The purpose of the Engaging Men Grant Program is to support programs that create public education campaigns and community organizing to encourage men and boys to work as allies with women and girls to prevent violence against women and girls.

The sponsor encourages applications describing projects that:

• Develop innovative public education campaigns that use gender-specific group education for boys, girls and/or men as a means to reinforce norms, attitudes and behaviors that support respectful, non-violent relationships, (i.e., posters, brochures, web based materials, etc.)
• Create inventive approaches for integrating gender-specific information and education on healthy relationships and non-violence in boys and/or girls extra-curricular activities, such as sports, arts, religious education, community forums, innovative training programs and activities and coaching initiatives, etc.
• Develop innovative approaches for integrating gender-specific information and education on healthy relationships and non-violence through established mentoring programs for boys and/or girls, including, but not limited to training programs, group activities, etc.
• Integrate gender-specific information and education on healthy relationships and nonviolence in established culturally-specific programs for boys, girls and/or men, using pamphlets, brochures, policy guidelines, guidance counselors, youth programs, nurses, and school youth programs
• Develop creative models of community organizing, outreach and mobilization for men to engage youth in healthy relationships and non-violence, using alternative outreach methods, such as music, drama, and social networks such as facebook and twitter
• Develop innovative campaigns that will provide culturally relevant activities
• Developinnovative campaigns that will be inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and questioning youth victims.