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File #: 1582-2025    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Council Office for Signature
File created: 6/2/2025 In control: Health, Human Services, & Equity Committee
On agenda: 6/23/2025 Final action:
Title: To authorize the Director of the Department Development to modify a grant agreement with the Human Service Chamber Foundation to extend the agreement term to December 31, 2025; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
Attachments: 1. 1582-2025 The Human Service Chamber Foundation - SOS Verification
Explanation

BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department Development to modify (Modification No. 2) a grant agreement with the Human Service Chamber Foundation (HSCF) to extend the contract term to December 31, 2025.

Original Agreement $ 300,000.00 Ord. 3179-2023 PO428619
Modification No. 1 $ 200,000.00 Ord. 2988-2024 PO485789
Modification No. 2 $ 0.00
Total $ 500,000.00

Ordinance No. 3179-2023 authorized the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with the Human Service Chamber Foundation in an amount up to $300,000.00, using general funds from the Elevate 2.0! Program.

Ordinance No. 2988-2024 authorized the Director of the Department of Development to modify the grant agreement to add an additional $200,000.00 in funding and to extend the contract term to June 30, 2025.

The mission of the Human Service Chamber (HSC) is: “to unleash the power of human potential through every act of human service”. To that end HSC is providing the nonprofit sector with a Shared Services approach that is creating unprecedented efficiencies and cost-savings while improving the business operations of the health and human services sector. HSC will continue to expand and improve upon its work in since early 2023 with a robust roster of professional services and resources. By hosting, administering, and facilitating these services, HSC will continue to create equitable access to human resources, PR and communications, legal services, sustainability efforts, accounting services, development, and more for nonprofits of all sizes and service areas across our city. The cost-savings and capacity-saving will allow agencies to have greater resources and capacity to invest in addressing the most pressing needs of the people of our community, now and well into the future.

The Human Service Chamber of Franklin County will continue to provide services through a Shared Services approach, including but not limite...

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