Greetings! The DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation is proud to announce the FY12 One City Summer Fun grant competition. This grant competition invites high performing youth development ogranizations in Washington DC that serve youth 5-24 with a focus on programing that has proven success in the developmental outcome areas of Belonging and Membership and Safety and Structure to apply for summer funding. This grant competition will take a close look on the integration of summer learning loss as well and innovative and proven successful youth development programming. The Trust seeks to fund non-profit organizations that work with the District's youth to provide high quality programs that will provide purposeful and developmentally appropriate opportunities to help the District’s children and youth meet developmental outcomes and to prevent summer learning loss (see the National Summer Learning Association website www.nsla.org for more information regarding this topic ). Applicant organizations must employ a positive youth development philosophy in its approach and program design. If you are interested in applying for this grant you must meet the following criteria:

• Eligible applicants must have 501(c) (3) tax-exempt status, been incorporated to operate in the District of Columbia, and providing direct services since no later than October 1, 2009; must be organized under the District of Columbia Non-profit Corporation Act (DC Code, sec.29-501 et seq.); must be a community-based organization, defined as: non-profit agency with a board of directors that is reflective of the community of population served; organization’s primary vision and program focus must be on serving children, youth, and/or families within the District of Columbia; and, organization must be in good financial standing with the DC Office of Tax and Revenue and the Internal Revenue Service as well as follow all appropriate charitable financial reporting standards.

• All eligible applicants must meet all of the applicable requirements contained in the proposal guidelines and instructions. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be released on Friday, January 13, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. The RFP will be available for download on the Trust’s website at www.cyitc.org.   The deadline for submission to the Trust is Friday, February 17, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. for all submissions. 

• The Trust will hold (3) Grant Technical Assistance (GTA) Sessions.   In order to be eligible for this grant, attendance at one of the GTA sessions is mandatory for allapplicants. 

• IMPORTANT! All prospective applicants must submit a Notice of Intent to Apply to the Trust. The Notice of Intent to Apply form should be returned to the Trust by Friday, February 3, 2012. Submittal of a Notice of Intent to Apply does not commit an agency to apply. However, failure to submit a Notice of Intent to Apply in a timely manner will disqualify an applicant. Any supplemental written information related to this RFP will be provided only to those organizations that have filed a Notice of Intent to Apply. A Notice of Intent to Apply should be submitted via online at http://www.cyitc.org/grants/nofa.asp or via email to rfp@cyitc.org.