2024 Inaugural Refugee Youth Grants Program
As part of our commitment to supporting other non-profit organizations doing refugee youth work, Habibi Center USA, a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) organization, has announced the Inaugural Refugee Youth Grants Program. The program will provide two non-profit organizations with grants of up to $1,000 to support work in immigrant and refugee communities — with a focus on youth — such as expanding current programming, introducing new opportunities, community power and capacity-building, providing direct services, and more.
Whether your organization has been doing this work for many years or is just getting started with supporting refugee youth, we are looking to fund organizations that are making long-term commitments to addressing fundamental challenges, co-creating sustainable solutions, and empowering people and communities to thrive.
Additional Information
Organizations applying for the Inaugural Refugee Youth Grants Program should consider the following program requirements. Organizations must:
Be a registered non-profit organization (documentation required, and organizations outside the United States are welcome to apply);
Have a bank account and be able to accept grants from non-profit organizations registered in the United States or Spain; and
Demonstrate their long-term commitments to doing refugee youth work.
2024 Program Dates
January 2 - Program application opens
January 24 at 1pm EST - Networking and Q&A webinar with Habibi Center
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We invite any organizations interested in applying for our grants program to join us for a Networking and Q&A webinar. This is an opportunity for you to learn more about Habibi Center, for us to learn more about you and your organization, and for us to answer any questions you might have about our grants program. While not required, it is strongly encouraged!
February 15 - Program application closes at 5pm EST
By March 12 - Grant decisions sent to applicants
March 15 - Grant recipients announced & Grant period starts
July TBD - Informal check-ins with grant recipients
August - November TBD - Co-storytelling opportunities with Habibi Center and grant recipients (optional)
Learn more about this optional opportunity in the program application!
December 31 - Grant period ends
January 31, 2025 - Final grant reports due
Program Requirements
Program Application
Our program application is simple: We need some information about you and your organization, how a grant from us will support your work, what impact you are looking to make with this grant, and your long-term commitments to doing refugee youth work.
Click here to access the program application or click the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5vwKOAz6H6TqXvTIFbgIWJmc8xKJfpQxFq3EwZMzs6NGfHw/viewform?usp=sf_link
If you have any questions about our program application, including any accessibility needs to complete and submit your application, please email us at info@habibicenterusa.org. We will be happy to support you!
Networking and Q&A Webinar with Habibi Center
January 24 at 1pm EST / 6pm GMT / 8pm Greece
We invite any organizations interested in applying for our grants program to join us for a Networking and Q&A webinar. This is an opportunity for you to learn more about Habibi Center, for us to learn more about you and your organization, and for us to answer any questions you might have about our grants program.
While not required, it is strongly encouraged!
Click here to join the webinar or click the following link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/85262004836?pwd=3iTrVFPf6jrMZnqokaiK7gyybdi9La.1
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If you have any questions about our Networking and Q&A webinar, including any accessibility needs to fully participate in our webinar, please email us at info@habibicenterusa.org. We will be happy to support you!
Co-storytelling opportunities with Habibi Center and grant recipients (optional)
At Habibi Center, we believe that building and fostering relationships among organizations with similar long-term commitments to doing refugee youth work will allow us to strengthen our individual commitments while leveraging our collective power to address fundamental challenges and co-create sustainable solutions.
We also believe that storytelling is a way for us to share with others the importance of our work and the impact it has for those who we serve.
As part of our grants program, we are inviting grant recipients to engage in co-storytelling opportunities with Habibi Center. Producing videos, images, short and long-form writings, and other communications mediums, and sharing them through traditional and contemporary communications channels, we are looking to tell the stories of who we are and those who we serve, what we do and why we do it, the impact that our work has for those who we serve, and how the support of others — volunteers and funders alike — makes a real difference.
By participating in these optional co-storytelling opportunities together, we will develop a vision for what this can look like and collaborate with a global team of volunteers, possessing years of communications experience, to tell our stories. We have not established any expectations or commitments for participating in these opportunities because we envision establishing them together with the grant recipients who choose to participate in co-storytelling with us.
If you are interested in co-storytelling opportunities with Habibi Center and the other grant recipients, you will be able to indicate your interest in the program application.