The City of Hopkins seeks to provide funding opportunities for programs, communication, advocacy, and organizing led by community-based organizations and community members that promote community safety and connectivity through Building Safer Communities Micro Grants.
Donor Name: City of Hopkins
State: Minnesota
City: Hopkins
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $500 and $2,500
Details:
The City will prioritize efforts that are led and influenced by Black, Indigenous, and people of color, and are grounded in the needs of Hopkins’ diverse neighborhoods.
This is a “low barrier” grant program intended to allow community members to apply and access grant funding. You do not need to be a non-profit to be awarded grant funds.
The micro-grant program will focus on projects that fund, inspire, and assist with crime reduction efforts based around the following themes:
- Providing opportunities for connectedness
- Activities that promote wellness and help manage stress and trauma
- Address family stability or upward mobility
- Aim to directly prevent crime
- Implicit bias and diversity trainings or initiatives
Programs that are inclusive, collaborative, resourceful and innovative, while reducing crime and violence within the City will be given priority.
The City of Hopkins has allocated $10,000 of money from awarded to the City from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). This grant is a one-time opportunity.
Funding Information
The micro-grant program will focus on projects that fund, inspire, and assist with crime reduction efforts. The City will fund projects between $500 and $2,500.
Project examples
The following is an incomplete, illustrative list of project types which would be eligible for funding. The City welcomes any ideas which are not listed below so long as they meet the themes provided above.
Providing opportunities for connectedness
- Music, dance, improvisations or spoken word competitions, art, poetry, writing, and other creative actions or classes
- Shared meals or gatherings
- Gatherings centered on sharing diverse perspectives, connecting neighbors, or promoting healing
Activities that promote wellness and help manage stress and trauma
- Yoga, meditation, or other wellness classes
- Workshops focused on self-care and resilience
- Sports or fitness classes
Family stability and addressing upward mobility
- Leadership, mentoring and training activities for youth 14-24
- College and career experiences for youth 14-24
- Nutrition and food security projects
- Projects related to housing stability
- Projects related to access to public transportation or alternate modes of transportation
- Career training
- Actions that reduce barrier and build relations among diverse groups of people
- Community education on the impact of segregation in housing, education, or other issues
Directly Addressing Crime
- Community-based violence prevention activities
- Safety and Security for seniors
- Restorative Justice programs and activities
- Gun intervention strategies
Implicit Bias and Diversity Trainings or Initiatives
- Training and workshops to address stereotypes and inclusion
- Strategies that give tools for changing behavior
- Programs that exchange perspectives of others
- Dialogues that increase interactions with different people
Eligible Applicants
- Churches, temples or mosques, multifamily housing buildings, civic associations and non-profit organizations – Either geographically located in Hopkins or serving a high proportion of Hopkins Residents
- Neighborhood organizations and community groups
- Individuals – Community leaders within the City of Hopkins
For more information, visit City of Hopkins.
