Grant program to focus on neighborhood security through creative placemaking
Cleveland Neighborhood Progress is pleased to announce the fourth round of the Neighborhood Solutions Award. These annual grants provide critical resources to grassroots-level organizations and community leaders seeking to implement innovative solutions for issues generally faced by neighborhoods throughout Cleveland. The 2016 grant-making cycle will focus on the implementation of short and long-term solutions that enhance, improve, and ensure neighborhood safety. Because our organization and our partners focus on the built environment, we are seeking approaches that utilize creative placemaking as a preferred avenue. The built environment is a medium in which solutions, although often costly, can have long-term effects on neighbors in an equitable, geo-relative way that many social service programs or community events struggle to achieve.
There will be two funding pools available to interested applicants:
Pool One will offer UP TO $5,000 to applicants wishing to implement temporary or “pop-up” solutions designed to address community function and intra/inter neighborhood relationships, especially between residents and safety officials.
Pool Two will offer UP TO $30,000 to applicants proposing permanent infrastructure investments or the implementation of plans that positively enhance safety in the community while reducing the operational burden on public safety organizations.
Click on the links below to learn more about this grant offering.