Graffiti Hurts Grants Program

Posted by on June 11, 2007

Keep America Beautiful Introduces Graffiti Hurts Grants Program
Deadline: June 29, 2007

Keep America Beautiful (<a href="http://www.kab.org/">http://www.kab.org/</a>) has developed a new Graffiti Hurts (<a href="http://www.graffitihurts.org/">http://www.graffitihurts.org/</a>) national funding program to help communities kick-start or intensify their local graffiti-prevention activities. The 2007 Graffiti Hurts Grant Program allows communities to apply for a grant of $2,000, offered in two categories: 1) communities with a population over 300,000; and 2) communities with populations under 300,000.

The Graffiti Hurts Grant Program will operate on alternate years with the Graffiti Hurts National Awards program, which recognizes and rewards innovative, successful prevention efforts. Proposed projects for funding can address graffiti prevention and education, eradication, or enforcement of local anti-graffiti laws. Any of the following groups are eligible to apply for a grant: nonprofit, civic, and community organizations, including neighborhood groups (e.g., Neighborhood Watch); crime prevention associations, civic clubs or organizations, and other nonprofit groups; youth groups/schools, including any group of youth such as Girl/Boy Scouts, 4-H, Girls/Boys Clubs, YW/YMCAs, and students in a class, grade, or school club; government agencies, including police departments or other law enforcement; and city, county, state, and federal government agencies, or subdivisions within these agencies (e.g., department of public works).

Applications are available at the Keep America Beautiful Web site.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10007100/kab">http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10007100/kab</a>

For additional RFPs in Community Improvement/Development, visit: <a href="http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_community_development.jhtml">http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_community_development.jhtml</a>