Applications Submitted for Additional Funding

Local Energy Assurance Planning Grant: $200,000; Application Date: 10/22/09

Funds will be used to develop a Local Energy Assurance Plan (LEAP) that would help the City to: assess its electricity grid and infrastructure; respond to emergencies; identify back up generation needs/opportunities for smart grid applications, renewables, and distributed generation systems. The LEAP would help the City ensure its energy and economic security, and provide a framework to proactively identify and assess clean energy development projects suitable for Newark.

Award Status: Pending

Health Care Sector and Other High Growth Emerging Industries: $4,999,821; Approximate Application Date: 10/5/2009

This funding will be used to support projects that teach workers the skills necessary for them to pursue careers in healthcare and other high growth and emerging industries. The project will include both training and placement services.

Note: this initiative is a consortium lead by Union County Workforce Investment Board, along with Essex County Workforce Investment Board, Essex County College, Union County College and Newark Workforce Investment Board; $2.8m for Union; $2.1for Newark/Essex.

Award Status: Pending

Pathways Out of Poverty: $3,997,802; Application Date: 9/29/2009

Funding will be used to help residents from Newark’s Central and South Wards participate in green job training programs in the following areas: energy efficiency, renewable energy, deconstruction, material use, and other emerging green collar areas. The program will incorporate environmental literacy and basic literacy skills as the foundation for employability.

Award Status: Unsuccessful

TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) Discretionary Grants: $100,000,000; Approximate Application Date: 8/15/2009

Funding will be used for three projects. The first is a “clean fuel bus” public transportation initiative to provide battery electric-powered transit buses and fast charging stations to transit operators in the New Jersey–New York metropolitan region. The second and third projects involve roadway improvements in the Port of Newark area.

Award Status: Pending

Facility Investment Program (FQHC project): $4,996,563; Approximate Application Date: 8/6/2009

This funding will used to provide green jobs training to ex-offenders in environmental restoration and waste handling; urban landscape and forestry; and weatherization and retrofitting.

Award Status: Pending

Green Capacity Building Grant: $100,000; Application Date: 8/5/2009

This grant will expand the City of Newark’s Health Department capacity to provide primary and preventive health services to the medically underserved populations in the City of Newark.

Award Status: Unsuccessful

Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2: $45,400,000; Approximate Application Date: 7/17/2009

Funding will be used to help stabilize neighborhoods that have been heavily impacted by foreclosures. Foreclosed and abandoned properties will be acquired and redeveloped in order to prevent blight and decreases in property value.

City was the lead in a consortium that applied

Award Status: Pending

Early Head Start Expansion: Requested Amount: between $0 and $5,000,000; Approximate Application Date: 7/9/2009

Funding will support an increase in the enrollment of additional children as well as create new teaching and other positions within Early Head Start programs. The project will help develop and support Newark’s youngest residents.

Submitted by various local early childhood agencies

Award Status: Unknown

Strengthening Communities Fund – State, Local and Tribal Government Capacity Building Program: $250,000; Application Date: 7/7/2009

Funds will be used to help governments to provide free capacity building service to faith-based and community-based organizations. The aim is to assist nonprofit organizations in helping low-income individuals secure and retain employment, earn higher wages, obtain better-quality jobs, and gain greater access to State and Federal benefits and tax credits.

Award Status: Unsuccessful

Community Economic Development Project: $800,000; Approximate Application Date: 5/28/2009

Funds will be used to purchase an industrial parcel, demolish the obsolete building on the property, and construct a manufacturing facility. The site will serve as Unionwear corporate headquarters and be used for light manufacturing.

Submitted by Brick City Development Corporation in partnership with Unionwear

Award Status: Successful

Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant: $475,006; Application Date: 4/26/2009

Five additional civilians will be hired to replace sworn police officers who are currently performing or will be performing duties as Crime Scene Identification Officers (3), a Geographic Information Systems Specialist (1) and a Crime Analyst (1). These new hires will allow the City to put more officers on the street, while increasing the Police Department’s analytic and investigative capacity.

Award Status: Unsuccessful

Local Youth Mentoring Initiative: $499,820; Approximate Application Date: 4/20/2009

Funds will be used to support Newark Urban Screens (NUS), an after-school mentoring program, in providing at-risk/high-risk youth from Newark Public Schools with resources to build skills and confidence. Participants will work with an artist on new media art that will be exhibited on a outdoor digital screen.

Submitted by City Without Walls with the City of Newark as a partner

Award Status: Unsuccessful

Brownfield Training Grant: $300,000; Application Date: 4/20/2009

This program will recruit and prepare 75 Newark residents to qualify as workers in a minimum of 3 certified environmental remediation areas. This project will help Newarkers to compete more successfully in this important segment of the emerging green jobs market.

Award Status: Pending

National Youth Mentoring Programs: Requested Amount: Unknown; Approximate Application Date: 4/20/2009

Funding will be used to assist in the development and maturity of community programs to provide mentoring services to populations that are underserved due to location, shortage of mentors, or special physical or mental challenges of the targeted population. The aim is to support programs that have a national scope and national impact on combating juvenile delinquency, reducing the victimization of children, and improving the juvenile justice system through mentoring activities.

Submitted by Big Brother Big Sister of Metro Newark

Award Status: Unsuccessful

National Endowment for the Arts: $50,000; Approximate Application Date: 4/2/2009

Funding will be used to pay the part-time salaries of 68 professional artists who serve as instructors in the Newark Museum’s Arts Workshop, and to underwrite 3 five-week paid residencies for local artists who show promise.

Submitted by The Newark Museum

Award Status: Successful

Brownfields Clean Up Grant: $600,000; Application Date: 11/14/2008;

This project involves the cleanup of a subset of the City’s brownfield sites, which include sites at NSC Plating, Bergen Street, and International Metallurgical Services. Brownfields can be reclaimed for open space, housing, retail and port-related development.

Note: this grant was not originally an ARRA grant, but was made one after passage of the law

Award Status: Successful