In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Promise Zone VISTA Applications Now Open
- For the Love of Food and Hip-Hop
- Deadline Extended for IT-Ready Career Program
- Juxtaposition Arts
- Minneapolis Green Zones
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News and Events
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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Promise Zone VISTA Applications Now Open
AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) members bring their passion and perseverance where the need is greatest: to organizations that help eradicate poverty. The most pressing challenges we face as a nation require the most courageous and creative people to address them. An AmeriCorps VISTA member serves as a catalyst for change, living and working alongside community members to advance local solutions.
There are currently 7 AmeriCorps VISTAs who will be ending their year of service with the Promise Zone (PZ) at the end of July. Applications are now open for five VISTA positions in the PZ.
Applications are due by June 16, 2017.
Please contact current Promise Zone VISTA Leader Tina Weitzel with questions.
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Gerard Klass, Regional Chef at Cascade Hospitality, CoOwner of Fit2Praise and Klassics
For The Love of Food and Hip-Hop
Written by Mariah Mendoza, Northside Fresh Assistant Coordinator
Tell us a little bit about yourself...
I am the Regional Chef at Cascade Hospitality as well as I run Klassics and Fit2Praise. I was born here in Minneapolis. I finished high school and college here, but grew up in Seattle. I have some family in Seattle. My mom moved out there, my older brother [and Uncle] was there and so I ended up going out there. I wanted to go to culinary school and they didn't have one in Seattle. My dad still lived here so I ended up coming back [to Minneapolis] and staying.
What were some of your fondest memories with food?
My grandparents on my mother's side - they had the hospitality house in the neighborhood. Anytime they did a barbecue or were cooking out, tons of people would come over. I grew up around that and got to see how food could have a positive impact on people. It was subconscious at the time, the things I learned. My mom and my step-dad used to do a lot of catering and cooking for church so at a young age I was helping out. My parents let me have some responsibility early, you know, getting in the kitchen and using a knife. Those things were fun for me so I stuck with it.
Do you have a favorite food?
I'm still in love with my mom's mac & cheese. Anything pretty much "soul food" is near and dear to me. My grandparents would have more barbecues and fish fries. Things that were outdoorsy and fun.
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Deadline Extended for IT-Ready Career Program
In partnership with local employers and metro area workforce agencies, Creating IT-Futures screens, trains, certifies and places individuals in six-month, paid, on-the-job work experience that can lead to permanent full-time employment with family-sustaining wages as a skilled IT worker.
IT-Ready primarily serves:
- Lower income adults due to unemployment or underemployment
- Displaced workers whose skill sets are no longer in high demand
- Veterans and their spouses
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Groups under-represented in the ranks of IT workers, such as women, African-Americans and Latinos
At no cost to students, IT-Ready includes an eight-week, full-time classroom training program that covers a technical computer curriculum gears toward the CompTIA A+ certification. In addition, participants learn professional skills to ensure their success for the interviewing process and on the job.
Downtown Minneapolis classes begins on June 12, 2017.
Applications are due by May 23 at ITReady.com
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Juxtaposition Arts
From Pollen, written by Maya Beck
Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA) is an education program, teen-staffed design enterprise and locally rooted cultural development center founded in 1995. Since 2005, JXTA has worked with residents and stakeholders toward a vision of improved access to educational, economic and decision-making opportunities that create health, beautiful and safe physical environments in the city, with a focus on North Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis Green Zones
On April 17, 2017, the City Council's Health, Environment and
Community Engagement Committee received the Green
Zones Workgroup's recommendations (PDF) and unanimously passed a Resolution
Establishing Green Zones in the City of Minneapolis (PDF). The resolution
establishes a Northern and a Southern Green Zone, with initial pilots in both
sectors (see the Green
Zones map (PDF)).
On April 28, 2017 the resolution was unanimously approved by the
full City Council, with an amendment by Council Member Reich. The amendment
adds environmental education as a goal for the Green Zone implementation and
includes coordination with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on the
RiverFirst initiative in the Northern Green Zone. The final resolution and
related documents are available on the Green
Zones file webpage.
