Community grants up for grabs in Port Colborne

Neighborhood service teams and non-profits in Port Colborne can as soon as once more take a shot at scoring some grant cash from metropolis corridor.

Every year, the municipality units apart about $30,000 in its finances for a sequence of grants to local people teams. To qualify, the organizations should “improve the standard of lifetime of the neighborhood.”

The grants are dished out in two segments, with the deadline for the primary spherical hitting on Jan. 31. The second-round deadline is about for June 30; nonetheless, teams can solely apply as soon as per 12 months, so if they're unsuccessful within the first spherical, they're ineligible to use till 2023.

Particular person grants are sometimes round $2,000 to $5,000 per group. Previous recipients embrace the Port Colborne Lions Membership, Ladies’s Place of South Niagara, Neighborhood Residing Port Colborne-Wainfleet and the YMCA.

In 2020, greater than $7,000 in grant cash was returned to metropolis corridor as a result of the cash was earmarked for occasions that have been cancelled by the pandemic.