Explanation
BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with the Human Service Chamber Foundation (HSCF) in an amount up to $300,000.00 to provide funding in support of an expansion of existing services provided to the central Ohio nonprofit sector and to allow for payment of expenses starting October 1, 2022.
The HSCF, a nonprofit organization, currently provides support services to nonprofits in central Ohio. In the summer of 2022 a Shared Services Committee of the Human Services Chamber (HSC) was convened to identify the greatest need for specific professional services. The findings of the committee identified that the top professional services needed in the nonprofit sector that could be provided under a shared services model were human resources, communications and marketing, accounting and finance, development, IT, data management, and legal services. There was universal interest in such services, but near-universal acknowledgment that the agencies lacked the capacity or resources to integrate such efforts into their operations.
Furthermore, a “sustainability survey” conducted with Smart Columbus in the summer of 2021, was done in order to identify the interest in providing professional services or resources specific to helping health and human services nonprofits mitigate against the accelerating effects of global warming, both for their clients as well as for their own agencies.
This Shared Services approach will create unprecedented efficiencies and cost-savings while improving the business operations of the nonprofit sector. As such, HSC seeks to expand and improve upon its current roster of professional services and resources. By hosting, administering, and facilitating these services, HSC can create equitable access to human resources, PR and communications, legal services, sustainability efforts, accounting services, development, and more for nonprofits of all sizes and ser...
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