The United Way of South Central Michigan is excited to announce the Violence Intervention Grant.
Donor Name: United Way of South Central Michigan
State: Michigan
County: Kalamazoo County (MI)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/03/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Funding Information
- Programs operated by 501c(3) organizations aligning with County priorities are eligible to apply for a portion of $300,000 in available resources.
- Minimum request amount of $25,000.00
- One year grant term (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025).
Eligible Activities
Each funded project must align with the Kalamazoo Blueprint for Peace and specific eligible activities under SLFRF (State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds) Expenditure Category 1.11 – Community Violence Intervention. As part of the application, applicants will be asked to identify the action step below that most aligns with their work:
- Stop the Shooting, Stop the Violence
- Strengthen capacity, collaboration, and alignment of local Community Violence Intervention efforts.
- Increase awareness and use of transformative practices and diversion programs for youth and adults.
- Implement support services for survivors of violence, including hospital-community partnerships, hospital-based violence intervention programs and social service resource programs.
- Expand post-incident trauma healing support, including community events and critical incident debriefing for victims, witnesses and first responders connecting them to appropriate community supports.
- Support and promote individual capacity for conflict prevention, de-escalation and proactive bystander practices in schools and neighborhoods.
- Support Children, Youth, and Families
- Develop a continuum of alternatives for school suspension, exclusion, expulsion and zero tolerance policies, emphasizing diversion, restoration and inclusion rather than exclusion and punishment.
- Increase coordination of youth job programs to link higher need youth to subsidized jobs and supportive services to strengthen employability and earn income concurrently.
- Cultivate Economic Stability
- Provide access to resources that support stabilization in housing, employment, childcare, and transportation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Active 501c3 status
- Application completed and all federally required documents provided (UEI number, proof of insurance, financial documents, code of ethics/conflict of interest, record retention policy).
- Organization is not suspended or barred from receiving federal funding or operating federal program(s).
- Program aligns with the action steps outlined in the Kalamazoo Blueprint for Peace OR implements training for Community Health Workers to learn Medicaid billing procedures to increase program sustainability.
- Program serves residents in Kalamazoo County.
For more information, visit UWSCM.
