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Original grant as submitted

Project Summary

Project Narrative

Area Satellite Map

Project building photos

Possible garden spaces photos

Letters of Support

Madison Urban Ministry

Budget
Included Attachments:

Senior/Key Person Profile

1.   Grant Application Package

2.   Application for Federal Assistance, Research and Related Personal Data

5.   Project / Performance Site Locations
 

15. Research and Related Other Project Information
 

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The origin of this project is in the troubled history of the Allied neighborhood, an area of Madison, Wisconsin consisting exclusively of low income multi-family apartment buildings, with commonly associated problems.

Over the past decade, the City of Madison has invested in improving the neighborhood by purchasing many of the blighted buildings for redevelopment and convening a Task Force of neighborhood residents, neighborhood service providers, and city officials to guide redevelopment.

The germination of this Allied Pride project began a number of years ago as part of the Task Force to help the residents of privately owned apartment buildings take an interest in improving in their surroundings by assisting with landscaping projects around their buildings. It is included in a Safety and Security document generated by the Task Force and approved by the City Council.

Recently, the project has blossomed into a desire to install gardens and do landscaping and maintenance along the right of way of a bike path in the neighborhood, with the encouragement and support of city officials.

We’ve spoken with all of the property owners and have their enthusiastic support.

This project is, of course, just a small piece of the whole, and one that, to this point, doesn’t have funding.

Through the awarding of this grant, we’d be able to help area residents to not only care for their community, but to learn gardening, landscaping, budgeting, time management, and team-building as well.