The City of Eugene 2009 Neighborhood Matching Grant Cycle
Opens August 1st!

Funding is available for neighborhood improvement projects that encourage City residents to collaboratively identify and actively participate in making improvements to their neighborhoods.  Community involvement is a key component of the program and is encouraged by requiring a 50/50 match, coordination with your neighborhood association and documentation of neighborhood support.  The process of bringing people together and building relationships is a key component of any project.  A total of $70,000 is currently available for projects that include, but are not limited to:

• Physical improvement projects that involve recreation or public safety facilities, natural resource features, public art and spaces or community gardens.
• Public school partnership projects that benefit school children and the immediate neighborhood.
• Neighborhood-based events and celebrations.
• Capacity building initiatives that serve to create, diversify or increase participation in a neighborhood-based organization or promote an understanding of issues important to neighborhood residents.

Grant guidelines and application materials are available on this web page and at the Permit and Information Center (Atrium Building-99 West 10th Ave.), all City libraries, the Amazon, Hillyard, Sheldon, and Peterson Barn Community Centers, Campbell Senior Center and River Road Annex. 

Want to learn more?  The following information sessions will be held in the Tykeson Room of the Downtown Library to provide an overview of the grant guidelines and application process: 

• 6:00 pm, Thursday, August 7
• 1:00 pm, Saturday, August 9
• 6:00 pm, Tuesday, September 9
• 1:00 pm, Saturday, September 13

Proposals involving parks or public right-of-way are required to undergo a pre-review by November 14th. Final applications are due on January 30, 2009.