Title
Grant for Alternatives to Violence Program
Action
Action:
A. Accept a grant in the amount of $1,200,000 from GreenLight Fund Charlotte to support the implementation of the Alternatives to Violence Program in Charlotte, and
B. Adopt a budget ordinance appropriating $1,200,000 from GreenLight Fund Charlotte in the Neighborhood Development Grants Fund.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Pamela Wideman, Housing and Neighborhood Services
Federico Rios, Housing and Neighborhood Services
Explanation
§ The city has been awarded a $1.2 million grant by the GreenLight Fund Charlotte in partnership with the Wells Fargo Foundation. The grant will be used to support two additional years of implementation of the Alternatives to Violence Program in the Beatties Ford Road Corridor in Council District 2. The Wells Fargo Foundation contributed $1 million toward the grant award.
§ Alternatives to Violence (ATV) is a violence interruption program that deploys evidence-based Cure Violence methodology to address violent crime.
§ This grant will complement $500,000 previously allocated for this program as well as the city’s investments in this area as part of the Corridors of Opportunity program by providing additional resources to help make neighborhoods safer through community outreach and engagement.
§ The grant will cover the cost of salaries and benefits, ongoing technical assistance, and programmatic expenses for the service provider implementing the ATV program.
§ The grant also gives the service provider the additional capacity support offered to the GreenLight Fund Charlotte’s portfolio organizations.
§ The grant award does not require a local match.
Fiscal Note
Funding: Neighborhood Development Grants Fund
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Budget Ordinance