services department in partnership with the department of neighborhoods will be releasing a grant opportunity for community members to apply for we have seventy five thousand dollars for anyone in the community to provide projects that are focusing on the east african and african american young men ages eighteen to twenty four years old and we are really encouraging grassroots community based organizations or community members to suggest projects that they would like to develop this summer time period is where we want the projects to occur is between july twenty second through october thirty first so we want the projects to begin and in july through october and that will be the contract period for those who are awarded the funding and  what we're looking at are grassroots projects that are going to address anything from education employment justice violence prevention or health it could be a combination it could be one of those  we are interested in in groups who could be a neighborhood group they could be have an organization the key is that they do need to have the school sponsor and by that we mean that it needs to be there needs to be just a sponsor who can accept the city and dollars and you know that you're a fiscal sponsor if you have a tax id number we are looking for projects that are going to be within the city of seattle and the range of that seventy five thousand each project will be about five to fifteen thousand so we want you to tell us what your project idea is what it's going to look like the benefit to the community and you know our focus areas and tell us how much it'll cost so it the proposal will be about one page and the budget will be about one page so we're really looking at a relatively simple grant opportunity for anyone to complete and submit and then we'll review it will rate it and that will let people know who is awarded so i want to restate a couple very important points one is we want people to apply for the spending opportunity we are looking for your project ideas we want projects that work with east african african american young men ages eighteen to twenty four years old we are thinking and people are engaged in positive things that's a benefit to the whole community we're looking for community based projects that are a dressing education employment justice health and violence prevention or violence prevention could be a combination of those it could be one of those application it will be live so when you can access th application it will be may nineteenth the other critical deadline or the other critical date is the deadline and the proposals are due in june twentieth at twelve pm it is so important that the proposals are submitted on time we cannot accept any late proposals so june twentieth twelve o'clock please consider traffic if you're going to drive but email is really a good way for you to submit and do it early so i can share some examples but here's the cab i want to share an example but i want you to be creative and you didn't think the community didn't think good project ideas one example could be a locally owned business who would like to offer paid internships for a group of young men and think about it like pre employment or and claim and training it could be in around a specific skill it could  be just you know what is it to work in a professional environment that that's something that the fans can support some other projects that could be what if an at your local mosque or place of worship you already have an existing young men's group but people have really wanted to move forward with the project idea but didn't have the resources to do that our own source between again five and fifteen thousand dollars so it could be five thousand your budget is five thousand and it could be seven thousand within that range can support things like materials maybe a guest or teaching artist it could be that software that you really need so those are some examples in which we want to hear your ideas and how it supports the community it's very important that people e mail with questions or ask us about project ideas or whatever they want to know to sign up for those when i want technical assistance at this email address so we can keep track because can you when there were three of us three friends we gathered in our waters three forks at the continental divide our blood running the way of rivers along the banks we named our