Neighborhood Mini Grant Program

Camden Empowerment Zone Corporation (CEZC) is offering grants up to $500 to
assist Camden Empowerment Zone-based community organizations, block clubs,
crime watches, neighborhood associations, and other under-served
stakeholders within the Camden Empowerment Zone. The grants will be used to
address emerging or chronic neighborhood problems. The Camden Empowerment
Zone consists of Cooper Grant, Cooper Point, Central Business District, Gateway,
Lanning Square, Cooper Plaza and Central Waterfront neighborhoods in Camden,
New Jersey.
Examples of eligible projects include:

· Newsletters
· Beautification (trees, flowers, etc.)
· Painting or fix-up (exterior only)
· Neighborhood Cleanup (dumpster, hauling, etc.)
· Neighborhood Fair
· Awards (most improved home, best maintained property, etc.)
· Crime watch
· Capacity Building and Technical Assistance for emerging organizations

The CEZC requests that interested community organizations, block clubs, crime
watches, neighborhood associations, emerging organizations and other stakeholders
within the Camden Empowerment Zone simply submit a brief three-page concept paper
and complete a short application form to be considered for a mini grant to improve the
quality of life in our neighborhoods. The application package is available at the CEZC
offices located at 817 Carpenter St., Camden NJ 08102. To verify if your neighborhood is
within the Empowerment Zone, please click here.
Please call Mr. Darrell Staton at 856.365.0300 for more information..

Cultural Arts- Request for Concept Papers

Through the Cultural Arts Initiative Program, the CEZC seeks to encourage
Empowerment Zone based cultural arts organizations or programs to provide
additional cultural arts services to empowerment zone residents. To accomplish this,
CEZC will solicit concept papers that reflect empowerment zone guidelines regarding
leverage, sustainability and partnerships. An important goal of the program is opening
the grant application process to traditionally underserved stakeholder, and CEZC urges
applicants to reach out within their communities and build partnerships with schools,
social service agencies, private sector organizations, and other institutions. The program
must provide direct cultural experiences and enrichment for CEZC residents.

The Cultural Arts Initiative Program will operate with allocation of $50,000 towards and will
provide grants not to exceed $5,000 per applicant. The application package is available at
the CEZC offices located at 817 Carpenter St., Camden NJ 08102. Please call 856-365-0300 x10
for
more information.

Open Solicitation Program

This Request for Proposals (RFP) is issued by the Camden Empowerment Zone
Corporation (CEZC), a 501 (C)(3) tax exempt, nonprofit corporation. CEZC will solicit
proposals in broad categories that reflect empowerment zone priorities from
Empowerment Zone based nonprofits. The CEZC seeks to encourage empowerment
zone-based nonprofit organizations to identify emerging or chronic problems within their
neighborhoods and propose innovative strategies to address those problems.
Housing development, summer youth, cultural arts and other programmatic strategies
currently funded under existing CEZC programs will not be eligible for consideration.
The maximum award per organization is $5,000.

The Open Solicitation Initiative may include the following projects:
Examples of eligible projects include:

· Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
· Senior Citizen related programs
· Technology related programs/projects for CEZC residents
· Beautification (trees, flowers, etc.)
· Painting or fix-up (exterior only)
· Neighborhood Cleanup (dumpster, hauling, etc.)
· Neighborhood Fair

The application package is available at the CEZC offices located at 817 Carpenter St.,
Camden NJ 08102. Please call Mr. Darrell Staton at 856.365.0300 for more information.
To verify if your organization is within the Empowerment Zone, please click here.
The Open Solicitation Program fund expires March 3, 2003.