Fwd: Fw: Q2 FY24 Community Project Funds and Fentanyl Use, Overdose, and Death Reduction Grant Programs Now OPEN and OGM One Pager
harriet Shangarai
Please find small grant program open targeting small, emerging, and volunteer led nonprofits. HHS has also added $100k to the pool specially to fund activities that prevent fentanyl use, overdose, and deaths. This second pool of funding is available to any organization who can provide these services, NOT just small, emerging, and volunteer led organizations. A press release is forthcoming. Please forward, incorporate into listservs, shorten for social media, or circulate in any other ways to our community.
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Second Quarter FY24 Community Projects Fund Grant Program Now Open for Small, Emerging, and Volunteer Led Nonprofit Organizations
The Office of Grants Management is soliciting grant applications for the second quarter of the County’s FY 2024 Community Projects Fund (CPF) Grants Program from qualified nonprofit organizations providing direct services to or advocacy for Montgomery County community members. Both the County Executive’s FY24 Recommended Budget and the County Council’s FY24 Approved Budget (Resolution 20-184) provide $1 million in one-time funding for small, emerging, and volunteer led nonprofit organizations to implement small, community focused projects, initiatives, and events. The FY24 CPF Grants Programs will be offered as a quarterly application with at least $250,000 available in each cycle.[i] Additional funding may be added to this pool from other County sources and may have additional priorities, restrictions, and/or requirements. Funding may be awarded to new initiatives or to projects supported by Community Grants in previous fiscal years. FY24 CPF Grants Program applicants may request funding between $5,000 and $25,000. The performance period of these grant awards will be six (6) months from the award date as the goal of this program is to support specific, short-term initiatives instead of ongoing, full, or multi-year programs.
[1] Applications for Quarter 1 are currently under review and award decisions will be made in October 2023. Applicants who submitted an application under Quarter 1 may also submit an application under Quarter 2.
This current cycle will also include an additional $100,000 in funding from the Department of Health and Human Services for the “FY24 Fentanyl Use, Overdose, and Death Reduction Grant Program,” which aims to reduce the number of persons using, overdosing and dying from the use of fentanyl in Montgomery County, MD. Four one-time awards are anticipated at $25,000 each with a period of performance for up to a year and the goal of supporting new as well as existing programs.
Key dates for this program are:
- Second Quarter Program Opens for Applications: Sunday, October 1, 2023
- MS Teams Live Virtual Information Session: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM
(click here to join the event or to view a recording of the event afterwards).
- Application Closes: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 11:59 PM
Key program resources:
- OGM online Grants Application Platform: https://mcmdgrants.smapply.org/
- Program Page: https://mcmdgrants.smapply.org/prog/FY24CPFQ2/
FY24 Community Project Funds will be offered on a quarterly application cycle with at least $250,000 available in each cycle. The remaining FY24 cycles will launch on:
- Third Quarter Applications Open: Monday January 1, 2024
- Fourth Quarter Applications Open: Monday April 1, 2024
Questions about the application process can be directed to Olga Kravets, Outgoing Grants Program Manager of the Office of Grants Management, by calling 240-773-3344 or emailing gra...@montgomerycountymd.gov.
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