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City’s revised nonprofit funding process draws criticism from committee and applicants
Summary
Finance Committee members and nonprofit applicants raised procedural and equity concerns May 20 after the City of Palo Alto combined multiple channels of nonprofit support into a single competitive review for the Nonprofit Partnership Work Plan Phase 1.
Palo Alto’s Finance Committee spent substantial time May 20 examining how the city has organized its Nonprofit Partnership Work Plan Phase 1 and whether recent procedural changes created confusion for organizations that previously received ongoing or line‑item support.
The debate followed a staff presentation that inventoryed the city’s existing nonprofit funding across multiple budget lines and identified 20 applications received for this phase of the program. Paul Harper, the budget manager, told the committee 20 applications arrived by the stated deadline, totaling $797,000 in requests and leaving roughly $401,000 of the total package available after staff pulled out items previously listed as direct allocations.
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