(1) The Department for Local Government may:
(a) Establish a capacity building grant program, through which it may provide qualified community foundations, county-specific component funds, and affiliate community foundations with grants from the fund for the purpose of developing and enhancing the receiving foundation’s capacity to operate and execute its mission, subject to the following restrictions:

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 147A.320

  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

1. No qualified community foundation, county-specific component fund, or affiliate community foundation may receive more than one (1) capacity building grant during any fiscal year;
2. No single capacity building grant shall exceed fifty thousand dollars
($50,000); and
3. At least forty percent (40%) of funds awarded as capacity building grants shall be provided to newly established or emerging qualified community foundations, county-specific component funds, or affiliate community foundations that specifically seek to address the needs of rural areas of the Commonwealth;
(b) Establish a challenge grant program, through which it may provide qualified community foundations, county-specific component funds, and affiliate community foundations with grants from the fund for the purpose of building community-based unrestricted endowment funds by encouraging individuals, businesses, and other organizations to provide endowment gifts, subject to the following restrictions:
1. No qualified community foundation, county-specific component fund, or affiliate community foundation may receive more than one (1) challenge grant during any fiscal year;
2. Challenge grants may be provided in amounts not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of the amount of privately donated endowment gifts provided to the receiving qualified community foundation, county-specific component fund, or affiliate community foundation during the one (1) year period preceding the grant award. However, no single challenge grant shall exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000); and
3. At least forty percent (40%) of funds awarded as challenge grants shall be provided to newly established or emerging qualified community foundations, county-specific component funds, or affiliate community foundations that specifically seek to address the needs of rural areas of the Commonwealth; and
(c) Promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A
to administer this section.
(2) Upon the establishment of any grant program under this section, the Department for Local Government shall provide an annual report to the commission, which shall include:
(a) The total number of grant requests submitted during the year, along with the amount of funds requested and the identity of the foundation making the request; and
(b) Information regarding all grants actually awarded during the year.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Created 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 71, sec. 5, effective July 15, 2010.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2010). References to the “Governor’s Office for Local Development” in subsections (1) and (2) of this section, as created by 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 71, sec. 5, have been changed in codification to the “Department for Local Government” to reflect the renaming of that agency in Executive Order 2009-540, which was confirmed by the General Assembly in 2010
Ky. Acts ch. 117. These changes were made by the Reviser of Statutes pursuant to
2010 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 90.