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Choice Atlanta Leverages HUD Choice Neighborhood Grant to award microgrants enhancing the University Choice Neighborhood
The very fabric of the Atlanta University Community Neighborhood (UCN) is being strengthened as Choice Atlanta announced the award of $50,800 in microgrants to support programs that will improve the social, physical and economic outcomes of the community. HUD Southeast Regional Administrator Denise Cleveland -Leggett joined in the recent celebration at the grand opening of the John H. Harland Boys and Girls Club emphasizing that progress is being made in the community, leveraging the HUD Choice Neighborhood funding while also recognizing that there remains more work to be done. Choice Atlanta in an official release announced that 14 organizations received a total of $50,800 to support programs that advance the former University Homes and including Ashview Heights, Vine City and the Atlanta University Center Neighborhood, collectively known as the University Choice Neighborhood (UCN). The microgrants support the UCN and its residents in seven areas: 1) youth empowerment; 2) healthy living; 3) arts and place-making; 4) public safety; 5) capacity building; 6) history/heritage; and 7) food ecosystems. The UCN Microgrant program was originally launched in 2012 using Atlanta Housing's Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant, funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Since the program's inception, grants totaling more than $180,000 have been awarded to 53 recipients. "With the first round of microgrants, we saw the impact that organizations could have on the community and its residents using small grants of $500 to $3,000. In subsequent years, we've continued to focus on our mission and have used the microgrant program to help worthwhile organizations have an even greater impact on physical, social and economic outcomes in the area," said Susan Evans, director of Choice Neighborhoods. "This year, we are excited to have had such competitive applicants and to have awarded microgrants to community-based businesses, non-profits and civic groups with initiatives that promise to have such a positive impact." The 14 recipients of UCN Microgrant 5.0 awards and brief descriptions of their projects follow:
The Atlanta Business Chronicle recently reported that the John H. Harland Boys and Girls Club is a first-of-its-kind Boys & Girls Club opened March 4 in the West End community. The John H. Harland Boys & Girls Club: The Innovation and Expression Studio will seek to enrich the lives of its youth with a broad array of arts, cultural and creative opportunities. The $9 million club replaces the old Harland Club that was on the site at 434 Peeples St. S.W. for more than 50 years. "There's not another one like this in the United States among Boys & Girls Clubs," said Susan Ward (https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/search/results?q=Susan Ward), chief accounting officer at United Parcel Service, who is in her second year as chair of the Metro Atlanta's Boys & Girls Clubs. "The kids really love it. There's a wow factor." U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in September 2015 announced during an event in Atlanta with over 150 partners and community leaders that Atlanta was awarded $30 million to redevelop severely distressed public housing and revitalize the University Choice Neighborhood which is also the former home of demolished University Homes public housing development. ### |
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