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CALENDAR YEAR 2022 CITYWIDE
GRANT ACTIVITIES REPORT
City Council
February 21, 2023
Office of the City Manager
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2 • Envision Riverside 2025 Strategic Plan - Priority
Goal 1.1 – “Fund development” benefitting arts, culture, and recreation
Goal 5.4 – Maintain fiscal health by addressing gaps between revenues and expenditures
Goal 6.3 – Identify and pursue new and unique funding
opportunities for infrastructure programs that meet community needs
• Grant Program Design
• Partnering, community engagement and storytelling
• Citywide Grant Administrator Hired (2021)
• Updated Grants Administration Policy (2022)
• Supplement efforts with Grant Writer Panel (2022)
• Monthly “Grant Call”
• Continue supporting internal team of experts
• Sharing successful ingredients and lessons learned
• Connecting dots and opportunities for synergy
GRANTS BY DESIGN
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3 • 4 City Departments and
5 Outside Community Partners
• Grant Request: $1,750,000
• Application Time in Production:
6 Months
• Community Van Tours: 1 Tour
• Required Pre-Proposal:
1 Submitted (15 Pages)
• Planning Team Meetings:
Approximately 20 (hour-long)
Large grant application processes are often very complex and involve multiple partners and activities needed to submit funding applications • 20 Individuals across all organizations
• Community Outreach Events:
3 Community Meetings
• Coordinated Letters of Support: 16
• Application Review Drafts: 4 rounds
• Required GIS Maps: 4 (multiple formats)
• Required Partnership Legal Agreement:
15 Pages
• Application Length at Submission:
50 Pages
ANATOMY OF A GRANT APPLICATION
Example: Recent Regional Climate Communities Grant Effort in 2022 RiversideCA.gov
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• $114,719,122 Competitive Awards
• $51,000,000 Appropriations
• $48,352,811 COVID
• $11,339,650 Entitlements
$225,411,583 Total
BIG PICTURE
CITY ECOSYSTEM
University of California, Riverside
Cal Baptist University
La Sierra University
Riverside Community College
Riverside Unified School District
Alvord Unified School District
Cal School for the Deaf
Riverside Community Health Foundation
United Way
Riverside Transit Authority
and much more…
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5 106 competitive grant awards received = $114,719,122
134 competitive grant applications submitted = $192,830,083 60% success rate
COMPETITIVE GRANTS BY THE NUMBERS
Example 1: TCC Grant
Entrada Housing: $13M
Transportation: $9M
100 Solar Installs: $1.9M
2,000 New Trees: $1.1 M
Workforce Dev: 1M
Xeriscape: $592,000
Data Collection: $1.1M
Example 2: Riverside
Reads Library Grant
Author Fee: $1,500
Books and Supplies:
$18,500
Example 3: Clean Air Car
Share Program
Purchase of 16 Vehicles:
$248,000
Fleet Operations:
$280,000
Data Collection:
$115,000
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6 Comparisons to the municipal General Fund:
– General Fund budget(FY 21/22)is ~$312 million
• Competitive grants awarded to City is
equivalent to 37% of General Fund budget
• All grants (competitive, COVID, earmark, &
entitlement) is equivalent to 72% of the General
Fund budget.
ADDITIONAL IMPACT
Grant writing makes a substantial additional impact to the funded operations of municipal programs and projects.
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7 Grants impacted the lives of Riverside residents:
POSITIVE OUTCOMES
Housed 84 formally homeless
individuals
Served 12,000 hot meals to
seniors and teens
Assisted 195 low-income
renters with emergency
assistance
Funded 396 units of
Naloxone to assist with
response to the Fentanyl crisis
Funded arts, sports, and
senior programs served for
over 1,000 local residents
2 miles of new trails
Funding to plant 2,500 trees Funded Library books,
resources and programs for
benefitting over 20,000
patrons
and much more…
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8 Strategic Priority 5 – High Performing Government
Goal 1.1 – “Fund development” benefitting arts, culture, and recreation Goal 5.4 – Maintain fiscal health by addressing gaps between revenues and expenditures Goal 6.3 – Identify and pursue new and unique funding o pportunities for infrastructure programs that meet community needs
Cross-Cutting Threads
STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT
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9 That the City Council receive and file the Annual Report for Calendar Year 2022 Citywide Grant Activities.
RECOMMENDATION
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