Resources for applicants of the Elevation Grant Program
The Elevation Grant Program (previously the Violent Crime Reduction Grant Program) will invest $45 million in neighborhoods over the next three years to address root causes of violent crime in Indianapolis through neighborhood empowerment and community building. The revitalized initiative was conceived with unprecedented community input, leading to a new name and a commitment to elevating community abundance over challenges.
Learn more about The Elevation Grant Program
Multiple opportunities and events are available to help answer questions about the program, federal funding requirements, and assist in grant applications.
View the slide deck from the previous information sessions. Or watch the full recording of one of those sessions.
We also hosted a special session on focused on budget development. View that slide deck. Watch that recording here.
Grantmaking clinic to assist with the application:
registration is now closed.
The Indianapolis Foundation hosted several grant preparation clinics for the previous round to provide application assistance. Please reference the following resources, which were shared as a part of these clinics.
Watch the full recording of a grantmaking clinic
Various handouts were distributed at the clinics, including:
- Elevation Grant Program-Round 2 Application
- Data Resources Websites Document
- Elevation Grant Clinic Powerpoint
- Active Verbs for Grantwriting Document
- Elevation Grant Program Budget Template
- Elevation Grant Program Budget – EXAMPLE
- How to Calculate Fringe Benefits
- 2022 Elevation Grant Program Performance Measures
office hours
Hector Morales Hernandez, grants coordinator at CICF, will also provide office hours to assist with the online grant system. All office hours will be available by Zoom:
- Thursday, July 21 from 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Meeting ID: 885 7583 5342
- Friday, July 22 from 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Meeting ID: 868 1472 6401
additional Resources
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Reference copy of Elevation Grant Program application for round two
- Glossary of terms
- The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
RELATED WEBINARS
COMMUNITY-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION
- Community-Based Violence Prevention partnership toolkit—City of Indianapolis
- No More Red Dots—organization in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Preventing Youth Violence: Opportunities for Action—CDC
- Taking Action to Prevent Youth Violence—CDC
- Preventing Violence Among High-Risk Youth and Communities with Economic, Policy and Structural Strategies—CDC
- Proven Solutions to Urban Gun Violence—Giffords law Center
- Interventions for Reducing Violence and its Consequences for Young Black Males in America—report from Cities United
- Group Violence Intervention
RISK & PROTECTIVE FACTORS
- Gun Violence and Youth— Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Risk & Protective Factors—youth.gov
- Parental Resilience: Protective & Promotive Factors— Center for the Study of Social Policy
- Protective Factors Against Delinquency— Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
CDC ONLINE TRAINING
- Connecting the Dots: Exploring the overlaps between multiple forms of violence and working towards collaborative prevention
- Principles of Prevention: Learn about effective strategies for preventing violence before it happens
- STRYVE—Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere