Title
Grant Application - WBTV Grant for Urban Outdoor Connections Camp (Park and Recreation)
Action
ACTION:
Approve submission of a grant application to WBTV for a Summer Camp Grant of up to $20,000 for Urban Outdoor Connections Camp scholarships and receive amount awarded.
Staff Contact: Chris Matthews, Division Director
Presentation: No
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
The WBTV Summer Camp Fund awards grants to summer camps to provide scholarships to low-income children grades K-12. Grants must be used to expand the opportunities available to low-income campers. The goals of the grant are to help children develop a love of the outdoor, encourage continued learning through the summer and to expand children’s vision of what could be. The grant will provide low-income youth the opportunity to enjoy a summer camp experience that mirrors enrichment programs accessed by their middle- and upper-income peers. This grant will allow Park and Recreation staff to provide up to twenty-nine (29) 100% scholarships to low-income children for 4 weeks of nature-based summer camp.
In 2019, Park and Recreation received $6,800 from the Charlotte Observer Summer Camp Fund, which funded scholarships for five (5) children to participate in the 4-week camp session. The Observer is no longer funding summer camp scholarships so we are pursuing a different funding source.
The grant submission deadline is January 31, 2020.
PROCUREMENT BACKGROUND:
N/A
POLICY IMPACT:
N/A
FISCAL IMPACT:
FY20 increase in the scholarship fund by amount awarded.