Posted on February 1, 2012
Deadline: March 11, 2012 (Preliminary Applications)

MetLife Foundation and Local Initiatives Support Corporation Seek Applications for Community-Police Partnership Awards

The MetLife Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation are partnering for the eleventh year to recognize, sustain, and share the work of innovative partnerships between community groups and police to promote neighborhood safety and revitalization.

The MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards are designed to identify and honor partnerships that exhibit tangible accomplishments in their efforts to advance the process, outcome, and/or evaluation of potent police-community collaborations. Case studies about award-winning partnerships will be disseminated throughout the community development and law enforcement industries.

Applicants must be community organizations, community development corporations, police/sheriff's departments, community partnerships, Weed & Seed programs and other U. S. Department of Justice grantees, or collaboratives comprising more than one of these elements. Public agencies (including police departments and public schools) must apply in conjunction with at least one nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that is a leading partner in the collaboration and will serve as a fiscal agent for award funds. All applicants must be based in the United States. Awards are only for functioning programs that have demonstrated the impact of police-community partnerships.

Cash grants will be awarded in two categories. Neighborhood revitalizationAwards (five awards at $20,000 to $30,000) are designed to celebrate exemplary collaboration between community groups and police that yields crime reduction as well as economic development outcomes (e.g., real estate development, business creation, and/or job growth). Special strategy Awards (five awards at $15,000) will be presented to community and police partners who have achieved significant accomplishments in one or more of the following areas: applied technology, aesthetics and greenspace improvement, diversity inclusion and integration, drug market disruption, gang prevention and youth safety, or seniors and safety. Applicants may apply in both award categories.

Visit the LISC Web site for complete program guidelines and preliminary application instructions.

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Primary Subject: Community Improvement/Development
Geographic Funding Area: National

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