on remotely sensed data, and an expert on processes for triggering enforcement); projects must articulate a study design for developing, testing, and deploying solutions, and projects that have secured co-funding.

Organizations eligible to receive funding from the foundation include nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; units of state or local government; state or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes; and public and private colleges and universities.

An informational webinar for interested applicants will be held December 9, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. PT. Letters of intent are due January 16, 2026, at 12 noon PT. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals, due March 10, 2026.

For complete program guidelines, application instructions, and to register for the informational webinar, see the Allen Family Philanthropies website.

Deadline: January 15, 2026

The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports development projects and promising research that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children in the United States, from infancy through age 7. Welfare is broadly defined to support, acculturation, societal integration, and childcare.

The foundation invites letters of intent in the following categories:

Parenting Education: To help parents create nurturing environments for their children, the foundation supports programs that teach parents about developmental psychology, cultural child rearing differences, pedagogy, issues of health, prenatal care and diet, as well as programs that provide both cognitive and emotional support to parents.

Early Childhood Welfare: According to the foundation, providing a safe and nurturing environment is essential, as is imparting the skills of social living in a culturally diverse world. Therefore, the foundation supports projects that seek to perfect child-rearing practices and identify models that can provide creative, caring environments in which all young children thrive.

Early Childhood Education and Play: The foundation aims to improve the quality of both early childhood teaching and learning, through the development of innovative curricula and research based pedagogical standards, as well as the design of imaginative play materials and learning environments.

Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals within the grantee’s field of endeavor and would have a direct benefit and potential national application.

Letters of intent must be received no later than January 31, 2026, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application.

For complete program guidelines and application procedures, see the Caplan Foundation website.

Deadline: January 31, 2026 (Letters of Intent)

Guidance from PA Colleagues to Advance Your Campus CARES Plans

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Join statewide experts and postsecondary practitioners who’ve developed PA CARES Act 110 plans to support their student’s mental health and wellbeing. Learn from colleagues with both long-standing and recently implemented plans for students’ mental health across prevention, intervention, and postvention scenarios. Gain inspiration and practical ideas to overcome complex obstacles and advance comprehensive student support, suicide prevention, and wellbeing sources for all the students you serve .

Speakers:

• Rose Milani, MPH (she/her) Project Director, Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Grant in PA
• Matt Wintersteen, PhD, Director, David Farber ASPIRE Center, Thomas Jefferson University

If you have any questions, feel free to send them to ra-edpaempoweru@pa.gov.

We will explore how to complete the College Application, Admission, and Financial Aid process. We believe in the importance of preparing students for the next phase of their educational journey. This workshop will provide students with the necessary tools to navigate the application process.

The virtual program will be facilitated by expert staff from Penn Admissions, the Financial Aid offices, and from the College Thoughts program. All from the comfort of your own home! Again, we encourage the High School community and their parents to tune into the program together!

As a part of our MLK Symposium on Social Change, the workshop is being held on Monday, January 19, 2026 (via Zoom), 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm.

You’ll need to register via Zoom; click HERE to proceed.

Students will have the opportunity to earn community service credits needed for graduation by participating in the City-Wide Donation Project.

If you have any questions, please email Darin Toiver at toliverd@upenn.edu.

Application deadline is December 19, 2025. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

Learn more and apply here.

MSAP is a paid immersive summer experience running this summer from June 15, 2026 to July 31, 2026. The program provides talented high school and undergraduate students, particularly those from traditionally underrepresented and under-resourced groups in the sciences, the space, resources and training to conduct an independent research project.

Applications due on January 9, 2026.

Learn more and apply.

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Date and Time: December 13, 2025, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Location:  New Foundations Charter High School, 4850 Rhawn Street, Philadelphia, PA 19136

Learn more and register.

We will need general, non-technical volunteers to help with event set-up, people movement, food set-up and distribution, registration, and basic support of the program participants. We also need volunteers to support implementation of the youth and adult program sessions, which include technical skills activities, entrepreneurship projects, and exploration of career pathways.

Interested in volunteering? Sign up HERE.

Applications are open until January 5, 2026.

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Date and Time: December 5, 2025, 1:00-2:00 PM

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The Directory is a free searchable map containing a variety of in-person STEM opportunities in the Greater Philadelphia Area. Our database can help you find in-person, OST STEM programs available to students Pre-K through high school. Classroom teachers and informal educators can also search the Directory for STEM professional development opportunities.

Do you know of any OST STEM programs that should be included in our Philadelphia STEM Education Directory? There is absolutely no cost or obligation to advertise your program in the Directory. To register as a STEM Program Provider, please go HERE. To register as a STEM Professional Development provider, please go HERE. If you have any questions, contact the McKinney Center’s Manager of Ecosystems and Professional Networks, Betsy Payne.

Dates and Times:

Thursday, December 18, 2025 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM; register

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM; register

Date and Time: Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

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Date and Time: Thursday, December 18, 6:30-7:30 PM

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Children’s books have the power to counter stereotypes, challenge norms, and open minds to new perspectives and ideas. Join us for a conversation with Terysa Ridgeway, author of the Terysa Solves It books, Dr. Gaby A. González, author of Giana’s Mission, and Kim Collazo, author of the Emersyn Blake books. Discover the real-life inspiration behind their characters and gain insight into how these books are actively encouraging young children to embrace their inner scientists, engineers, and innovators.

Date and Time: December 18, 1:00-2:00 PM

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Philly Reading Coaches pairs volunteers to read one-on-one with K-3 students for at least one hour per week after school from October to May. Our aim is to boost reading motivation and confidence for our city’s young readers. Each child in the program also receives 25 free books to take home.

Now Accepting Applications for the 2025–2026 School Year!

We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for volunteers to join Philly Reading Coaches! We’re seeking enthusiastic, committed individuals to support our literacy efforts at select schools across the city. Make a difference in a child’s reading journey—apply today and be part of something impactful.

Begin your application here!

Questions? Contact us at PRC@phila.gov.