2025 Neighborhood Improvement Project Grants
Love Your Block is a City of Jackson program that offers mini-grants for residents and community groups to support projects that beautify and unite our neighborhoods, combat blight, and strengthen community pride.
The Love Your Block program is currently accepting proposals from businesses, non-profits, churches, high schools, colleges, and community groups for Neighborhood Improvement Projects. Successful proposals will include projects that will accomplish one or more of the following:
- Activate underutilized spaces
- Create community meeting and recreation spaces
- Beautify residential or commercial areas with public art
- Support neighborhood relationship building
- Celebrate culture and heritage
- Encourage volunteerism and community engagement
Neighborhood Improvement Project grantees will appoint a team and project lead, conduct community outreach to inform the public of their project, recruit volunteers from the neighborhood, plan their project timeline, purchase supplies, and organize a project workday(s) to complete the project.
Grantee teams will be awarded grants up to $5,000 to support their projects. The grant categories are as follows: four grants of up to $1,000, two grants of up to $2,500, and two grants of up to $5,000. Applicants should only apply for the grant amount that fits their projects the most. While each grantee team will receive support and guidance from the Love Your Block program staff, grantee leads will be responsible for the majority of the project management for their individual projects. Winning grantees will be announced in early October 2025. Projects are expected to be completed by the beginning of April 2026, with the exception of murals, which are expected to be completed by mid-May 2026.
For more information select the links below:
SELECT HERE TO DOWNLOAD RFP
SELECT HERE TO COMPLETE APPLICATION