Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Awards to Police-Community Collaborations

Dec 14, 2001

MetLife Foundation and Local Initiatives Support
Corporation Offer Awards to Police-Community
Collaborations

Deadline: January 11, 2002 (Preliminary applications)

The MetLife Foundation ( http://www.metlife.org/ ) and the
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), America's
leading nonprofit community development intermediary, are
partnering to recognize, sustain, and share the work of
innovative partnerships between community groups and police
to promote neighborhood safety and revitalization. Through
this new awards program, the MetLife Foundation and LISC
will identify and honor partnerships that exhibit tangible
accomplishments in their efforts to advance the process,
outcome, and/or evaluation of potent police-community
collaborations.

To be eligible, applicants must be member organizations of
partnerships that include, but need not be limited to,
community organizations and police. Awardees will receive
a monetary grant and be recognized at the Spring 2002
Community Safety Initiative (CSI) Conference. Selection
committee members will also promote the selected programs
by publishing and distributing their accomplishments in
case statements to a wide audience of practitioners,
policymakers, and academics.

Six awards totaling $130,000 will be made. Two first-prize
winners will each receive $30,000, two second-prize winners
$20,000 each, and two third-prize winners $15,000 each.
Awards will be in the form of unrestricted funds that may
be used by the recipient in any manner that, in the awardee's
opinion, promotes, furthers, and/or strengthens the recog-
nized partnership.

Eligible applicants include community organizations, com-
munity development corporations, city and local governments,
police departments, community partnerships, weed and seed
programs, and collaboratives comprising more than one of
these elements.

For further information and to access application guidelines,
visit the LISC Web site.

Contact:
George Loew, Program Officer
Community Safety Initiative
LISC
733 3rd Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 455-9893
Fax: (212) 370-9427
E-mail: gloew@liscnet.org

RFP Link: http://www.liscnet.org/

For additional RFPs in Community Development/Improvement,
visit: http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_community.jhtml