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Resi silien ency in n Communities es A After er S Stress ss and T nd Trauma (ReCAST) M Minn nnea eapolis

ReCAST Minneapolis is committed to seeking and supporting community- based initiatives aimed at reducing and responding to trauma. Our support addresses trauma in many forms including incident-based events as well as the trauma from long-term persistent trauma like institutional and systemic racism. This funding supports projects that increase trauma awareness, promote resiliency, or deepen resident knowledge around policy and systems change work. Resilience ce 365 365 Funding P Process

- Strategic planning process in 2017 identified a desire to use participatory budgeting as a vehicle to reach program goals and engage residents in a decision-making process in how funds are used - The Resilience 365 Fund is a direct response to that guidance, which is also an outgrowth of several different bodies of work including our rapid response to officer involved shootings and our critical incident protocol - Year one of the ReCAST grant was a planning year in which $685,000 of that year’s award went unspent. We were given access to those funds in July of 2018 with the need to spend them down by October 2018. Because of this constraint, a participatory budgeting process was the most feasible method of accomplishing this objective. Resilience ce 365: 365: How It S Start rted

Resilience 365: The Process • Announcing the Funding Opportunity • Funding Levels • Communications • Providing Technical Assistance • Voting • Collaborating with other City Departments

Twenty-nine projects are being funded based on community’s participation in the voting process. The total amount of these projects across all three categories is $495,700 with 11 projects being funded in the Ripple Effect category, 16 in the Wave Effect, and 2 in the Tsunami. Resilience 365: Results

Resilience 365: Voting Demographics

Resilience 365: Funding Breakdown Across Demographics and Geography Demographics African Americans • Native Americans • West African • East African, including Somali • Youth of color • LatinX • European American • Males • Females • LGBTQ • All ages •

Resilience 365: Decisions Along the Way - Adjusting project descriptions and compositions of teams after the ballot was already posted - Permitting only one proposal per project team - Making clarifications around funding restrictions - Adding more projects in the Wave category - Randomizing project order on online ballots.

Resilience 365: Lessons Learned • Build in a more cohesive screening process before community voting • Simplified ballots • Voting opportunities for individuals who have never voted before including those with felonies in their backgrounds • Unnecessary competition among project teams