GOSHEN COUNTY – Applications are now open for the Goshen County Community Charitable Relief Program for charitable nonprofit organizations who have provided public assistance or seen a decline in donations during the pandemic.
The grant is funded by CARES Act dollars. The state allocated roughly $12.1 million to Wyoming counties to fund the program, with $281,963.55 available to Goshen County specifically, according to Goshen County Clerk Cindy Kenyon. The Goshen County Commission (GCC) is in charge of granting funds to local entities who qualify.
Organizations who apply are asked to indicate the total amount they are applying for, along with documentation for the expenditures.
Eligible organizations include nonprofit, non-governmental entities, including churches and veterans organizations who have provided goods, services or payments to the public related to COVID-19, according to the program’s emergency rules issued by the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office. The grant will reimburse organizations for expenditures made between March 19, 2020, and Dec. 30, 2020, or for loss in donations or revenue related to COVID-19 within the same time period.
“No one can say this has been an easy year,” said Governor Mark Gordon in a press release announcing the program. “There are so many needs that have been highlighted by the challenge of this virus and all that accompanied it,” Gordon said in the release. “Never has the work of charitable organizations been more important and they have shouldered additional responsibilities in so many ways.”
Applications are due Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. and are available along with rules at https://goshencounty.org/goshen-county-community-charitable-relief-program/.
