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Youth Bureau Announces Availability of Funds for One
Time Investment in Infrastructure for Physical Activity
Published: December 11, 2023
at 06:30 p.m.
By: Press Release from Lewis County Youth Bureau
YOUTH BUREAU
ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY OF
YSEFI: One Time Investment in Infrastructure for
Physical Activity
The Lewis County
Youth Bureau has $10,344 to cover a
one-time investment in infrastructure for physical activity. Applicants must be local nonprofit
organizations providing sports programs to underserved children ages 6-17 operating
October 1, 2023- September 30, 2024.
Eligible expenses include one-time investments in infrastructure for
physical activity. Examples include improvements to sport fields or courts,
building a storage unit to maintain equipment, the purchase of sporting
equipment or uniforms, or similar costs.
Programs eligible
for funding must meet the criteria below:
● Provide structured sports
activities for youth ages 6-17
● Serve youth in New York State
● Demonstrate basic competency in
the areas of governance, monitoring and evaluation, partnership and
financial stewardship
● 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:
● For-profit organizations or
businesses
● 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
● Capital projects
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 https://lewiscountyny.gov/departments/youth-bureau-announces-the-availability-of-ysefi-one-time-investment-in-infrastructure-for-physical-activity/
Deadline for submission
of proposals is February
16, 2024.
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