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7A Page 5 City of Hope National Medical Center 1500 E. Duarte Road Duarte, CA 91010 'CaIGRIP' ContInued from Page 1... The funding opportunities are a part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's California Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention (CaIGRIP) initiative. The program is designed to provide grants to cities and community-based organizations for gang prevention, intervention re-entry, education, job training and skills development, family and community services, and suppression activities. Details on Funding The RFA will non-competitively establish a grant with the city of Los Angeles, as specified by the State Budget. The first RFP will competitively distribute $963,900 to cities with heavy gang concentrations in the Bay Area, and will competitively distribute $963,900 to cities with heavy gang concentrations in the Central Valley. The second RFP will distribute a total of $4,323,300 to cities throughout California to address gang problems in their communities. No grant shall exceed $500,000 and at least two grants will be awarded to cities with populations of 200,000 or less. Preference will be given in both of these RFP processes to applicants that incorporate regional approaches to anti-gang activities. Each city selected for funding through both the RFA and RFP processes must collaborate and coordinate with area jurisdictions and agencies, including the existing county juvenile justice coordination council, with the goal of reducing gang activity in the city and adjacent areas. Each city grantee must establish a coordinating and advisory council to prioritize the use of the funds. Membership must include: . City officials; . Local law enforcement including the county sheriff, chief probation officer, and district attorney; . Local educational agencies, including school districts and the county office of education; and . Community-based organizations. The third RFP will competitively distribute a total of $2 million to Community-Based Organizations throughout California to test different approaches designed to reduce gang activities in communities and neighborhoods. No grant shall exceed $200,000. Application Availability - What Cities Can Do Now The RFPs and the RFA will be made available electronically as soon as possible on the OES Web site at www.oes.cacgQ\{, and can be found under the links for Law Enforcement and Victim Services Division/RFP Funding Information. Applicants need not wait for the RFP and RFA in order to begin preparations fo; their proposals. There are several steps that applicants should take now. 1. Applicants can begin defining the target area to be addressed by the proposal. 2. Applicants can gather important data concerning the target area, such as the geographical description, the population and demographics, the crime rate, the number of gangs, statistics on gang related offenses. and any other data demonstrating the gang problem. 5