News
'Bike Cops For Kids' Program Using Books To Connect Mpls. Officers To Kids (05/15 - CBS) Nearly a decade ago, two Minneapolis police officers has a simple idea: hand out free bike helmets to kids as a way to connect to the community.
Farmers markets introduce new startups (05/15 - Southwest Journal) The Farmers Markets are back for the season. Here is a look at a few of the new vendors.
First food truck lane opens in north Minneapolis (05/11 - MPR) An effort to bring dining options to north Minneapolis kicked off Thursday with the neighborhood's first food truck lane on West Broadway Avenue.
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Events
Eat on the Avenue Weekly until September 18, 2017 Thursdays from 11:00am-2:00pm
West Broadway Avenue, Minneapolis More information
Seeds for All: Plant Distribution Saturday, May 20, 2017 - 9:00am-1:00pm St. Olaf - 2901 N. Emerson Avenue, Minneapolis More information
Renters' Meet & Greet Wednesday, May 24, 2017 - 6:00-8:00pm Fairview Park - 621 N 29th Ave, Minneapolis More information
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The following content is for informational purposes only. For additional details on the opportunities below, and to find additional opportunities, please visit www.grants.gov.
Promise Zone
Preference Points
If a discretionary funding opportunity indicates Promise Zone
(PZ) preference points are available, please visit http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/promisezone/WCMSP-190631
for additional information on forms and contacts to request preference point
certification from the City of Minneapolis Promise Zone. Please submit your preference point request at least two weeks prior to the application deadline for Promise Zone certification approval consideration.
If a funding
opportunity does not indicate PZ preference points, you are still encouraged to
contact the Promise Zone Manager, Julianne Leerssen
(612-225-7721), about potential partnership opportunities to strengthen your
application.
LOW-INCOME/ESL
TAXPAYER CLINICS
USDOT: Department of the Treasury
Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs) ensure the
fairness and integrity of the tax system for taxpayers who are low income or
speak English as a second language (ESL) by: Providing pro bono
representation on their behalf in tax disputes with the IRS; Educating
them about their rights and responsibilities as taxpayers; and
Identifying and advocating for issues that impact low income taxpayers.
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION, TRADE, AND VETERANS'
SUPPORT
DOC: Department of Commerce
EDA is committed to
fostering connected, innovation-centric economic sectors which support the
conversion of research into products and services, businesses, and ultimately
jobs through entrepreneurship. See Section 27. Funding is available for
capacity-building programs that provide proof-of-concept and commercialization
assistance to innovators and entrepreneurs and for operational support for
organizations that provide essential early-stage funding to startups. Under the
RIS Program, EDA is soliciting applications for two separate competitions: the
2017 i6 Challenge; and the 2017 Seed Fund Support (SFS) Grant competition.
Applicants may, but are not required to, submit proposals for more than one
competition under the RIS Program. Applicants must provide a matching share
from non-Federal sources of at least 50 percent of the total project
cost.
SBA: Small
Business Administration
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to
invite proposals for funding from eligible state entities interested in and
capable of providing assistance and guidance to eligible small business
concerns to increase the number of such firms that export and the value of
small business exports.
To provide procurement
training and management support services including curriculum development,
graduate mentoring and counseling, logistical preparation for course, to
include participant registration, marketing and promoting the VFPETP program to
potential veteran and service-disabled veteran candidates seeking training for
government contracting opportunities.
HHS: Department
of Health and Human Services
The
purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage small
businesses (SBCs) to develop next generation wearables and supporting mobile
applications to identify digital biomarkers associated with reinitiating drug
use and relapse, and create a model for just-in-time intervention.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications from small business
concerns (SBCs) that propose exploratory and confirmatory clinical trials
focused on promising interventions, as well as biomarker-or outcome measure
validation studies that are immediately preparatory to trials in stroke
prevention, treatment, and recovery.
