City of Cincinnati

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City of Cincinnati

• SAFE and CLEAN
• NEIGHBORHOOD FUND
• Keep Cincinnati Beautiful
• Linda Holterhoff, Executive Director

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Safe and Clean Fund

• 50,000 per year available
• 10,000 max per neighborhood project
• Reimbursable funds
• Fund Advisory Committee reviews grant
  applications, makes recommendations four times a
  year

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Goals

• Financial support for immediate, short term, high
  impact initiatives
• Neighborhood driven
• Improve safety, eliminate blight, improve
  livability

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Application Information Who

• Community and neighborhood groups, organizations
• Recipient must be a legal entity with a tax ID
  (SSN qualifies)

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Application What

• What Projects must demonstrate measurable
  outcomes (results)
• Changes in safety, cleanliness and/or
• livability

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Application How

• All applications must follow the SARA Model
• Scanning
• Analysis
• Response
• Assessment

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Looking at the actual Application itself

• Review of cover page
• Contact Information
• Grant Request
• Neighborhood Match
• Total Budget
• Communities served

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Question 1 SARA
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Scanning

• Identify and define the problem. Use community
  knowledge, crime data, maps, etc. to explain the
  situation that must change to make the
  neighborhood safer, cleaner, and more livable.
• Crime data should be specific to the problem at
  issue, either by type or location

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Scanning example

• Theft from Auto
• Type OTR
• Location West End Dayton Street

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Analysis

• Identify problem characteristics and underlying
  causes of the situation through analysis of
  information and data
• Analysis seeks to explain why the problem or
  situation occurs

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Analysis example

• OTR
• Time of theft
• Business District related
• Dayton Street
• Overhanging trees
• No light

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Response

• Describe the specific solution which will
  alleviate or eliminate the problem, condition, or
  situation. Describe how the response will have a
  positive impact.

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Response example

• OTR
• Increased foot patrols during peak hours
• Educational flyers in bars
• Dayton Street
• Increased lighting in keeping with historical
  nature of housing

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Assessment

• Describe specific measurable outcomes.
• Examples
• Decrease in theft from auto

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Question 2

• Time Table
• Specific steps/activities
• Who will do them
• Dates of implementation

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Question 3

• Neighborhood Involvement
• How was the community involved in the planning
  for your application
• How are they involved in the implementation of
  the project

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Question 4

• City Departments/Govt. agencies
• Who did you work with to put the grant
  application together
• What did they do

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Question 5

• Measurable Outcomes
• Short-term
• Long-term

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Question 6

• Other possible funders
• Has been/will be submitted to
• Amount requested
• Status
• Leveraging information

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Question 7

• Budget
• Supplies/Materials
• Personnel
• Services
• Capital
• Use forms provided

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Question 7

• Neighborhood Match
• Volunteer Time
• Materials
• Services
• Cash
• Use form provided

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Volunteer Labor

• Value
• Clean up 6.85 p/hr
• Youth 6.85 p/hr
• Board/committee members 15.39 p/hr
• Professionals current market/hr

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Considerations

• Severity of the problem and potential for
  immediate impact
• Response must have a public impact
• Matching funds
• Leverage of resources (dollars, volunteers)
• Safe and Clean are the key goals and outcomes
  must be related to one or both

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Resources

• Citizens on Patrol
• CPOP Teams
• Community Councils, Neighborhood Business
  District Association/leaders
• Neighborhood Liaison Officers
• Keep Cincinnati Beautiful 352-4380

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Neighborhood Liaison Officers

• District 1 Steve Saunders
• Stephen.saunders_at_cincinnati-oh.gov
• District 2 Bill Nastold
• William.nastold_at_cincinnati-oh.gov
• District 3 Eric Franz
• Eric.franz_at_cincinnati-oh.gov
• District 4 Julie Johnson
• Julian.johnson_at_cincinnati-oh.gov
• District 5 Jason Voelkerding
• Jason.voelkerding_at_cincinnati-oh.gov

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Application Deadlines

• February 6, 2009
• May 1, 2009
• August 7, 2009
• November 6, 2009
• Due by 500 p.m. at KCB office
• 801 Plum Street, Room 16
• Cincinnati, OH 45202

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Reporting

• First report due half way through project
• Final report due at end
• Process, Results, measured outcomes
• Not providing report forfeits future funding
  possibilities

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Safe And Clean Fund

• Thank you!
• Good luck!
• Linda Holterhoff
• Keep Cincinnati Beautiful
• 801 Plum Street, Room 16
• Cincinnati OH 45202