The Elevation Grant Program (previously known as the Violent Crime Prevention Grant Program) is a partnership between The City of Indianapolis and The Indianapolis Foundation. The program will invest $45 million in neighborhoods over the next three years (2022, 2023, and 2024) to address the root causes of violent crime in Indianapolis through a comprehensive approach, including neighborhood empowerment and community building.
Donor Name: Central Indiana Community Foundation
State: Indiana
County: Marion County (IN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/02/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000 – $250,000
Grant Duration: 1 years
Details:
With supporting funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the grant program will distribute five times more money to community organizations than last year. The Elevation Grant Program will feature multiple grant rounds. The desired outcomes are the following: addressing the numerous root causes of violent crime, increasing resident-led solutions (community building), discovering new innovative efforts, investing in infrastructure development for grassroots organizations, and ensuring that qualitative metrics (hope, abundance, peace, resilience, and safe) are expressed and elevated.
Priorities for Round One
The grant program will give priority (through an equity framework) to organizations that clearly demonstrate immediate intentionality around violence reduction and support programs using evidence-based violence reduction programming or promising strategies that, in addition, elevate the assets, aspirations, hope, and improve the safety of neighborhoods impacted by violence:
- Are place-based efforts designed to promote neighborhood safety and reduce or prevent crime in a specific geographical area as defined by a neighborhood and/or community.
- Led by engaged and mobilized residents and community leaders.
- Focus their efforts on providing supportive services (such as employment, education, mentoring, recreation, mental health supports, and family support services) to youth and young adults who face unique challenges and may have a higher likelihood of community disengagement without the proper intervention strategies.
- Partner with public agencies in collaboration (The Office of Public Health & Safety, the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, law enforcement, courts, probation, and parole) to help prevent crime in community.
- Interest Areas: Thriving Neighborhoods, Empowered Youth/Young Adult, and Restoration & Resilience.
Interest Areas
Thriving Neighborhoods, Empowered Youth/Young Adult, and Restoration & Resilience
Priority Population
Individuals meeting the criteria below:
- Black/Latinx males between the ages of 18-35.
- Individuals most at-risk of violent victimization or perpetration of violent acts (previously shot/known gun activity, close friend/family member shot in last 12 months), referring to pro-social & supported grassroots and community-based organizations.
- Individuals with multiple interactions with the criminal legal system and unemployed, underemployed, and/or without a high school diploma or HSE/GED.
Funding Information
- $20,000 – $250,000
- Grant funds must be expended between July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations may apply to multiple program interest areas.
- Organizations that are start-ups and/or pilot programs may be considered for infrastructure development support.
- Organizations must be a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization or a public entity partnering with a 501(c)(3) charitable organization as a fiscal sponsor.
For more information, visit Central Indiana Community Foundation.
