The City of Newport News is now accepting grant applications for a Gun Violence Intervention Grant.
Donor Name: City of Newport News
State: Virginia
City: Newport News
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/24/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Grant awardees will be granted funding to implement or enhance evidence-based strategies and/or projects that will reduce gun violence within the City of Newport News.
The City of Newport News remains committed to partnering with community-based organizations (CBOs) to reduce gun violence in the communities. They will continue to prioritize this effort using evidence-based strategies and best practices to support the work to interrupt cycles of violence and help those at the highest risk for violent crime.
The City Manager’s recommended operating budget for FY 2025 includes an allocation of $1,000,000 to community-based organizations to continue their prevention and intervention work to reduce gun violence that began in FY 2023 and continued in FY 2024. These funds represent the third and final year of the GVIP cohort that began in FY 2023. Organizations will be eligible to apply for funding beyond FY 2025 through the annual City of Newport News Community Support Agency Grant program. Applications for the Community Support Agency Grant will open in October 2024.
Organizations will continue their work in FY 2025 by prioritizing the violence reduction efforts around addressing seven critical areas:
- Effective Conflict Resolution
- Healthy Family Functioning
- Economic Prosperity
- Gun Control & Safety
- A Caring Community
- Mental Wellness & Healing
- Effective Deterrence & Adjudication.
Grant Period
The grant period will begin July 1, 2024, and end June 30, 2025.
Eligible Project Proposals
- Proposals must benefit children, youth, young adults, and families who reside in Newport News.
- Funds may be used to expand or enhance the project the organization was funded for during FY 2024.
- Proposals must demonstrate the utilization of evidence-based strategies that address gun violence.
- Proposals should have a clear sustainability plan. This plan must include other sources beyond the City of Newport News.
- Applicants seeking to expand or enhance their FY 2024 project must demonstrate progress and success in what has already been done through the project’s life.
- Projects eligible for continuation funding must address one or more of the following critical areas: concentrated poverty, access to guns, desensitized communities and individuals, judicial system, mental health/unaddressed trauma, family dysfunction, or poor conflict resolution.
- Projects eligible for continuation funding must address one or more of the priorities listed below as they relate to youth violence prevention or early intervention, according to the guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): individual and family risk factors, community risk factors, peer and social risk factors.
- Collaboration between organizations is highly encouraged.
Eligible Expenditures
Allowable GVIP grant projects and purchase includes, but are not limited to:
- Personnel Expenses (fringe benefits will be calculated at 10%)
- Project and Program evaluation
- Overtime
- Supplies
- Travel expenses (direct service only)
- Food
- Stipends/incentives.
Project Requirements
Grant funds will allow community-based organizations to implement strategies to reduce gun violence in the City of Newport News by continuing or expanding existing projects that began in FY 2023 (August 2022 – June 2023) and continued in FY 2024 (July 2023 – June 2024).
All projects should:
- Be community-based
- Be evidence-based
- Serve Newport News residents
- Focus on prevention or intervention
- Address one or more of the seven critical areas.
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be the same legal business entity that received funds from the City of Newport News during FY 2024.
- Serve youth and young adults in the City of Newport News with evidence-based projects and programming that reduce gun violence.
For more information, visit City of Newport News.
