Although a broad range of uses is allowed, revenue replacement is not a permissible use of Fund payments. Payments may NOT be used to cover costs accounted for in the budget most recently approved as of March 27, A cost is not considered to have been accounted for in a budget merely because it could be met using a budgetary stabilization fund, rainy day fund, or similar reserve account.
To assist jurisdictions with this determination, Commerce has developed an eligibility cost test. This test gives each jurisdiction full authority to make the appropriate call for each circumstance. Additional consideration — The intent of these funds is to help jurisdictions cover the immediate impacts of the COVID emergency. Both direct costs to the jurisdiction and costs to their communities.
There are many possible eligible costs. Many costs are clearly eligible and others are in more of a grey area. Possibly not. In these situations it may be safer and more appropriate to utilize the funds in one of the many other eligible cost categories that more clearly meet the intent of the funds.
Again, each jurisdiction has the full authority to make the final call based on their circumstances and justification. Please feel free to utilize the Eligibility Cost Test Checklist to assist with determining eligible costs for your jurisdiction. Prior to receiving funds, a contract will need to be executed between the local governmental entity and the state.
Award letters with additional instructions to initiate the contracting process will be emailed to the cities and counties receiving an allocation in the next weeks, through May 22 nd. All awardees will be required to set up an SWV number so funds may be sent electronically. Please find detailed instructions here: Office of Financial Management. It may take up to three weeks after the submittal of this information for an electronic transfer account to be set up.
Funds will be provided on a reimbursement basis only. Invoices must include a detailed breakdown of the costs incurred within each eligible budget category. All final requests for reimbursement must be submitted no later than December 15, To support those with the most need, we are prioritizing applicants that fall into the following criterion:.
We evaluate applications on week by week rolling basis. Each week we send approved, waitlisted, and rejected emails to evaluated applicants. This may vary region by region as we work with our coalition of partners for additional review.
Please make sure to check your spam to see if you've gotten an application decision. Due to limited funds, we are only able to fund one family one time. In our verification process, we screen for previously funded households to ensure we aren't funding groups multiple times. Did we miss your question? Drop us a line david scholarshipjunkies. Interface Design. Our organizing partners Together we will work together to provide emergency preventative financial relief to as many undocumented families as possible.
All decisions are made in accordance with priority areas that have been publicized and were agreed on by all fund partners. Technical assistance was provided by contractors who partnered with the Department of Commerce to support applicants from every region in the state.
Peer reviewers from communities throughout Washington were recruited to read and score applications. All reviewers were required to participate in anti-bias training and to examine the approach to application review, using the scoring rubric.
The additional funds were awarded to a subset of organizations that submitted applications to the Washington Nonprofit Youth Development Relief Fund in the fall of , in keeping with the priorities of the Relief Fund. Learn more about the spring award process.
The COVID outbreak, extended school closures, and social distancing have deepened inequities and hardships for young people across Washington.
In response, youth development programs quickly adapted their services to provide supports for youth and families to whom they are deeply connected. Expanded or adapted offerings have included emergency childcare, social-emotional supports, academic mentoring, virtual programming, and basic needs supports. For many, these organizations have been a sustaining lifeline.
These impacts are also pronounced among economically vulnerable people living in rural, remote and tribal communities. We issued the request for proposals on October 26, and organizations submitted almost 1, applications by the November 6, deadline.
Applications were reviewed by community individuals from across Washington State who were recruited to read and score applications. Small organizations and those serving unincorporated areas were especially encouraged to apply.
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