Community Crime Prevention Grant Program (United States)

Deadline: 15-Sep-20

The Community Crime Prevention Grant Program is funded from public resources allocated annually by Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council and is administered by The Indianapolis Foundation, a Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) affiliate.

Moreover, the Community Crime Prevention Grant program will work in alignment with the city’s Community-Based Violence Prevention Partnership Grant program to support evidence-based violence reduction programming and wraparound services.

The Program will consider applications that received funding from the city’s Community-Based Violence Prevention Partnership BUT only for new and/or supportive programs.

Funding Information

• VIOLENCE REDUCTION: Priority to programs/efforts that develop and implement integrated, evidence-based outreach activities/crisis intervention, violence interruption, cognitive behavioral therapy, family-based programming, or interventions similar to the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership or the Cure Violence model; for those residents who are most at-risk of violent victimization and direct residents to community-based services to build the necessary infrastructure to prevent violent crime in Indianapolis, including:
  • provide outreach and other engagement strategies to identify individual needs and improve access to community organizations who deliver services for the population (s) of focus
  • provide direct services for the population (s) of focus that include an active, formal mentorship component with regular meetings (at least three to four times a month) of sufficient duration (six to twelve months).
  • provide case management or other affiliated strategies to enroll and retain participants in necessary services, and coordinate the delivery of services across service providers
• INTERVENTION: These programs focus their efforts on providing supportive services to residents currently interacting with the criminal justice system. These services support productive citizenship, financial self-sufficiency, and reduce recidivism. Organizations applying in this area should be able to demonstrate how efforts influence an individual’s ability to gain skills, obtain work, secure housing, and prevent interaction with the local criminal justice system after being convicted of a crime. These efforts may include:
  • a focus on providing support services to delinquent youth to prevent interaction with the juvenile justice system, the adult criminal justice systems, or gangs
  • a focus on providing support services to adult offenders and ex-offenders to become economically self-sufficient, reintegrate into the local community and reduce recidivism
• PREVENTION: These programs focus their efforts on providing supportive services (such as employment, education, mentoring, and family support services) to youth and adults who face unique challenges and may have a higher likelihood of community disengagement without the proper intervention strategies. Organizations applying in this area should be able to demonstrate the impact of services and the ability to improve the current conditions of program participants. A formal mentorship component should include regular meetings (at least three to four times a month) of sufficient duration (six to twelve months). Priorities for organizations that provide services to both youth and the parent/guardians. This effort may include a focus to increase protective factors and develop resiliency skills of specifically targeted youth and adult populations, including:
  • Youth (12-22) who are: foster youth, struggling academically, suspended or expelled from school multiple times, truant, or known to be affiliated with gang activity
  • Opportunity Youth (16-24) who are: also known as disengaged youth; who are out of school, not enlisted and not working, often as a result of systematic barriers to jobs and education.
  • Adults (22 or older) who face unique social-economic or social-emotional challenges, e.g., chronic unemployment, suffering substance abuse and/or mental illness
• NEIGHBORHOOD-BASED STRATEGIES: Place-based efforts designed to reduce or prevent crime in a specific geographical area as defined by a neighborhood and/or community. Organizations applying for support in this area must be able to measure how efforts have increased residents’ safety in a particular area through resident surveys, increase crime reporting, or by using crime statistics. These efforts may include:
  • a focus on engaging resident and community leaders to help reduce crime within specific neighborhoods, zip codes, or other geographical areas (i.e., crime watch)
  • a focus at building community partnerships with public systems (law enforcement, court systems, and corrections) within a specific geographical area to help reduce criminal activity, assisting with solving crimes, increase crime reporting or provide information to help prevent the occurrence of a crime
  • a focus to improve physical assets and spaces within a neighborhood that has the potential of improving resident safety and/or deterring criminal behavior and/or activity.

Geographic Restriction

• Marion County

Funding Priorities

The 2020 Community Crime Prevention Grant Program will give priority (through an equity framework) to organizations that clearly demonstrate immediate intentionality around crime prevention and support programs using proven or promising strategies that:

• focus on integrated, evidence-based outreach activities through discrete activities, active violence disruption, and community canvassing/outreach that targets engages and involves hard-to-reach populations connected to gun-violence related activities
• provide intervention services to youth (16-24) and adults (24-30) currently interacting with the criminal justice system to community-based services to build the necessary infrastructure to prevent violent crimes in Indianapolis and capable of delivering measurable results in the areas of employment and job retention for the population(s) of focus
• improve neighborhood safety within IMPD’s patrol districts through community mobilization efforts to reduce or prevent crime in a specific geographical area
• partner with public agencies (The Office of Public Health & Safety, law enforcement, courts, probation and parole) to help or prevent crime in the community.

Eligibility Criteria

• Organizations that are start-ups and/or pilot programs may be considered for capacity building support.
• Organizations must be a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization or a public entity partnering with a 501(c)(3) charitable organization as a fiscal agent.

For more information, visit https://www.cicf.org/not-for-profits/community-crime-prevention-grant-program/