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Are you or someone you know helping the Milwaukee community during COVID-19? Apply for Love Your Block MKE's Caring Community Mini-Grant for the chance to receive up to $500 to continue your work!

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We encourage people to apply if they are:

  • Sewing face masks

  • Making CDC-approved hand sanitizers

  • Creating something that benefits the well-being of their neighbors' physical, mental and/ or emotional health (qualifying projects are to the review committee's discretion).

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Google Form Application
 
PDF Form Application 
*Please print, fill out and email completed PDF application to loveyourblock@milwaukee.gov*
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Rules and Conditions:

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  • This mini-grant is not to be used to start a project. This money is to be used to purchase supplies TO CONTINUE projects that are helping the community during COVID-19

  • This money is not for personal use/ finances 

  • This is a REIMBURSABLE mini-grant. Love Your Block MKE will reimburse you the costs of materials after receiving proof of purchase & photographic proof of the end product and it being distributed in the community. 

  • A total of $2,500 of Mini-grant funds have been set aside. The maximum amount of each individual mini-grant is $500. 

  • Applying does not guarantee mini-grant funds.

  • Efforts must be geared towards local residents. For example: if making face masks or hand sanitizer it must be directed towards community members such as neighbors, the elderly, restaurants, grocery store employees, etc. 

  • All applicants including those who received the mini-grant and those who did not but applied who share their amazing and positive stories about how they are helping the community will receive a mention on our social media (instagram and facebook) and on Love Your Block MKE's website

  • Mini-grants will be awarded as they are approved and accepted. The last day to submit an application (as funding allows) is May 29, 2020. 

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*Applications positively affecting the Targeted Investment Neighborhoods (TINs) will be given highest priority, but others are encouraged to apply! List of TINs can be found below:

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Brody

N 55th to 60th St,

Silver Spring to Carmen Ave

Century City

N 27th St to N 36th St,

W Burleigh to Capitol Dr

Clarke Square

Cesar Chavez Dr to 24th St,

Greenfield to Scott

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Harambee North

Holton to 2nd,

Burleigh to Concordia

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Roosevelt Grove

N 36th to 40th St,

W Concordia to Nash

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Tri-Block

N 51st St to N 56th St,

Center St to W Burleigh

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Walker Square

S 9th to Cesar Chavez Dr,

Greenfield to Pierce

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Washington Park

N 32nd to N 35th,

W Galena to Lloyd St

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West Burnham Park and Silver city

S 35th to S 41st St,

W Lapham to Scott St

Obligations of mini-grant recipients

If you are awarded the mini-grant you will need to do the following:  

  • Take pictures of the process: before, during and after

  • This is a reimbursable mini-grant. ALL receipts MUST be scanned and emailed BY June 30, 2020. 

  • Pictures of the final products and them being distributed to the community must be submitted with the receipts in order to be reimbursed.  

  • These items can be submitted to loveyourblock@milwaukee.gov
    or mailed to:

ATTN: Love Your Block MKE
809 N. Broadway, 3rd Floor
Milwaukee, WI 53202

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