The Community Services Agency Partnership Grant program was initiated by the Board of County Commissioners to address human service needs in Seminole County.
Donor Name: Seminole County
State: Florida
County:
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/01/2023
Details:
The purpose of the CSA Partnership Grant program is to further the County’s mission to deliver excellent public service that enhances quality of life and addresses their community’s needs, now and in the future. Seminole County has an extensive history of partnership with local non-profit agencies to benefit and improve the quality of life for residents.
The CSA program collaborates with community organizations in assisting residents with specific needs in the County. The program provides grant funds to qualified non-profit organizations that meet federal and state tax exemption requirements and have been in existence for a minimum of three years. Agencies must provide services to benefit and improve the quality of life for Seminole County. CSA funded programs must assist residents of Seminole County. The definitions of each are below:
- Essential Services
- Services that meet the basic needs for daily survival that sustain the quality of life for residents.
- Supportive Services
- Services that enhance the quality of life for residents.
Special Preferences
- Preference will be given to organizations that have the ability to leverage the County’s funds at a minimum of 2:1 ratio.
- Agencies may demonstrate such leveraging by using matching funds, working in partnership with other agencies, or other means. Funding to this program should lead to broad and lasting benefits to the community.
- Priority will be given to projects or programs where funds will have a positive, long-term spillover effect to reduce vulnerable problems in the community.
- The County encourages social service agencies to collaborate in order to solve common problems and better address local social services needs. To serve these ends, the County will allow agencies to submit an application for funding as a Collaborative Project.
- Preference will also be given to organizations that partner with other social service agencies and respond as a collaborative.
- The Collaborative must select a lead agency that will submit the application; and must include a list of other organizations that will be included in the implementation and ongoing operation of the project; and
- Must include current letters (within 60 days prior to application) from the organizations that have agreed to partner with your agency detailing the specific resources and services they will provide.
Eligibility Criteria
This criterion was approved by the Seminole County Board of County Commissioners on October 23, 2012. Only the applications meeting the following criteria will be considered:
- The nonprofit agency is chartered or otherwise authorized to do business in the State of Florida for charitable purposes and exempted from the Federal income tax by the Internal Revenue Service 501(c)(3) for a minimum of three years.
- The purposes for which the nonprofit agency is organized provides benefits to Seminole County residents.
- The services or activities to be provided by the nonprofit agency, and funded with County funds, shall address an essential or supportive services, such as, but not limited to, the needs of the poor, youth, seniors, those with disabilities, education, culture and arts, and health crisis.
- The nonprofit agency shall have a governing board whose members serve without compensation and have no conflict of interest between their regular occupations and the services provided by the nonprofit.
- The nonprofit agency has bylaws or policies which describe the manner in which business is conducted, including management, audit, and fiscal policies and procedures, polices on nepotism, and policies on management of potential conflict of interest.
- The nonprofit has at least one year’s experience providing the service or activity for which the funds are requested or can otherwise demonstrate to the satisfaction of the County sufficient expertise to successfully carry out the service or activity.
- The nonprofit must be licensed and accredited in accordance with applicable requirements of Federal, State and County laws.
- The nonprofit agency may not use a funding agency or other third-party arrangement to meet program requirements for eligibility.
- Nonprofit must provide the previous year’s fundraising plan and a statement on future fundraising efforts.
- Only one application per agency will be considered per program – essential life or supportive life services.
- Grants will be made only to nonprofit agencies whose programs and activities benefit the residents of Seminole County.
For more information, visit CSA Partnership Grant.
