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Resolution to Approve FY 12 Allocations to Non-Profit Entities for Human Services - $1,159,029.00 (General Fund)
Memorandum
Attached for your consideration is a resolution to approve FY 12 General Fund allocations to non-profit entities for human services, totaling $1,159,029.00. These awards are contingent on City Council’s approval of the FY 12 budget which includes this level of human services funding.
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 FY 12 and FY 13 General Fund investments in non-profit entities for human services are included in the Program Operations component of this coordinated funding process. Implementation of this process began with a Request for Qualifications (RFQ), issued in December, 2010, which determined an agency’s financial and organizational capacity to manage human services funding and program delivery. Fifty-eight agencies responded to the RFQ and 51 of those agencies were approved to move forward in the application process.
Those 51 agencies that demonstrated financial and organizational capacity were invited to apply to the Request for Proposals (RFP), released in January, 2011, f...
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