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Arts, youth and environmental nonprofits request FY26 grants and project funding
Summary
Multiple nonprofits and community organizations asked the County Council to continue or restore project charge and non-departmental grant funding in the FY26 budget, including requests from Artworks Now, CASA, Eco Latinos, Streetcar Suburbs Publishing and others.
Representatives of several local nonprofits and community programs urged the Prince George's County Council on April 28 to preserve or restore non-departmental grants and project-charge funding in the FY26 operating budget.
Jessica Port, volunteer chair of Artworks Now in Hyattsville, asked the council to maintain a $35,000 project charge allocation and a $20,000 non-departmental grant that the organization uses to subsidize free, low-cost and sliding-scale arts programming. “Program fees only cover 40% of our budget,” she said, and that continued county support helps serve more than 2,000…
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