City of Fayetteville awards $52K in crime reduction programs

By Staff Report, posted Apr 2, 2025 on BizFayetteville.com

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The City of Fayetteville’s Economic and Community Development department has awarded $52,500 for the sixth cycle of the Empowering Community Safety Micro-Grant Program. The program focuses on increasing the impact of grassroots organizations, enhancing the non-profit sector and supporting its growth, while holding grantees accountable for their budgets, actions and measurable outcomes. 

The programs and activities funded by the micro-grants, ranging from youth mentorship to emotional development workshops, are aimed to inspire and boost community crime reduction activities by supporting efforts to prevent crime and violence in Fayetteville.  

This cycle’s grant recipients include:  

• Zenaida Cranford 
• R.O.O.T.S Mentoring 
• Mt. Sinai After-School Tutorial Program 
• Christen Miller 
• Southern CC Inc 
• Khalil Hasan Jr. 
• Jai6 Dynamic Gentlemen 
• Money Box Academy Inc. 
• Diamond Xtreme Allstars LLC 
• John Russell 
• Act Like a Mentoring Program 
• Drumzup Gunzdown 
• Jasmine Hertz 
• Annie R. Hasan 
• Roots of Resilience Initiative 
• Fayetteville Tigers 
• Stella Mullen 
• Pedro Goolsby 
• Wanted Outlaws LLC 
• Kimberly Carver 

The selected activities were based around five categories: Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Community Crime Prevention, Opportunities for Youth, Parents and Families, Family Stability, Addressing Upward Mobility, and Implicit Bias and Diversity. 

"The micro-grant program empowers communities across the city," said Director of Economic and Community Development Chris Cauley in a press release. "Since the program launched, residents and neighborhood organizations have actively engaged in creating solutions to community safety issues through effective use of these low-barrier grants."   

Programs that were inclusive, collaborative, resourceful and innovative while reducing crime and violence within the city were given priority. 

Micro-grants are low-barrier grants intended to allow community members to apply and access grant funding.

As part of this program, the city offers support and capacity-building training to ensure that the efforts seeded by these grants may be sustained into the future. 

Micro-grants were first funded in 2022 and through the six grant cycles the city has awarded over $200 thousand to fund crime reduction initiatives.

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