MONSE Announces Fifth Round of ARPA Allocations to CVI Ecosystem Partners
The awards, totaling $900,000, are directly aligned with the Scott Administration's charge to co-produce public safety
BALTIMORE, MD (Friday, February 17, 2023) – Today, the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE) announced another round of recipients of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars targeted at improving public safety outcomes to community-based organizations (CBOs). The awards, totaling $900,000, are directly aligned with the Scott Administration's charge to co-produce public safety.
This funding is in addition to the $18.4 million already allocated to Baltimore community-based organizations and other institutional partners and is part of the $50 million ARPA investment that Mayor Brandon M. Scott allocated to the public safety agency in 2021.
“These investments are an essential part of building a comprehensive community violence intervention ecosystem here in Baltimore,” said Mayor Scott. “We want to ensure that we are working in partnership with our community-based organizations to improve public safety outcomes for all Baltimoreans regardless of race, gender identity, or zip code."
Since FY ‘22, MONSE has announced $1,910,000 in competitive grants to organizations engaged in community violence intervention, victim services, youth justice, community healing, and re-entry work. In order to ensure that these investments produce the greatest impact possible, applications are evaluated by community grant reviewers with professional and/or lived experience in these service areas.
“Expanding Baltimore’s CVI ecosystem makes our city safer and healthier for all of our residents,” said Executive Director Shantay Jackson of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement. “When we invest in our CVI ecosystem through community-based organizations, we deepen the impact our work has on public safety and quality of life outcomes for Baltimoreans across the city. We are grateful to our partners and look forward to continuing to cultivate this work together.”
Awards to the Greater Baybrook Alliance and Fayette Street Outreach outlined in the chart below represent specific partnerships that MONSE has with the Baltimore Police Department to establish Neighborhood Policing Plans (NPP) with the respective community associations. Neighborhood Policing Plans focus on communities that are disproportionately impacted by violence by forging a partnership between community and law enforcement to understand and address the underlying conditions of why crime and violence reoccur in specific areas through data collection methods, documenting the implementation of the strategies, and subsequently analyzing their effectiveness.
A list of this round of community-based organizations and institutions to receive grants follows:
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Organization Name
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Grant Amount
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Timeframe
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Project Description
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Category
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MONSE Competitive Grants
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Each Teach Inc.
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$50,000.00
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Single Year
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Each Teach's services involve evidence and community-informed culturally adaptive practices that promote equity, healing, and other restorative justice principles necessary to address historical trauma and systemic injustices disproportionately experienced by marginalized groups of people. The program partners with existing workforce development programs in Baltimore City to support their participants with marginalized backgrounds receive targeted and equitable workforce development services.
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Re-Entry
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Charm City Care Connection
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$50,000.00
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Single Year
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The Harm Reduction and Anti-Oppression Leadership Training program is geared towards healing individuals who daily encounter the harms of violence-induced trauma, drug use, homelessness, incarceration, and poor peer support. In this program, our trainees participate in various healing workshops that focus on personal success planning, anger management, conflict-resolution, trauma/crisis management, healthy relationship building, and self-advocacy.
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Community Healing
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Community Mediation Program, Inc.
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$100,000.00
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Single Year
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The Baltimore Community Mediation Center (BCMC), addresses, among other things, one of the city’s biggest challenges: a persistent subculture of violence in the Black Butterfly - East and West Baltimore. The Black Men Warrior and Peace Initiative will recruit and train Black men and boys, ages 8 and up, to become “Peace Warriors” in their communities. This initiative will be a key component in BCMC’s ongoing work to address violence in the City.
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Community Violence Intervention
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Total
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$200,000.00
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MONSE Discretionary Grants - Neighborhood Policing Plans
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Fayette Street Outreach
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$344,654.00
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Single Year
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Neighborhood Policing Plan Award
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Community Healing
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Greater Baybrook Alliance
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$355,346.00
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Single Year
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Neighborhood Policing Plan Award
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Community Healing
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Total
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$700,000
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MONSE still has funds available for community-based organizations engaged in community violence intervention, youth justice, community healing, and re-entry work. Organizations can learn more and submit a letter of interest at the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement's Funding Portal.
ARPA grant applications submitted to MONSE are reviewed by Community Grant Reviewers, a group of 18 Baltimore residents with diverse backgrounds and who have relevant expertise and experience in MONSE’s funding priority areas. Grant applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis based on funding availability.
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About the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provided $641 million to the City of Baltimore in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency and its negative economic impacts. Mayor Brandon M. Scott has established the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs to transparently and effectively administer this funding on behalf of the City. For the most up to date information regarding proposals, funded projects, and project progress visit our ARPA Reporting center at arp.baltimorecity.gov/dashboard.
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