Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with The Parkinson Foundation, a non-profit entity, in support of the organization’s Moving Day Columbus 2024 event.
The Parkinson’s Foundation makes life better for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.
Moving Day is an inspiring and empowering annual fundraising walk event that unites people around the country living with Parkinson’s disease, their care partners, and loved ones to help beat PD. Moving Day is a celebration of movement - proven to help manage Parkinson’s symptoms.
Leading up to the event, participants and teams fundraise to help the Parkinson’s Foundation provide everything people with Parkinson’s need to live better - from lifesaving resources to delivering quality care to more than 196,700 people living with Parkinson’s to improving Parkinson’s treatments through research.
Emergency action is necessary to provide reimbursement for operating expenses for the event on April 28, 2024.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with The Parkinson Foundation in support of their Moving Day Columbus 2024 event; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($5,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, The Parkinson’s Foundation makes life better for people with Parkinson’s disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure; and
WHEREAS, Moving Day is an inspiring and empowering annual fundraising walk event that unites people around the country living with Parkinson’s disease, their care partners and loved ones to help beat PD; and
WHEREAS, Leading up to the event, participants and teams fundraise to help the Parkinson’s Foundation provide everything people with Parkinson’s need to live better; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the...
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