Manitoba Housing and Community Development

What is Neighbourhoods Alive!?

Neighbourhoods Alive! provides community organizations in designated neighbourhoods with the support they need to rebuild their neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods Alive! recognizes that often the best ideas for neighbourhood revitalization come from the community itself. The aim of Neighbourhoods Alive! is to support community ideas and goals with funding and planning assistance.

Neighbourhoods Alive! works with:

• residents
• community groups
• schools
• businesses and
• other local organizations

Together Neighbourhoods Alive! and community partners build on the strengths and experiences of communities, taking into account the distinctive needs, conditions and priorities of individual neighbourhoods.

 

What are the goals of Neighbourhoods Alive!?

 

 

 

 

Neighbourhoods Alive! is a long-term, community-based, social and economic development strategy that recognizes that building healthy neighbourhoods requires more than an investment in bricks and mortar. As a result, Neighbourhoods Alive! supports and encourages community-driven revitalization efforts in designated neighbourhoods in a number of key areas including:

• housing and physical improvements
• employment and training
• education and recreation and
• safety and crime prevention

What are the Neighbourhoods Alive! programs?

Under the coordination of the Neighbourhoods Alive! initiative, organizations can access funding and other resources that support neighbourhood revitalization efforts. These resources include three programs targeted to designated Neighbourhoods Alive! neighbourhoods: the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, Neighbourhood Development Assistance and Neighbourhood Housing Assistance.

Other resources under Neighbourhoods Alive! include: the Community Initiatives Program, Lighthouses and Training Initiatives. These resources are available to the designated neighbourhoods, as well as wider audiences. Please see more information on each of these resources below.

	Neighbourhood Renewal Fund Provides funding to community organizations for capacity building, stability, economic development and well-being in the designated neighbourhoods.
	Community Initiatives Program Supports initiatives that have a broad impact on Winnipeg's inner city or target specific groups across the inner city.
	Neighbourhood Development Assistance Assists community economic development in the designated neighbourhoods by supporting the formation and operations of democratic neighbourhoods renewal corporations that are locally administered.
	Neighbourhood Housing Assistance Provides financial assistance to support community-based homeownership and renovation initiatives in designated neighbourhoods.
	Training Initiatives Offers a variety of training to targeted residents to provide them with new career opportunities in areas of labour market demand.
	Lighthouses Works to enhance public safety by supporting local communities to provide after-school recreation activities for youth.
	Community Youth Recreation Works to support enhanced youth recreation programming in rural communities.
	Urban Art Centres Provides financial assistance to community-based, not-for-profit arts and cultural organizations delivering annual ongoing arts-based programming, to targeted (underserved or underrepresented and high-need/high-risk) communities in Manitoba.
	School Resource Officers School Resource Officers program works with students, staff and parents to address crime and safety concerns and provides a range of legal services.

How do you apply for the Neighbourhoods Alive! programs?

Download and complete the following application and buget worksheet:

• Neighbourhood Renewal Fund or Community Initiatives program Application Form (.doc)
• Neighbourhood Renewal Fund or Community Initiatives program Budget Worksheet (.xls)
  
  
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Fund or Community Initiatives program Budget Sample (.pdf)

Completed application packages (application and budget) must be submitted to Neighbourhoods Alive! by the intake dates listed below.

The 2011 - 2012 application deadlines for the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and Community Initiatives programs are October 15th, 2011 and April 15, 2012.

What are the Neighbourhoods Alive! communities?

• Brandon City Centre
• Thompson
• Portage la Prairie
• Dauphin
• Selkirk
• Flin Flon
• The Pas
• Winnipeg- 13 neighbourhoods which includes Lord Selkirk Park, Point Douglas, Spence, West Broadway, Willliam Whyte, Centennial, Daniel McIntyre, Dufferin, North Portage, St. John's, St. Matthews, West Alexander, and our newest neighbourhood Elmwood.

The Neighbourhoods Alive! toolbox! will provide you with all that you need to know to apply for funding.

For more information about Neighbourhoods Alive! see our frequently asked questions.

Neighbourhoods Alive! Application Deadlines:

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Contact Neighbourhoods Alive!

Neighbourhoods Alive!
Housing and Community Development
2nd Floor - 406 Edmonton St. (As of June 30, 2011)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2M2
Phone: (204) 945-3379
Fax: (204) 948-1065
Toll Free: 1-866-479-6155
Email: nalive@gov.mb.ca