City of Dallas Opens Love Your Block Mini-Grants

Last week, the City of Dallas announced the application period for year two of the Love Your Block Mini-Grant program. Here's what residents need to do to receive funding for their neighborhood revitalization projects.

The Love Your Block Program allows residents to propose hands-on projects that can address specific community needs. That can be anything from neighborhood cleanups, beautification efforts, or other restoration projects.

Ideal applications will focus on community pride, neighborhood beautification, and civic engagement.

The application period opened on Feb. 14 and will run through March 15. Visit the program website to learn more about the program and complete the application.

Love Your Block is made possible by support from the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University. It brings together city leaders and residents through efforts to build stronger neighborhoods.

Previous grant winners transformed vacant lots into community gardens, removed trash from public right-of-ways, and repaired playground equipment.

Dallas Code Compliance Director Chris Christian said, “Love Your Block empowers residents to take ownership of neighborhood improvements while strengthening community pride and partnerships with the City."

Dallas was one of 16 cities added to the Love Your Block Program in 2024. Since its founding in 2009, the effort has touched nearly 50,000 community members and 400 different public spaces, creating nearly 800 art displays, cleaning over 100,000 square feet of graffiti, and removing 6.7 million pounds of trash.

Participating cities receive $100,000 to divide into mini-grants for these community-led projects as well as AmeriCorps VISTA and other technical assistance and training from the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins.