Mazer Grant Program
April 2009 Grant Round
The City of Montpelier is pleased to announce another round of funding with a Mazer Foundation grant the city received in 2008. The Mazer grant program provides funding for activities in five key areas of sustainable community development: social well-being, participatory governance, economic security, efficient services and infrastructure, and environmental integrity. Grant applications must demonstrate the ways in which they help the city achieve the vision and goals for the enVision Montpelier program the City Council adopted in August of 2008. Applications are available on the city's web site - concept papers are due March 20, and final applications are due April 24th.
Summary
The Grant that the City has received from the Mazer Foundation provides funding to implement the recommendations that result from the stakeholder group's work in the five key areas of sustainable community development:
- social well-being
- participatory governance
- economic security
- efficient services and infrastructure
- environmental integrity
Projects must include consideration of at least one these issues, and priority will be given to proposals that demonstrate strategic leverage toward changing the underlying systems at work in our city.
Changing systems involves more than direct service or problem-centered projects. One way to determine if your project meets this important goal is to ask whether what you are proposing creates a new way of doing things, rather than just patching up the old way so that it works better. Are you building on one of the city's assets, or spending a lot of time and energy fixing a "problem."
Grant Application Process
Individuals and organizations interested in applying for funding from the Mazer grant program are encouraged to contact the Department of Planning and Community Development for guidelines on the application process, or to download a copy of the application materials by clicking on the link below.
