The City of Buffalo’s ARP Spending Plan allocates $6.5 million for the purpose of reducing violence and supporting community-based mentoring and violence interruption programs, law enforcement diversion programs, and other policing efforts that simultaneously preserve the dignity of all residents while also providing the degree of safety and service every neighborhood in Buffalo deserves.
Donor Name: City of Buffalo
State: New York
City: Buffalo
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/22/2022
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The City of Buffalo is allocating $6 million in funding to support non-profit organizations and community-based approaches to reducing violence and crime prevention.
Responding to increased violence in the community requires a holistic, comprehensive, and community-based approach. Projects should aim to provide services that reflect this strategy. Community-partnerships with trusted voices who can connect with at-risk and vulnerable populations will be critical to the success of this effort. However, projects should also ensure that they have the capacity to administer, monitor, and evaluate the use of ARP funds they are awarded. Because of the time limited nature of these funds, the ability to demonstrate successful interventions will be critical to securing sustaining funds which can be used to maintain the program after ARP funds have been expended.
Applicants will be eligible to request no less than $250,000 and no more than $1.5 million in funding to cover a performance period of at least three years not to exceed the end of calendar year 2026. Collaborative or joint applications will still be capped at this amount.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Successful applicants will demonstrate the ability to:
- Ensure that 100% of individuals served are City of Buffalo residents
- Ensure that 90% of project/program enrollees live in neighborhoods identified as High Need in the latest Priority Needs Ranking Map.
- Ensure that participants who do not speak English as a first language have access to staff or volunteers who can assist them in the language they speak, including ASL
- Provide mentoring or counseling services whose staff and volunteers reflect the intended service population and are trained in trauma-informed care techniques
- Have the ability to work with a wide array of stakeholders, including the Buffalo Police Department, which have a history of serving the residents living in neighborhoods with high rates of gun violence
- Ensure that no more than 20% of service enrollees have a negative interaction with law-enforcement while enrolled in the program and for a period of at least 6-months afterwards
- Ensure that no more than 10% of program enrollees engage in an illegal activity involving a gun or gang related violence while enrolled in the program and for a period of at least 6-months afterwards
- Ensure that 85% of enrollees are enrolled in an educational or job-training program when they begin receiving services and complete their grade level or training program while participating in the program
- Enroll at least 75% of participants between the ages of 16-21 in some kind of paid internship or externship program during the program
Criteria
Eligible applicants must be a qualified non-profit organization (registered 501(c)3 under the IRS tax code) or entities entered into a formal partnership with a qualified non-profit organization. A joint application may include multiple entities and must clearly define roles and funding allocations to each entity, which must be clearly delineated in the application. Partnerships will not be considered severable; the partnership agreement(s) must be provided as supporting documentation.
For more information, visit Neal Dobbins Restorative Justice and Public Safety Fund.
