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Wilmington staff proposes multiyear grants, citizen review for nonprofit funding
Summary
City staff recommended rebundling nonprofit outside-agency funding into a single community-investment line in the manager's budget, shifting awards to an RFP after budget adoption, adding Community Relations Advisory Committee (CRAC) review, and moving toward multiyear service agreements to give nonprofits stability.
Rachel Schuler, the city’s housing and neighborhood services director, told the council the human services grant program (also called outside-agency or nonprofit funding) has long been funded from general fund dollars with a set-aside of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) public service funds. “The awards for each program has ranged from about 12 to $45,000 with most averaging around 20,000,” Schuler said, summarizing recent grant history.
Schuler described staff’s recommended changes to create a “community investment” line in the…
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