Examples of projects receiving grants:

Bridging Communities for Dingeman Park—$5000 to complete a master plan for restoring a community park.

Village Builders of Northwest Detroit—$5000 for Ten Family Fun Nights for neighborhood children and families which celebrate and encourage academic success.

Leland Community Affairs—$5000 to conduct family needs assessments during various community events and to develop a directory of neighborhood services.

Building Effective Community Advocates {BECA)—$4200 for a project to develop advocacy skills among youth who will choose issues and try to influence public policy.

 

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Prevention Network provides small grants as part of The Skillman Foundation's Good Neighborhood Initiative. This is a ten-year initiative to help re-build Detroit through planning and support for targeted neighborhoods.

The targeted neighborhoods are Chadsey/Condon and Vernor in southwest Detroit, Osborn on the east side, and Brightmoor on the west side. At the end of their six-month planning period (early in 2008), two additional neighborhoods will be eligible for Community Connections Grants -Central and Cody Range.

Community Connections Grants are awarded in amounts up to $5000 for projects which are designed for and by target neighborhood residents and will have an impact on the specific goal for that neighborhood.

The identified goals are:

• Chadsey/Condon-Vernor: All youth will have positive development opportunities in their homes, school, and neighborhoods.

• Brightmoor: All youth will have access to and participate in a range of year-round programs during non-school hours that encourage academic growth and positive social development.

• Osborn: Families will have the resources and support they need to make their children successful in life.

Community Connections small grants are designed to empower residents, youth, and families in six Detroit neighborhoods to reach their community goal and create safe, caring communities on behalf of children.

Projects must impact the state goal for a specific good Neighborhoods Initiative community and benefit youth.

Funded projects can be designed for:

• Beautification of outdoor spaces

• Mentoring, tutoring, and other positive youth programs

• Increased and improved community interaction

• Intergenerational experiences

• Youth development, building youth leadership

• Building a community organization’s leadership and capacity

• Building alliances between grassroots groups and establishing youth and family serving agencies

• Arts and culture, including public art such as murals, street performances, etc.

• Developing money management, employment, education financing and other knowledge/skills for career development

• Service learning and civic engagement.

Grants can not support the following:

• Capital campaigns

• Endowment funds

• Government agencies and departments

• Lobbying efforts

• Political groups

• Projects or activities carries out for religious purposes

• Fundraising

• Purchase of property (land and buildings)

• Supplanting funds for existing programs.

A Resident Panel of people from the neighborhoods currently on board now meets once a month to review Community Connections Grant Applications

Grant Award Process

• Applications are reviewed and funding decisions made on a monthly basis.
• Applications must be received by the final day of any month for consideration the following month. [example: received August 31 and reviewed September 13.] An address and fax number for submitting applications are on the application form.
• Applications are reviewed by a Resident Panel from the Good Neighborhoods Initiative. Their funding recommendations are approved by Prevention Network's board of director.

ASSISTANCE IS PROVIDED FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS AT ANY STAGE FROM BRAINSTORMING IDEAS, PROJECT PLANNING, APPLYING FOR A GRANT, TO PROJECT COMPLETION. WHEN APPROPRIATE, ASSISTANCE IS PROVIDED FOR UNSUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS TO RE-APPLY. CALL 800/968-4968 or 313/770-7057.