2026-27 Human Services Grant oversight
Summary
A new worksheet will standardize how commissioners evaluate grantee reports, focusing on city residents served, community impact, and gaps in services, with findings feeding into next year's grant priorities and a Council update June 16.
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Last discussed May 6, 2026.
Impact analysis
The city's small human services grant pool is stretched across high demand, so sharper review aims to target every dollar better.
Grant recipients and residents relying on human services benefit from better-targeted funding.
People's Self-Help Housing received no funding despite testimony about its on-site case management keeping formerly homeless residents housed.
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Human Relations Commission
A new worksheet will standardize how commissioners evaluate grantee reports, focusing on city residents served, community impact, and gaps in services, with findings feeding into next year's grant priorities and a Council update June 16.
Human Relations Commission
About $150,000 in city grant money is being split among a dozen nonprofits that prevent and address homelessness. Commissioners boosted Mujeres de Acción to $5,500 to serve undocumented residents, trimming four other groups, and People's Self-Help Housing went unfunded despite an appeal.
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