In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Getting to Know the New 4th Precinct Inspector, Aaron Biard
- New Training Available for Creating Youth Powered Organizations
- Register for the Fall Session of Neighborhoods Now!
- Back to School Community Give-a-Way
- Watch Renter Nation Series Episode 2
- Job Opportunities
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News and Events
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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Getting to Know the New 4th Precinct Inspector, Aaron Biard
Inspector Aaron Biard was able to sit down with two of the Promise Zone's AmeriCorps VISTAs and tell them about himself, explain the plans he has for the Northside, and talk about the path that lead him to his current position. After growing up in Minneapolis, serving in the National Guard as Military Police, and receiving a Criminal Justice Studies major from St. Cloud State University, Biard came back to his home town to become a Minneapolis Police Officer. Working his way through the ranks, Biard has been able to experience and grow from working in several different areas of the police department. His commitment to MPD and the community on the Northside have led him to his current position of Inspector of the 4th Precinct.
Read the full interview
New Training Available for Creating Youth Powered Organizations
This three session training package will offer customized tools to help organizations:
- Improve enrollment, retention, and outcomes for youth of color
- Increase youth voice and agency in your organization
- Equip staff with tools and strategies for effective youth engagement
- Make your evaluation efforts more useful and meaningful
- Create more racial equity
- Be more responsive to youth of colors' goals and needs
The training package includes three staff workshops including A Shift in Approach, Youth Engagement Tools and Strategies, and Evaluation for Equity, as well as assessment tools, an action plan, on-call support and follow up evaluation.
FOR A LIMITED TIME, funds are available to cover the training costs for qualifying organizations!
This training package costs $10,000, but it's an eligible use of Management Improvement Funds, thanks to the Saint Paul Foundation and Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN Foundation. Grant guidelines and eligibility criteria can be found here. But hurry! Applications are due August 23rd!
More information about the training.
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Register for the Fall Session of Neighborhoods Now!
Neighborhoods Now! is an innovative community educational series to strengthen the work of individuals and organizations working in neighborhoods to:
- Organize to win issues for people and places.
- Build power to change systems for racial equity and economic justice.
- Build organizations whose leadership is reflective of the community.
- Build diverse and effective cross cultural collaborations.
The course is October 2-6 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. each day. The course will also have select guest speakers in the field, a field action, and graduation. Location is to be announced.
Registration deadline is September 25.
More information
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Back to School Community Give-a-Way
Hawthorne Neighborhood Council will be collecting school supplies or donations from
July 12-August 26 for the "Give-a-Way." This is to ensure that every child has a backpack, pencils, paper, pens, rulers, crayons, etc. when they go back to school.
Drop off site: 2944 Emerson Ave. N., Minneapolis
The Give-a-Way will take place on:
Sunday, August 27, 2017 - 1:00-4:00pm
2944 Emerson Ave. N., Minneapolis
Lite refreshments will be served!
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Watch Renter Nation Series Episode 2
Renter Nation Series Episode 2 featured a powerful discussion about the historic and disproportionate ways that black communities have been impacted by gentrification and the need for anti-gentrification/anti-displacement struggles to center black resistance, leadership and liberation at the heart of our movements.
Speakers include:
- Robbie Clark - Black Priorities Project Organizer of Causa Justa: Just Cause
- Brandon King - Cooperation Jackson
- Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson - Highlander Research & Education Center
Watch the video
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Job Opportunities
Emerge Community Development
Communications Coordinator
More information
PRG Inc.
Communications & Development Coordinator
More Information
Transit for Livable Communities
Development & Member Engagement Coordinator
More information
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News
Rain couldn't dampen All-Star kickball fun in North Mpls (08/08 - Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder)
It's August and the Squad of Players Adult Kickball League is nearing the end of its third season. Last Sunday's set of All-Star games, with a rib cook-off contest and a skills competition to judge the longest kick and the fastest around the bases, took place at North Commons Park in North Minneapolis.
Nominee for police chief pledges to rebuild trust (08/09 - Southwest Journal)
Days after the apparent successor to former Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau pledged to repair the department's relationship with the community, a town hall meeting in the Fulton neighborhood demonstrated just how much trust has eroded since a police officer shot and killed a woman in that neighborhood in July.
