Community Challenge Grants

San Francisco is seeking a firm to handle community outreach/engagment and social media marketing for its community challenge grant program, which provides funding for nonprofits, businesses and schools to make physical improvements in the city's neighborhoods.

Formerly known as the Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-Up Fund, the program "focuses on projects that directly engage residents and businesses in creating green spaces, gathering places, gardens, mini-parks, public art, and other neighborhood amenities featuring and applying ecologically friendly amenities and practices," according to San Francisco's informal solicitation document.

The City views the program as an "important tool for building strong San Francisco neighborhoods by facilitating community participation, stewardship, and responsibility by allowing groups to take the lead in conducting small-scale improvements in their own communities."

The desired firm will attend community events, host workshops, handle website administration (updates to text, graphics, headers and interactive content), create & distribute an electronic newsletter (grant cycle information, community news) and oversee desktop publishing.

Work on the one-year $100K contract begins July 1. Responses are due June 5. They go to [email protected].

Download RFP (PDF)