Um, my name is Margaux Dever.
I am the Assistant Director of Community
Development for the city of Muncie.
The main part of the job is grants management.
That's really the everyday part of what I do.
We manage two different grants, for the city,
they're both federal grants through the
Department of Housing and Urban Development so HUD
and that's the community development Block Grant
and the Home Investment Partnership Program Grant.
And so, the idea behind what we do is we bring
these federal dollars into the community and
try and make sure that our local community
is getting the best benefit out of them.
And so we do all kinds of different projects.
Public service projects, housing projects,
all kinds of different things.
The first part of the process is
connecting with our partner organizations.
So we have oh we have many partner organizations.
Muncie has tons of 501C(3) nonprofit
organizations here that are doing wonderful work
and it's really on us to go out into the
community and to see what people are doing and to
learn about what their goals are and to hear
from them and sort of pick up on what's going on
so that we can reach out and say here's what we have
here are what the goals of our grant is from HUD
and here's what you can apply to do.
Some of them are helping people struggling
with homelessness, some are helping people who are
dealing with domestic violence.
We have a lot of programs that are doing things
for kids that are really, really great.
And so we have all these organizations will
put in an application with us as the grantor
and then we go through the whole process
and we score things and we make sure that
they align with the HUD regulations
and with those national priorities
and then we rank them and put them
we try to fund as much as we can,
obviously we don't get a whole lot,
we're not a huge city like Chicago
or something that gets these humongous
grants so we do what we can
and we try to make sure that we can fund
as many projects as possible even
if it's only a little bit but every little bit helps.