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$500 Love Your Block grants available for local beautification projects
07/28/2014 6:45 AM by John M
The city’s Neighbor-to-Neighbor Initiative is now accepting its 5th round of applications for the Love Your Block Grants. The application deadline is September 5, 2014.
Through the Love Your Block grants, Neighbor-to-Neighbor provides competitive mini-grants in the form of $500 Home Depot Gift Cards to city neighborhood groups for the purchase of supplies needed for local beautification projects.
To pursue this grant opportunity, download the application here and the waiver here.
Oakwood at Chimbo, could def use this for a bit of beautification!
anyone have any examples of what these have been used for? I think all of my blocks tree wells are full of trees, so what other projects can we initiate?
How about garbage cans and benches? Or money for more trees/shrubs for park areas? Or some cans of paint and some volunteers to beautify the water tank? Or signs/banners for the streetlights that celebrate the historic district? Or maybe tools/gloves/trash bags to do a big push to clean up Evergreen Cemetery?
I’d like to see some money go toward modernizing the restrooms at the Chimbo playground. I can’t imagine anyone having to take their child in there.
@4, There are rest rooms there? I did not know they even had them now.
Friend of mine had to take her husband to St. Mary’s Hospital for outpatient stuff early one morning, and had time to kill so she went down Libbie Ave. to a park – and was delighted to find clean and nice restrooms (her kids grew up swimming in the pool at Chimbo playground). I agree with @4, that would be a good project, but I’m not sure it’s eligible for a grant, it’s a city funded park.How about approaching Jon Sydnor and seeing if EnRichmond could do something about them?