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Councilmember Allen outlines nonprofit grant process improvements for budget committee
Summary
Councilmember Allen briefed committee members on a nonprofit working group's recommendations to improve how the city adds nonprofits to the budget and connects them to departments, stressing measurable outcomes and departmental ownership.
Councilmember Allen gave a brief update to the Budget & Finance Committee following the formal agenda, summarizing a nonprofit working group’s review of the city’s grant and budget-inclusion processes.
Allen said the group found that nonprofits are sometimes added to the budget at the last minute without being connected to a city department, which creates delays in payment and implementation. He recommended nonprofits work with a specific department, have measurable outcomes and a defined scope of work before being added to the budget. Allen said departments that manage grants—he mentioned homeless services and the community partnership fund program—have established processes, while ad-hoc additions create a six-to-nine month lag for organizations that are not preconnected to a department.
Allen said the working group will share a one‑page summary with nonprofits and departments and will provide electronic links to Metro’s organized grant process. He encouraged council members to consult the handout and work with departments before proposing nonprofit budget additions so that services can begin promptly once appropriated.
