Priority Area: Funding Access and Capacity Building
Barrier: Application Burden and Accessibility

Challenge/Local/State

Description

State Solution
(Type of Activity: Program Implementation and Outreach )

State should require advance payment to nonprofits, tribes, and smaller CBOs at grant award rather than treating advance pay as optional, ensuring organizations have money in the bank on day one and can begin implementation without carrying costs for months while waiting for reimbursement. 

Existing Examples of Progress: 1. Existing legislation authorizing (but not requiring) advance pay; stakeholders call for mandatory implementation. 2. California's tribal capacity building program provides early seed funding to tribal organizations at grant award rather than reimbursement, enabling tribes to build the organizational infrastructure needed to access and implement larger grants that would otherwise be financially out of reach.
Region: San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast, Los Angeles, Statewide

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