Howard County Invites Nonprofits To Apply For $500K In Grant Funding For ‘Innovative’ Ideas

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (WJZ) — Nonprofit organizations successful Howard County are invited to use for a stock of $500,000 successful assistance funds to make ideas that volition enactment the community.

In a quality merchandise Friday, County Executive Calvin Ball announced the region is seeking applicants for its Transform Howard Innovation assistance program, which volition grant backing to nonprofits with “forward-thinking, emerging and originative ideas.”

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Applications volition beryllium accepted for the pursuing categories: students, infrastructure, residents, cybersecurity and the environment. The exertion model is unfastened present done Nov. 19.

Successful applicants tin get anyplace from $5,000 to $50,000 successful assistance backing to make and transportation retired their ideas.

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“Progress and translation are not imaginable without imagination, and we privation to proceed to bash our portion to enactment and promote innovative ideas,” Ball said. “These grants enactment projects that volition payment our residents of each ages and abilities but volition besides foster a civilization of inventive ideas passim retired non-profit community.”

To suffice for the program, applicants indispensable bash the following:

• Provide impervious that their enactment is simply a 501c(3) and successful bully standing;
• Provide nonstop services to residents of Howard County;
• Be successful enactment with 1 of the assistance categories listed above;
• Show a willingness to collaborate with spouse organizations.

Organizations funny successful applying tin larn much astir the assistance programme by registering for an informational league online. Sessions are scheduled for the pursuing dates:

• Monday, Nov. 1, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
• Thursday, Nov. 4, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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To registry oregon larn much astir this assistance program, visit Howard County’s website.

CBS Baltimore Staff