The Community Safety Partnership Fund (CSPF) is looking to support nonprofit organizations providing proven violence reducing community safety work in South Nashville.
Donor Name: Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
State: Tennessee
City: Nashville
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/21/2022
Details:
The Federal Office of Justice Programs states, “Community safety is achieved when community members live in peace, harmony, and mutual respect and when citizens and community groups feel that they personally can prevent and control crime.” Nashville benefits from the dedication and expertise of many nonprofit organization working on the front lines of improving community safety.
Community Safety Partnership Fund (CSPF) seeks to support nonprofits working to promote community safety in South Nashville.
Priority focus is on the Antioch-Glencliff Area, within several square miles of I24 and Haywood Lane.
Certain programs have been shown to reduce violence. They include the following:
- Group Violence Intervention Programs; i.e.: addressing the small numbers of residents most directly affected by crime with services and a strong message of anti-violence through partnership with credible community members and law enforcement.
- Violence Interruption Programs; i.e.: community-based violence interrupters and outreach workers providing ground-level intervention and services to reduce retaliation and provide de-escalation services.
- Improving the Physical Environment of high crime areas; e.g.: reducing urban blight, improving communal spaces with humane design, art, vegetation, reducing underlit areas, and socially designed spaces that facilitate positive community interaction.
- Strengthening Anti-Violence Social Norms and Peer Relationships; e.g.: violence interruption programs, paired with coaching and services and programs that seek to strengthen anti-violence social norms.
- Engaging and Supporting Youth; e.g.: and out-of-school programming, educational support, summer jobs, access to generally positive opportunities, and other interventions that augment prosocial skills and like self-control and decision making in highest need neighborhoods.
- Programs that provide peer support and therapy; e.g.: cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma and culturally informed mentoring, motivational interviewing, and targeted treatment for substance abuse.
- Mitigating Financial Stress; e.g.: programming providing financial literacy, access to and training for stable-safe-and-gainful employment, improving access to income-adjusted affordable housing, and programs to off-set financial burdens of basic needs such as food and household goods for families at high risk of violence.
Eligibility Criteria
- If your nonprofit already works in South Nashville and is in a position to expand programming in the areas listed below, you may be eligible for a CSPF grant. To gauge interest and capabilities, the Advisory Board is requesting letters of intent from interested nonprofits.
- Letters should include these sections:
- A section describing your organization’s mission and history. This section should also describe the number of people employed (full time and part time), budget, and primary programs.
- Details of how many people you serve per year, and what percentage recipients live within several square miles I24 and Haywood Lane.
- A section that describes the people you serve and the neighborhoods you work.
- A section describing what programming you would like to expand and how you would measure success.
- Two (2) letters of support from community members adversely affected by community violence who have benefitted from work your organization has done previously. Letters of support must include full name, address, phone number and email address of community members. Community members must reside within several square miles of I24 and Haywood Lane.
For more information, visit South Nashville Community Safety Grants.
