2024 Community Streets Grant Program
Overview
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) announces the Call for Projects for the 2024 Go Human Community Streets Grant Program (Community Streets Program). With support from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), the Community Streets Program provides grant funding to eligible applicants to implement traffic safety strategies through community engagement projects.
In alignment with and furtherance of SCAG’s Racial Equity Early Action Plan, the Community Streets Program supports projects that facilitate community resiliency, recovery and resource delivery, prioritizing outcomes for low-income families and communities of color, especially those most harmed by traffic injuries and fatalities.
Program Goal
The Community Streets Program aims to build street-level community resiliency and increase the safety of people most harmed by traffic injuries and fatalities, including without limitation Black, Indigenous and People of Color; people with disabilities; and elders, particularly those walking and biking. The Community Streets Program aims to improve traffic safety locally and across the Southern California region, leveraging and building community leadership committed to traffic safety and prioritizing projects that center historically excluded or disinvested communities, mobility justice, disability justice and rural community investment, among others.
The Community Streets Program intends to award approximately 12 eligible applicants with up to $30,000 in grant funding to support projects that implement traffic safety strategies including but not limited to messaging, education, engagement activities, leadership development, community assessment or resource distribution.
Rather than focusing on the behavior of people walking and biking, the Community Streets Program targets structural issues that affect the safety of people walking and biking, such as dangerous driving behavior, high vehicle speeds, street design and structural racism. Applicants are encouraged to propose creative, strategic projects that center justice and respond to program goals and communities’ current needs.
Eligible Applicants
Community-based organizations, nonprofits and social enterprises are eligible to submit a Community Streets Program proposal. If awarded, applicants must be able to submit supporting documentation for eligibility (i.e., a copy of the business license, 501(c)(3) status). Public agencies and entities with 501(c)4 status are not eligible for this program.
Funding is available to recipients across the SCAG region, which encompasses the counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura.
Funding will be distributed to prioritize equity, particularly within communities that have been historically disinvested or in disadvantaged communities.
Application Webinar
SCAG hosted an informational webinar to provide guidance on the application process and requirements. If you were unable to attend the webinar and are interested in the full details of the application, please review the webinar resources below.
VIEW THE WEBINAR
Application Resources
Timeline
- Call for Projects Opens: January 2024
- Application Deadline: Feb. 9, 2024
- Notice of Conditional Award: March 2024
- Scope Refinement: March/April 2024
- Project Implementation: April/May 2024 to Aug. 31, 2024
Final Report
Questions
Email Alina Borja at borja@scag.ca.gov with any questions.
2023 Community Hubs Grant Program
SCAG seeks to facilitate opportunities for equity-centered strategies to meet local and regional safety goals. The 2023 Go Human Community Hubs Grant Program offers funding opportunities for community organizations to implement local traffic safety and community engagement strategies that leverage community gathering and resource sites or networks.
Program Overview & Goal
The Go Human Community Hubs Grant Program aims to support street-level community resiliency and increase the safety of people most harmed by traffic injuries and fatalities, including without limitation Black, Indigenous and People of Color; people with disabilities; and frontline workers, particularly those walking and biking.
The Community Hubs Program aims to fund projects that leverage new or existing community gathering and resource sites to implement traffic safety strategies including, but not limited to messaging, education, engagement activities, leadership development, community assessment, or resource distribution. Hubs may include a physical or digital form, facilitating accessible spaces to streamline community education and resource distribution. A hub co-locates multiple resources, holistically responding to multiple community needs.
Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Eligible Applicants
Community-based organizations, non-profits, and social enterprises are eligible to submit a Community Hubs proposal.
Funding is available to recipients across the SCAG region, which encompasses the counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura.
Funding will be distributed to prioritize equity, particularly within communities that have been historically disinvested or in disadvantaged communities.
2023 Funding Cycle
The 2023 Go Human Community Hubs Grant Program will award up to $40,000 each to selected projects that emphasize community-driven co-creation and community engagement.
The project will adhere to the following schedule:
- Call for Projects Opens: April 3, 2023
- Application Webinar: April 5, 2023, at 1 p.m.
- Application Deadline: April 21, 2023
- Notice of Conditional Award: Early May 2023
- Scope Refinement: May 2023
- Project Initiation: May/June 2023, pending Memorandum of Understanding
- Project Completion: August 31, 2023
Application Webinar
View Webinar
Application Resources
Final Report
Questions?
Email Alina Borja at borja@scag.ca.gov with any questions.
Mini Grants Program
SCAG’s Go Human Mini-Grants Program has provided funding to non-profits and community-based organizations to implement local traffic safety projects since 2018. Across four funding cycles, the Mini-Grants Program awarded over $890,000 to more than 100 projects in all six counties of the SCAG region.
Program Goal
The Go Human Mini-Grants program aimed to build street-level community resiliency and increase the safety of people most harmed by traffic injuries and fatalities, including without limitation Black, Indigenous and People of Color; people with disabilities; and frontline workers, particularly those walking and biking.
Funding for this program has been provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Previous Mini-Grant Funding Rounds
2022: 2022 Final Report
2021: Final Report, Awardee Announcement, Stories, Video Snapshot
2020: Final Report, Awardee Announcement
2018: Project List
Explore the Community Streets Mini-Grants StoryMap. 
Questions?
Email gohuman@scag.ca.gov with any questions.
