Council recognizes Human Services Advisory Committee after $7.7M in nonprofit awards; HSAC recommended new $108.15M partnership
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The council recognized the 21-member Human Services Advisory Committee for reviewing 141 proposals and helping distribute $7.7 million; the committee recommended a second Impact Award — a partnership led by Children’s Hospital totaling $108,150,000 — for a food-security and community-safety effort.
Council passed a resolution recognizing the Human Services Advisory Committee (HSAC) for its volunteer work evaluating human-services proposals and making funding recommendations that led to $7,700,000 in awards.
Council member Jan V. Owens introduced the resolution and called the HSAC members “the trusted experts in our community who lend their expertise, their passion, and their commitment to making Cincinnati an even better place.” Owens said HSAC reviewed 141 programs and recommended 74 for funding in line with council priorities.
Owens and others also noted that HSAC recommended the council award the second Impact Award to a partnership called Safe Network Hunger and Healing and Hope, described in the meeting record as a food-system and community-safety approach that will be led by Children’s Hospital and 12 partner organizations and was presented with a funding total of $108,150,000.
Council and staff described HSAC as a 21-member volunteer panel appointed by the mayor; the panel is required to participate in bias training and to declare conflicts of interest. Committee members and councilors stressed the volunteer hours and deliberation that underlie funding decisions, with council members calling the work “transformative.”
Council unanimously approved the resolution recognizing HSAC; the resolution text in the meeting record summarized HSAC’s categories of funded projects—workforce development, youth gun-violence prevention and reduction, and securing and stabilizing housing for high-risk populations.
The resolution noted HSAC’s role in recommending the Impact Award but did not itself appropriate the $108,150,000; that dollar figure was stated during remarks about the recommended partnership and appears to reflect a proposed program scale and partner commitments as described to council during the recognition.