Fiscal Year 2024 Community Project Funding Selections
FY2024 Community Project Funding
The U.S. House of Representatives funded hundreds of Community Project Funding (CPF) projects during the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process, which concluded on March 23, 2024 when President Biden signed the final FY24 appropriations packages into law.
Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove secured a total of $12.4 million for 15 community projects across California’s 37th Congressional District during the appropriations process.
Under guidelines issued by the Appropriations Committee, each Representative may request funding for up to 15 projects in their community for Fiscal Year 2024 – although only a handful may actually be funded. Projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams, and only state and local governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding.
In compliance with House Rules and Committee requirements, Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove has certified that she, her spouse, and her immediate family have no financial interest in any of the projects she has requested.
Projects Requested and Funded
Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove secured Community Project Funding for the following projects:
Project Sponsor: IKAR
Project Name: The IKAR Center and Supportive Housing Project
Project Location: 1737 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035
Requested Amount: $2,663,000
Funding Secured: $500,000
Project Description: This project will build a 55-unit 100 percent Permanent Supportive Housing development atop a new Jewish community center and worship space, located on S. La Cienega Blvd., in a high-opportunity, transit-rich corridor that is severely lacking in affordable housing, and particularly lacking in permanent homes for the unhoused. The project includes 55 units of Permanent Supportive Housing for formerly homeless seniors and space for supportive services, outdoor and indoor community space for residents, and sufficient parking for program staff.
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Project Sponsor: Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade
Project Name: Trauma-Informed Anti-Recidivism Initiative Project
Project Location: 4401 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Requested Amount: $500,000
Funding Secured: $500,000 (fully funded)
Project Description: This project provides engaging, highly effective, comprehensive, culturally relevant, evidence- and research-based, community-wide trauma-responsive, and workforce development model programs that were developed and designed to address the specific needs of SPA 6 that is part of Congressional District 37. The program focuses on resilient young adults 12-24+ to prevent them from entering and re-entering the juvenile/criminal justice system to prevent recidivism and support law enforcement.
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Project Sponsor: Amity Foundation
Project Name: Renovation and Expansion of Amistad de Los Angeles Residential Reentry Facility
Project Location: 3655 South Grand Avenue #290 Los Angeles, CA 90007
Requested Amount: $1,501,000
Funding Secured: $1,000,000
Project Description: Amity seeks to renovate and increase bed capacity of the Amistad de Los Angeles Facility. The purpose of this project is to increase bed availability through the Rehabilitation and Expansion of Amistad de Los Angeles residential reentry facility. This will enable better outcomes for all individuals with histories of incarceration in a state prison, ultimately decreasing recidivism, and improving public safety. This project allows for the renovation of the existing facility to not only increases the capacity to serve a greater number of individuals (26 new beds), but to also significantly improve the standard of housing for the current 184 residents who were formerly incarcerated in state prison.
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Project Sponsor: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA)
Project Name: Avalon Gardens Cool Roofs
Project Location: 701 East 88th Place Los Angeles, CA 90002
Requested Amount: $510,000
Funding Secured: $510,000 (fully funded)
Project Description: This project will provide much needed capital improvements to support and maintain the existing public housing stock in the City of Los Angeles. The roofs at Avalon Gardens have exceeded their useful lives. The scope of the project will be the complete removal of the existing roofs and the installation of new cool roofs. The new roofs would have the ability to help keep the residents cool during the hot summer months in Los Angeles. The residential units at Avalon Gardens are not equipped with air conditioning and having cool roofs would bring some relief. The new roofs will bolster the community’s resilience by preserving scarce affordable housing, reducing housing insecurity, and making a lasting positive impact on the emotional and mental health of our low income residents who have historically and continue to experience inequities compounded recently with COVID’s devastation on their loved ones.
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Project Sponsor: CASA of Los Angeles
Project Name: LA Crime-Reduction Advocacy for Transition Age Youth
Project Location: 201 Centre Plaza Drive, Suite 1100, Monterey Park, CA 91754
Requested Amount: $640,300
Funding Secured: $640,000
Project Description: This project provides support for support for the Transition Age Youth (TAY) Program, which serves Transition Age Youth (TAY, ages 12-17) and Non-minor Dependents (NMDs, ages 18-21) who are in the child welfare system and/or the juvenile justice system, all of whom are at risk of entry or reentry into the justice system. The TAY program’s purpose is to improve the criminal justice system, relieve the burden on law enforcement and probation, support crime reduction, and increase officer and community safety.
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Project Sponsor: The Experience Christian Ministries (ECM)
Project Name: Community Healing Collaborative: Bringing Peace to South Los Angeles
Project Location: 326 E. 47th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90011 (Florence-Firestone Area) and 5856 West Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90043
Requested Amount: $500,000
Funding Secured: $500,000 (fully funded)
Project Description: The purpose of this project is to address gang and community violence by training faith leaders and former gang members in violence interruption; to transform neighborhood churches into safety and service hubs for communities in the 37th District; and to host healing sessions for those who survived violence, both as victims and as perpetrators. This model follows evidence-based and evidence-informed practices that emphasize empowering community members to interrupt the violence in their neighborhoods.
