The City of Waco’s Neighborhood Grant Program assists neighborhood associations in Waco with beautification, identity, and community-based projects.
Donor Name: City of Waco
State: Texas
City: Waco
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The program was created to engage residents, increase community spirit and pride, strengthen community relations, provide a public benefit, attract and retain a quality workforce, and ensure Waco neighborhoods remain vibrant places to live, work, and play.
The Neighborhood Grant Program is a matching grant program to further develop a partnership between the neighborhood and the City to improve the quality of life of the neighbors. The program awards up to $7,500 per grant to the neighborhood association. Neighborhood associations can apply for up to two grants per application cycle, if eligible. For the 2025 grants no more than $7,500 total may be awarded to any association. If two grant applications are submitted, they must be for different projects, and they cannot combine to total more than $7,500 for both projects.
Project Ideas
- Neighborhood Events
- Events and gatherings for the community, such as a food truck event or movie night to bring the neighborhood together and increase the membership and involvement with the association’s efforts.
- Neighborhood Organizing/Organizational Development/Capacity Building
- Activities, services, and materials that generate new neighborhood connections and activities, grow the neighborhood association, educate neighborhood leadership, or promote involvement.
- Neighborhood Preservation
- Materials, programs, or services that sustain or improve the health, public safety, and welfare of the neighborhood, such as:
- Park amenities, community gardens, trash cans or benches in public locations,
- Neighborhood markers, or
- Metal neighborhood identity signs installed by city staff.
- Materials, programs, or services that sustain or improve the health, public safety, and welfare of the neighborhood, such as:
- Neighborhood Cultural, Social, and Recreational Activities
- Materials or activities that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, family literacy, neighborhood access to technology, after school enrichment programs, and cultural activities, such as music, dance, or art programs.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects must:
- Support neighborhood goals;
- Be highly visible and accessible from the public realm;
- Provide a community benefit;
- Enlist community participation and/or community support;
- Result in an enhancement of the neighborhood;
- Be feasible for completion within the given timeframe;
- Have a plan and dedicated funding source for maintenance of the project (if applicable);
- Involve the benefiting neighborhood in project identification, planning, and execution; and
- Be within Waco city limits.
Who is eligible for an award?
Neighborhood Associations must:
- Be in the City of Waco and included in the list of neighborhood associations;
- Have by-laws governing the organization;
- Have Certificate of Formation or Articles of Incorporation filed with the Secretary of State and be in good standing.
- Have membership open to all those living within their boundaries (and per the bylaws);
- Have a Federal Tax Identification Number to complete IRS Form W-9;
- Have a bank account in the name of the neighborhood association;
- Submit the application by the deadline; and
- Agree to submit the required project progress reports and final report.
Ineligible Projects
Projects not eligible for funding, include:
- Duplication or expansion of an existing private or public program or service;
- Ongoing services or requests that support service organizations’ operating budgets;
- Projects that conflict with existing city policy;
- Projects that conflict with the neighborhood association’s goals;
- Projects that could negatively affect the neighborhood or other neighborhoods;
- Projects exceeding the duration of six months to complete; or
- Maintenance of projects built with previous grants.
For more information, visit City of Waco.