RUNAWAY
AND HOMELESS YOUTH
HHS: Department
of Health and Human Services
Today, in communities across the country, young people are
living on the streets after running from or being asked to leave homes
characterized by abuse, neglect, family conflict, or parental drug and alcohol
abuse. Once on the streets, such youth are at risk of being sexually exploited
or abused for pleasure or profit. In addition, youth may engage or forced to
participate in shoplifting, survival sex, or drug dealing in order to provide
for their basic needs. Since 1996, the Family and Youth Services Bureau's
(FYSB) SOP has been aiding young people living on the streets or other unsafe
living conditions by funding grantees to provide street-based services to
runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to or are at risk
of being subjected to sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and
severe forms of trafficking in persons. These services, which are provided in
areas where street youth congregate, are designed to support and assist such
youth in making healthy choices and providing them access to shelter and
related services.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Family and Youth
Services Bureau (FYSB) will award one cooperative agreement on a competitive
basis for a period of three years to operate the Runaway and Homeless Youth
National Communication System (NCS) Program.The NCS Program is a dedicated
toll-free, U.S. national communication system that provides information,
referral services, crisis intervention, prevention approaches, and communication
services to vulnerable, at-risk, and runaway and homeless youth and their
families or legal guardians.
STEM
Education, Innovation, and Commercialization (Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics)
DOD: Department of Defense
The SMART Scholarship
Program was established by Congress as a means to strengthen the DoD science
and technology workforce with highly skilled science and engineering
professionals. This unique and prestigious program provides scholarships, which
include tuition and stipend support to undergraduate and graduate students
pursuing degrees in the technical fields listed in the overview of the funding
opportunity. While in school, participants perform research as summer interns
at DoD laboratories and return to those laboratories after graduation to
complete a period of obligated employment service. This provides scholars with
a unique opportunity to perform research in their respective area of interest
that they would not have otherwise been able to do. The post-graduation
employment commitment is equal to or greater than the amount of time the
student received scholarship funding under this program.
NSF: National
Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to develop and
nurture a national innovation ecosystem that builds upon fundamental research
to guide the output to facilitate the application of scientific discoveries
closer to the development of technologies, products and processes that benefit
society. In order to maintain, strengthen and grow a national innovation
ecosystem, NSF has established the Innovation Corps - National Innovation
Network Teams Program (I-Corps Teams). The NSF I-Corps Teams Program purpose is
to identify NSF-funded researchers who will receive additional support in the
form of entrepreneurial education, mentoring and funding to accelerate
innovation that can attract subsequent third-party funding.
EMERGING
LEADERS
DOS: Department
of State
The Office of International Visitors, Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs (ECA/PE/V), United States Department of State (DOS), announces
an open competition for up to eight assistance awards to administer the FY 2018
International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Launched in 1940, the IVLP is
a professional exchange program that seeks to build mutual understanding
between the U.S. and other nations through carefully designed short-term visits
to the U.S. for current and emerging leaders. These visits support U.S. foreign
policy goals and reflect the participant's professional interests.
TRANSIT-ORIENTED
DEVELOPMENT
DOT: Department
of Transportation
The DOT hereby requests applications to result in awards to
eligible entities to develop model deployment sites for large scale
installation and operation of advanced transportation technologies to improve
safety, efficiency, system performance, and infrastructure return on
investment. These model deployments are expected to provide benefits in the
form of: reduced traffic-related fatalities and injuries; reduced traffic
congestion and improved travel time reliability; reduced transportation-related
emissions; optimized multimodal system performance; improved access to transportation
alternatives, including for underserved populations; public access to real time
integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal transportation information to make
informed travel decisions; cost savings to transportation agencies, businesses,
and the traveling public; or other benefits to transportation users and the
general public.