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Project Sponsor: SoLa I CAN Foundation
Project Name: Technology and Entrepreneurship Center
Project Location: 4611-4641 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90043
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
Funding Secured: $1,000,000 (fully funded)
Project Description: This project will support the construction of the SoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center in Crenshaw, which will make a meaningful and measurable economic and educational development impact in South Los Angeles and the 37th Congressional District. Core components include electrical (low voltage, networking and general), structural, finishes, inspections, permits, mechanical and signage. The tech center will serve at least 1,000 youth and adults annually by offering opportunities for community members to train in in-demand tech career skills, gain entrepreneurship and fiscal literacy training, provide community gathering space and opportunities for small business generation.
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Project Sponsor: South LA Community (SLAC) Foundation
Project Name: The South LA Community Resilience Center
Project Location: 1700 Browning Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90062
Requested Amount: $4,000,000
Funding Secured: $850,000
Project Description: The South LA Community (SLAC) Resilience Center Project will offer expanded economic and community development activities, including resilience programming to help this community and its surrounding neighborhoods mitigate and adapt to climate-related environmental and societal disasters. The Resilience Center campus will also serve as a food distribution site and an educational programming hub for workshops and panels on community preparedness, climate awareness, food nutrition, green technology, circular economy, sustainability, and economic empowerment, and will contain classroom and civic forum spaces to support our current and expanding business, entrepreneurial, and workforce education programs.
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Project Sponsor: Baldwin Hills and Urban Watersheds Conservancy
Project Name: Slauson Connect Recreation Center
Project Location: 1301 West Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Requested Amount: $4,000,000
Funding Secured: $500,000
Project Description: This project will provide a provides blight removal in service of community redevelopment to establish a community park in an area of the City that is lacking in open green spaces in an underserved community and disadvantaged community. To further develop economic opportunities within the local community, the project is pursuing an emphasis on hiring local contractors and labor.
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Project Sponsor: City of Los Angeles
Project Name: The Prentice Permanent Supportive Housing Improvements
Project Location: 1012 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Requested Amount: $1,840,000
Funding Secured: $1,840,000 (fully funded)
Project Description: This project will renovate the 45-unit permanent supportive housing to provide a safer and healthier environment for the residents, who are people who previously experienced homelessness. Enabling them to have a key resource necessary to positively contribute to society and the economy.
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Project Sponsor: 2nd Call Los Angeles
Project Name: Youth Empowerment and Development
Project Location: 7625 S. Central Los Angeles, California 90001
Requested Amount: $500,000
Funding Secured: $500,000 (fully funded)
Project Description: This project will help increase and sustain the delivery of trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive, culturally relevant services for violence reduction, specifically for the youth in the 37th district who have been affected by poverty, sexual assault, domestic violence, and other traumas. This project will create an organizational infrastructure and safe haven for the most high-risk populations in Los Angeles. This project will provide the opportunity for the most high-risk youth populations in Los Angeles to address everyday trauma problems, receive mentoring and learn how to become advocates within their communities.
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Project Sponsor: Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Education Program Inc.
Project Name: the Safe Housing Project
Project Location: 3756 Santa Rosalia Drive, Suite 617, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Requested Amount: $900,000
Funding Secured: $900,000 (fully funded)
Project Description: This project will provide housing and all the supportive services necessary to empower formerly incarcerated women for family unification by providing them with pickups from jail or prison, transportation to appointments, referrals to community services/assistance, and advocacy to navigate those systems. They receive all the necessities of daily living, including healthy meals, clothing, and toiletries. They are provided with access to onsite 12-step recovery programs, family reunification services, personal/family counseling, job training, employment/educational opportunities, legal services, computer training, personal/leadership development, financial planning, communication-building workshops, and permanent housing – all designed to facilitate self-sufficiency and economic prosperity.
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Project Sponsor: Treehouse Impact Group
Project Name: Butterfly’s Haven Youth Housing
Project Location: 7861 S. Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90044
Requested Amount: $1,877,000
Funding Secured: $1,666,279
Project Description: The Butterfly's Haven Youth Housing Project provides equitable housing security and opportunities for community members to thrive in Los Angeles. The project will provide permanent supportive housing and a workforce development hub centered on careers in early childhood education.
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Project Sponsor: The Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation (VSEDC)
Project Name: Slauson Neighborhood Revitalization Project
Project Location: 1000 West Slauson Ave, Los Angeles CA
Requested Amount: $4,000,000
Funding Secured: $500,000
Project Description: This project will bring economic revitalization to an area considered disadvantaged because it meets more than one burden threshold and the associated socioeconomic threshold. The poverty rate is 28%. Ethnic makeup is 67% Hispanic, 30% African American, and 1% White. The Median Household Income is $43,388, which is 30% below the average national of $69,021. Approximately 24% of families in the 90044 zip codes are living below the poverty line. This project will bring a dedicated space to promote micro-enterprise and local entrepreneurship training, access to jobs, and small business revitalization.
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Project Sponsor: Los Angeles Urban League
Project Name: Transitional-Aged Youth Mentoring and Career Development Project
Project Location: 4401 Crenshaw Blvd., Suite 201, Los Angeles, CA 90043
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
Funding Secured: $963,000
Project Description: The project is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds because research indicates that mentoring enhances self-confidence, academic performance, social connections, and economic prosperity, while diminishing the likelihood of drug abuse, violent behavior, depression, and delinquency. Thereby reducing crime and assisting law enforcement in keeping the community safe.
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