on may nineteenth the other human services department in partnership with the department of neighborhoods will be releasing a branch 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 prevention or health it could be a combination it could be one of those we are interested in in groups who could be in a neighborhood group they could be of an organization the key is that they do need to have 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 their you know our focus areas and tell us how much it'll cost so 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 then let people know who is awarded for this 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 people are engaged in doing positive things that's the benefit to the whole community we're looking for community based projects that are addressing education employment justice health and violence prevention or violence prevention could be a combination of those it could be one of those application will be live so when you can access that application it will be may nineteenth the other critical deadline or the other critical date i 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 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 catch 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 in training it could be a 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 and yet they didn't have the resources to do that are fine 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  which we want to hear your ideas and how it supports the community and then you know if you want to restate and the e mail address that would be great  where people can send us questions is through email address which is deep and underscore grants at seattle dot it's very important that people email 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 imagine five ten twenty summer in just a few weeks i may nineteenth or perhaps i should say that in a few weeks on may nineteenth and see other human services department in partnership with the department of neighborhoods will be releasing a branch 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 the 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 o 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 of an organization the key is that they do need to have that school sponsor and by that we mean that it needs to be that 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 their you know our focus areas and tell us how much it'll cost so is the proposal will be about one page and the budget will be about one page so we're really looking at a relatively  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 in order to reply you can drop of throughout the duration down at city into permanent neighborhoods on the fourth floor or you can email it to don underskirt grants at seattle that go before that will be offering in information session on me twenty six in a number of technical systems workshops by portman can find out  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 people are engaged in doing positive things that's the benefit to the whole community we're looking for community based projects that are addressing education employment justice health and violence prevention or violence prevention could be a combination of those it could be one of those application will be live so when you can access that 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 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 catch 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  i'm at your local mosque or place of worship you are ready 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 private 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 and then you know if you want assistance at this email address so we could keep track because can you imagine five ten twenty different questions coming in and so sending it to this email is helpful