North Minneapolis residents want to drive change on W. Broadway (08/06 - Star Tribune)
Ask the people who live and work in north Minneapolis what they'd like to see on W. Broadway and they won't hesitate to share their wish lists: a dry cleaner. A movie theater. A FedEx. A restaurant with cloth napkins. "Some of the things you take for granted elsewhere, you just don't have in north Minneapolis," said Rob Hanson, executive director at the West Broadway Business and Area Coalition.
Reve Academy trains next generation of workers in north Minneapolis (08/06 - Star Tribune)
By early 2009, Kristin Pardue, a University of Minnesota MBA, was a veteran of General Mills, GE and a top strategist to then-CEO Marilyn Carlson Nelson at Carlson Cos. She liked her work. It also was time, she felt after 20 years on the corporate runway, to see if she could fly solo.
Philanthropy's new focus in Minnesota: Putting people into jobs (08/05 - Star Tribune)
Minnesota philanthropies are putting more time, money and political clout into efforts aimed at getting jobs for the state's neediest residents. The new focus reflects a growing sense that the most effective way to address homelessness, poverty and the effects of racial disparities may be through job training and workforce development.
Events
Eat on the Avenue
Every Thursday, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
NEON - 1007 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis
NEON Thinking About Business Workshop
August 19, 2017 - 9 a.m. - noon
NEON - 1007 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis
Upper Harbor Terminal: Tour, Community Workshop and Dinner
August 21, 2017 - 4-7 p.m.
Folwell Park - 1615 Dowling Ave N, Minneapolis
NEON Back to School August Pop-Up
August 26, 2017 - 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
NEON - 1007 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis
2017 Family Day Celebration
August 26, 2017 - noon-8 p.m.
Lincoln Field and Penn Ave. between Plymouth and Oak Park
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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.
AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY AND PRESERVATION GRANTS
DOI: Department of the Interior
The National Park
Service's (NPS) FY 2017 African American Civil Rights Grant Program (AACR)
will document, interpret, and preserve the sites related to the African
American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens in the 20th Century. The
NPS 2008 report, "Civil Rights in America, A Framework for Identifying
Significant Sites," will serve as the reference document in determining
the appropriateness of proposed projects and properties. AACR Grants are
funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), administered by the NPS.
Grants will fund a broad range of planning and research projects for historic
sites including: survey, inventory, documentation, interpretation, and
education. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and do not
require non-Federal match. ***There are separate funding announcements for
physical preservation projects and for historical research/documentation
projects.
Additional
Information
HUD PROGRAM AND POLICY CAPACITY AND TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE
HUD: Department of Housing and Urban Development
Through this NOFA, HUD
is announcing the availability of approximately $56 million for its Community
Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program (Community Compass),
HUD's integrated technical assistance and capacity building initiative.
Community Compass is designed to help HUD's customers navigate complex housing
and community development challenges by equipping them with the knowledge,
skills, tools, capacity, and systems to implement HUD programs and policies
successfully and provide effective administrative and managerial oversight of
HUD funding. The goal of Community Compass is to empower communities by
providing effective technical assistance and capacity building so that
successful program implementation is sustained. HUD recognizes that its
customers often interact with a variety of HUD programs as they deliver housing
or community development services. Community Compass brings together technical
assistance investments from across HUD program offices, including the offices
of Community Planning and Development, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity,
Housing, and Public and Indian Housing. This cross-funding approach allows
technical assistance to address the needs of grantees and subgrantees across
multiple HUD programs, often within the same engagement, as well as address
cross-agency issues.
FAIR HOUSING
HUD: Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD is making available through this NOFA
$7,450,000 for Fair Housing Initiatives Program Education and Outreach
Initiative. Additional funds may become available for award under this NOFA as
a result of HUD's efforts to recapture unused funds, use carryover funds, or
because of the availability of additional appropriated funds. Use of these
funds will be subject to statutory constraints. All awards are subject to the
applicable funding restrictions described in the General Section and to those
contained in this NOFA. FHIP funds are used to increase compliance with the
Fair Housing Act. This year, funding is available under three Initiatives:
Private Enforcement (PEI), Fair Housing Organization (FHOI) and Education and
Outreach (EOI) Initiatives. Multi-year awards beyond FY2017 funding are subject
to appropriations and the availability of funds. For FY2017, funding for each
initiative is listed under a separate NOFA, therefore, applicants must apply
under the correct NOFA to be considered for funding. Additionally, if an
applicant is eligible and applies for funding under separate initiatives and/or
components, the applicant must submit a separate application under the correct
NOFA for each component the applicant applies. This NOFA will consider
applicants applying under EOI only.
