Deadline: 30-Oct-21
The Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority (ECGRA) is seeking applications for the Community Centres Grant Program to provide funding for capital improvements, programming, and equipment for publicly accessible community centers.
Community centers in Erie County have provided residents with basic health and well-being needs, job training, mentoring, education, nutrition, and other benefits to a large cross-section of the community. Strategically located, community centers are vital to rural and urban areas alike.
Community centers in Erie County have provided residents with basic health and well-being, job training, mentoring, education, nutrition, and other benefits to a large cross-section of the community. Strategically located, community centers are vital to rural and urban areas alike. ECGRA considers community centers to be a neighborhood or community hub whose primary focus is social, educational, cultural, and/or recreational activities serving a segment of the community such as children or senior citizens.
Purpose
To provide funding for capital improvements, programming, and equipment for publicly accessible community centers. ECGRA considers community center as a neighborhood or community hub whose primary focus is social, educational, cultural, and/or recreational activities serving a particular segment of the community such as children or senior citizens.
Funding Information
A maximum of $15,000 per application; overall $100,000 per grant cycle
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant is an IRS-designated 501(c)(3), municipal authority, or a municipality.
- Applicant’s headquarters is located in Erie County.
- Applicant is in good standing with the IRS and state and local taxing bodies.
- Applicant is in good standing with ECGRA’s reporting requirements to date.
- Applicant is current on payment of any mandated workers compensation, payment of unemployment or other required employee related insurances, and real estate taxes.
- Applicant is making sole request on behalf of organization.
- Applicant will be the recipient of the grant. Pass through grants are not permissible.
- Only one application per entity, per project, per funding cycle will be accepted.
- Applicant must either own or lease property to be improved. Non-profit groups may complete projects on property owned by local government with an executed agreement authorized by the governing body of a municipality, municipal authority, or county.
For more information, visit https://www.ecgra.org/impact-place/community-assets-community-centers