SCHENECTADY Nonprofits feel loss of grants Some agencies shutting down, other cutting programs BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
Grant money that once flowed freely to local nonprofit agencies for dozens of initiatives is now going to just a few, after careful analysis of their results and their potential. “It’s been really difficult,” said Rowie Taylor, executive director of the YWCA of Northeastern New York. “We’ve all changed the way we’ve done business. Everybody’s had to reevaluate.” At the YWCA, some programs have been canceled, including a Parents Anonymous group, because no one would fund it. Other agencies, including the Free Health Clinic and Carver Community Center, have closed. And while some agency closures were due to fi - nancial mistakes and poor organization, others cut expenses but still couldn’t make ends meet. Far less state and federal money is available to community-service agencies. Local donors are also giving less. Even foundations and other private donation groups are asking for more data before they will invest their money. Mayor Gary McCarthy said the reduction in funds could lead to better agencies. “What it does is it forces organizations to prioritize,” he said. “We may end up with higher-quality products.” But results aren’t always practical. The Rev. Philip Grigsby, executive director of Schenectady Inner City Ministry, said some grant applications want him to prove that a children’s summer program increased the participants’ grades the following year. “Some things you can’t measure,” he said. “And they want you to have a tested program for three years before you can ask for money. How do you start a program? There aren’t the funds for experimenting.” .......................>>>>.........................>>>>..........................http://olivedev.dailygazette.n.....amp;EntityId=Ar01700
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Far less state and federal money is available to community-service agencies. Local donors are also giving less. Even foundations and other private donation groups are asking for more data before they will invest their money. Mayor Gary McCarthy said the reduction in funds could lead to better agencies. “What it does is it forces organizations to prioritize,” he said. “We may end up with higher-quality products.” But results aren’t always practical
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let's stop paying taxes
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"Now, some agencies are starting to merge and share services. McCarthy cited SACC-TV, the public access television station that moved to Proctors and became Open Stage Media. It wasn’t easy: the board voted for the move, but some members split off and have kept SACC open on a shoestring budget. Proctors now provides some of the accounting and other back-office work for SACC, as well as providing space for broadcast stages. “There’s a lot more synergy,” McCarthy said. "
Oh that's right.....
Wasn't it Proctors who tried to extort money from Glenville and surrounding communities because they provided cable access for council meetings and government programming??
Fact is, if you're a non-profit but are able to profit from quasi-criminal behavior...you'll succeed.
"Now, some agencies are starting to merge and share services. McCarthy cited SACC-TV, the public access television station that moved to Proctors and became Open Stage Media. It wasn’t easy: the board voted for the move, but some members split off and have kept SACC open on a shoestring budget. Proctors now provides some of the accounting and other back-office work for SACC, as well as providing space for broadcast stages. “There’s a lot more synergy,” McCarthy said. "
Oh that's right.....
Wasn't it Proctors who tried to extort money from Glenville and surrounding communities because they provided cable access for council meetings and government programming??
Fact is, if you're a non-profit but are able to profit from quasi-criminal behavior...you'll succeed.
I didn't know that SACC caved.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why is McCheese talking like he knows? Proctor's is the place that accepts grant money for historic preservation, only to misuse it, so that they (we) need to pay it back. Now, receiving grant money for historic preservation if you don't intend to use it for that purpose is FRAUD, but if it can't be easily proved that you didn't know you weren't going to be able to 'save' the structure in question, you just have to pay it back. Here are two things wrong with that: you took scarce historic preservation grant money away from some other entity, for which it is now too late; also, your stinking NFP just took on debt for no good reason. There are more than two things wrong with that, but I'm only listing two, because after that horror story in the paper about just how bad it is, nobody cares. They still believe these entities are "good for Schenectady". They also believe Proctor's was "closed for decades", even though they have to have seen how false that was, with their own eyes. The Book of Mormon is a popular musical, so the hogs feeding at the downtown trough are geniuses, evidently.
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