OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Mayor Jean Stothert announced this year’s Neighborhood Grant winners on Friday.
Applications were due March 3.
“The Neighborhood Grants program encourages innovation and collaboration,” Mayor Jean Stothert said in January news release announcing that applications were open. “We have funded many worthwhile projects that promote safety, community pride and participation in neighborhood activities.”
- ABIDE
- Neighborhood spring cleanup
- $4,700
- Balla Machree
- Traffic calming signs, trees
- $1,050
- Bemis Park
- Renovation of tennis and pickleball courts
- $5,000
- Benson First Fridays
- Alley safety improvements
- $5,000
- Benson Neighborhood Association
- Beautify Benson initiative
- $3,815
- Escalante Hills
- Rehabilitation of the tree canopy
- $1,657
- Field Club North
- ADA compliant picnic tables along the field club trail
- $5,000
- Free Farm
- Equipment for food hubs
- $5,000
- Global Leadership Group
- Community garden upgrades
- $5,000
- Gramercy Park Collective
- Trees, free little libraries, dog waste stations
- $4,992
- Highlander Neighborhood Association
- Highlander movie night series
- $5,000
- Hillsborough Neighborhood Association
- Restroom facility enclosure in the neighborhood park
- $5,000
- InCommon
- Community Garden and community space
- $4,290
- Joslyn Castle Neighborhood Association
- Clarkson Park swings
- $4,442
- Leawood Southwest
- Neighborhood lighting
- $3,140
- Miller Park- Minne Lusa Neighborhood Association
- Safety enhancements for Halloween on the Boulevard
- $3,680
- Mission Park Homeowners Association
- Landscaping for the entrance to the Mission Park Soccer Field
- $3,970
- Montclair, Trendwood, Parkside, Georgetown Neighborhood Associations
- Playground renovations
- $5,000
- Piedmont – Wycliffe Neighborhood Association
- Citizen patrol uniforms
- $602
- Peony Park Neighborhood Association
- Community Garden upgrades
- $3,255
- Rambleridge Neighborhood Association
- Pond improvements in the park
- $5,000
- Seventy-five North
- The Highlander Marketplace
- $5,000
- Sunny Slope, Sunny View Neighborhood Association
- Solar lighting for the park shelter
- $5,000
- The Union for Contemporary Art
- The Abundance Garden
- $5,000
- Walnut Ridge, Elk Creek Crossing, Stone Ridge Citizen Patrol
- Omaha coalition of Citizen Patrol shirts
- $407
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