March, 2009
The City of Richmond Receives Additional Gang Prevention Funding
Friday, March 27th, 2009
The City of Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety has learned that it will receive a grant of $400,000 from the Gang Reduction, Intervention, and Prevention initiative (CalGRIP) of the California Office of Emergency Services. The announcement was made by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at a press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 26, 2009.
The CalGRIP initiative was introduced by the Governor in May of 2007 to confront the dramatic increase in gangs across the state and their proliferation in suburban and rural areas. With assistance from the Glen Price Group, City departments and Richmond community organizations applied for and were awarded a total of $900,000 in grants during the first CalGRIP funding cycle. The 2009 award is part of a total of $9.2 million in competitive grants that were awarded to 17 cities and 13 community-based organizations across the state in areas with heavy concentrations of gangs.
The 2009 CalGRIP proposal builds on the previous success of the Richmond Community Wellness Collaborative (RCWC), a partnership between the City of Richmond, community-based organizations, and Contra Costa County, by adding new project partners and expanding job readiness and training services to a broader population of individuals in Richmond and unincorporated North Richmond. Office of Neighborhood Safety Director Devone Boggan has also expressed his excitement about the opportunity to work with the California Wellness Foundation, the California Endowment, and Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region: Community Benefits Program, who have all committed to technical assistance in this cycle of funding. The Glen Price Group was delighted to be a part of this proposal development effort.
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Tips for Staying On Top of Federal Stimulus Funding Opportunities
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Based on extensive work with our clients, we have written a short primer on conducting research on federal stimulus opportunities.
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World Wildlife Fund and CARE Launch Strategic Alliance Planning
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
In January 2009, CARE and WWF began implementing a systematic effort to build new joint capacity through the development of a strategic alliance, building upon lessons learned and the foundation created by previous collaborative efforts.
To further this work, representatives of the two organizations met in Maputo, Mozambique from the 23-26 of February 2009 with the following purpose: Initiate creation of an overarching, bold new vision for conservation and development and an initial action plan for the CARE-WWF Strategic Alliance.
This workshop builds on the agreement made between CARE and WWF to develop an important new initiative in East and Southern Africa. The initiative will address escalating threats to landscapes and to the livelihoods of the people who depend on them. A starting point for the alliance’s work is the understanding that while past actions have yielded significant benefits, they have not kept pace with or matched the scale of these growing threats or the breadth of potential opportunities.
The workshop successfully produced a draft vision, criteria for selecting geographies/issues for future work, identified a specific geography for initial analysis work, developed a work plan for the initial analysis, conceptualized a framework for a longer-term analysis project, and convened a Creative Ideas Laboratory which articulated a number of conceptual possibilities for Alliance programs/initiatives that could yield significant impact and exposure
Working together with the WWF/CARE Team, the Glen Price Group was delighted to design, facilitate, and document the Maputo workshop. We’ll be working with the team over the course of the next year to support the development of this strategic alliance and we’re looking forward to great things!
Workshop Participants Take a Break for a Group Shot!
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