Mayor Bowser Invites Community Members to Apply for Building Blocks DC Grants

(Washington, DC) – In the present day, Mayor Muriel Bowser and Linda Harllee Harper, Director of the Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention, are inviting District residents and community-based organizations to use for as much as $5,000 in Constructing Blocks DC Grants, administered by the Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP) to assist actions and packages aimed toward making a safer DC. The deadline to submit an software is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 2, 2022.

“Lots of people in our neighborhood need to be a part of the answer. And when individuals need to assist they usually have a very good plan for a way they may also help – we need to assist them,” mentioned Mayor Bowser. “These grants are about partaking our neighbors, serving to individuals select a greater path ahead, and therapeutic our communities. When you’re enthusiastic about constructing a safer DC, about saving lives, and about ending gun violence – and you’ve got an enormous thought for a way to do this, we need to hear from you.”

OGVP, in partnership with Progressive Life Heart (PLC) and the Division of Youth Rehabilitation Providers (DYRS), supplies grants of as much as $5,000 to implement revolutionary programming or actions to assist reductions in gun violence. People, community-based non-profit teams and organizations, clergy teams, or small companies within the District are eligible to suggest inventive companies associated to neighborhood wealth, therapeutic, and revitalization.

Up to now, Constructing Blocks has efficiently awarded 137 grants totaling greater than $1.5 million. The grants have funded actions associated to management improvement, therapeutic and psychological wellness, neighborhood outreach, block cleansing, direct intervention, and extra.

“Via this funding from the Mayor, we’re capable of assist residents who need to make a distinction of their communities,” mentioned Director Harllee Harper. “This grant program is simply one of many instruments we use as we proceed to determine options for making DC safer and stronger.”

A digital technical help session will probably be held as we speak, on Tuesday, November 15, from 6 to 7 pm. To register for the technical help session, ship a request to [email protected] and embody “Request to Attend Digital Session” within the topic line. For extra details about eligibility and to obtain the grant software, go to progressivelifecenter.org/fy23-building-blocks-dc-gun-prevention-grants/

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