May 1, 2025

Salt Lake City is enabling residents, businesses, and organizations to revitalize neighborhoods with volunteer-led projects, one block at a time, through mini-grants. Applications for the next round of Love Your Block mini-grants open on May 1.

“No one knows what a neighborhood needs better than its residents, and that’s why Love Your Block exists—to empower Salt Lakers to bring their own ideas to life,” said Mayor Erin Mendenhall, “During each of the last three years of this program, we’ve watched Salt Lakers get more and more creative with each project they bring to life. I can’t wait to see what the next round brings!”

Mini-grants provide up to $2,000 to support small-scale ideas to be implemented between August and November 2025, such as community tool sheds, public art, vacant lot activation, playground repairs, basic exterior home repairs, cleanups, and placemaking signage. Creativity is encouraged.

Thirty-nine projects have been funded and completed through Love Your Block since 2022. In March 2025, a mini-grant helped microshelter residents build the Microshelter Community Hope Garden, providing them with raised garden beds to grow vegetables, herbs, and other plants. In April 2025, Wasatch Community Gardens used a mini-grant to make accessibility improvements to the 9-Line Community Garden by replacing and refurbishing picnic tables. Examples of other projects funded earlier in 2025 include: 

• Missio Community Playground was created by a local pastor and churchgoers for children in a rapidly growing neighborhood.
• Club Try-Angles Mural and Clean-up will elevate the visibility of Salt Lake City’s LGBTQ+ community with a mural on Club Try-Angles.
• A Vacant Lot on Emery St. was cleaned and activated by neighbors, family, and friends.
• Post St. Tot Lot was revamped by neighbors, who came together to plant trees and paint the pillars on the Tot Lot park in homage to the area peacocks.

“It’s incredibly fulfilling to see the visions and dreams of residents come to life,” said Diana Ramirez, a Neighborhood Specialist. “Watching these small ideas bring neighbors together and strengthen Salt Lake City is what makes this work so special to me. I am excited to see what new creative projects will come from this new cycle of mini-grants—each one has the potential to spark something amazing in our community.”

Eligible neighborhoods in Salt Lake City include Glendale, Poplar Grove, Fairpark, Rose Park, Westpointe, Jordan Meadows, and Ballpark.

Applications close after May 31, 2025, and are available in both English and Spanish. For more information, including a map of all past and current projects, visit www.slc.gov/loveyourblock/.