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2023/2024 Community Grant Awardees

  1. A Step Beyond
  2. African American Wellness Center for Children & Families
  3. Any Body Can Youth Foundation
  4. Asian Business Association San Diego
  5. Barrio Logan College Institute
  6. Casa Cornelia Legal Services
  7. Chula Vista Elementary School District
  8. Circle TLC Ranch, Inc.
  9. Community HousingWorks
  10. Community Resource Center
  11. Community Wraparound
  12. Crisis House
  13. Depositing Empowerment Through Outreach & Urban Development (DETOUR)
  14. El Toyon Elementary School
  15. Empowering Mentorships
  16. ESCOKIDOS
  17. Fern Street Community Arts, Inc.
  18. Fourth District Seniors Resource Center
  19. Game Face Video SD
  20. GenerateHope, Inc.
  21. Global Communities dba Cooperative Housing Foundation
  22. Harmonium, Inc.
  23. Home Start, Inc.
  24. I Love A Clean San Diego County, Inc.
  25. International Rescue Committee, Inc.
  26. Kathy's Legacy, Inc.
  27. Kids' Turn San Diego
  28. Knox Middle School
  29. La Maestra Family Clinic, Inc.
  30. License to Freedom
  31. Lifeline Community Services
  32. Logan Heights Community Development Corporation
  33. Mano A Mano Foundation
  34. McGowan Advocacy Group
  35. Mind Treasures
  36. Movement Brave Entrepreneur
  37. New Entra Casa Corporation
  38. North County Health Project, Inc, dba TrueCare
  39. Open Heart Leaders
  40. Operation HOPE-North County
  41. Operation Samahan, Inc. dba Opsam Health
  42. Outside the Lens
  43. Paddle for Peace
  44. Palomar College Foundation
  45. Photocharity dba Doors of Change
  46. Playwrights Project
  47. Point Loma Nazarene University
  48. Project AWARE Enterprises, Inc.
  49. Reality Changers
  50. Rise Up Industries
  51. San Diego Parks Foundation
  52. San Diego Second Chance Program
  53. SBCS Corporation
  54. Sharia’s Closet
  55. STAR/PAL
  56. The Alabaster Jar Project
  57. The Grandparents Connection, Inc.
  58. The High Steppers Drill Team, Inc.
  59. The San Marcos Promise dba Project Next
  60. TransFamily Support Services
  61. Travelers Aid Society of San Diego
  62. Urban Restoration Counseling Center
  63. Voices for Children
  64. Women Initiating Success Envisioned, Inc.
  65. Youth Philharmonic Orchestra dba City Heights Music School

Background:
The San Diego County District Attorney's Office is dedicated to supporting organizations with a willingness to help maintain our safe neighborhoods. The DA’s Community Grant Program (CGP) seeks to engage organizations in San Diego County to identify community needs and implement new and innovative methods to address community safety and expand community assets – such as hope and resilience regardless of zip code.

Grant funding up to $50,000 is available to selected organizations to support projects and services over a maximum of twelve (12) months to grow promising community-based solutions that produce positive results in the following focus areas:

  • Youth and Family Support – Solutions addressing the safety of youth and families, including but not limited to conditions or situations that may adversely affect school attendance, education performance, behavioral health, physical safety, or pro-social behavior and engagement. Proposals should demonstrate strategies for addressing and reducing harm through education, or crime prevention and/or intervention programming. Special consideration will be given to proposals that focus on reducing fentanyl use and proposals reducing involvement in groups that adversely impact public safety.
  • Environmental Justice – Solutions addressing a neighborhood’s needs or challenges that without intervention may negatively impact the safe surroundings and atmosphere for all community members. Solutions may include the need for safety infrastructure, neighborhood beautification, enhanced safety measures, and other positive and proactive strategies improving neighborhood surroundings and health.
  • Protecting Vulnerable Youth – Solutions addressing youth involved in illicit drug use, sale, and/or drug trafficking, and youth targeted for human trafficking. There is an increasing and widespread challenge cutting across all demographic sectors to protect vulnerable youth from the dangers and risks of physical, and psychological harm from exposure to illegal activities and criminality. Youth are vulnerable to harassment and exploitation by adults using false promises, manipulation, romantic relationships, and money to lure them into dangerous situations, thereby compromising their future. Proposals should address strategies that protect youth from predatory harm and empower them to choose alternatives to involvement in high risk and dangerous activities.
  • Victim Support – Solutions addressing the needs of primary and secondary victims of crime with the goal of providing programs that are effective, improve outcomes for victims, and lead to a reduction in crime. Requests for victim services are increasing due to changing populations, varying needs and increasingly complex systems that challenge victims and service providers. Proposals should address innovative and dynamic strategies to identify, assess and provide services to victims that are driven by the needs and the voices of victims.

These focus areas were determined in collaboration with stakeholders and community partners and are supported by trends in regional crime data. The District Attorney’s Office is eager and excited to partner with small organizations embedded in communities who may not have had access to grant opportunities previously but are poised to propose innovative and dynamic approaches to addressing the above areas of focus. The District Attorney’s Office is committed to ensuring CGP providers reflect the diverse makeup of the communities we serve.

Funding Requirements:
Applicants may request up to a maximum of $50,000 to be utilized for up to a twelve (12) month period. Organizations must identify the amount of funds requested and ensure the requested funding is reasonable and plausible for the proposed use of funds. Organizations are encouraged to request a funding amount reasonably needed for the proposed use of funds.

Grant funds awarded will be one-time funds intended to provide an opportunity to pilot promising community-based solutions that demonstrate positive results and merit sustainable ongoing funding. Programs that intend to utilize funding as part of a long-term program or project are encouraged to consider a sustainability plan for funding beyond the grant period. Programs that were successful in their first year will be considered and are encouraged to reapply.

Grant funding is intended to implement new programs/projects, or to expand existing programs with new and innovative methods to address community safety in the specified areas of focus. Funds are not intended to supplant or replace existing funding and future funding is based on funding availability and not assured.

Please note that grant agreements will require participating organizations to incorporate evidence-based and/or evidence-informed practices where applicable and will also include periodic reporting of performance measures and program outcomes.

Applicant Eligibility:

  • Organizations with a Business License or a Non-Profit Organization, minimum of one (1) year in operation.
  • Possess all valid industry licenses, permissions, permits, and/or insurances necessary for services proposed.
  • Comply with all laws applicable to wages and hours of employment, occupational safety, and to fire safety, health, and sanitation.
  • Willingness to enter into an agreement with the District Attorney’s Office and meet all contractual obligations identified in the agreement: 1_RFA 23 CGP Agreement.pdf