The City of Rockford invites you to apply for the 2024 Rockford REGROW Grant Program funded by the Cannabis Fund.
Donor Name: City of Rockford
State: Illinois
City: Rockford
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/22/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Rockford Regrow Grant Program aims to aid, strengthen, and foster community reinvestment and wealth creation in disproportionately impacted communities, individuals, and families suffering long-lasting negative impacts caused by over 80 years of cannabis prohibition laws. Cannabis policies and disparate cannabis-related arrests, convictions, and sentencing have had life-altering and inter-generational consequences for these specific communities. The grant program is one small step for the City in acknowledging and addressing the decades of harm caused to vulnerable communities by cannabis criminalization and stigmatization.
Funding Information
For the 2024 funding cycle, $500,000 is available for Rockford REGROW Grant Program through the following funding opportunities:
- Tier 1
- TEN (10) quick deployment grants at $10,000 per grant to support smaller, shorter-term projects.
- Tier 2
- FOUR (4) one-year grants at $50,000 total per grant.
- TWO (2) two-year grant at $100,000 total per grant.
Uses of funds
The grants may be used to fund:
- Programs for economic and business development; education; youth programming; job training; housing; health; or other financial assistance to individuals, businesses, and communities that have been disproportionately impacted by cannabis-related laws
- Programs to substantially reduce both the total amount of gun violence and concentrated poverty in the City of Rockford
- Programs to protect communities from gun violence through targeted investments and intervention programs, including economic growth and improving family violence prevention, community trauma treatment rates, gun injury victim services, and public health prevention activities
- Programs to promote employment infrastructure and capacity building related to the social determinants of health in the eligible community areas
- Programs to address economic development, violence prevention services, zero entry and re-entry services, and youth development
- Unallowable costs include (but are not limited to): some political activities (for example, activities to promote a specific candidate); purchase of cannabis inventory; purchase of alcoholic beverages; purchase of real estate.
Program Eligibility
The Rockford REGROW Grant Program seeks applications from non-profit and for-profit entities, of any size. This includes community-based organizations, individuals, firms, teams, or consultants. Please note, newly formed groups or initiatives with fiscal sponsorship from a non-profit entity are also eligible to apply.
For more information, visit City of Rockford.
