The Metro is pleased to announce the 2024 Community Placemaking Grant to help people tackle community challenges or opportunities by funding creative, arts-based, equity-focused efforts.
Donor Name: Metro
State: Oregon
City: Portland
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/06/2023
Size of the Grant: $5,000 to $25,000
Details:
The Community Placemaking program has four objectives, each of which are followed by characteristics that make for a strong application.
- Placemaking: People’s connections to each other and to places they care about are strengthened. Examples
- Addresses a community challenge or opportunity
- Prompts people to interact with each other
- Uses art and cultural activities to bring people together
- Helps people feel a stronger connection to the place(s) in the Portland region
- Strengthens the things that make a place unique or valued
- Equity: People of color and members of historically marginalized communities have power and resources to influence their neighborhoods and communities. Examples
- Directly benefits people of color or members of other historically marginalized communities
- Led by or actively supported by communities of color or other historically marginalized communities
- Strengthens cultural and community assets
- Provides opportunities for expression of culture
- Partnerships: People’s efforts are maximized because they work in partnership with each other and its Metro. Examples
- Involves partnerships that bring people together
- Encourages collaboration among community partners
- Community members are involved in planning and implementing the proposal
- Enhances regional efforts where Metro is actively engaged
- Leadership: People participate in projects and decisions that affect them Examples
- Gives opportunities to emerging community leaders
- Builds individual and organizational capacity for civic engagement
Funding Information
Up to $200,000 is available for the 2024 cycle, in grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000. No matching funds are required.
Eligibility Criteria
Note: Grant-funded activities must take place within the Portland region’s Urban Growth Boundary. Businesses and individuals without a nonprofit partner are not eligible.
- Community-based organizations with tax-exempt nonprofit status.
- Individuals or community groups without nonprofit status must partner with a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor, such as a state certified, federally approved 501(c) nonprofit or a public agency. That fiscal sponsor must have a federal employer tax ID number and capacity to contract with Metro.
- Public agencies must have community partners involved in the implementation of the project.
- If you are a past recipient of a Community Placemaking grant and your grant funded an event (single or multiple days), you may not reapply the year following your award.
Grant Requirements
- Grant-funded activities must take place within the Portland region’s Urban Growth Boundary.
- Grantees (or their fiscal sponsors) are required to carry insurance coverage and are responsible for the proper use, accounting and reporting of grant funds. Metro reports grant distributions to the IRS.
- If applying for operating support, your mission and ongoing work must be clearly aligned with the four Community Placemaking objectives. This grant program should not be considered an opportunity for ongoing support.
For more information, visit Metro.
