Facility and Community Improvement Grant (Community Safety Works)

Facility and Community Improvement Grant (Community Safety Works) is sponsored by Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). Part of the Community Safety Works initiative, this grant supports tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, including faith-based organizations, for physical improvements and/or safety services for facilities and adjacent grounds.

DHCD Community Safety Works-Facility and Community Improvements | Maryland OneStop last revised 02/09/26 at 5:20 pm FY23 CSW-Facility and Community Improvements The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) is administering three separate Community Safety Works grant opportunities to improve the livability and economic potential of Maryland communities through targeted investments in crime prevention that impact community safety.

Community Safety Works Grant Opportunities Facility and Community Improvement: The minimum grant request is $10,000 and the maximum grant request amount is $25,000 .

Eligible Activities: physical improvements and/or safety services for a facility and adjacent grounds; a community managed open space (i.e., turning a vacant blighted space into a safe gathering space for residents); and/or establishing or expanding community-led cleaning and greening activities such as litter prevention and beautification Business District and Neighborhood Safety: The minimum grant request is $50,000 and the maximum grant request amount is $100,000.

Eligible Activities: comprehensive physical improvements and/or community safety services that benefit specific local business districts and/or neighborhoods, making places safer for residents, merchants, and visitors. Crime and Violence Intervention and Prevention: The maximum grant request is $250,000.

Eligible Activities: Grant requests will be for a comprehensive strategy that includes a set of partnerships and coordinated activities that go beyond physical changes and enhanced security services and instead directly engage people at-risk of becoming involved with or affected by violence and crime and avoid incarceration.

Evidence-based interventions will provide restorative life choices for at-risk individuals; activities will aim to remove illegal activities from communities and interrupt the cycle of violence that can result from such activities. You may apply for this form 1 time.

Review the steps - read carefully Applicant Eligibility Criteria: Facility and Community Improvement: Eligible Applicants: A tax-exempt nonprofit organization, including faith-based organizations Business District and Neighborhood Safety: Eligible Applicants : A tax-exempt nonprofit organization or local government Crime and Violence Intervention and Prevention: Eligible Applicants: A tax-exempt nonprofit organization • Community Safety Works application portal opens: 12:00 pm, Wednesday, September 28, 2022.

• Application deadlines are as follows: 5:00 pm Friday, October 21, 2022: Facility and Community Improvements Applications will be reviewed in the order they are submitted. 5:00 pm Friday, October 21, 2022: Business District and Neighborhood Safety Applications will be reviewed in the order they are submitted. 5:00 pm Wednesday, November 2, 2022: Crime and Violence Intervention and Prevention This is a competitive grant.

All applications will be reviewed after the application round closes. • At any time, the portal may close sooner if or when grant requests exceed available funding. • Funding decisions will be made by December 15, 2022.

Awarded funds must be used within one year. Sample applications are posted to https://dhcd. maryland.

gov/Communities/Pages/csw/default. aspx . Applicants are encouraged to review the application, prepare answers and gather required documents in advance of completing and submitting the on-line application.

Facility and Community Improvement: Eligible requests will be for physical projects and community services that make a facility or a community managed open space safer for residents and visitors to those properties and/or support community-led cleaning and greening activities. These include but are not limited to: • Surveillance tools such as lighting, cameras and technology that increase visibility of vulnerable spaces.

Networks of cameras and license readers should include monitoring plans and partnerships with law enforcement and other relevant public agencies. • Auto and pedestrian circulation improvements to create natural and man-made environments via landscaping, fencing and other means to better control pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Examples include site fencing and alley gating.

• Improving opportunities for “eyes on the street,” including the removal of barriers to sight lines (such as trimming overgrown trees/shrubs), opening up closed off spaces, improved lighting and renovating public spaces/playgrounds to draw regular visitors and family activity. • Reinforcing community ownership, solidarity, and pride, through clean and beautified streets, sidewalks, and signage.

Removing blight and signals of blight (such as litter, graffiti, and bulk trash dumping) and instead creating “markers” of community pride and ownership such as signs, gardens, new trees, other plantings and upgraded public spaces. • Contracted cleaning services to maintain and clean improved open spaces.

Business District and Neighborhood Safety: Eligible activities will be part of a comprehensive plan for making public and private spaces safer for residents, business, and visitors. These include but are not limited to: • Surveillance tools such as lighting, cameras and technology and operating programs that increase visibility of vulnerable spaces.

Networks of cameras and license readers should include monitoring plans and partnerships with law enforcement and other relevant public agencies. • Auto and pedestrian circulation improvements to create natural and man-made environments via landscaping, fencing and other means to better control pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

Examples include site fencing and alley gating and sidewalk improvements to prioritize the safety of pedestrians.

• Improving opportunities for “eyes on the street,” including the removal of barriers to sight lines (such as through trimming trees and shrubs), opening up closed off spaces, improved lighting, renovating public spaces/playgrounds and expanding restaurants to sidewalks and outdoor spaces to draw regular visitors and positive activity.

• Reinforcing community ownership, solidarity, and pride, through clean and beautified streets, sidewalks, and signage. Removing blight and signals of blight (such as litter, graffiti, and bulk trash dumping) and instead creating “markers” of community pride and ownership such as signs, gardens, new trees, other plantings and upgraded public spaces.

• Purchasing litter removal equipment such as “All Terrain Litter Vehicles” and funding staff or contracted services to provide ongoing cleaning, maintenance and beautification of public spaces.

• Increasing citizen and merchant stewardship through organizing, education and outreach activities that seek to engage residents and other neighborhood stakeholders to actively participate in keeping residential areas and public spaces clean, safe, and green. • Contracted security services or “Ambassador” programs. • Contracted cleaning/landscaping services to maintain improved open spaces.

Crime and Violence Intervention and Prevention: Eligible grant requests will be for a comprehensive strategy that includes a set of partnerships and coordinated activities that go beyond physical changes and enhanced security services. Applicant strategies should directly engage people at-risk of becoming involved with or affected by violence and crime.

Evidence-based interventions will provide restorative life choices for at-risk individuals; strategies will remove illegal activities from communities and interrupt the cycle of violence that can result from such activities. Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development dhcd. maryland.

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