Rhodes-Plough Grant Partnership
Leadership Development Grants for Your Street
Transforming Memphis Neighborhoods while
Transforming Rhodes
You Are Invited….
VECA and Rhodes are inviting Vollintine Evergreen residents to develop projects in our neighborhood blocks. We are excited to help support you in your efforts to build community and neighborhood engagement.
FAQS:
What is the name of the program? It is called Transforming Memphis Neighborhoods while Transforming Rhodes proposal for Leadership Development Block Grants
What is the program? A collaboration between VECA and Rhodes College will make funding available for projects at the block level or several blocks.
This is an opportunity for residents to address a particular concern or issue in their section of the VECA neighborhood. Residents should use their imagination and talk to others about what is needed. There are many other possibilities beyond the sample list provided below.
What is required once the grant is made to a group?
- The group needs to do what it said it would do in the proposal.
- The residents working on the project are asked to take photographs of their work and come to an event at the VECA Welcome Center at which all of the projects are displayed.
- Request for funds will be made to the Rhodes Project Manager who is located at the VECA Welcome Center, 1680 Jackson.
How do we apply for funds? The application can be handwritten or typed—an electronic copy is available below. Hard copies of the application are available at the VECA Welcome Center at 1680 Jackson Avenue.
Downloads:
Grant application in Microsoft Word 97
Grant application in Microsoft Word 2007
Leadership Development Grants information brochure
Procedures for Payment brochure
Is help available in writing the application? Help will be available for any group wanting assistance writing the proposal. A person can come to your street to meet with several people or you can come to the VECA Welcome Center.
Ideas for Funding:
- Sponsoring Dumpster Day, a multi-street cleanup
- Trimming and maintaining over-grown trees and shrubs
- Creating and preserving a public flower garden
- Working with police to identify crime issues
- Compiling a street phone list
- Doing cleanups of the street, sidewalks, and properties—even cleaning out the garages
- Cleaning vacant houses and lots
- Boarding vacant houses or paint the boards on vacant houses
- Sponsoring Neighborhood Watch meetings
- Improving City services
- Sponsoring annual block picnics and other social events on the block
- Supporting National Night Out
- Installing neighborhood signs to enhance neighborhood identity
- Planting visible trees and flower gardens
- Adopting a vacant house or lot—purchase mower or weed eater
- Planting a community garden on a lot
- Working on neighborhood crime prevention – leaflet or informational campaign
- Cleaning up alleys owned by the city
- Helping an elderly neighbor by cleaning up around the house
For assistance, questions and concerns:
Call 901.276.1782 (VECA)
Call 901.843.3226 (Rhodes)
Go to the VECA Welcome Center
1680 Jackson
Email: veca@veca.org
Send your application to one of the following:
The Vollintine Evergreen Community Association
Attn: Leadership Development Block Grants,
1680 Jackson Avenue
Memphis, TN 38107
Rhodes College
Attn: Leadership Development Block Grants
2000 North Parkway
200 Palmer Hall
Memphis, 38112
Email Attachment to:
veca@veca.org
Attn: Leadership Development Block Grants
