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Youth Bureau Announces Availability of Youth Team
Sports Funding
Published: October 31, 2023
at 09:00 p.m.
By: Press Release from Lewis County Youth Bureau
YOUTH BUREAU
ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY OF YOUTH TEAM SPORTS FUNDING
A new funding
stream for the Lewis County Youth Bureau Advisory Board is available and we
are currently seeking applications from local community-based organizations
and nonprofits. Funds are intended
to support local team sports programs in Lewis County. Lewis County has $14,797 to allocate to
local programs operating October 1, 2023- September 30, 2024.
Team sports is
defined as an organized physical activity in which groups of two or more
individuals are in competition with two or more opposing individuals.
Funds can be used
to cover:
Coaches/instructors/direct service
staff/mentors (including training/professional development).
Referee fees.
Purchase of equipment or uniforms.
Capital investment (e.g., swimming
facilities, fields, fences, storage, lighting).
Instruction or coaching necessary to
support youths ability to participate in team sports.
Facility/field space.
A maximum of 10% of the total
allocation may be used to support administrative/overhead costs by the
municipal youth bureau.
Programs eligible
for funding must meet the criteria below:
Provide team sports activities for
youth under age 18 in under-resourced communities.
Serve youth in New York state.
Have a child protection policy in place
that includes adherence to local city, agency, school district, and state
child protection guidelines.
Collect registration data, including
participant demographic information, as required by OCFS in a manner that
allows for accurate reporting of anonymized aggregate data.
Organizations and
activities not eligible for funding are the following:
Private foundations, as defined in
section 509(a) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
Organizations that discriminate based
on age, ethnicity/race, political affiliation, religion, sexual
orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or other disability,
national origin, or any protected characteristic under local, state, and/or
federal law.
Research or project-planning
activities.
Support for elite or private sports
camps, programs, or teams.
Endowments, memorials, budget deficits,
or fundraising activities.
Religious organizations whose sports
programs do not have a secular and community focus
Lobbying, political, or fraternal
activities
All programs
seeking funding must track outcome measures and provide data to the Youth
Bureau.
The application
packet can be found on the Lewis County Website at Youth Team Sports Funding Packets
Deadline for submission of proposals is December
22,2023.
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