2018 was the fourth year of our Neighborhood Project Grants. Once again there were strong applications with some original ideas from neighborhoods on how to bring neighbors together, while getting positive things accomplished for their living space. These grants reimburse up to $1,000 in costs for neighborhoods to complete projects that enhance a neighborhood’s livability and involvement, benefit the entire neighborhood and promote a strong sense of community. Each of the applications had to ensure that the neighbors would put in the volunteer…

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What is the Neighborhood Project Grant? These grants reimburse up to $1,000 in costs for neighborhoods to complete projects that enhance a neighborhood’s livability and involvement, benefit the entire neighborhood and promote a strong sense of community. We encourage you to be creative. These non-revenue producing projects can include, but are not limited to, identification signage, butterfly & rain gardens, native plantscaping and public art projects. Neighborhoods can take on several different projects but they must be bundled in one…

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2017 was the third year of our Neighborhood Project Grants. Once again there were strong applications with some original ideas from neighborhoods on how to bring neighbors together, while getting positive things accomplished for their living space. These grants reimburse up to $1,000 in costs for neighborhoods to complete projects that enhance a neighborhood’s livability and involvement, benefit the entire neighborhood and promote a strong sense of community. Each of the applications had to ensure that the neighbors would put in the volunteer…

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We understand the value and benefits of these grants and are once again applying for this year’s grant. Our proposal continues on the theme of ‘neighborhood identity’. The members of our association seek to help create a ‘neighborhood identity’ that will assist in creating a stronger sense of ‘place’ within the community.” – Dennis Davey, Historic Southwest Neighborhood Association I’m thrilled for this opportunity. I know both of the Kutzky grants will be loved and all the rest on the list look…

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What is the Neighborhood Project Grant? These grants reimburse up to $1,000 in costs for neighborhoods to complete projects that enhance a neighborhood’s livability and involvement, benefit the entire neighborhood and promote a strong sense of community. We encourage you to be creative. These non-revenue producing projects can include, but are not limited to, identification signage, butterfly & rain gardens, native plantscaping and public art projects. You can check out results from the 2016 grants here. Are you specifically interested…

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  Results are in for the second year of the Neighborhood Project Grants and the completed projects are pretty impressive. In total $6,868 of funds were distributed between eight different neighborhood projects through seven different grants. Over 440 hours of volunteer time was put into these projects, a value of $10,150.80 to our neighborhoods. This RNeighbors program was developed from requests from neighborhood association for access to small amounts of funding in which to carry out improvement projects. We started off in…

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We are very excited to be a part of this process again this year. These grants give us an opportunity to dream of what can be possible with a little focus and a little outside money. Thank you for organizing this again.” – Cathy Clermont, Slatterly Park Neighborhood Association Announcing the second year of our Neighborhood Project Grants. Once again we had strong applications and this year we have some very original ideas from neighborhoods on how to bring neighbors…

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What is the Neighborhood Project Grant? These grants reimburse up to $1,000 in costs for neighborhoods to complete projects that enhance a neighborhood’s livability and involvement, benefit the entire neighborhood and promote a strong sense of community. We encourage you to be creative. These non-revenue producing projects can include, but are not limited to, identification signage, butterfly & rain gardens, native plantscaping and public art projects. Are you specifically interested in a community food garden? Allowable expenses include start-up gardening…

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  19th Ave SW Neighborhood: Little Free Library Cimarron Neighborhood: Raised “Discovery” Garden Bed with surrounding paver walkway Eastside Neighborhood: Fourth Street Community Garden with components of a “Community Board” and weekly speakers Homestead Addition Neighborhood: Pocket Park Improvement including a bench Homestead Trails Neighborhood: Community Garden Enhancement Kutzky Park Neighborhood: Community Garden Raised Beds Kutzky Park Neighborhood: Historic Neighborhood Signage for their park Slatterly Park Neighborhood: Community Gardens Project Results are in for the first year of the Neighborhood…

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We had many strong grant submissions for the first year of our Neighborhood Project Grants. These grants reimburse up to $1,000 in costs for neighborhoods to complete projects that enhance a neighborhood’s livability and involvement, benefit the entire neighborhood and promote a strong sense of community. Each of the applications had to ensure that the neighbors would put in the volunteer effort to bring the project to completion by October 30, 2015. And the winners are… 19th Ave SW Neighborhood: Little…

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