The Fund for Safe Communities supports tangible, specific, and meaningful actions to address and prevent community violence.
Donor Name: Minneapolis Foundation
State: Minnesota
City: Minneapolis
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/19/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Spring 2024 grant round was designed with the insight and recommendations of the fund’s advisory committee, a group composed of emerging leaders who have personal experience with community violence. Through this funding opportunity, they will support programs and activities that offer prevention, intervention, restoration, and resilience-oriented services to people in Minneapolis, with a focus on youth and young adults between the ages of 11 and 30.
They prioritize efforts that are led and influenced by Black, Indigenous, and people of color, and which are grounded in the needs of diverse Minneapolis neighborhoods.
- Prevention
- This fund aims to prevent community violence.
- Systemic Issues
- This fund supports organizations and efforts focused on addressing systemic inequities and reforming the criminal justice system.
- Outreach
- This fund supports efforts to heal individuals and communities affected by horrific tragedies, including the murder of George Floyd.
Funding Information
- The fund will issue between $300,000 and $500,000 for this opportunity. Grants will range from $15,000 to $30,000, and plan to award 20 to 25 grants.
- The grant period for this award will be up to 12 months.
Grants can be funded
Here are a few examples of activities they are interested in supporting:
- Activities that promote wellness and help manage stress and trauma.
- Programs and initiatives that ease the re-entry process for those who are justice-involved.
- Services that address the diverse needs of individuals most proximate to violence.
- Sports or physical activity programming that offers fitness and other coaching-based opportunities.
- Mentor-mentee programming that exposes young people to meaningful and productive relationships outside of school and their homes.
- Art, poetry, writing, design, and other creative media that foster meaningful actions to create safer communities.
Eligibility Criteria
Funding will be awarded to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, public schools and districts, government entities, churches, and organizations with a fiscal agent or sponsor. They will prioritize proposals that impact Minneapolis. However, we will also consider organizations in inner-ring suburbs (Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Golden Valley, New Hope, Richfield, Crystal, Robbinsdale, St. Louis Park, Fridley, and Columbia Heights). New applicants and current and past grantees of the Minneapolis Foundation are eligible for this opportunity.
For more information, visit Minneapolis Foundation.
