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Adams County clarifies relationship to outside ‘funding catalyst’ as Right at Home pilot advances
Summary
County staff told commissioners the new funding-catalyst nonprofit was created independently by a contractor (SHG) and that Adams County has not provided seed money; commissioners pressed for the contractor’s report, clearer governance rules and protections to avoid optics or competition with local nonprofits.
Adams County commissioners spent a follow-up study session probing how the county should relate to an outside contractor-created nonprofit called a “funding catalyst,” and how that nonprofit ties to the privately funded Right at Home pilot aimed at targeted eviction prevention.
County staff said the contractor SHG was hired through an open RFP to conduct an environmental scan of funding options and that the county did not create, control or seed the new 501(c)(3). “It’s not our nonprofit,” said Dionne, a county staff member, seeking to dispel a key confusion among commissioners. “We are not in charge of that nonprofit.”
The board’s concern centered on process and optics: at least one commissioner said the county had paid for a study and then saw the consultant use that work to fashion its own fundraising nonprofit, which raised questions about whether the deliverable was the assessment the county expected or a vendor-developed business plan. Commissioners asked staff to provide the…
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