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First 5 Sacramento moves forward with participatory grant making; county announces separate CBO partnership effort
Summary
Commission staff reported results of community assemblies used to design a participatory grant-making panel for a $4 million BIPOC-focused grant pool; county staff outlined a separate, larger CBO capacity-building initiative.
First 5 Sacramento staff and consultants reported on phase-one work to design a participatory grant-making process that will allocate roughly $4 million to BIPOC-led or -serving organizations, and county officials described a parallel CBO partnership initiative that will direct additional capacity-building resources to small community-based organizations.
Stephanie McLemore Bray of Touchstone Leadership Group summarized outreach done in September and October to recruit input from organizations that had not received First 5 funding in recent years. "We sent out 272 invitations and got an outstanding response rate — we were shooting for 10% and got almost 20%," McLemore Bray said, noting that assemblies included dinner, childcare, and stipends for participants.
The community assemblies prioritized…
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