“We don’t have to recreate the wheel,” Crawley said. … They’ve got the system in place to get the funds out there.”Ĭrawley agreed that it’s more efficient for the county to use Impact Community Action and the Columbus Urban League because the county already has relationships with those nonprofits. “We know who’s spending the dollars, so we want to give them the money. “Impact has been our greatest partner,” said Jenny Snapp, chief operating officer of Franklin County Economic Development & Planning.
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Impact Community Action CEO Robert “Bo” Chilton, left, and Nehemiah House of Refuge Executive Director Terry Byrd, right, pose with professional menswear May 12 at the Otto Beatty Jr. Men’s Shop intended to help men dress for success in job interviews, and another $340,000 for the Family Housing Stability Navigator pilot program. More than a quarter of the funding - $20.3 million - went to community partners such as the Mid-Ohio Food Collective, which received $7 million as part of the Rooted in You campaign to end hunger in the region, and the Community Funding Initiative, which received $5 million “to provide economic support to nonprofit organizations to cover lost revenue or increased expenditures due to the pandemic.”Īnother community partner, Impact Community Action, benefitted from multiple grants, including nearly $331,000 for the Otto Beatty Jr. Mid-Ohio Food Collective CEO column: It is ‘more difficult and more expensive to obtain food’įamiliar nonprofits tapped to distribute aid
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$1.5 million each for Roads2Work, a commercial driver’s license training program, and the PRC Plus Rental Assistance Program, which provides one-time rental assistance payments for eligible families struggling to meet rent or facing eviction as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. $4.5 million to Per Scholas, a Columbus technology training firm, for the Tech Women of Color initiative, which will provide 15 weeks of “technical skills training, executive mentoring, financial coaching” to 200 women of color, starting in July and running through August 2024. The initiative provides early learning scholarships, incentive pay for child care programs and rental assistance for child care workers who have been underpaid. $22.3 million to Action for Children for the county’s RISE program. The Dispatch review of the county’s COVID relief spending data through Tuesday, found that almost half of that money - nearly $33.2 million - went through the county’s Job & Family Services Department. Job & Family Services tops list of recipients “We all have just been isolated.”įederal COVID-19 relief funds:Eight Columbus-area municipalities lost federal relief funds because they didn’t applyįranklin County: Four things you need to know from Franklin County’s 2022 State of the County report
That is good for physical health (and) mental health,” Crawley said Tuesday of the expenditure toward Red White & Boom during an interview with The Dispatch. “People have been isolated for two years. But she said it highlights the commissioners’ commitment to supporting the physical and mental health of county residents during the pandemic. The event is one of 45 projects to which Franklin County commissioners have distributed more than $70 million, more than a quarter of their $256 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds since the beginning of the pandemic, a review by The Dispatch found.Įrica Crawley, president of the board of commissioners, said the contribution to Ohio’s largest fireworks display was small - less than 1% of the total federal COVID relief money spent by the county so far. Spectators will be able to enjoy the sights and sounds of Red, White & Boom! on Friday thanks, in part, to $50,000 in taxpayer-funded COVID relief money from Franklin County.
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