ICJIA Announces $31.5 Million in Grant Opportunities to Support the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3) Program

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The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) announced two funding opportunities to support Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3) programming in historically underserved communities across Illinois. Grants are available for community assessment and planning initiatives and service delivery. Gov. JB Pritzker’s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget includes a $35 million R3 appropriation from the General Revenue Fund to ICJIA for grants, awards, and administrative costs. A total of $31.5 million is available for grants, including approximately $28.3 million to support service delivery and $3.1 million for assessment and planning. Funded programs will offer evidence-based, promising, or innovative practices within at least one of five R3 Program Priority Areas: civil legal aid; economic development; re-entry from the criminal justice system; violence prevention; and youth development. Organizations that serve residents of—or are based in—designated eligible R3 zones will be able to apply. Eligible organizations include nonprofit organizations, local units of government, tax-exempt faith-based organizations, businesses, and other community organizations. Application materials with instructions on how to apply are available here: https://r3.illinois.gov/. The deadline for all applications is Monday, July 20, 2020.

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