Are you interested in sponsoring a special event in your neighborhood to bring your neighbors together to discuss issues and concerns? Would you like to organize a concert in your local park? If you are willing to work hard to see your ideas come to fruition, the City could help make them a reality through the City of Surprise’s Neighborhood Grant Program.
Donor Name: City of Surprise
State: Arizona
City: Surprise
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/23/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
The City of Surprise will provide small grants through the Neighborhood Grant Program to foster partnerships between the City and its neighborhoods each year.
The Neighborhood Grant Program, established in 2015, fosters a special partnership between the City of Surprise and its neighborhoods. Through an application process, qualifying neighborhoods will receive funds for specific projects. Award decisions are made by the Committee on Community Outreach, Partnerships & Grants. The Program encourages involvement of residents and other public and private organizations to support neighborhood initiated planning, community-building or improvement projects.
Ideas by Project Category
- Neighborhood Events: Events and gatherings for the community such as a concert in the park, food truck event or movie night.
- Neighborhood Organizing / Organizational Development: Activities, services and materials that generate new neighborhood connections and activities to grow an organization or educate neighborhood leadership and promote involvement.
- Neighborhood Preservation: Materials, programs or services that sustain or improve the health, public safety and welfare of the neighborhood such as crime watch playgrounds, common areas, park amenities, community gardens, neighborhood markers, identity signs, trash cans, benches, etc. or contribute positively to the neighborhood’s aesthetic quality such as community property maintenance programs or beautification programs.
- Neighborhood Cultural, Social, and Recreational Initiatives: Materials, programs or services that promote diversity, family literacy, neighborhood access to technology, after school enrichment programs, career preparation, services for the needy, disabled or elderly and cultural activities such as music, dance or art programs.
Funding Information
This fiscal year, the City is providing up to $10,000 for neighborhood projects.
Criteria
To receive support, projects must:
- Provide a public benefit
- Result in a product, which benefits a neighborhood or the larger Surprise community
- Involve the benefiting neighborhood in project identification, planning and execution
- Emphasize neighborhood self-help, or be educational, community-building or a public physical improvement
Projects not eligible for funding:
- Duplication of an existing private or public program or service
- Ongoing services or requests that support service organizations’ operating budgets
- Projects that conflict with existing City policy
- Projects that conflict with your respective HOA policies
- Projects exceeding the duration of one year
- Maintenance of projects built with previous Neighborhood Matching Funds
- Nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations
For more information, visit Neighborhood Grant Program.
