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Home My WebLink About08-15-22 Correspondence - One Valley - Nonprofit needs in Gallatin CountyFrom:Tanya Andreasen To:Agenda; Jeff Mihelich Cc:Bridget Wilkinson Subject:Nonprofit needs in Gallatin County Date:Monday, August 15, 2022 3:43:04 PM Attachments:2022.8.2 NPV Grant Outcomes Recommendations.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello Bozeman City Commission and Administration - In January of 2022, the Gallatin County Commission awarded One ValleyCommunity Foundation $500,000 American Rescue Plan funds for the purpose of reviving and sustaining nonprofit organizations that were negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. These funds , essentially granted through One Valley by the County Commission, ultimately were awarded to 18 nonprofit organizations throughout our county in the Gallatin County Nonprofit Vitality Grant cycle this past spring. The County Commissioners, County staff, One Valley staff, and the volunteer grant review team all were moved by the needs expressed in the 70 applications we received for these limited funds. The total amount offunding requested across those 70 eligible applications was $2.66 million. Among the 52 applications denied along with the unfunded portions of the partially awarded requests, needs totaling almost $2.2 million couldnot be met with the available funding. In 2019, the nonprofit sector in Gallatin County generated just shy of a billion dollars in income, about 10% of income generated by all nonprofitsstatewide. In that same year, nonprofits in Gallatin County employed 4,492 workers and paid them more than $180 million in wages (www.mtnonprofit.org). Please keep nonprofits top-of-mind for grant dollars, shouldcurrent or future federal, state, or local funding come available that could be leveraged to sustain the diverse, essential and costly services they provide to our community and its members. Please review the attached outcomes and recommendations report that I shared with the Gallatin County Commission and staff. I'll be sharing it with other local governments and decision makers around the county.Should you be interested in more granular detail in the case that funding is available, please reach out to me. The ARPA dollars were an unexpected good fit for this type of community investment, and it makes sense to broadly share the unmet needs of this critical sector of our economy in case other funding is now or becomes available over time. I am grateful for your ongoing partnership. My best to each of you, TanyaOne Valley Logo Tanya Andreasen COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER She/Her/Hers 406.587.6262 ext. 30www.onevalley.org One Valley Community Foundation 1627 W. Main St. Box 404 Bozeman, MT 59715 406-587-6262 info@onevalley.org www.onevalley.org Because Strong, Vibrant Communities Don’t Happen by Accident Gallatin County Nonprofit Vitality Grant Outcomes & Recommendations August 2, 2022 THE NUMBERS $500,000 American Rescue Plan dollars granted through One Valley 70 Eligible applications from nonprofits $2.66 Million Requested by nonprofits in Gallatin County 18 Grantees of the Gallatin County Nonprofit Vitality Grant 52 Unfunded applications $2.2 Million Unfunded needs of Gallatin County nonprofits THE GRANTEES Morningstar Learning Center: $42,000* Little Rangers Learning Center: $75,000 Family Promise of Gallatin Valley: $68,000 Haven: $50,000 World Language Initiative Montana: $35,000 Bridgercare: $30,000 Montana Immigrant Justice Alliance: $29,280 Help Center, Inc.: $25,000 Thrive: $20,000 West Yellowstone Foundation: $16,000 Cancer Support Community Montana: $15,400 Gallatin Invasive Species Alliance: $7,500* Montana Raptor Conservation Center: $15,000 Suffer Out Loud: $15,000 West Yellowstone Senior Center: $10,000 Montana Mindfulness Project: $8,000 Manhattan Senior Citizens Council: $7,820 Friends of the Bozeman Veterans Court: $6,000 *Yellowstone Club Community Foundation provided matching funds to these Big Sky nonprofits Because Strong, Vibrant Communities Don’t Happen by Accident OUTCOMES In early 2022, Gallatin County granted $500,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding through One Valley to Gallatin County nonprofits to bolster resilience and recovery from the pandemic. Nonprofits perpetually struggle to raise unrestricted funds for operational expenses. With staffing shortages, programmatic closures, and increased needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for unrestricted funding to revitalize and sustain Gallatin County nonprofits has become critical. The Gallatin County Nonprofit Vitality Grant has served to address some of those needs. The total number of grant applications submitted by eligible Gallatin County nonprofits was 70. The total number of funding requests across those applications was $2.66 million. Of those eligible applications, 18 were awarded funds. In January of 2021, the Montana Nonprofit Association released its Montana Nonprofit Economic Impact Report. This report highlights the nonprofit sector as crucial economic drivers. In 2019, the nonprofit sector in Gallatin County generated just shy of a billion dollars in income, about 10% of income generated by all nonprofits statewide. In 2019, nonprofits in Gallatin County employed 4,492 workers and paid them more than $180 million dollars in wages. OUTCOMES & RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUNDING UNMET NEEDS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUNDING UNMET NEEDS Among the 52 applications denied and the unfunded portions of the awarded requests, needs totaling almost $2.2 million could not be met with the available funding. The spectrum of services beyond employment provided across our area nonprofit community ranges from workforce development and support, auxiliary or augmentative support to private sector services like behavioral health, senior care, child development, public health, food security, tourism, poverty disruption, recidivism prevention, and public education. Currently available or future federal, state, or local funding is a significant need to bolster Gallatin County’s nonprofit sector to sustain the essential and costly services they collectively provide to our community members. One Valley Community Foundation strongly supports additional funding be allocated to address unmet funding needs like those exposed by the Nonprofit Vitality Grant. onevalley.org/nonprofitvitality mtnonprofit.org