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Information about Coordinated Review and Decision-making for 2012-2013 Human Service Funding
Memorandum
Attached for your review is a description and outline of the human services funding process for City General Funds to be utilized for the funding cycle beginning in July 2011.
The process is intended to coordinate funding priorities, nonprofit applications and interventions, and proposal reviews between the City of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, the Washtenaw Urban County, United Way of Washtenaw County (United Way), and the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (AAACF). Decision-making authority will remain separate, with City Council maintaining authority over City General Funds, and the governing boards for each of the other funding bodies maintaining authority over their funds.
This process builds on the human services integrated funding model already adopted by the City, the Washtenaw Urban County, and Washtenaw County, and will further improve the process by engaging the two major local private funding entities in the coordinated process previously implemented by the public entities. By formalizing a coordinated public-private funding process, City funds will:
- Leverage the investment it makes in local nonprofits fourfold;
- Minimize duplicative work and effort for nonprofits applying for funding;
- Reduce overlap and redundancies between funding entities; and most importantly,
- Maximize the effectiveness of City funds invested in targeted critical human services for the
growing number of citizens struggling to meet basic needs.
Background
Starting in FY2008, the City adopted a funding model to coordinate its investments in local human service programs with other local governments. This model is now in its second two-year cycle, and has been successful in reducing duplication of effort for nonprofit applicants and City and County staff; increasing collaboration between nonprofit entities and between funders; and increasing our focus on outcomes...
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