UIC's Great Cities Institute Neighborhoods Initiative and the University of Illinois-Extension are working together on this project supported by a grant from Grand Victoria Foundation to reach communities across the State of Illinois
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The Place Based Approach for Grant Funding

The process of continuous proposal building is cumulative, especially when carried out in collaborative networks where data can be shared, partnerships can be forged, learning can take place, different program areas can be linked, and diverse resources can be leveraged.

Training and technical assistance are most likely to yield federal grants when you are ready for an available federal funding opportunity.

Illinois can best improve the flow of federal resources to projects through continuous, cross-sector planning and proposal building at the regional and community levels

Why Place Matters?
Why Place Matters for Federal Grant Seekers?
Why does place matter? Simply put, places matter because they – towns, neighborhoods, villages, and regions – are the locations where we live, work, raise our families, and gain a sense of community. Places are spaces filled with cultural and personal meaning. Read More Why Does Place Matter?
Grant opportunity
Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant

The mission of the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities is to create strong, sustainable communities by connecting housing to jobs, fostering local innovation, and helping to build a clean energy economy.

This summary was created by Illinois ResourceNet technical assistance providers to help potential applicants quickly find important information in the NOFA, such as eligibility, program goals, and requirements of the applicant collaborative. Additionally, by summarizing the evaluation criteria, this summary provides the basis for creating a work plan that will facilitate the completion of this complex NOFA. Download IRN’s Sustainable Communities Grants Guide (PDF)

View HUD Webinars. This grant is available annually.

Grant opportunity
Promise Neighborhoods

The Department believes that to effectively improve the outcomes for children in distressed communities, schools, academic programs, and family and community supports must include a “place-based” approach, which leverages investments by focusing resources in targeted places, drawing on the compounding effect of well-coordinated actions.

The Promise Neighborhoods program will award one-year grants to support the development of a plan to implement a Promise Neighborhood. At the conclusion of the planning grant period, grantees should have a feasible plan to implement a continuum of solutions that will significantly improve results for children in the community being served.

Promise Neighborhoods, established under the legislative authority of the Fund for the Improvement of Education Program (FIE), provides funding to support eligible entities, including (1) nonprofit organizations, which may include faith-based nonprofit organizations, and (2) institutions of higher education.

Read more about the data sourced from applications submitted for the program:
• View the Summary of Promise Neighborhoods Applications Received 
MS Excel (2.91MB) | PDF (117KB)
• Information about Promise Neighborhoods applicants available on data.ed.gov

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Memo for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on Place-based policies

This guidance memorandum outlines policy principles meant to advance the Administration’s domestic and fiscal priorities and to increase the impact of government dollars by leveraging place-conscious planning and place-based programming.PDFRead More >