The Housing Finance and Development Center ARA contributes to housing associations and individual repair grants. Grants are awarded for apartment repairs for the elderly and disabled people, also housing associations to, for example, build a lift and improve accessibility. All the grants have a continuous application period.

The city supports its lift and accessibility grants to such housing companies to which ARA has awarded astate lift or accessibility grantsellaisille 

The general principles for grants aim to increase the transparency of the city's grant activities and ensure a uniform approach to the processing of grants awarded by the different city departments.

A key element in the awarding of grants is that the activities to be supported must contribute to the city's strategy, support or complement the services provided by the city and the well-being of the citizens and/or the vitality of the city.

The effectiveness of the activities is assessed on the basis of criteria defined for each grant.

Civic organisations offer you a channel through which you can participate in, contribute to and take care of your community. In addition, however, voluntary work can be done even if you do not belong to any association. The City of Jyväskylä cooperates with the associations and supports them by awarding grants and by providing affordable facilities.