The United Way of South Central Michigan is now accepting applications for Phase 2 of the Community Violence Intervention grant.
Donor Name: United Way of South Central Michigan
State: Michigan
City: Kalamazoo
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Funding Information
- Programs operated by 501c(3) organizations aligning with City priorities are eligible to apply for a portion of $457,000.00 in available resources.
- Minimum request amount of $50,000.00 over grant term.
- Two-year grant term (January 1, 2024-December 31, 2025).
Eligible Activities
Each funded project must align with the Kalamazoo Blueprint for Peace and specific eligible activities under SLFRF (State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds) Expenditure Category 1.11 – Community Violence Intervention. As part of the application, applicants will be asked to identify the action step below that most aligns with their work:
- Stop the Shooting, Stop the Violence
- Establish formal partnerships to access timely and quality data to inform community safety efforts.
- Increase public access to data to increase transparency and accountability for community safety.
- Strengthen capacity, collaboration, and alignment of local Community Violence Intervention efforts.
- Increase awareness and use of transformative practices and diversion programs for youth and adults.
- Implement support services for survivors of violence, including hospital-community partnerships, hospital-based violence intervention programs and social service resource programs.
- Expand post-incident trauma healing support, including community events and critical incident debriefing for victims, witnesses and first responders connecting them to appropriate community supports.
- Support and promote individual capacity for conflict prevention, de-escalation and proactive bystander practices in schools and neighborhoods.
- Increase Access and Build Capacity for Healing and Community Restoration
- Increase coordination of mental health and trauma services across agencies to support children, youth and families who have been exposed to multiple forms of violence.
- Strengthen restorative practices in courts, child welfare institutions, schools, and community settings to advance healing and repair relationships for survivors and perpetrators of violence and broader social networks.
- Support Children, Youth, and Families
- Build access to high quality, affordable or no cost early learning supports (daycare, preschool, etc.) in priority neighborhoods.
- Increase coordination of youth job programs to link higher need youth to subsidized jobs and supportive services to strengthen employability and earn income concurrently.
- Cultivate Economic Stability
- Provide access to resources that support stabilization in housing, employment, childcare, and transportation.
- Foster Safe and Strong Neighborhoods
- Promote neighborhood revitalization and address physical blight and nuisance properties in priority areas, including working with landlords and municipalities.
Eligible Criteria
- Active 501c3 status
- Application completed and all federally required documents provided (UEI number, proof of insurance, financial documents, code of ethics/conflict of interest, record retention policy).
- Organization is not suspended or barred from receiving federal funding or operating federal program(s).
- Program aligns with the action steps outlined in the Kalamazoo Blueprint for Peace (See below for eligible activities).
- Program primarily serves residents in City of Kalamazoo core neighborhoods (Northside, Eastside, Edison).
For more information, visit UWSCM.
