Applications are now available for the 2010 Maintenance Matching Fund Program provided by Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI). This program awards qualified LANI organizations of up to $3,000 to fund the cost of maintaining past completed projects. Organization must match 50% of the requested amount through volunteer labor, grants, and/or donations of cash, materials or supplies, and professional services.
The following are eligibility information from the Frequently Asked Questions of the application packet:
· Does the proposed maintenance project have to be a LANI improvement?
No, it does not. Although an applicant neighborhood MUST be a LANI neighborhood, the improvement proposed for maintenance does not have to be an improvement originally funded or implemented by LANI.
· What constitutes being a LANI neighborhood?
Being a LANI neighborhood means that your community went through the LANI process of organizing a Recognized Community Organization (RCO), developing a Community work Plan and receiving LANI funding to make public improvement in your community in 1994, 1997, 2000 OR that LANI funding has been used to make improvements in your community and a steering committee or stakeholder group has been established. LANI neighborhoods are listed in the application forms (also provided on this map). Applications will be denied if applicant community is not a LANI neighborhood.
· What constitutes being an eligible organization?
Eligible organizations fall into three categories. Applicant organization must:
1) Be the original LANI RCO; or
2) Be the stakeholder group or steering committee established for implementation of a LANI project; or
3) Be an established organization in a LANI neighborhood that works to achieve our same goals of neighborhood revitalization. Neighborhood councils are eligible organizations.
Funding can be used to pay for the following:
- Maintain or repair an existing neighborhood improvement,
- Maintenance service, or
- Replacing minor low-cost improvements
The last date to submit an application is October 29, 2010. For the complete guidelines and application, please click here.
If you have questions regarding this program, please contact Rebecca Draper, Director of Neighborhood Improvement Projects at (213) 627-1822 x16 or by email at rebecca@lani.org.
