The JAMS Foundation and National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) are pleased to announce the 2022-2024 funding track of the Community Mediation Mini-Grant Program (“Program”).
Donor Name: National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM)
State: Kentucky
City: Louisville
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/07/2022
Size of the Grant: $15,000
Grant Duration: 2 year
Detail:
The Mini-Grant Program is designed to encourage creativity and variation based on research. Service strategies will be developed through the implementation of the “Listening for Action” Leadership Process and strengthened by at least one policy or procedure change developed and locally implemented over a two-year period. Mini-grant recipients will work together throughout the grant period anchored in the Learning Community. The Learning Community is a structured and collaborative peer working group facilitated by NAFCM. This structure serves as an incubator for innovation by aiding in the development of “good practices.” All materials developed through these grants will be shared with community mediation centers and mediators across the continent. By distributing these materials, sharing programmatic resources, providing training, and developing national partnerships, NAFCM supports the replication of these service models and ensures the Program’s impact on an international level.
An organization is expected to embed the nine hallmarks of community mediation center work. These nine hallmarks of a community mediation center are:
- A private non-profit or public agency or program thereof, with mediators, staff and governing/advisory board representative of the diversity of the community served.
- The use of trained community volunteers as providers of mediation services; the practice of mediation is open to all persons.
- Providing direct access to the public through self-referral and striving to reduce barriers to service including physical, linguistic, cultural, programmatic and economic.
- Providing service to clients regardless of their ability to pay.
- Providing service and hiring without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, disabilities, national origin, marital status, personal appearance, gender orientation, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, source of income.
- Providing a forum for dispute resolution at the earliest stage of conflict.
- Providing an alternative to the judicial system at any stage of a conflict. 8. Initiating, facilitating and educating for collaborative community relationships to effect positive systemic change.
- Engaging in public awareness and educational activities about the values and practices of mediation.
Priorities
Priority will be given to projects that:
- Seek to support the community to address positive system change through initiating, educating, facilitating that addresses issues of fairness, peacemaking and violence prevention. (Hallmark 8).
- Build on relationships already established though the work of the applicant (Hallmark 1).
- Work to engage in public awareness and educational activities about the values of using community mediation (Hallmark 9).
Funding Information
- Mini-Grants of $15,000 per year will be awarded to up to five organizations to be used as incentive funds to support the expansion of the Center’s work with issues regarding the re-imagining of community safety.
- Funding requests may be for up to two years, but decisions regarding second-year funding will be contingent on evidence of benchmark accomplishments at the end of the first year of funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- Preference for funding is given to those applicants who have previously demonstrated an ability to bring projects to a level of scalability and sustainability.
- Eligible organizations include nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations, educational institutions, and public or for-profit agencies working in conjunction with nonprofit institutions or organizations.
For more information, visit Mini-Grant.
