Foundations - National Body for Home Improvement Agencies’ Post

This Foundations practical guide sets out how a housing authority should make their decisions on applications for Disabled Facilities Grants (DFGs). It includes guidance on eligible works, grant conditions, making the approval and payments. https://lnkd.in/eexzQ2bd

This guide sets out how a housing authority should make their decisions on applications for Disabled Facilities Grants (DFGs). It includes helpful guidance on eligible works, grant conditions and making payments.  https://lnkd.in/eexzQ2bd

This guide sets out how a housing authority should make their decisions on applications for Disabled Facilities Grants (DFGs). It includes practical information on eligible works, amount of grant and grant conditions. https://lnkd.in/eexzQ2bd

The EOWC welcomes the Ontario Government’s proposed $77 million in financial relief to help municipalities address rising OPP costs. Doug Ford Peter Bethlenfalvy Michael S. Kerzner The EOWC advocated for financial support and greater transparency in OPP billing, highlighting the average 21% increase in OPP costs that would have faced our communities in 2025, without this provincial investment. The investment directly responds to these concerns, ensuring municipalities can better manage costs while continuing to deliver essential services and maintain community safety. “A 21% increase in OPP costs would have placed an unsustainable burden on our small, rural municipalities, forcing decisions that could compromise the well-being of our communities," says EOWC Chair, Peter Emon. "The EOWC thanks the Ontario Government for the needed support as an important step to help municipalities maintain essential services and public safety. We look forward to continuing our partnership with the province to develop and maintain sustainable solutions that support our region." Read the news release: https://lnkd.in/e4NN7YUv

"An RESP is essential for securing your children's future. Start early to maximize government grants and set them up for success! Let's connect and set up an RESP for your child to ensure maximum tax-free growth. #RESP #EducationSavings #FinancialPlanning #InvestInTheFuture #StartEarly #GovernmentGrants #TaxFreeGrowth"

#fundingopportunities - The National Institute of Corrections currently has 5 FY2025 cooperative agreement solicitations open for bid… TWO of them happen to be in my portfolio 💼🤩 Be sure to continue to check grants.gov over the coming weeks as more FY25 projects become available! #federalfunding #federalgrants

I certainly understand the reticence on this. Indeed, some of these reporting regimes are woefully inappropriate, even seemingly punitive. However, requiring reports for grants under $10,000 is not necessarily de facto wrong, as long as it's not unreasonably burdensome on the beneficiary organization. Keep in mind that, frequently, these smaller grants can sometime serve as a “pipeline” to larger amounts in the future, offering grant agencies a way to gauge the transparency and competencies of their partner nonprofit beneficiaries and, potentially, "ladder up" to higher levels in the future. It’s why stewardship of your philanthropic investors is so important. Accountability should be celebrated as part of best practices in the nonprofit sector; on the other side, an understanding by the benefactor that small nonprofits can benefit from patience, mentoring, and reasonable performance criteria can help make its recipients stronger in the long run. As long as expectations are clear and communications is flowing from both sides of the grantor/grantee table, there actually could be a larger pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for all involved: foundations, nonprofits and, most importantly, recipients of the nonprofit's services.

APSE has responded to the announcements made today by the Levelling Up Secretary. Mo Baines, APSE Chief Executive, said: “Whilst many will welcome the additional support package of £500 million to be added to the Social Care Grant, the additional £100 million will not significantly change the remaining pressures on frontline local services. APSE welcomes changes to the funding guarantee of 3% to 4%. However, our member councils are still experiencing exceptional times in local government finance, including the ongoing pressures on adult and children's services, homelessness and asylum support, alongside the squeeze that these pressures place on all other frontline services. Baines added: “What we are seeing is yet another sticking plaster on a gaping wound. Local government needs radical and meaningful financial reforms that will allow transformational change at a local level and secure long-term financial stability.” To view the response on the APSE website, click on the image below.

In January, we launched our budget proposals but we needed more funding from government to save our essential services and protect vulnerable residents. Today it’s been announced that we’ve received an ‘in principle’ decision which will enable us to borrow up to £42.2 million over the next two years. This funding will be used to change the way children’s services operate and help more children and families to thrive. Council leader Jane Ashworth said: “At this present moment, more than 3,500 vulnerable adults require social care support, and 1,148 children are in the council’s care – one in every 52 children in the city – which is the highest number per head of population in the country. “These figures are continuing to rise and the only way we can combat this is by investing in these essential services with more early intervention support. “This being said we still remain ambitious for our city. We want to make a difference to family life and the local economy and bring inward invest into Stoke-on-Trent.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/3TiDPHo

The North has the land, expertise, and capacity to build many more homes than it does presently. But too many sites across the North don’t stack up financially. And public money goes too often to sites with higher values in the South, leaving the North to miss out again and again. We are launching Mind the Gap, a campaign for a government discretionary grant aid programme for the North. Property professionals can add their name in support of the campaign, which we will take to Westminster. In partnership with Cavendish and Lichfields UK. https://lnkd.in/ezqkjJEU