Montgomery County Council Grant Review

The Report of the County Council's Grants Advisory Group is online at the Montgomery County Council's web site.

The County Council appointed a community Grants Advisory Group to review grant applications from nonprofit organizations and to provide evaluative comments on the proposals. The Grants Advisory Group Report provides one page evaluative comments for each of the 186 grant applications they reviewed. As directed by the Council, the Report of the Grants Advisory Group does not provide any ranking or scoring of applications.

The Report is set up in two parts: The first web-link has the Table of Contents, an Executive summary, and a summary spreadsheet of all the applications. The summary spreadsheet also lists the page number for each application's evaluation. The second link contains all of the individual evaluations.

The next step in the grants process, as directed by the Council, is the preparation of a staff memorandum listing those grants that are most highly recommended. Our goal is to have that memorandum available Monday, May 5. That will be sent out via e-mail.

Finally, on Tuesday, May 13, in the morning the Council is scheduled to have a budget worksession on community grants. The Council may make tentative decisions on funding of grants that day. The Council is expected to make decisions on the entire County operating budget later that same week, on May 15.