Grants Management: Despite Efforts to Improve Weed and Seed Program Management, Challenges Remain;Report to the Congress

摘要

The Department of Justice's Weed and Seed program proposes to weed out crime from targeted neighborhoods and seed them with a variety of programs and resources to prevent crime from recurring. Weed and Seed sites have sponsored activities such as police bike patrols, community cleanups, youth and recreational activities, and computer training. According to Justice, a central tenet of the Weed and Seed program is for local Weed and Seed sites to develop partnerships with other federal, state, and local governments and private sector agencies to leverage federal Weed and Seed grant funds with additional resources from these partners to promote weeding and seeding activities. These additional resources are intended to help the sites achieve the goal of becoming self-sustaining after Weed and Seed funding ends and to sustain crime reduction and community revitalization activities to ensure stable communities.