New! Announcements and Opportunities

MetLife Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) 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.

Awardees will receive monetary grants ranging from $15,000 to $30,000.

Preliminary Application Deadline: March 11, 2012 (11:59 p.m. EST)

The grant categories (2) include:

Neighborhood Revitalization Awards (Five at $20,000-30,000): These awards celebrate exemplary collaboration between community groups and police that yields crime reduction as well as economic development outcomes, such as real estate development, business attraction and job growth.

Special Strategy Awards (Five at $15,000): Community and police partners who have achieved significant accomplishments in one of the following areas will receive awards:

• Applied Technology
• Aesthetics and Greenspace Improvement
• Diversity Inclusion & Integration
• Drug Market Disruption
• Gang Prevention & Youth Safety
• Seniors & Safety

Please visit the following link for more information on the grant categories, previous award grantees, and the full RFP/application:  http://www.lisc.org/metlife