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Program for Investment in Microentrepreneurs (PRIME)

The Indy Chamber’s Business Ownership Initiative its BOI was a recipient of the Small Business Association’s Programs in Microentrepreneurship (PRIME) grant, through which it partnered with the Department of Corrections, RecycleForce, PACE, the John Boner Neighborhood Centers, the Martindale Brightwood Community Development Corporation, and others to assist ex-offenders in exploring self-employment as a viable opportunity

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Healthy Homes

The State of Indiana will perform healthy homes assessments in 240 units. The State will partner with the State Department of Health, the Indiana Community Action Association, the Indy East Promise Zone and the Evansville Promise Zone. This funding is supplemental funding that was granted along with the Lead Hazard Demonstration grant funding. The overall

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Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant

The Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant through the Department of Housing and Urban Development provides funding to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately owned rental or owner-occupied housing. the Program is targeted to urban jurisdictions that have at least 3,500 pre-1940 occupied rental housing units. IHCDA will be pairing the Lead Grant

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Reentry Projects Grant

The Department of Labor’s Reentry Projects grant allowed 13 local Financial Opportunity Center (FOC) partners (including the John Boner Neighborhood Centers) to implement LISC’s Bridges to Career Opportunities training and employment plan for formerly incarcerated individuals immediately following their releases.

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Our Town Project

The Arts Council’s “Our Town” project, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, united neighbors, artists, and officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) to develop and implement arts-based interventions to reduce crime in the IndyEast Promise Zone.

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Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants

The FY17 U.S. EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant will provide funding to conduct Phase I and Phase II environmental sites assessments on sites within the Indy East Promise Zone. The assessments will be used to assess the threat of hazardous substances, petroleum, and other contaminants present or potentially present in soil and groundwater at selected sites.

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Accountable Health Communities Model

The Community Health Network Foundation in Indianapolis, in partnership with the Eastside Redevelopment Committee, leveraged funds from the Department of Health and Human Services to reduce health care costs for high-risk beneficiaries who receive navigation services.

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ApprenticeshipUSA State Expansion Grant

Through the Department of Labor’s Apprenticeship USA State Expansion Grant, PEN Industries’ Registered Apprenticeship Program was able to implement pre-apprenticeship programs for offenders serving time in prison.

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BrowNfields Area Wide Planning Grant

A Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant from Environmental Protection Agency allowed NEAR to fund its community-led planning effort addressing the remediation of Sherman Park, informing its future assessment, remediation, and redevelopment in alignment with Promise Zone needs.

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Challenge America

The National Endowment for the Arts’ Challenge America Gran funded a public sculpture commissioned by the Harrison Center for the Arts and created by Quincy Owens and Luke Crawley. Located in the Monon 16 neighborhood, the sculpture was part of a creative placemaking initiative that fulfilled Buy IndyEast subgoals.

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