Project Grant B03NIMO0024

This $135,500 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.609 - Project Safe Neighborhoods) will support the Rochester Police Department's (RPD) efforts to address chronic firearm violence in the Jefferson Avenue area of southwest Rochester, New York. The grant will fund a Place Network Investigations (PNI) project, where RPD's Violence Prevention Section lieutenant will work with stakeholders to develop intervention plans executed by a team of...

The City and County of Denver Police Department was awarded a $420,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) to alleviate poverty, reduce crime, and improve police-community relations in a Southwest Denver neighborhood from March 15, 2022 through September 30, 2023. Through this funding, the Police Department will work with community organizations to develop and...

The Housing Authority of the County of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, operating as Housing Partners of Western Nebraska, was awarded a $234,315 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Public and Indian Housing Office through the Jobs-Plus Pilot Initiative (CFDA 14.895). The grant, with a performance period of June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, will fund workforce development services for public housing residents in Gering, Nebraska. These services include job...

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport, doing business as Park City Communities, has been awarded a $500,000 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under CFDA 14.889. This grant will fund comprehensive neighborhood revitalization efforts in Bridgeport, CT focused on redeveloping severely distressed public and/or HUD-assisted housing. The project aims to transform the neighborhood by replacing distressed housing with...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the Philadelphia Housing Authority a $50,000,000 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant under CFDA 14.889 to implement a comprehensive plan for community revitalization centered on redeveloping severely distressed public and/or HUD-assisted housing. The grant aims to transform the target neighborhood by replacing distressed housing with high-quality mixed-income housing, improving resident outcomes related to employment,...

The City of Boston Department of Neighborhood Development received a $671,446 Continuum of Care Program grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to support housing and community development initiatives in the Boston metropolitan area. This Project Grant, with a performance period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, funds a range of activities to prevent and end homelessness, including rapid rehousing, homelessness prevention, permanent supportive housing,...

This $500,000 Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (CFDA 14.889) on September 7, 2024, supports the County of Miami-Dade's efforts to develop a comprehensive neighborhood transformation plan. The plan will focus on the redevelopment of HUD-assisted housing, improvements to the surrounding neighborhood, and the provision of resident supportive services. Key activities include conducting resident and community outreach, assessing...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), through the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (CFDA 16.738), has awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to WestEd, a non-profit education research and services agency, to support "Re-Imagining Community Safety" in the Nicholtown neighborhood of Greenville, South Carolina. The project aims to: 1) Assess the community's safety needs, 2) Assist in implementing a new Nicholtown Community Safety Strategy (NCSS), and 3)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $400,000 to New York University (NYU) to research neighborhood mobility patterns and their relationship to community well-being. The key products and services to be delivered include: Identifying biases in large-scale mobility data and developing methods to correct them; modeling neighborhood connectedness networks using mobility data and analyzing how...

This $999,999 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants) will fund a pilot survey in Detroit, Michigan to improve the measurement of community safety perceptions. The study aims to develop a novel sample design and inference method that leverages a hybrid sampling approach, integrating address-based sampling and respondent-driven sampling, to...