Strategic Partnership Funds Application Timeline Update The application for Strategic Partnership Funds (SPF) is not open at this time as the City moves to direct these funds towards Closing the Achievement / Opportunity Gap. The application release will be announced via the Community Development email listserv, as well as posted here. To receive email updates about Strategic Partnership funding opportunities, please sign up for your CD Listserv found here. Please direct any additional questions about the Strategic Partnership Fund grant cycle to Nikki Reid, Community & Economic Development. We appreciate your patience as we work through this process to improve the Strategic Partnership Grant efforts. What are Strategic Partnership Funds (SPF)? Strategic Partnership Funds are locally paid for out of the City’s general fund. The Strategic Partnership Fund provides funding for nonprofit organizations that serve Asheville residents. Available funding and funding priorities are determined annually by the Asheville City Council. The Housing and Community Development Committee makes its funding recommendations to City Council. The purpose of the Fund is to directly support the Asheville City Council’s 2036 Vision. Proposals for funding each year must demonstrate how the applicant will directly support this vision. Priority is given to applicants that further the Asheville City Council’s Vision 2036 by: Creating opportunities for economic mobility. Addressing disparities in low-wealth neighborhoods, such as health, housing and educational inequities. Developing partnerships to support Asheville City Schools and programs that close the achievement gap. Improving food security and healthy food availability in food deserts. Providing support for small, local, homegrown and minority-owned businesses. Providing services that directly support affordable housing and increased employment opportunities, such as child care, transportation, and job training 2019-2020 Strategic Partnership Funding Agency and Program: Funding Recommendation: Asheville Writers in Schools and Communities-Word on the Street $7,500 Aspire Youth and Family- Kids at Work $5,000 Council on Aging Buncombe County- Service Coordinator for the City of Asheville $7,500 Hola Community Arts- Latino Partnership Program $3,333 Mt. Zion Community Development-Project Empower/ NAF $5,000 My Daddy Taught Me That-Youth In Public Housing Disparities $21,667 YMI Cultural Center- Restoring the YMI $10,838 YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina- Swim Equity $8,335 Asheville Art Museum Association-Early Literacy Through Art (ELTA) $1,667 Asheville Museum of Science-Closing the Achievement Gap through STEM Learning for Students and Families $10,000 Children First/ Communities in Schools- Claxton Student Support Specialist and Pisgah View $13,333 The Christine Avery Learning Center- CWA Early Learning Program $20,000 One Youth at a Time-Tutoring, Mentoring, and Education $2,662 Partners Unlimited-Academic Enhancement $16,667 Getting Back to the Basics- Community Summer Day Camp $3,167 Read to Succeed- Read to Succeed $9,667 Youth Transformed for Life-R.O.S.E.S. and M.O.S.S $21,667 Buncombe Partnership for Children – Early Childhood Workforce Development $10,667 Pisgah Legal Services-Tenant Eviction Response Program $13,333 Green Opportunities-GO YouthBuild Community Improvement Projects $13,333 YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina-Getting Ahead in a Just Getting By World $3,333 Aspire Youth and Family- Employ Youth $3,333 Community Action Opportunities-Life Works for the Justice Involved $4,000 Just Economics-Removing Barriers to Income Mobility $2,833 OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling-Volunteer Income Tax Assistance $7,333 River Front Development Group- African American Cultural Heritage Project $5,000 Bountiful Cities- Community Garden Network Support $3,333 last update: 8/02/2021