The City of Flagstaff is accepting applications for its Neighborhood Sustainability Grants to inspire creative projects that enhance community sustainability and promote healthy lifestyles through community partnerships.
Donor Name: City of Flagstaff
State: Arizona
City: Flagstaff
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: o9/30/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $7,500
Details:
All projects should align with at least 2 of the following 3 overarching goals of the grant program, which focus on community. The best projects will align with all 3 goals. In the application, applicants will be asked how their project meets the following overarching goals:
- Facilitating volunteer engagement or management
- Building community partnerships
- Meaningfully involve underserved communities, diverse groups, or vulnerable populations
Categories
Projects should fall into one of the following categories:
- Food
- Promotes, through education and engagement, improved access to sustainable and equitable food systems that produce healthy food for the community.
- Increase food recovery efforts, especially for communities experiencing food insecurity.
- Increase pollinator habitat through conservation and/or education efforts.
- Waste Reduction
- Promotes proper recycling, composting, and/or waste prevention behavior through education and infrastructure development.
- Promotes circular economy business model or other models and solutions that creatively redirect materials away from the landfill.
- Increases access to and knowledge of the sharing economy and reuse opportunities, such as tool lending libraries or fix-it clinics
- Climate Action
- Educates and engages community members on the impacts of climate change in Flagstaff and/or reducing emissions.
- Reduces greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy use in buildings, transportation, or consumption.
- Encourages participants or community members to take local climate action through behavior change, community actions, or workforce development.
- Resilience
- Educates and engages community members on resilience and adaptation concepts.
- Provides opportunities for community members to connect with each other and/or share knowledge and skill sets.
- Strengthens community systems, improving community preparation for or response to extreme weather, economic uncertainty, natural disasters, or other events.
- Building Energy
- Promotes, through education and engagement, the conservation of energy and/or water in buildings.
- Increases use of renewable energy in community buildings.
- Reduces building energy use and/or water use.
- Transportation
- Educates and engages community members on ways to walk, bike, roll and take transit more often.
- Increases access and/or reduce barriers to walking, biking, rolling, and transit options.
- Improves neighborhood mobility or transportation options infrastructure.
- Public Health
- Educates and engages community members on the intersection of public health and environmental issues.
- Increases accessibility to public health resources.
- Improves social environmental conditions in ways that are likely to result in improved public health or improved preparation/adaptation against public health emergencies, such as climate-related health threats.
Funding Information
In 2023, grants of up to $7,500 per project are available.
Eligible Projects
- Projects must align with two or more of the following overarching goals of the Neighborhood Sustainability Grant Program:
- Facilitating volunteer engagement or management
- Building community partnerships
- Meaningfully involve underserved communities, diverse groups, or vulnerable populations
- Applicants must choose a project category, and clearly demonstrate their project aligns with the Category Objectives: Food; Waste; Climate Action; Building Energy; Transportation; Public Health; Resilience. Category objectives can be found on pages 4-6.
- Projects can help launch a new or continue an existing community sustainability project.
- Projects should aim to exist beyond the life of the grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals, groups of individuals, community groups, educational groups, not-for-profit organizations, and locally owned businesses whose projects are within Flagstaff city limits are eligible to apply.
- Applicants are eligible for a maximum of one award. Applicants are eligible for other City awards in the same year. Successful applicants are eligible for one NSG grant award every other fiscal year.
- Applicants must disclose any conflicts of interest.
- Applicants are required to abide by all City, State, and Federal laws and regulations.
Grants will NOT be awarded to:
- Political or partisan groups, exclusive clubs, or associations.
- Applicants who have failed to successfully carry out a previous grant project unless appropriate justification is made.
- Applicants that discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, age, citizenship, non-disqualifying disability, national origin, or sexual orientation.
For more information, visit City of Flagstaff.
