March, 2008
City of Palm Springs Receives Safe Routes to Schools Funding!
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The California Safe Routes to School program has awarded the City of Palm Springs a grant in the amount of $329,400. This award will support community education, increased enforcement of traffic laws, and engineering improvements for four elementary schools in the Palm Springs Unified School District, with the goal of encouraging more students to walk and bike to school. Proposal development included coordination of substantial community input and support.
This is the second successful Safe Routes to School proposal prepared by the Glen Price Group in as many years, in what is a highly competitive funding process. In 2007, a proposal for Safe Routes to School funding for the City of Richmond was awarded a grant of $412,167.
Bay Area Partnership Executive Director Named Woman of the Year
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The Glen Price Group (GPG) is proud to pass along the news that Jennifer Peck, Executive Director of the Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth, has been named California Seventh Senate District “Woman of the Year.” GPG has helped to support the work of the Bay Area Partnership since 2001 and we couldn’t concur more with this well-deserved recognition. See press release.
International Family Justice Center Conference in April
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The Glen Price Group has worked for over three years with the Alameda County Family Justice Center, a one-stop service center bringing together government and community professionals under one roof to provide services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse. We are also working with the Counties of Solano and Sonoma in California and the City of Seattle to study the feasibility of and design new family justice centers. On April 22-24, 2008, the 8th Annual International Family Justice Conference will be held in San Diego, California (see brochure). We’ll certainly be there and we urge everyone with an interest in learning more about this innovative approach to effective collaboration and improved outcomes for victims to attend!
March 2008
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
The City of Richmond received great news in the form of three grant awards totaling $960,000 from the California Governor’s Office of Gang and Youth Violence Policy. The grants will fund programs aimed at gang prevention and intervention, and the development of job training and education programs for youth impacted by gangs. Two City of Richmond departments, the Office of Neighborhood Safety and the Employment and Training Department, each received awards of $400,000 to support programs that include street and school outreach, life skills training, intensive case management, employment training, and supportive services. An additional award of $160,000 to Neighborhood House of North Richmond will enable the organization to offer a similar range of services to young people in the community. A unique feature of the three proposals was the level of collaborative planning involved in their development-the common partners and program elements shared by all will enable these important efforts to be fully integrated with one another. Richmond was one of 18 cities to received funding out of 46 that applied — the $960,000 received by the city was second only to Los Angeles in the size of the total award. The Glen Price Group played a key role in the facilitation of the project partnerships and the development of these three funding applications. (For further information see the press release from the Governor’s office.)
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