Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program FY 1999 Grantee

PRATT INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, NY -- $150,000

Pratt Institute will receive a Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program New Directions Grant of $150,000 to continue its outreach activities in several communities in the South Bronx. As a recipient of a Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program New Grant in FY 1994, Pratt provided outreach assistance in Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York, and Southwest Brooklyn. This New Directions Grant will enable it to work with community groups in the Melrose, Hunts Points, and Soundview neighborhoods. The revitalization strategy Pratt will use will focus on the social, economic, and environmental implications of these neighborhoods' mosaic of mixed industrial and residential land uses, and the area's longstanding role as a regional transportation corridor.

Community partners have requested assistance in:

• Creating additional public access to the waterfront to provide recreational opportunities for residents;

• Reclaiming brownfields for housing, open space, and sustainable economic development;

• Supporting the area's small manufacturers and attracting new investment;

• Nurturing the area's cultural resources for their potential to attract visitors and local workers and residents; and

• Developing and mobilizing the area's youth leadership as an essential resources to all the strategies for community revitalization.

Contact: Ron Shiffman, 718-636-3486

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