A program must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for the 2010 Human Services funding with the City of Colorado Springs:
➢Sponsoring agency must be a non-profit 501(c)(3) or 509(a).
➢Funding must be for programs/services that fall into one of the following Impact Areas:
1.Emergency Care and Shelter. This impact area includes services provided to homeless and indigent persons and victims of family violence. Services may address emergency activities including short-term shelter operations, support services and meals to the homeless.
2.Self-Sufficiency Services. This impact area includes services provided to low-income disabled persons, low-income individuals and families to include single parents, and low-income elderly persons.
3.Youth Services. This impact area includes services such as prevention and intervention programs for low and very low income youth-at-risk (ages birth through seventeen (17) years). Services may include activities that address alcohol, drugs, crime, teenage pregnancy, infant/toddler childcare, and parenting skills instruction.