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 stated goal for a
specific Good Neighborhood community and benefits youth.
Goals for neighborhoods In the GNI Program
Southwest Goal: All
youth have positive development opportunities in their homes, in school, and in
their neighborhoods.
Brightmoor Goal: All
Brightmoor 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 Goal:
Families have all of the resources and support necessary to make their children
successful in life.
Central/Northend Goal:
Northend is a proactive community organized to provide a
high quality education and resources to meet the needs of our children and their
families.
Cody Rouge Goal: All
children live in a village where they are safe educated and have access to
unlimited resources.
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.
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 Good Neighborhoods are:
-
Brightmoor:
Zip Code: 48223 (partial)
.
Chadsey-Condon: Zip Codes:
48210, 48209 (partial)
-
Vernor: Zip Codes: 48209,
48210, 48217
.
Osborn: Zip codes: 48205
(partial), 48234 (partial)
-
North End/Central: Zip
Codes: 48202, 48211 (partial)
-
Cody-Rouge: Zip Codes:
48228 (partial), 48239 (partial)
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
or LISA LEVERETTE
LISA@PREVENTIONNETWORK.ORG
