Deadline: 4-Oct-21
The Neighbor Up is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Action Grant.
Focus Areas
- Arts & Culture: Includes initiatives that focus on literature, theater, music, dance, ballet, painting, sculpture, photography, motion pictures, architecture, archaeology, history, natural history, or the natural sciences.
- Circular Economy (Sustainability): Includes initiatives that reuse products, repair products, and renew land to reduce the environmental impact related to Climate Change. A circular economy diverts waste from the landfill and reduces pollution, keeps products and materials in use and restores and renews the natural system. Examples include clothes swaps, repairing bicycles, sharing rides, community gardens, urban farms, beekeeping, saving water, using renewable energy sources.
- City Repair (Land reuse, Design): Includes initiatives that take vacant land and make into a park or gathering space, paints alleys and walkways, natural building, beautification projects.
- Civic Participation: Initiatives that encourage civic participation in the political process, including Get Out the Vote campaigns, voter education, candidate forums, issue education and mobilization, or educate on civics (the study of the rights and duties of citizenship). These grants cannot be for a specific candidate.
- Communications: Initiatives that improve the transfer of good, timely and accurate information and stories within and across neighborhoods. Neighborhood newsletters, neighborhood newspapers, websites, social media.
- COVID-19 Support & Recovery: Includes initiatives that provide mutual aid for people living through and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Initiatives include providing basic needs (food, transportation, medical and hygiene supplies, shelter), providing outreach, education, and support for people to get vaccinated, and reducing social isolation related to the pandemic.
- Digital Equity: Initiatives that support all individuals and communities to have the information technology necessary to participate in society.
- Economic Interdependence: Initiatives where people swap, share, co-own, and co-create together. Examples include funds for local, small business associations to implement an initiative, local hiring initiatives, co-operative development, local buying initiatives, sharing economy (bartering, ride shares, time banks, etc.)
- Education Equity: Initiatives that support and promote learning for all children and adults, where students have access to opportunities, resources, and support they need at the right moment in their education so they are prepared for success. Initiatives include providing resources (book bags, school uniforms, supplies, etc.), developing early childhood co-operatives and playgroups, creating learning pods, college exposure trips, after school programs, literacy initiatives, etc.
- Get Outside: Initiatives are intended to welcome people from a variety of backgrounds into public spaces. Grants are intended to support people finding new ways to use outdoor spaces and overcoming the barriers to getting outside. Examples include skiing, snow shoeing, camping, use of public parks, summer camps, etc.
- Health Equity: Initiatives that work towards everyone having a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Examples include initiatives that support healthy eating and active living or work address to improve neighborhood safety, reduce infant mortality, address trauma and mental health, provide better access to healthy food, better access to medical care, and/or reduce obesity.
- Neighboring: Initiatives that work to build trust, understanding and relationships within a neighborhood so that neighbors can better support one another and act together on things they care about. Examples include neighborhood dinners on your street, creative a neighborhood compact that aspires to create community on your street, Neighbor Night gatherings in your neighborhood, supporting older adults by cutting grass and shoveling snow, etc.
- Racial Equity: Initiatives that work to build understanding of racial disparities and a willingness to adopt practices that create equitable opportunities for all. Examples include education on the history of white supremacy, initiatives that support people of color and indigenous people’s cultural heritage, conversations and action that bridge understanding on racial oppression, join or create a movement, spotlighting black or brown led organizations through storytelling, and initiatives that create opportunities for people who have been historically marginalized because of their race.
Funding Information
- Grants range from $500 to $5,000 and are meant to spur small, grassroots community projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is available for projects or events that take place in Cleveland and in East Cleveland.
- Individuals are not eligible.
For more information, visit https://neighborupcle.org/actiongrants/