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On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts. The voting phase ended on Friday, November 11, 2022 and community-based organizations applied for funding to implement the winning projects.
The grant offer awardees are as follows:
Josh's Heart, Inc
Josh's Heart will organize an event on August 12, 2023, in Sacramento, California, which will include various services provided by city, county, and state agencies and organizations, aiming to establish a sense of community for the homeless population and provide them with food, music, community partner support, and self-care opportunities.
Grand Amount: $50,000
Area: South
Sacramento Developer Collective (SDC)
SDC will develop a comprehensive curriculum for a video game design and development program that will introduce basic principles of coding, art, animation, level design, sound, and UI/UX to students of any skill level, using the Unity game engine platform, with a split between instruction and lab, incorporating checkpoints, Q&A tests, and optional assignments, while also utilizing elements of gamification to make the class fun and inspire students to reach their full potential, and allowing each student to customize their games to express themselves in unique ways without causing complexity or deviation from the core instruction of the program.
Grand Amount: $100,000
Area: South
Blackwater Consulting
Blackwater Entrepreneur Academy offers an all-inclusive accelerator program to provide early-stage tech-enabled entrepreneurs from South Sacramento with the tools, opportunities, and subject matter expertise needed to sustain and grow their businesses, including an intensive 16-week program with a tailored curriculum, pitch competition, mentoring, and guidance, as well as free monthly courses for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Grand Amount: $125,000
Area: South
Del Paso Boulevard Partnership
The Del Paso Boulevard Partnership will eliminate junk and debris in blighted areas of the community, recruit at-risk youth for employment opportunities, educate residents on blight abatement programs, provide maintenance supplies to support the project, and measure outcomes through recording the number of residents reached, weight of litter removed, addresses served, and collecting qualitative feedback and visual evidence of improvement.
Grand Amount: $20,000
Area: North
Gardenland Northgate Neighborhood Association (GNNA)
GNNA's "Cleaning and Greening" project will prioritize improvements in Gardenland Northgate and South Natomas areas by implementing successful community participation strategies, hiring youth as team leaders, and partnering with community organizations to assist in clean-up efforts while utilizing various social media platforms to inform the community on upcoming events and taking before and after photos to encourage participation.
Grand Amount: $20,000
Area: North
SunShinezCleaning Inc
The project will successfully implement a marketing and recruiting strategy to access target youth, develop three street cleaning teams consisting of nine youth and one adult professional, assign specific cleanup locations through data collected from residents and community meetings, provide transportation and equipment, a $250 biweekly stipend, a uniform, and a meal after every workday, and aim to encourage the community to keep their neighborhood clean, create a safe space for youth engagement, and earn money for the summer.
Grand Amount: $20,000
Area: North
Del Paso Heights Growers' Alliance
The project aims to increase access to healthy food and create educational opportunities for youth by offering 20 events, including workshops on food production, nutrition, and urban agriculture, as well as establishing a mobile farm stand to promote healthy eating and incentivize youth involvement, all while empowering the establishment of additional community food production spaces and an economic system that empowers youth in the community with sustainable economic opportunities.
Amount: $140,000
Area: North
Construction Industry Education Foundation
The California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (CIEF) is confident in the implementation of its successful programs in North Sacramento and aims to recruit high school students from the region to participate in their Trades Day events, CREATE Mentoring Program, and Design Build Competition, while using funding from Measure U to improve and expand these programs; CIEF also uses rigorous feedback and evaluation processes to monitor and improve their programs, and has set measures of success for Measure U, including engaging four out of five identified schools, certifying 100 students with OSHA-10, and having 75% of final competition and presentation scores above 80%.
Amount: $20,000
Area: North
Play Hard Play Smart Youth Development
The project aims to provide employment opportunities for youth by offering mentorship and on-the-job training, with partnerships in place with companies looking to hire, increasing the likelihood of the interns keeping the jobs they intern at.
Amount: $100,000
Area: North
I am Man Power Academy
UniverSOUL Community café aims to provide classes, work experience, and internships in the food ecosystem, while promoting climate justice through the reclamation of surplus food, distribution of full meals, and reduction of waste, with the goal of hiring and empowering individuals who are hard to employ and demonstrating different career paths within climate justice.
Amount: $100,000
Area: North
Campus Life Connection
Crossover Basketball will expand their programming in Sacramento by offering 26 additional sessions of free basketball camps and mentoring and life-skills seminars to 50 youth, as well as providing summer camp scholarships to 20 youth who would otherwise not be able to participate, with the goal of reducing risk factors that may lead underserved and at-risk youth into making negative choices for their lives, based on successful impact over five years in the School Violence Prevention Program in the Valley Hi area.
