Baltimore Opens Access To American Rescue Plan Act Funds To Local Nonprofits

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore is calling connected section nonprofits to taxable proposals for immoderate of the city’s $641 cardinal successful American Rescue Plan funds, Mayor Brandon Scott said connected Monday.

Starting Oct. 1, nonprofit organizations tin taxable their proposals done a portal connected the website of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs.

A seven-member squad volition reappraisal proposals and assistance organizations with processing a budget, designing a program, gathering national reporting requirements and different steps, Scott said.

A squad of advisors volition people proposals earlier sending them to Scott’s office.

“Proposals wherever equity and concern are cardinal tenets of the task volition beryllium scored the highest,” Scott said successful a video announcement.

The Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs volition clasp a virtual accusation league connected the exertion process connected Sept. 28.

City agencies were fixed a akin accidental to taxable proposals for the alleviation money.

The politician besides outlined immoderate of his administration’s priorities for the national money, including community-based violence-reduction initiatives, a betterment money for tiny businesses and expanded broadband access. City officials volition supply much details astir these initiatives during a bid of announcements successful September and October, Scott said.

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“$641 cardinal is simply a important investment,” Scott said. But successful a metropolis similar Baltimore, with deep, systematic challenges, adjacent earlier the pandemic, we indispensable beryllium strategical and targeted successful our approach–with an oculus toward making a definitive, measured interaction connected our metropolis done a lens of equity.”