Seven Sioux City agencies to receive Opportunity Grants
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By Lynn Zerschling Journal staff writer | Posted: Friday, July 25, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- Programs ranging from helping students in after-school projects to neighborhood mediation will receive a boost Monday when city lawmakers award $50,000 in the Opportunity Fund grants.
"They can apply in a number of categories," Cheryl Connot-Perez, neighborhood services supervisor, said today at the mayor's press conference.
Eligible categories were neighborhood beautification, children and youth, fair housing/housing counseling, social services and cultural diversity. The money must benefit people at or below 80 percent of the median family income or the services must be provided in the Greenville, Jones Street or Rose Hill urban renewal areas.
The city received $50,000 from federal Community Development Block Grant funds, but the total of the eight applications submitted needed $118,139, Connot-Perez said. A committee evaluated the applications and recommended the council award grants to the following groups:
-- $5,000 to Big 12 Youth Development for an after school program.
-- $5,000 to Community Action Agency of Siouxland for neighborhood mediation.
-- $9.500 to East Middle School for its Ready, Set, Achieve Club.
-- $5,000 to Goodwill Industries for its Shoes of Love program.
-- $12,000 to Mary J. Treglia Community House for its Community Connection Program.
-- $8,500 to Sioux City Human Rights Commission for fair housing/housing counseling programs.
-- $5,000 to Siouxland Human Investment Partnership for an "Extreme Art" program, for an after-school program at Hunt Elementary School.
"They can apply in a number of categories," Cheryl Connot-Perez, neighborhood services supervisor, said today at the mayor's press conference.
Eligible categories were neighborhood beautification, children and youth, fair housing/housing counseling, social services and cultural diversity. The money must benefit people at or below 80 percent of the median family income or the services must be provided in the Greenville, Jones Street or Rose Hill urban renewal areas.
The city received $50,000 from federal Community Development Block Grant funds, but the total of the eight applications submitted needed $118,139, Connot-Perez said. A committee evaluated the applications and recommended the council award grants to the following groups:
-- $5,000 to Big 12 Youth Development for an after school program.
-- $5,000 to Community Action Agency of Siouxland for neighborhood mediation.
-- $9.500 to East Middle School for its Ready, Set, Achieve Club.
-- $5,000 to Goodwill Industries for its Shoes of Love program.
-- $12,000 to Mary J. Treglia Community House for its Community Connection Program.
-- $8,500 to Sioux City Human Rights Commission for fair housing/housing counseling programs.
-- $5,000 to Siouxland Human Investment Partnership for an "Extreme Art" program, for an after-school program at Hunt Elementary School.
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