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AGENDA
Human Rights Commission (HRC)
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
5:30 P.M.
City Hall, Helling Conference Room
410 E. Washington Street, Iowa City
1. Call Meeting to Order and Roll Call.
2. Public Comment of Items not on the Agenda. (Commentators shall address the
Commission for no more than 5 minutes. Commissioners shall not engage in discussion
with the public concerning said items).
3. Items to be discussed:
a. Social Justice and Racial Equity Grant FY2020 Process. (Commission decided to
not take comment from the public on this agenda item).
b. Correspondence.
4. Adjournment.
If you will need disability-related accommodations to participate in this meeting please contact
the Equity Director, Stefanie Bowers, at 319-356-5022 or at stefanie-bowers@iowa-city.org.
Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Part A. Requirements
1.A letter of intent (LOI) should be submitted to the Commission prior to full grant applications.
This is a simplified grant application that demonstrations to the Commission if the project is
worth full review. Only 10 agencies will be invited to submit a full grant application and will be
ranked by the Commission.
2.Grant funds should be available for some operational expenses. Every new activity calls for
extended use of some resources that the organization already has. This takes away from their
previous activities' support.
3.New and emerging grassroots organizations strong consideration in the funding process.
4.Place ineligible periods on organizations that have received prior funding from the social justice
racial equity grant.
5.No consecutive year funding for projects.
6.The entire community/population served by the project must be in Iowa City.
7.There should be a maximum amount of $25k requested by each program, ensuring that at least
3 programs may be funded within each term.
8.There is no minimum request.
9.Organizations that have received City of Iowa City funding through any department/grant within
the last 2 years, whether it is a new project or not, is ineligible to receive funding.
Part B. The Application Form
1.The application should provide a definition of social justice and racial equity.
2.Applicants should be encouraged to supply or give a narrative about how the proposed project
came to be. What experientially prompted the project? Examples should be local and not based
upon city or statewide statistics.
3.Application should ask applicant whether there is a “tidal wave” effect for this sort of program in
our community or other communities?
4.Target population for the program needs to be clear and simplified.
5.Agencies must explain how their project answers the question: How does our project align with
social justice or racial equity and is not just a social service?
6.Ask what are the deliverables (handouts, reports, flyers, presentations, etc) the program plans
on giving to the community, both all of Iowa City and the directly affected community? How will
they be distributed to the community?
7.A sustainability plan should be presented within the application for projects that wish to
continue their project in the future (without SJRE grant funding), with specifics to funding (not
just that the agency will continue to look for support). Priority shall be given to projects that
expect a sustainable program to continue past the grant period. Not all projects must continue
past the grant funding period if not appropriate.
Part C. The Rubric
1.A smaller work group of Commission members that go through grants and make
recommendation to entire Commission.
2.Questions should be weighted.
Part D. The Selection Process
8. There should be time set aside so that groups who have submitted applications can make in
person presentations and can respond to questions from the commissioners.
9. Priority should be given to projects that vary on the target population.
10. The Commission may not skip past projects that are higher ranked in order to fully fund
smaller/less costly projects during the selection process.
11. Partial funding may be given to the next ranked project, if it is clearly stated if the project may
continue with these less funds. If the project cannot continue without full funding, the
Commission will keep the leftover funds for future grant cycles or whatever the City Council sees
fit to do with these funds.
12. Organizations will be given priority if they are new (established within the last 5 years) in order
to encourage new agencies in Iowa City.
Part E. Miscellaneous
1. Applicants should be strongly encouraged to attend an informational session or an open house
on the grant prior to applying.
2. Demonstrate at the end of first funding cycle making significant progress towards the
project/outcome.
3. Attendance cannot be the only outcome and/or performance measure of a program. More
evaluation of the project's impact must be reported back to the Commission.
4. Organizations must give presentations to the Commission at a scheduled Commission meeting,
and at a public forum on their project after completion of the project. The forum will be a
publicized event, open to the public.
Correspondence