The City of Georgetown received 21 grant applications requesting a total of $661,000. The Strategic Partnerships for Community Services Advisory Board met on August 6, 2019 to discuss and review the 21 applications that were received for the FY 2019-20 Grant Cycle.

In deliberating its funding recommendations to the City Council, the SPCS Advisory Board reviewed many criteria in making its final recommendations to the City Council, including, but not limited to:

• Completion of Grant Applications
• Whether an agency met criteria of the Strategic Partnerships for Community
• Services Policies and Guidelines;
• The number of Georgetown citizens served;
• The impact of the dollars contributed vs. the overall local impact to the community;
• The financial stability of each agency;
• The overall impact of the City’s potential contribution compared to the total funding obtained by the agencies from other sources;
• Local Leadership on Agency/Organization’s Board of Directors;
• Clarity of goals and outcomes presented in the grant application;
• Duplication of services
• Partnerships with other non-profit agencies in the community; and
• Whether or not any of the agencies were currently receiving any other in-kind assistance from the City such as facility rental/utility assistance.

Accordingly, the City Council is asked to consider approval of the recommendations for the allocations of grant funds as recommended by the SPCS Advisory Board for the FY 2019-20 fiscal year.

The funding ($400,049) for Strategic Partnerships for Community Services Grants is included in the City of Georgetown’s Proposed Budget for FY 2019-20.