Longmont has opened the 2021 application process for human service grants to community agencies that help the city's most vulnerable residents to meet their individual and family’s basic physical, social, economic and/or emotional needs.
Funding will target a range of safety net services, including prevention, early intervention and support services, according to a news release. Target areas will be those that help individuals and families can stabilize and thrive and include:
- Housing stability — supporting a continuum of affordable housing options; helping people find and sustain stable housing.
- Self-sufficiency and resilience —supporting households during tough economic times; helping households attain steady employment with livable wages and move toward self-sufficiency; and helping households remain as self-reliant as possible.
- Food and nutrition — helping households obtain adequate quantity and quality of food.
- Health and well-being — ensuring access to affordable medical, dental and mental health care.
- Education and skill-building — starting young and continuing throughout all stages of life, offering education, and skills training that are the building blocks of self-sufficiency.
- Safety and justice — ensuring safe and supportive environments for vulnerable children and adults.
The city will consider applications from private or public, nonprofit or for-profit, non-governmental or governmental agencies that serve Longmont residents, according to the release. All agencies must be legally incorporated entities in good standing.
Eligible agencies must primarily serve low- and moderate-income Longmont residents and must be able to document that their services benefit a significant number of residents, according to the release. Agencies that operate on a countywide or regional basis also must demonstrate how they successfully involve the Longmont community in planning and program development to most effectively address the needs of residents, according to the release.
Longmont funding is intended to support direct service non-sectarian programs, and these funds are not intended to be used as start-up money to establish a new human service agency or program, or for major capital purchases or facility improvements, according to the release.
Applications must be submitted online via the city’s grant management system, e-CImpact, a collaborative grant management system shared with the city of Boulder and Boulder County government.
For more information, contact Eliberto Mendoza 303-774-3511 or [email protected].
Applications are due by 4 p.m. Oct. 16.
