Are you interested in sponsoring a special event in your neighborhood to bring your neighbors together to discuss issues and concerns? Would you like to organize a concert in your local park? If you are willing to work hard to see your ideas come to fruition, the City could help make them a reality through the City of Surprise’s Neighborhood Grant Program.
Donor Name: City of Surprise
State: Arizona
City: Surprise
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $10,000
Details:
The City of Surprise will provide small grants through the Neighborhood Grant Program to foster partnerships between the City and its neighborhoods each year.
The Program encourages involvement of residents and other public and private organizations to support neighborhood-initiated planning, community-building or improvement projects. This fiscal year, the City is providing up to $10,000 for neighborhood projects.
Surprise City Council would like to engage residents and increase community spirit. To encourage their residents to do so, the Neighborhood Grant Program has been initiated to provide monetary assistance to support activities with goals that comply with their initiative.
Ideas by Project Category
- Neighborhood Events
- Events and gatherings for the community such as a concert in the park, food truck event, or movie night.
- Neighborhood Organizing/Organizational Development
- Activities, services, and materials that generate new neighborhood connections and activities, grow an organization or educate neighborhood leadership and promote involvement.
- Neighborhood Cultural, Social, and Recreational Initiatives
- Materials, programs or services that promote diversity, family literacy, neighborhood access to technology, after school enrichment programs, youth athletic leagues, career preparation, services for the needy, disabled, or elderly and cultural activities such as music, dance, or art programs.
Funding Information
This fiscal year, the City is providing up to $10,000 for neighborhood projects. Neighborhoods are not limited to one project per fiscal year and may submit more than one application annually.
Eligibility Criteria
To receive support, projects must:
- Provide a public benefit
- Result in a product which benefits a neighborhood or the larger Surprise community
- Be feasible for completion by June 15, 2024
- Involve the benefiting neighborhood in project identification, planning, and execution
- Emphasize neighborhood self-help, be educational, or community-building
Projects not eligible for funding:
- Duplication of an existing private or public program or service
- Ongoing services or requests that support service organizations’ operating budgets
- Projects that conflict with existing City policy
- Projects that conflict with your respective HOA policies
- Projects exceeding the duration of one year, or maintenance of projects built with previous Neighborhood Matching Funds
- Nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations
For more information, visit City of Surprise.
