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FY 2017-18 Outside Agency Funding Requests <br />Outside Agency <br /> FY 2016-17 <br />Approved <br />Budget <br /> FY 2017-18 <br />Agency <br />Request <br /> Change from <br />Approved Budget <br />A Helping Hand 5,000 8,000 3,000 <br />Behavioral Insights, Inc.4,000 40,000 36,000 <br />Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle 4,000 10,000 6,000 <br />Boomerang Youth 10,000 13,450 3,450 <br />Boys and Girls Club of Eastern Piedmont 5,000 10,000 5,000 <br />Bridge II Sports 5,250 6,500 1,250 <br />Cedar Grove Neighborhood Association - 20,000 20,000 <br />Chapel Hill/Carrboro Meals on Wheels 15,000 15,000 - <br />Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public School Foundation - 1,125 1,125 <br />Chapel Hill/Training Outreach 75,000 124,000 49,000 <br />Charles House 20,000 25,000 5,000 <br />Child Care Services Association - 35,000 35,000 <br />Club Nova 95,000 120,000 25,000 <br />Community Empowerment Fund 7,500 20,000 12,500 <br />Community Home Trust 200,026 205,353 5,327 <br />Compass Center for Women and Families 64,500 65,900 1,400 <br />Dispute Settlement Center 80,000 83,000 3,000 <br />Duke Homecare & Hospice 1,000 1,200 200 <br />El Centro Hispano 28,810 35,000 6,190 <br />El Futuro 27,500 35,000 7,500 <br />EmPOWERment 25,000 30,000 5,000 <br />Fairview Community Watch 6,000 - (6,000) <br />Farmer Foodshare 2,500 10,000 7,500 <br />Freedom House 35,000 37,000 2,000 <br />Habitat for Humanity 25,000 50,000 25,000 <br />Hillsborough Arts Council 7,500 12,000 4,500 <br />Historic Hillsborough Commission 8,857 10,000 1,143 <br />Historical Foundation 6,600 7,260 660 <br />Human Rights Center 2,000 15,500 13,500 <br />In FY 2016-17, the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) appropriated $1,176,763 for 55 agencies, <br />an increase of $48,448 above the FY 2015-16 appropriation. Funding included $83,530 for twelve new or <br />previously unfunded agencies. . <br />In the FY 2017-18 application process, Orange County Finance & Administrative Services recevied 60 <br />applications. Requests totaled $ 1,887,153 an increase of $ 710,390 above the current year's <br />appropriation. Nine, currently unfunded agencies requested $246,475; one of those agencies applied last <br />year. . <br />On December 13, 2016 the Board of County Commissioners approved a funding target of 1.2% of the <br />County's General Fund expenditures, less the appropriation for education expenses, for the purpose of <br />funding outside agency operations. The County has historically funded Outside Agencies at 1% of the <br />County Budget (Less Appropriation). Based on the FY 2016-17 Approved Budget (Less Education <br />Appropriation), 1.2% equates to $1,345,761.