Indianapolis doles out $8.6 million for crime reduction. Here's who's getting the money
City officials on Thursday announced the latest round of community groups to receive grant money earmarked to reduce violence in Indianapolis neighborhoods.
Fifty organizations, nearly half of them new, have been selected to receive some of the $8.6 million in funding as part of the city’s three-year anti-violence plan. The groups range from organizations aimed at improving financial literacy, youth mentorship, domestic violence prevention and recidivism in the city.
“These grants are a demonstration of the city’s belief that nobody knows a neighborhood better than the neighbors themselves,” Mayor Joe Hogsett said Thursday.
The $8.6 million is part of the $45 million the city has committed to the Elevation Grant Program, previously the Violent Crime Reduction Program, for neighborhood violence-reduction efforts over the next three years. The grant program received a significant boost from American Rescue Plan Act dollars the city approved to use toward the three-year, anti-crime plan.
“Public safety is the Number One priority for the Indianapolis City-County Council,” said Councilor Keith Graves, of District 13. “I believe that to create lasting safety for our residents, we must look to free ourselves not only from the signs and symptoms of violence, but from its root causes.”
Here are the latest grants recipients and the amount of money they received:
Empowered Indy youth and young adults
$35,000 | |
$191,623 | |
Crown Community Development Corporation Inc | $111,383 |
$180,900 | |
$150,000 | |
$141,275 | |
Get Well Now Ministries (Clean4Green) | $80,000 |
$100,357 | |
$248,106 | |
$105,000 | |
$204,798 | |
$250,000 | |
$226,689 |
Restoration & resilience in Indianapolis
$126,504 | |
$219,093 | |
$171,174 | |
$99,492 | |
$156,634 | |
$250,000 |
"With the elevation grant funding, we'll be able to build capacity to hire mentors that come from the same community as the ones they serve,"
-Howard Stevenson, CEO of Project Free University. The organization aims to educate underserved communities on financial literacy and entrepreneurship.
Thriving Indy neighborhoods
$111,282 | |
Community Alliance of the Far Eastside, Inc. (fiscal for Project Free University) | $231,529.65 |
$43,794 | |
$50,000 | |
Lutheran Child and Family Services (fiscal for Community Heights Neighborhood Association) | $117,988 |
MCCOY (fiscal for Circle Up Indy) | $249,775 |
$75,000 | |
Servants of Christ Lutheran Church (Laundry & More) | $50,000 |
$144,293 | |
$121,890 | |
$50,000 |
"Most of us are living the American Dream. At the same time, as we grow and prosper, our community is seeing some increase in crime. This grant that's provided to us will help us address many areas of crime,"
-Peter Thawnghmung, president of the Chin Community of Indiana
Crime intervention groups in Indianapolis
$249,744 | |
$229,968 | |
$250,000 | |
$241,246 | |
$249,504 | |
Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (fiscal for Marion County Re-entry Coalition) | $242,205 |
$248,560 | |
$137,835 | |
Indianapolis Private Industry Counsel Inc. (Westside YES Indy Re-Engagement Center) | $249,989 |
$250,000 | |
$241,116 | |
$249,927 | |
$188,559.90 | |
$249,744 | |
$150,000 | |
Use What You've Got Prison Ministry. Keeping Families Connected | $149,226 |
Violence reduction organizations in Indianapolis
$249,865 | |
$161,635 | |
$140,624 | |
$232,854 |
Contact IndyStar reporter Sarah Nelson at 317-503-7514 or sarah.nelson@indystar.com
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