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Fiscal Year 2009 Grant Awards

Fiscal Year 2009 National Youth Mentoring Awards

The statutes appropriating funds for Fiscal Year 2009 authorize OJJDP’s National Mentoring Programs initiative. The awards of more than $44 million were made to programs that target underserved and at-risk youth. The Fiscal Year 2009 National Mentoring award recipients are:

  • Home Builders Institute, Washington, D.C. ($9,949,890)
  • The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, Washington, D.C. ($9,093,440)
  • YouthBuild USA, Somerville, Mass. ($8,840,914)
  • Young Men’s Christian Association, San Francisco, Calif. ($7,129,327)
  • The Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, D.C. ($3,496,766)
  • Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, Inc., Lenexa, Kan. ($3,251,170)
  • The Experience Corps., Washington, D.C. ($2,762,022)

More information on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the mentoring program can be found at http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/.

Tribal Youth Program Awards

The following awards have been made for the Fiscal Year 2009 OJJDP Tribal Youth Program.