Overview

Sometimes a little change makes a big difference. When your neighborhood needs a small project, consider applying for a neighborhood grant.

Neighborhood Services offers grants (up to $10,000) to neighborhoods that are willing to match funding through cash, in-kind donations, professional labor or volunteer hours.

Categories

Residents and homeowners associations, or ad-hoc groups of neighbors who notice a need for improvement in one or more of the following areas may be eligible to apply:

• Character: "place-making" through the creation or enhancement of assets that are a source of neighborhood pride and identity.
• Leadership: training neighborhood leaders or teams, and developing skills, for neighborhood governance or action.
• Safety: equipping the neighborhood with knowledge or tools to prevent, prepare for, confront or respond to incidences of crime, danger or disaster.
• Environment: protecting water & energy resources, and native plants & animals.
• Health: increasing access to nutritious diets, physical or mental fitness opportunities, or health education.

Schedule

The Neighborhood Initiative Grant Program application process beings in the Fall and concludes the following Summer. Attendance and completion of a Grant Information Session is a mandatory step of the application process. Neighbors with a Certificate of Completion date of more than three years are required to re-certify. Below are the upcoming Grant Information Sessions. If you cannot attend in person, please register to attend online.

Information Sessions

The information sessions for Cycle 40 of the Neighborhood Initiative Grant Program are now available. Below is a list of the information sessions you can attend. Click here to register for an Information Session. 

• Date: September 1 - 4:00 PM  Location: Virtual (Link will be sent out prior to session date)
• Date: September 15 - 12:30 PM  Location: Betty J. Johnson Library, 2801 Newtown Boulevard, Sarasota, FL 34234
• Date: October 14 - 12:30 PM  Location: Gulf Gate Library, 7112 Curtiss Avenue, Sarasota, FL, 34231
• Date: October 30 - 12:30 PM  Location: Jacaranda Library, 4143 Woodmere Park Boulevard, Venice, FL 34293
• Date: November 2 - 12:30 PM  Location: North Port library, 13800 S Tamiami trail, North Port, FL 34287
• Date: December 7 - 4:00 PM  Location: Virtual (link will be sent out prior to session date)

Neighborhood Initiative Grant Advisory Committee

The Neighborhood Initiative Grant Advisory Committee (NIGAC) is a voluntary group of seven interested citizens who provide recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners pertaining to the Neighborhood Grant Program.

Appointments to the NIGAC are for three-year terms and can be renewed. The NIGAC typically meets twice a year and when needed.

NIGP Annual Report: Cycle 37  

 The report’s purpose is to provide a transparent and comprehensive account of how grant funds were used to advance approved planning, design, and implementation activities during the reporting period.

 The report documents the project's completion of the grant’s objectives, it summarizes key milestones, community engagement efforts, design outcomes, and implementation activities. Community Metrics are compiled to review the program’s outcomes and goals, as well as ease of use by grant recipients.

NIGP Annual Report Cycle 37

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