The Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community Development is seeking applications for its SOMA Pilpinas Community Development and Impact Grant.
Donor Name: Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community Development
State: California
County: San Francisco
City: San Francisco
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $200,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
San Francisco’s Cultural District program preserves, strengthens and promotes cultural assets and diverse communities. Its goal is to enable individuals, families and the businesses that serve and employ them, as well as nonprofit, community arts and educational institutions to live, work and prosper within the city.
The community- prioritized SOMA Pilipinas CHHESS strategies fall within the Cultural District program’s legislated focus areas of Cultural Preservation, Tenant Protections, Arts and Culture, Economic & Workforce Development, Place-Keeping & Place-Making, and Cultural Competency. This Request for Proposals (RFP) is a vehicle by which the City can resource the District to start the important work of implementing some of the strategies surfaced in the Cultural District’s community engagement efforts.
The SOMA Pilipinas community-prioritized strategies and recommendations are as follows:
- Cultural Preservation
- Tenant Protection
- Protect and stabilize buildings that contain a high proportion of Filipino tenants and stabilize existing Filipino residents
- Build Capacity and Filipino Cultural Competence to Support Residential Acquisition and Rehabilitation in SOMA
- Increase language and culturally competent housing readiness support for Filipinos to get into affordable, below market rate (BMR), and supportive housing
- Arts and Culture
- Strengthen and stabilize the capacity of Filipino arts and cultural organizations and individual artists
- Develop a SOMA Pilipinas arts master plan
- Create SOMA Pilipinas special area design guidelines and public realm design toolkit
- City support for cultural district public realm improvement, maintenance, and neighborhood cleaning and beautification
- Development of a Cultural Conservator
- Economic and Workforce Development
- Strengthen non-profits’ ability to sustain community workers
- Further development of Mission St. as a commercial corridor for the cultural district
- Support the development of a mutual-aid and mentorship-based merchant association to support the stabilization and attraction of Filipino businesses
- Strategic planning to create Filipino access to family-sustaining jobs in public and private sectors
- Place Keeping and Place Making
- Establish a working group to examine, strengthen, and expand the youth and family special use district
- Increase community-based access, use, and stewardship of land, buildings, and space
- Ensure that the historic and ongoing displacement of the Filipino community are part of the discourse in developing the Planning Department’s racial and social equity plan initiative including the phase II action plan
- Cultural Competency
- Develop a barangay center/co-location services hub
- Strengthen and expand language access for Filipino residents
- Invest in the sustainability of Filipino community-based organizations.
- Develop a community health report on Filipinos in SF.
Funding Information
- Public Realm Improvement
- Term: 7/1/2023 -6/30/2025
- Total Funding Available: $200,000
- Language Access and Culturally Competent Services
- Term: 7/1/2023 -6/30/2025
- Total Funding Available: $200,000
- Capacity Building
- Term: 7/1/2023 -6/30/2025
- Total Funding Available: $200,000
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants must meet all the following eligibility requirements to be considered for MOHCD funding:
- Applicants must be a community-based agency that is non-profit and tax-exempt under Section
- 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code or apply under a valid fiscal sponsor.
- Organizations receiving a grant from this RFP must be approved City suppliers or have started the process of becoming a City Supplier at time of proposal submission.
- MOHCD contracts are administered on a cost reimbursement basis. Grantees are reimbursed after invoicing for expenses incurred. You must use their online grants management system for monthly reporting and invoicing.
- No City agencies or departments may apply for funding under this RFP.
- You must sign and meet the provisions of a grant agreement. The grant agreement includes a scope of work and budget.
- Please note, MOHCD cannot reimburse for expenses incurred before the start of the grant agreement.
For more information, visit MOHCD.