PUBLIC
AND COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY
HHS: Department
of Health and Human Services
The purpose of this FOA is encourage applications that seek to
examine processes of recovery and relapse in the treatment of Alcohol Use
Disorders. Applications high in innovation and significance are highly
encouraged that address the following potential topics: 1) defining recovery;
2) Examining new and innovative methods to examine precipitants of relapse; 3)
Understanding mechanisms of mutual help and recovery; 4) Evaluating recovery
systems of care; and 5) Examining processes of extended treatment for AUD
The Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment (CSAT), is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2017
Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act: Building Communities of Recovery
(Short Title: BCOR). The purpose of this program is to mobilize resources
within and outside of the recovery community to increase the prevalence and
quality of long-term recovery support from substance abuse and addiction. These
grants are intended to support the development, enhancement, expansion, and
delivery of recovery support services (RSS) as well as promotion of and
education about recovery. Programs will be principally governed by people in recovery
from substance abuse and addiction who reflect the community served.
THE PURPOSE of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to
award one cooperative agreement to an organization to develop a
state-of-the-art foster/adoptive parent training program to include intensive
preparation and development components that reflect the capacities required of
successful foster/adoptive parents. This is intended to be a product that could
be utilized free of charge by all states, tribes, and territories and
consistently applied wherever implemented.
The purpose of this forecasted funding opportunity announcement
(FOA) is to provide competitive grant funds for up to 5 years for projects
authorized by the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act
(Pub. L. 112-34). This Act includes a targeted grants program (section 437(f))
that directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reserve funds for
regional partnership grants (RPGs) to improve the well-being of children
affected by substance abuse. These targeted grants will be awarded to regional
partnerships that provide, through interagency collaboration and integration of
programs and services, activities and services that are designed to increase
the well-being of, improve permanency outcomes for, and enhance the safety of children
who are in out-of-home placements or are at risk of entering out-of-home
placements as a result of a parent's or caretaker's substance abuse.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to
invite research project applications to support biomedical and behavioral
research that will provide scientific data to inform regulation of tobacco
products to protect public health.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to
invite R03 applications to support biomedical and behavioral research that will
provide scientific data to inform regulation of tobacco products to protect
public health.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to
solicit applications proposing research that can lead to advancements in the
understanding of elder mistreatment (emotional abuse, physical abuse, and
sexual abuse; financial exploitation; abandonment; and neglect) and lay the
foundation for the future design of mechanistically focused interventions for
individuals at risk for mistreating elders, for promoting recovery and
resilience in the maltreated and their families, and for preventing
re-perpetration for those who have inflicted harm.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages R21 grant
applications for research that will employ rigorous scientific methods to test
theoretically derived hypotheses to increase understanding of the science of
drug use prevention within diverse populations and settings and across the
lifespan. The FOA seeks applications that encompass investigations of
cognitive, behavioral, and social processes as they relate to: 1) development
of novel prevention approaches; 2) efficacy and effectiveness of prevention
interventions or programs; 3) processes that optimize the selection,
integration, implementation and sustainability of science-based prevention,
including systems-level and health economic factors; and 4) methodologies
appropriate for studying complex aspects of prevention science.
This notice solicits
applications for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Behavioral Health Workforce
Education and Training (BHWET) Program. The BHWET Program aims to develop and
expand the behavioral health workforce serving populations across the lifespan,
including rural and medically underserved areas.
USDOJ: Department of Justice
Develop information and data collection strategies to identify
current utilization of sanctions and incentives by community corrections
practitioners. Develop a white paper outlining research findings, identifies
and prioritizes the knowledge and research gaps. Develop research agenda to
build an accumulative body of research to support the effective use of sanctions
and incentives within community supervision models.
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About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
Promise Zones are federally designated, high poverty communities where the federal government partners with local leaders to increase economic activity, improve educational opportunities, and leverage private investment. The Minneapolis Promise Zone (MPZ) plan is a comprehensive, community-driven revitalization strategy that builds on and aligns numerous initiatives to address the persistent unemployment, crime, housing blight, and poor educational outcomes that affect that area.
Contact information: Juli Leerssen, (612) 225-7721
For more information, please visit www.minneapolismn.gov/promisezone
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