Livingston County RFPs for youth sports, education opportunity funding

The Livingston County Youth Bureau is currently seeking Requests for Proposals for the County’s Youth Sports and Education Opportunity Funding program. The deadline to submit a proposal is Friday, July 28, 2023, at 4 p.m.

The County will contract with local 501(c) 3 tax-exempt, non-profit organizations for a combined amount of approximately $25,500. Funding may provide general operating dollars to give programs flexibility to efficiently allocate resources for quality programming. Line-item budgets should focus on programming costs, including but not limited to coaches/instructors/direct service staff members/mentors, equipment, educational programming costs, facility costs and other pertinent details.

In order to meet all funding requirements, programs must provide structured sports activities for youth in Livingston County between the ages of 6-17. Additionally, all programs must be in good standing with the New York State Charities Bureau, demonstrate basic competency in the areas of governance, monitoring and evaluation, partnership and financial stewardship and must have a child protection policy in place that includes adherence to local, agency, school district and state child protection guidelines. Furthermore, all programs must have the ability to collect registration data including participant demographic information as required by OCFS in such a fashion as to be able to accurately report anonymized aggregate data.

Application must include:

• List of current Board members and what officers/staff are authorized to sign claims.
• OCFS-5001 Program Application (Municipalities are to be signed by Chief Elected Official).
• OCFS-5002 Program Profile
• OCFS-5003 Program Components
• OCFS-5005 Program Budget
• Livingston County Contract Appendices A, B, and C

Principal Award Criteria and Maximum Points Available:

• (a) Overall quality of the proposal; (50)
• (b) Cost of services; (25)
• (c) Experience providing programs and services (25)

All proposals must be received by Livingston County…