The City of Montgomery is seeking applications for its 2024 Neighborhood Grant program to empower citizens to improve the overall quality of life in their neighborhoods through citizen and government partnerships.
Donor Name: City of Montgomery
State: Alabama
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/08/2023
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The grant requires a match (monetary or in-kind) to complete neighborhood-proposed projects that foster self-help, self-management, and neighborhood pride as well as enhance and beautify the neighborhood.
Funding Information
Funds are awarded on the basis of merit with a maximum being $5,000.
Project Criteria
If applicable, qualifying projects must meet the following criteria:
- Provide a public benefit to the neighborhood (sustainable and long-term…project and/or benefit)
- Be located on public property (or with written consent from homeowner for private)
- Have demonstrated neighborhood support (evidenced by meeting minutes and roster)
- Directly involve residents throughout the process (beginning until the end)
- Have goals that can be achieved within the specified time frame
- Demonstrate the ability to maintain and sustain a project
- Be within the City/ County’s legal authority and
- Comply with existing policies and codes for the City/ County of Montgomery.
Qualifying Projects
- Physical Improvements: to include neighborhood entryways, common areas, parks, playgrounds, etc. Such improvements may include landscaping, tree/shrub plantings, signage, and decorative structures. Projects must be completed on public right of way or public property, or with the written consent of a homeowner if on private property.
- Maximum Request Amount- $5000
- Match Amount- 10% of your total grant award
- Public safety/public works program or initiatives: to include training, crime or fire prevention, traffic deterrent, or calming project studies (this is not to replace the work of the City or County of Montgomery, but to support neighborhood driven initiatives over and above the natural scope of work)
- Maximum Request Amount- $3000
- Match Amount- 10% or your total grant award
- Cultural, education, community involvement, and recreational programs: to include literacy programs, leadership training, computer labs, after-school enrichment programs, cultural arts programs, and summer camps, community fairs, community/neighborhood recruitment events, parties with a purpose (NNO and the like).
- Maximum Request Amount- $3000
- Match Amount- 10% of your total grant award
- Neighborhood plan (Charette) or study: this would allow a neighborhood to pay for a consultant or area expert to lead them in a neighborhood plan or focus work on a particular problem area that may warrant physical improvement through infrastructure changes. (This would need to be coordinated with planning department and council/commission representative to be certain other efforts are not already underway).
- Maximum Request Amount- $3000
- Match Amount- 10% of your total grant award
- Technical Assistance/Marketing: this will include website design, and maintenance, specialty flyers, pamphlets, promoting events, booklets for neighborhood projects, etc.
- Maximum Request Amount- $500
- Match Amount- 10% of your total grant award.
Eligibility Criteria
- Neighborhood Associations, Homeowner Associations, Neighborhood Watch groups, and neighborhood groups may apply. All projects are required to have a project coordinator as the primary point of contact.
- Grants are not available to individuals, businesses, universities, foundations, political or fraternal organizations, churches, neighborhood alliances, nor apartment complexes. (This is not an exhaustive list.) Eligible applicants are encouraged to form partnerships with these ineligible groups to plan and implement projects. The eligible applicant must retain the primary role in the partnership.
For more information, visit City of Montgomery.
