Palm Beach County’s Office of Community Revitalization (OCR) is accepting applications for its Neighborhood Engagement and Transformation (NEAT) grants program. It provides grants of up to $10,000 to neighborhood-based groups and/or organizations for resident-driven neighborhood improvement projects proposed within unincorporated Palm Beach County and the Lake Region municipalities of Belle Glade, South Bay and Pahokee. Priority funding will be given to projects proposed in designated Countywide Community Revitalization Team (CCRT) areas. Projects must fall under one of the following categories to be eligible for funding: 1) Neighborhood Beautification; 2) Neighborhood Identification; 3) Neighborhood Organizing and Sustainability; 4) Neighborhood Outreach and Capacity Building; 5) Public Safety and Crime Prevention; 6) Community Gardens; 7) Neighborhood Green Projects; and 8) Emergency Preparedness. The application deadline is March 31, 2020. Potential applicants must attend a mandatory pre-application conference on February 12, 2020, 6 to 8 p.m., at Vista Center, Conference Room 1W-47, 2300 North Jog Road, West Palm Beach.

To register, please visit https://2021ocrneatgrant.eventbrite.com. For additional information, visit: http://discover.pbcgov.org/ocr/Pages/NEAT-Program.aspx or contact Chrystal Mathews, NEAT Grant Program Manager, at (561) 233-5565, Cmathews@pbcgov.org