Councilman Fernando Cabrera, who is in Israel this week on a junket with Speaker Christine Quinn, wants to open up the process by which nonprofit organizations receive discretionary grant allocations.
Each year, every Council member receives a certain amount of grant money that they dole out to local organizations.
For years, this was a secretive process. But, in the wake of several high-profile scandals involving these grants, including the recent indictment of Bronx Councilman Larry Seabrook, Cabrera is aiming to achieve full transparency in the grant application process.
To do this, he is encouraging nonprofit groups to call his office to receive an application. They are due on March 10.
Those interested can call Cabrera’s office, (347) 590-2874 or e-mail Greg Faulkner, Cabrera’s chief of staff, gfaulkner@council.nyc.gov.
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