USCM and DuPont
Lead-Safe…for Kids’ Sake grant program
One of the major components of CUSP is the Lead-Safe…for Kids’ Sake grant
program. By blending financial support and scientific know-how from
DuPont, the USCM and DuPont are assisting mayors in making their
neighborhoods safer and smarter. This grant program focuses on
innovation and results. By rewarding cities for taking direct action to
lessen the occurrence of childhood lead poisoning, the USCM and DuPont
are part of the solution by making our cities healthier.
Since 2002 $4 million dollars has been granted to cities from DuPont
through Lead-Safe…for Kids’ Sake. Over 30 cities are now closer to being
lead-safe because of the USCM and DuPont's partnership. Through the
USCM, mayors are supplying laboratories in which to test ideas and
methods on making neighborhoods lead-safe, while DuPont rewards the
innovative thought. Through this grant program, the USCM and DuPont hope
to encourage cities both big and small from all regions of the country
to get lead efforts to make their communities lead-safe.
The 2007 grant awardees were announced in Los Angeles at the USCM 75th
Annual Meeting. The winners were: Mayor James Baker, Wilmington, DE
(100,000) and Mayor Adrien Fenty, Washington, DC ($100,000).
The winning applications are posted on the web-site under best
practices. We will occasionally be posting previous winning and
non-winning applications that we believe are truly best practices. We
hope these will assist other cities on learning how to make their cities
lead-safe.
The 2008 Lead-Safe…for Kids’ Sake awards competition will be officially
opened January 2008 at the USCM Winter Meeting in Washington, DC.
Deadlines for submission will be May 9, 2008 and the winners will be
announced in Miami at the 76th USCM Annual Meeting. Download the
application here.
In recognizing and honoring the mayor's best practices with significant
resources in cities across the country, DuPont is working with the
mayors toward the goal of making America lead-safe.
