The Seybert Foundation Innovation Grants Program provides one-time grants for specific research or proof-of-concept purposes, intended for emergent or existing Philadelphia-youth-serving nonprofit organizations wishing to either a) test a bold new approach OR b) pursue a time-sensitive opportunity that could lead to significant change.
Donor Name: The Seybert Foundation
State:
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 10/07/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Priorities
Priority will be given to those projects or initiatives that, theoretically, could help an organization dramatically increase the impact of its services to Philadelphia youth, whether by altering an existing model or by testing a new model.
Primary areas of interest are projects that support innovation in the following areas:

Afterschool/Out-of-School-Time Programming
College/Career Readiness
Early Childhood
Education Reform
Foster Care System
Juvenile Justice Reform
Skills Trainings/Workforce Development
Social Emotional Learning
Unhoused Youth
Youth Advocacy/Voice
Youth Health and Wellbeing
Youth Leadership or Entrepreneurship
Youth-focused projects outside of these issue areas may also be considered.

Funding Information
The 2024 Innovation Grants Program will award approximately $120,000 in grants to youth-serving nonprofits. Individual grants will range in size from $20,000-$60,000.
Innovation Grants Program funds can be considered

Projects and organizations that have discovered new and better ways of solving pervasive problems that impact children and youth
Seemingly small interventions that when scaled, can have significant impact to addressing a big problem
New, high-potential concepts for projects that require validation and can be validated for under $60,000
Existing projects and organizations that have discovered potentially highly scalable models that require testing and that can be tested for under $60,000
Projects and organizations led by entrepreneurial leadership teams who are skilled at testing new ideas cheaply and quickly 
Teams that possess rare operating knowledge in a particular domain or that have discovered counter-intuitive realities in a domain that will lead them to success where others have failed 

Eligibility Criteria
Nonprofit organizations serving Philadelphia youth as their primary target population. Seybert defines “primary” to mean that more than 50% of the organization’s overall target population must be Philadelphia youth.
For more information, visit The Seybert Foundation.