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Weed and Seed

The Weed and Seed program provides small grants to community organizations to reduce crime, gang activity, and drug abuse in more than 260 neighborhoods across the country. The grants help leverage resources from other Federal agencies and programs.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has improved training and is working with grantees to improve their ability to operate, after five years, independently and without additional program funds.
  • Weed and Seed has adopted goals and begun tracking crimes the reduction of crimes such as homicides occurring in Weed and Seed sites, although results are not available yet.
  • Although a number of evaluations both at the local and national level have been conducted, these evaluations have not produced consistent or strong evidence of the impact of the program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Conducting a rigorous national evaluation to assess the impact of the Weed and Seed program, or its component strategies, at sites across the nation.
  • Improving the automation of performance data collection and handling to better track how the program is performing.
  • Working with grantees to improve the sustainability of the program--even in the absence of continued funding for each site.

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