HUD is making available through this FHOI NOFA
$500,000 for Fair Housing Initiatives Program. Additional funds may become
available for award under this NOFA as a result of HUD's efforts to recapture
unused funds, use carryover funds, or because of the availability of additional
appropriated funds. Use of these funds will be subject to statutory
constraints. All awards are subject to the applicable funding restrictions
described in the General Section and to those contained in this NOFA. Funding
for additional years beyond FY2017 is subject to the availability of
appropriations. FHIP funds are used to increase compliance with the Fair
Housing Act. This year, funding is available under three Initiatives: Private
Enforcement (PEI), Fair Housing Organization (FHOI) and Education and Outreach
(EOI) Initiatives. However, for FY2017, funding for each initiative is listed
under a separate NOFA. Applicants must apply under the correct NOFA to be considered
for funding. Additionally, if an applicant is eligible and applying for funding
under separate initiatives and/or components, the applicant must submit a
separate application under the correct NOFA for each component the applicant
applies. This NOFA will consider applicants applying under the FHOI Initiative
only. Multi-year awards beyond FY2017 funding are subject to appropriations and
the availability of funds.
HUD is making available through this PEI NOFA
$30,350,000 for Fair Housing Initiative Programs. Additional funds may become
available for award under this NOFA as a result of HUD's efforts to recapture
unused funds, use carryover funds, or because of the availability of additional
appropriated funds. Use of these funds will be subject to statutory
constraints. All awards are subject to the applicable funding restrictions
described in the General Section and to those contained in this NOFA. Funding
for additional years beyond FY2017 is subject to the availability of
appropriations. FHIP funds are used to increase compliance with the Fair
Housing Act. This year, funding is available under three Initiatives: Private
Enforcement (PEI), Fair Housing Organization (FHOI) and Education and Outreach
(EOI) Initiatives. However, for FY2017, funding for each initiative is listed
under a separate NOFA. Applicants must apply under the correct NOFA to be
considered for funding. Additionally, if an applicant is eligible and applying
for funding under separate initiatives and/or components, the applicant must
submit a separate application under the correct NOFA for each component the
applicant applies. This NOFA will consider applicants applying under PEI only.
EDUCATION AND
STEM: Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
This funding
opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages the development of innovative
educational activities for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 (P-12), pre-service and
in-service teachers (Teachers) and students from underserved communities with a
focus on Courses for Skills Development, Research Experiences, Mentoring
Activities, Curriculum or Methods Development and Informal Science Education
(ISE) projects.
DOT: Department of Transportation
The DDETFP Graduate
Fellowship provides funding for students to pursue master’s or doctoral degrees
in transportation-related disciplines. The program objectives are: 1) to
attract the Nation's brightest minds to the field of transportation; 2) to
enhance the careers of transportation professionals by encouraging them to seek
advanced degrees; and 3) to retain top talent in the transportation industry of
the United States. The DDETFP is intended to bring innovation and enhance the
breadth and scope of knowledge of the entire transportation community in the
United States.
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
intends to publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit
applications for a Coordinating Center (CC) to support the Programs to Increase
Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health Related Research (PRIDE). The
PRIDE CC will provide programmatic support to the PRIDE Summer Institutes (R25)
whose goal is toenhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and
clinical research workforcethrough provision of research education and
mentoring programs for junior faculty from under-represented backgrounds. This
Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to
develop meaningful collaborations and responsive applications.
TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
DOT: Department of Transportation
The Nationally
Significant Freight and Highway Projects (NSFHP) program provides Federal
financial assistance to highway and freight projects of national or regional
significance. The Department of Transportation is referring to this program as
the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) program. This notice solicits
applications for awards under the program’s FY 2017 and FY 2018 funding,
subject to future appropriations.
