The Neighborhood Mini-Grant program is designed to foster healthy, safe, and engaged neighborhoods that strengthen community.
Donor Name: Hillsborough County
State: Florida
County: Hillsborough County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/14/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Details:
Project Categories
Your mini-grant application must describe how the proposed project fosters healthy, safe, and engaged neighborhoods. Projects are required to engage the community as active participants, and they must address a need(s) or improve quality of life in one of the following categories.
- Neighborhood Identification: “Place-making” by creating or enhancing assets that are sources of neighborhood pride and identity, and that help engage the neighborhood. Ideas include signage to identify your neighborhood, message boards, and a neighborhood website.
- Leadership Empowerment: Training neighborhood leaders and/or engaging them in activities/events that will bring your community together for the sake of the neighborhood or others. Ideas include organizing food pantry donations, cleanups, and assisting neighbors or seniors in need.
- Safety Opportunities and Education: Equipping the neighborhood with knowledge or tools to prevent, prepare for, confront, or respond to crime or danger to help keep the neighborhood safe. Programs such as swim safety, stranger danger, anti-bullying, gun safety, or cyber safety can provide hands-on learning, training, and education that support safety needs in the community.
- Environmental Enhancements: Protecting water, energy resources, and native plants contributes to a healthy environment and community. Projects in this category should positively impact your neighborhood’s natural environment. Ideas include neighborhood litter walks, neighborhood cleanups, Florida-friendly landscaping, low volume irrigation, and composting.
- Health and Wellness Engagement: Increasing access to nutritious food, health education, or physical or mental fitness opportunities to promote a healthy community. Projects can range from exercise and healthy eating to supporting mental health and wellbeing. Ideas include creating play or exercise spaces for people of all abilities, walking paths, nature trails, healthy cooking demonstrations, and Zen gardens/beautification
- Neighborhood Preparedness: Increasing neighborhood resilience to natural disasters by encouraging individual and/or neighborhood-wide disaster preparedness planning through programs and partnerships with local agencies. Ideas could include organizing groups such as a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), resident-led neighborhood preparedness plans, hurricane preparedness events, and adopt-a-shelter programs.
- Neighborhood and Community Innovation: Unique projects that engage and bring neighbors together to solve a problem, celebrate neighborhoods, or keep them informed. Ideas include projects to keep your neighborhood better connected and informed, art to celebrate your neighborhood, or a community driven project to resolve a problem.
Funding Information
The maximum grant award is $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Neighborhood Mini-Grant Program is open only to eligible organizations located within Hillsborough County, Florida and its municipalities.
- Eligible
- Civic Associations
- Homeowner Associations
- Special Taxing Districts
- Projects submitted for mini-grants must demonstrate community support and engagement in both the application and the implementation phases.
- Only one Neighborhood Mini-Grant application will be allowed per neighborhood organization, including Master Associations, Community Development Districts, and/or Special Taxing Districts.
For more information, visit Hillsborough County.
