Investing in your organization and boosting your impact.
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was created under the Biden Administration to provide direct relief to Americans, contain COVID-19, and rescue the economy. The Neighborhood Opportunities Funds (NOF) was created 1976 by the Detroit City Council to provide grants for public service programs proposed by nonprofit and neighborhood service organizations. This program provides funds to improve the quality of life of low-income residents in the City of Detroit.
Neighborhood Opportunity Fund - ARPA or (NOF-ARPA) aims to help fortify and foster sustainability for small grassroots organizations in the City of Detroit, specifically those that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 or provide programming that addresses negative impacts of COVID-19. The program adopts a two-fold approach:
Funding is available for programs that align with the six priorities, which are: Education, Health, Recreation, Public Safety, Seniors, and Mobility & Accessibility. Applicants will be able to request grants from $10,000.00 to $20,000.00.
Eligible organizations include:
Ineligible organizations include:
Organizations will be given high level technical assistance through each step of the process. All organizations will have access to attend the pre-application information sessions, group coaching sessions and the opportunity to meet 1:1 with a NOF-ARPA staff to help understand and better prepare to submit a competitive application.
Moreover, If awarded a grant, beneficiaries will be provided in-depth training and coaching to help elevate and build your organization.
Pre-application technical assistance sessions were provided to help organizations understand the full application process, qualifications and eligibility, as well as understanding the proposal writing process. Pre-application Grant Overview Sessions were held at the following places and times.
Thank you to all who joined and benefitted from the previous application TA sessions. All awarded organizations will receive continual in-depth technical assistance as beneficiaries once funds are awarded.
NOF ARPA application will be open September 16th, 2024 and close on November 15th, 2024. We encourage all eligible organization to apply early!
ALL QUALIFIED BENEFICIARIES WILL BE AWARDED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASES!
All applications will be available on Submittable an online application portal. Paper applications are not accepted.
PLEASE NOTE: All NOF ARPA applications must be prepared and submitted online via our partner organization SP Grace, LLC.
DISTRICT 1
Sienna Literacy Center
O'Hair Park Community
DISTRICT 2
Detroit Horse Power
Liberian Association of Michigan
New Era Community Connection
Sinai-Grace Guild CDC
Sistah's Reachin' Out
The Natural Momma Me Initiative
DISTRICT 3
Carrie Morris Arts Production/Detroit Puppet Co.
Conant Gardens Neighborhood Development
Grand Parents on the Move Inc,
One New Humanity
RTTM Community Center
Emerging Training Industries
S&D PJ Housing
Alkebulan Village
Empower My Future
DISTRICT 4
Camp Restore
New Beginnings Community Development
DISTRICT 5
Bailey Park Project
Bethel Community Transformation Center
Big Brothers Big Sisters- Southeast Michigan
Family Assistance for Renaissance Men (F.A.R.M.)
Stafford House
Detroit Power Detroit
Embassy Community Development Center
Friends of the Children-Detroit
Ladies Entrepreneur Empowerment Circle
Student Advocacy Center
The Black Bottom Group / Blast Detroit
DISTRICT 6
Clark Park Coalition
Avalon Healing Center
Citizen Robotics
DISTRICT 7
Our Community Bridge
Creative Movement Brazil
Premier Quality Health Center Inc.
The Davos Foundation
The Larkin House
Detroit Association of Black Organizations
Sistahs Reachin’ Out (SRO), the Career and College Access Center (CACAC) is a community resource that offers:
Thier goal is to upskill both student and adult learners in our Detroit community toward equally preparing them to access transformative educational and employment opportunities. Take a look at one of their recent opportunities and collaborations with another City of Detroit department.
EITI conducted intensive essential (soft) skill and financial literacy training for roughly 50 residents who live in District 3. Through intensive essential development, EITI educates residents on the following skills that assist in job attainment and retention: Communication strategies, dressing for success, interpersonal skill development, networking, self-awareness, goal setting, problem solving, teamwork, diversity and inclusion. Take a look a look at the video of their most recent training that was supported through the NOF ARPA grant fund.
https://youtu.be/Pzo2iIrOiGw?si=KKQSDCBm20HSeH6T
Learn more about NOF-ARPA by watching our overview animation
https://youtu.be/nGHCXapmjtU
Round One Success Story - Emerging Industry Training Institute
https://youtu.be/a7k9dFh7gNI
NOF/ARPA Beneficiary Training - 9/19/23 - ORACLE INVOICING
NOF-ARPA is a grant fund available for organizations that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 and has programs that address the negative impact to COVID-19.
Applicants can request funding from $10,000 to $20,000.
No. Home repairs or construction projects are ineligible for NOF ARPA grant funds.
Small Non-profit organizations with 501c3 status should apply for this grant opportunity.
Yes. If you are a non-profit organization but do not have a 501c3, you can partner with a fiduciary that has a 501c3 and apply.
Yes. If you are operating as a fiduciary for another applicant, but your organization also has a different program that qualifies for this grant fund, you may apply also.
Only one application should be submitted for the proposed program. However, it will require collaboration between the two organizations. It is best practices to clearly identify which information corresponds to which organization in the narrative of your application.
Because fiduciaries serve as trustees and the smaller organizations or LLC's will operate as program administrators, all of the general organizational history, and its financial management systems should represent the fiduciary.
However, all information regarding the funded program/project, how it's managed and if the program has received other funding should come from the smaller organization/program administrator.
Unfortunately, No. Both entities partnering must be non-profit, tax exempt or community organization.
These funds are received through the American Rescue Plan Act, therefore it is considered a federal grant program. NOF ARPA grant recipients are considered federal beneficiaries. As a beneficiary you must have a federal Unique Identifier number and be considered active organization to receive funds for this program. In order to do this you must apply for registration on Sam.gov.
No. According to federal guidelines, these funds cannot be used to provide gifts or donations. Stipends, gift cards, gas cards etc. are ineligible costs.
Per federal guidelines, you can only use 10% of the grant funds toward operational administrative costs.
This is slides from NOF ARPA application workshop PowerPoint presentation.
NOF/ARPA Beneficiary Training - How to invoice in Oracle
NOF ARPA Beneficiary Orientation Video Part 2
NOF ARPA Beneficiary Orientation Video Part 1
NOF/ARPA Best Practices Presentation Slides 11/17/22
2024-2025 NOF-ARPA Information Packet