ARTS AND
HUMANITIES
NEA: National Endowment for the Arts
The Arts Endowment’s
support of a project may start on May 1, 2018, or any time thereafter. Grants
generally may cover a period of performance of up to two years, with an
exception for projects that include primary data collection as part of the
proposed activity. Projects that include primary data collection may request up
to three years. Projects that extend beyond one year will be required to submit
an annual progress report. A grantee may not receive more than one National
Endowment for the Arts grant for the same project during the same period of
performance. Program Description In September 2012, the National Endowment for
the Arts' (NEA) Office of Research & Analysis published a five-year
research agenda, supported by a system map and measurement model. Titled How
Art Works, the report offers a framework for studying research topics critical
to a broader public understanding of the arts' value and/or impact for
individuals and communities. In December 2016, the NEA’s research office
updated its five-year agenda for 2017-2021, which reflects a tighter focus on
Arts Participation and Arts/Cultural Assets as essential research topics. Arts
Participation, in the new agenda, remains inclusive of various modes of
participation and specific arts activities. These modes are: attending arts
events; reading literature; creating or performing art; consuming art via
electronic media; and learning in the arts. Arts/Cultural Assets denotes
artists and arts workers, arts venues and platforms, and arts organizations and
industries. The NEA is interested in research seeking to identify and to
examine:
- Factors that enhance or inhibit Arts Participation or Arts/Cultural
Assets;
- Detailed characteristics of Arts Participation or Arts
Cultural/Assets, and their interrelationships;
- Individual-level outcomes of
Arts Participation, including those corresponding with the following domains:
- Social and emotional well-being
- Creativity, cognition, and learning
- Physiological processes of health and healing
- Societal or community-level
outcomes, including those corresponding with the following domains:
- Civic and
corporate innovation
- Attraction for neighborhoods and businesses
- National
and/or state-level economic growth.
PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
The purpose of this FOA is to support
investigator-initiated R01 applications that will inform our understanding of
the typical and atypical patterns of language and literacy development of dual
language learners (DLLs) in the United States. Applicants are encouraged to
take advantage of advances in the language sciences and related fields to
identify and clarify specific cognitive, linguistic, neurobiological, and
sociocultural factors associated with normal and impaired language and literacy
acquisition in young DLL populations.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Small
Research Grant (R03) applications to study the ethical, legal and social
implications (ELSI) of human genome research. These applications should be for
small, self-contained research projects, such as those that involve single
investigators. Of particular interest are projects that propose normative or
conceptual analyses, including focused legal, economic, philosophical,
anthropological, or historical analyses of new or emerging issues. This
mechanism can also be used for the collection of preliminary data and the
secondary analysis of existing data.
This Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages the submission of
investigator-initiated research grant applications to support research
investigating the epidemiology of alcohol use, alcohol-related harms, and
alcohol use disorders and the prevention of underage drinking, alcohol-related
harms, and alcohol use disorders.
This notice solicits
applications for the Health Center Program’s Service Area Competition (SAC).
The Health Center Program supports public and private nonprofit community-based
and patient-directed organizations that provide primary health care services to
the Nation’s medically underserved. The purpose of the SAC NOFO is to ensure
continued access to affordable, quality primary health care services for
communities and vulnerable populations currently served by the Health Center
Program.
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research
education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of
this National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases (NIAID) R25 program
is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the
training of a workforce to meet the nations biomedical, behavioral and clinical
research needs in NIAID mission areas.
HUD: Department of Housing and Urban Development
The FSS program supports the
Department's strategic goal of utilizing housing as a platform for improving
quality of life by helping HUD-assisted renters increase their economic
security and self-sufficiency. The FSS program promotes the development of
local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under the HCV and PH
programs with public and private resources to enable participating families to
increase earned income and financial literacy, reduce or eliminate the need for
welfare assistance, and make progress toward economic independence and
self-sufficiency. PHAs or tribes/Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs)
that administer FSS programs enter into five-year contracts with new families
on an ongoing basis. The FSS contract spells out the terms and conditions
governing participation and the responsibilities of both the PHA (or
tribe/TDHE) and the family. PHAs are not permitted to limit FSS participation
to those families most likely to succeed because of current education level or
job history.
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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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