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Notice/Advertisement Title: Getting Grant Ready Academy Hearing Minutes
Contact Name: Jacob Dilley
Contact Telephone Number: 614-645-5292
Contact Email Address: jadilley@columbus.gov
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Columbus City Council
NEIGHBORHOODS, RECREATION, AND PARKS PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA:
Getting Grant Ready Academy Hearing
Wednesday - July 9, 2025 5:00 PM City Hall, Council Chambers
Call to Order: 5:04pm
[Council Member Day-Achauer]
Public Hearing of Testimonies and Announcement for Getting Grant Ready Program
Present: Councilmember Nancy Day-Achauer, Councilmember Otto Beatty III, Libby Villavicencio, Fredericka Wallace-Deena
Introduction:
[Council Member Day-Achauer]
Presentation:
[Council Member Day-Achauer]
- Origin of Getting Grant Ready Program
- Overview of Program
- Tossing over to Libby V and Fredericka Wallace-Deena
[Libby Villavicencio]
- Summary of beginning stages such as applicants, accepted and completed.
- Gratitude towards Councilmember Nancy Day-Achauer
- Origin of need for the program and highlighting the positive impact of the program
- Highlighting core of the program: Fixing Access
- Inspiration and Methodology from Wallace-Deena’s book in their approach to the Program
[Fredericka Wallace-Deena]
- Their book: The Rebel Words Methodology backing the core belief in the Program
o Highlighting philanthropy, data, translation, co-investment model
- Acknowledgement of struggle in Academy
- Awe of amount of secured grants
- Empowerment of philanthropy and root problem-solving
[Council Member Day-Achauer]
- Acknowledgement of collaboration between Villavicencio, Wallace-Deena, and Day-Achauer in picking each applicant
[Council Member Otto Beatty III]
- Congratulations to Program attendees
[Council Member Day-Achauer]
- Invites Public Comments for Testimony
Invited Testimony:
[Rukaya Saleh, ICG]
- Gratitude to Day-Achauer, Villavicencio, and Wallace-Deena
- Overview of organization
- Testimony of people hel...
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