The Community Placemaking program helps people tackle community challenges or opportunities by funding creative, arts-based, equity-focused efforts.
Donor Name: Metro
State: Oregon
City: Portland
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/04/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Community Placemaking can take many forms, but it shares a few main elements. The idea comes from the community the effort is intended to serve. Those community members, especially people of color or other historically marginalized communities, play a role in making it happen. Arts or cultural activities bring people together to strengthen their connection to each other and the places they care about.
Program Objectives
- Placemaking: People’s connections to each other and to places they care about are strengthened.
- Examples:
- Addresses a community challenge or opportunity
- Prompts people to interact with each other
- Uses art and cultural activities to bring people together
- Helps people feel a stronger connection to the place(s) in the Portland region
- Strengthens the things that make a place unique or valued
- Examples:
- Equity: People of color and members of historically marginalized communities have power and resources to influence their neighborhoods and communities.
- Examples:
- Directly benefits people of color or members of other historically marginalized communities
- Led by or actively supported by communities of color or other historically marginalized communities
- Strengthens cultural and community assets
- Provides opportunities for expression of culture
- Examples:
- Partnerships: People’s efforts are maximized because they work in partnership with each other and with Metro.
- Examples:
- Involves partnerships that bring people together
- Encourages collaboration among community partners
- Community members are involved in planning and implementing the proposal
- Enhances regional efforts where Metro is actively engaged
- Examples:
- Leadership: People participate in projects and decisions that affect them.
- Examples:
- Gives opportunities to emerging community leaders
- Builds individual and organizational capacity for civic engagement.
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Funding Information
Up to $450,000 will be awarded in grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000. No matching funds are required.
Eligibility Criteria
Note: Grant-funded activities must take place within the Portland region’s Urban Growth Boundary. Businesses and individuals without a nonprofit partner are not eligible.
- Community-based organizations with tax-exempt nonprofit status. Nonprofit entities not registered as a 501(c)3 should contact the grant manager to determine eligibility.
- Individuals or community groups without nonprofit status must partner with a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor, such as a state certified, federally approved 501(c) nonprofit or a public agency. That fiscal sponsor must have a federal employer tax ID number and capacity to contract with Metro.
- Public agencies must have community partners involved in the implementation of the project.
- If you are a past recipient of a Community Placemaking grant and your grant funded an event (single or multiple days), you may not reapply the year following your award.
For more information, visit Metro.
