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Resolution to Extend the Coordinated Funding Pilot through FY14
Memorandum
Attached for your consideration is a resolution to extend the Coordinated Funding pilot project for an additional year - through FY14 - contingent upon funding availability.
On November 4, 2010, City Council approved a coordinated funding process for human services funding in partnership with the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, the United Way of Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County, and the Washtenaw Urban County. This coordinated funding process includes a Coordination/Planning funding process (United Way and Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation funding), a Capacity Building funding process (United Way and Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation funding), and a Program Operations funding process (City, County, Urban County and United Way funding) in which each process is informed by the others and funders collaborate to ensure efficient and effective investment of both public and private human services funding. The final approval of funding recommended in each of these processes, however, remains under the authority of each partner’s board. The City’s FY12 and FY13 General Fund investments in nonprofit entities for human services were included in the Program Operations component of this coordinated funding process.
Subsequent to City approval in 2010, a Memorandum of Understanding was authorized and signed by all five partners that outlined the expectation that they coordinate their funding of Washtenaw County human service programs around six priority areas (Early Childhood, School-Aged Youth, Housing and Homelessness, Safety Net Health Care and Nutrition, Aging and Hunger Relief) in order to maximize the community impact of that funding. The agreement was signed as a two year pilot that covered 2011-2013.
A Coordinated Funding Oversight Team representing all parties has met regularly since the pilot was launched. Earlier this year, a $70,000 grant was received to conduct a for...
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