Amount: $25,000
Area: North
Hmong Youth and Parents United
HYPU will provide a 9-month mentorship program for students, consisting of monthly meetings where students will learn about city departments and community issues, lead neighborhood cleanups, develop educational materials for distribution, reflect and discuss personal experiences with HYPU staff member Kelley Lee, and give a final report at the end of the program, with each student receiving $864.00 in compensation; the program will begin at the start of the school year and include eight clean up days along a designated route, with each cohort meeting led by different presenters and featuring different topics.
Amount: $25,000
Area: North
The GreenHouse
The GreenHouse will use Measure U funding to provide a year-round internship program for 10th-12th grade students, consisting of mentoring and a recreation leadership internship program, where they will complete 45 hours of hands-on internship training and experience during two internship sessions during the 2023-2024 school year and receive a $400 stipend upon completion.
Amount: $12,000
Area: North
4 YOUR EPIPHANY FOUNDATION, INC.
4YE will partner with Martin Luther King, Jr. Technology Academy to provide its award-winning BluePrint leadership program to 7th and 8th grade students, with a goal of improving their communication skills, character development, and growth mindset through nine weekly sessions facilitated by 4YE staff during the regular school day, ultimately encouraging students to become agents of change in their families and communities; this program is especially important given the impact of COVID-19 on academic normalcy and the rise in mental health challenges, violence, and misbehavior among youth, as well as the ongoing stigma related to mental health challenges, high levels of stress, anxiety, and loneliness, and increased burglary and shooting activity in Sacramento among youth of color.
Amount: $18,000
Area: North
Hope Neighborhood Learning Center
Hope Literacy offers one-on-one phonetic tutoring customized to individual literacy needs, utilizing phonemic awareness activities, phonics-based assessments, and readers, as well as group games and emotional health awareness to enhance social skills and increase confidence, working closely with schools to identify students in need and seeking out any youth who can benefit from their programs.
Amount: $100,000
Area: South
Hope Neighborhood Learning Center
Hope NLC plans to purchase a van and hire a driver to transport students to and from after-school programs at the learning center, replacing the current reliance on adult volunteers.
Amount: $75,000
Area: South
Just Us United, Inc.
JUU Team will serve as a clearinghouse for extracurricular activities in Oak Park, transport unhoused youth and students without transportation to those activities, and provide STEMball sessions and community volunteer events, as well as identifying and training self-motivated youth to become professional drivers.
Amount: $50,000
Area: South
There are five key phases to the participatory budgeting process:
Any Sacramento resident can submit an idea for how to spend part of the $1 million. Ideas can range from a few words, such as “road repairs in X neighborhood,” to extensively researched project proposals. Idea collection will likely take place through multiple submission outlets and activities.
Community members volunteering as Proposal Delegates will review ideas for feasibility with City staff, prioritize projects for the ballot that best meet the goals of the process, and develop the highest priority ideas into fully-fledged proposals. Finalized proposals will includes a detailed description of the project, its expected impact, a cost estimate, and an implementation timeline.
Once the proposals are finalized and placed on a ballot, community members will have the opportunity to vote for their preferred projects. The projects will be ordered based on the highest number of votes and projects will be funded in that order until the entire budget is used up. The results of the vote are then announced publicly.
Because the winning projects do not identify the organizations that will implement those projects, the City will open an application for community based organizations to apply for funding to implement the winning projects.
Once the selected implementing organizations are identified and under contract with the City, the winning projects are then implemented and monitored to ensure they are completed according to the project proposal details.
While any City resident can submit an idea, the ideas that will be prioritized for proposal development and voting must be located in or serve the residents of a focus neighborhood. The $1 million available for the Pilot Program will be evenly split with $500,000 allocated to the North Area and $500,000 allocated to the South Area.
View the eligibility map to see which neighborhoods will be prioritized.
On January 31, 2022, the Measure U Community Advisory Committee approved a playbook to guide the implementation of the Participatory Budgeting Pilot Program and set expectations with residents on how they can participate.
The City encourages residents to watch a past information session to learn more about the process.
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If you have any questions about the Participatory Budgeting Pilot Program, please contact Ash Roughani, Special Projects Manager at aroughani@cityofsacramento.org or (916) 808-7751.
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