DDNP Housing & Neighborhood Fund Past Grant Cycles
DDNP Neighborhoods that Received Funding for Community Requests in FY 2022
All neighborhood associations that submitted a community request received funding. In partnership with Duke Arts, community-led projects that incorporate the arts were eligible for a match.
- Burch Avenue partnering with The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
- Old West Durham partnering with Bike Durham
- Trinity Park
- Tuscaloosa-Lakewood partnering with Lakewood Elementary PTA
Past Grant Cycles
DDNP Neighborhoods that Received Funding for Community Requests in FY 2021
All neighborhood associations that submitted a community request received funding.
- Bragtown
- Burch Avenue
- Lyon Park
- Southside
- Trinity Park
- Tuscaloosa-Lakewood
- Walltown
Nonprofit Partners that Received Funding in FY 2021
Additionally, partners that support the areas of primary need identified by the neighborhoods have the opportunity to co-create proposals that bring additional knowledge and capacity to community expertise and lived experience. In FY 2021, nonprofits were identified as the partner group able to co-create proposals alongside DDNP Neighborhoods.
- Amy E. Kelly Foundation in collaboration with Walltown
- Bike Durham in collaboration with Burch Avenue
- El Futuro in collaboration with Tuscaloosa-Lakewood
- Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association in collaboration with Trinity Park
- Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in collaboration with Lyon Park & West End
- Reinvestment Partners in collaboration with Bragtown
- West End Community Foundation in collaboration with Lyon Park
FY 2021 Impacts:
Most neighborhoods and nonprofits have submitted their Evaluation and Reflection Reports. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the circumstances it brought to us individually as well as to the work of teams together, some neighborhoods and organizations have been granted extensions to complete their projects with fidelity and submit their Evaluation and Reflection Reports accordingly. These groups have completed progress reports sharing their accomplishments toward their project goal. Learn more about these accomplishments in the Impact Stories section below. Impact Stories for projects with extensions will be updated when the Evaluation and Reflection Reports are submitted.
The following data represents eleven of the twelve funded projects. One project is continuing work with a grant extension as of December 27, 2022.
These numbers represent outcomes for the following projects:
- Upgrading and Reactivating Community Gardens as Community Gathering Space
- Community Clean Ups
- Social Gathering Events
- A Community Performance Stage
- Spanish Translation of Neighborhood Newsletter
- Community Therapeutic Garden and Play Space: Community Listening and Implementation Project
- African Dance Classes
- Recreation Events
- Neighborhood Sign
- Distributing PPE, Gathering and Sharing Information
- Artwork Labels and Installation
- Rain Garden
- Honoring Community Ancestors and Creating Gathering Space
- South Ellerbe Creek Greenway Invasive Species Removal & Signage
- Traffic Calming: Powered by Neighborhood Problem Identification, Solution Development, and Implementation
- Collecting and Preserving Oral Histories from Community Elders
DDNP Neighborhoods that Received Funding for Community Requests in FY 2021
All neighborhood associations that submitted a community request received funding.
- Bragtown
- Burch Avenue
- Lyon Park
- Southside
- Trinity Park
- Tuscaloosa-Lakewood
- Walltown
Nonprofit Partners that Received Funding in FY 2021
Additionally, partners that support the areas of primary need identified by the neighborhoods, have the opportunity to co-create proposals that bring additional knowledge and capacity to community expertise and lived experience. In FY 2021, nonprofits were identified as the partner group able to co-create proposals alongside DDNP Neighborhoods.
- Amy E. Kelly Foundation in collaboration with Walltown
- Bike Durham in collaboration with Burch Avenue
- El Futuro in collaboration with Tuscaloosa-Lakewood
- Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association in collaboration with Trinity Park
- Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in collaboration with Lyon Park & West End
- Reinvestment Partners in collaboration with Bragtown
- West End Community Foundation in collaboration with Lyon Park
FY 2021 Impacts:
Most neighborhoods and nonprofits have submitted their Evaluation and Reflection Reports. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the circumstances it brought to us individually as well as to the work of teams together, some neighborhoods and organizations have been granted extensions to complete their projects with fidelity and submit their Evaluation and Reflection Reports accordingly. These groups have completed progress reports sharing their accomplishments toward their project goal. Learn more about these accomplishments in the Impact Stories section below. Impact Stories for projects with extensions will be updated when the Evaluation and Reflection Reports are submitted.
The following data represents eleven of the twelve funded projects. One project is continuing work with a grant extension as of December 27, 2022.
These numbers represent outcomes for the following projects:
- Upgrading and Reactivating Community Gardens as Community Gathering Space
- Community Clean Ups
- Social Gathering Events
- A Community Performance Stage
- Spanish Translation of Neighborhood Newsletter
- Community Therapeutic Garden and Play Space: Community Listening and Implementation Project
- African Dance Classes
- Recreation Events
- Neighborhood Sign
- Distributing PPE, Gathering and Sharing Information
- Artwork Labels and Installation
- Rain Garden
- Honoring Community Ancestors and Creating Gathering Space
- South Ellerbe Creek Greenway Invasive Species Removal & Signage
- Traffic Calming: Powered by Neighborhood Problem Identification, Solution Development, and Implementation
- Collecting and Preserving Oral Histories from Community Elders
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