Want to Apply for a Hillsborough County Mini-Grant?

Want to plant new shrubs in your neighborhood or facilitate crime prevention programs?

Find out how in a news release below from Hillsborough County officials:

Neighborhood associations located in Hillsborough County and the cities of Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City can now apply for 2012 mini-grants up to $2,500 to improve and strengthen their communities.  The County’s Office of Neighborhood Relations is accepting applications through Friday, August 12 at 5 p.m.

In the past, grant-funded projects have included playground equipment, community festivals, shrub and flower beautification projects, crime watch programs, websites, newsletters, and children’s programs.

Applications for the mini-grants are available on the County’s website at www.hillsboroughcounty.org/onr/minigrant.

Association representatives applying for the grants must view the mandatory mini-grant orientation video before submitting the application.  No applications will be accepted without the Training Video Verification Form acknowledging that it was viewed.  The video reviews the application, grant criteria, projects that qualify for the mini-grant, and the scoring process.  The video and the Training Video Verification Form are available on the County’s website at www.hillsboroughcounty.org/onr/minigrant.  Applicants can  fill out the verification form and then click send to submit it electronically to the County before completing their application.

Applications will be reviewed by the Neighborhood Mini-Grant Evaluation Committee and approved by the Board of County Commissioners.  Only one grant will be awarded per neighborhood association. 

Completed applications will be due on/or postmarked on August 12, 2011. Completed applications may be mailed to Office of Neighborhood Relations, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd., 1st Floor, Tampa, FL 33602, or faxed to (813) 276-2621.

The program is co-sponsored by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, Hillsborough County Children’s Board and the Frank E. Duckwall Foundation within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay.