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Chair: Richard Perry
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Funding Requests

The Sylmar Neighborhood Council has limited funds available as an outreach tool to benefit the people of Sylmar. These funds are from your tax dollars distributed to the Neighborhood Council by the City of Los Angeles.

A service organization may request funding consideration by completing a Request Form. Please submit your FUNDING REQUEST FORM at least 3 MONTHS in advance of the planned event or project. This time is needed to gather information regarding your event or project, for the appropriate Committee and the Board of Directors to discuss and consider whether to allocate funds, to prepare our documentation and to ensure with the City that the Neighborhood Council has funds available to allocate for your event or project if the Neighborhood Council chooses to do so.

Funding requests made at General Board Meetings without first having been made to the appropriate Committee are not likely to be considered for funding until the request has been made to the Committee. Funds can never be allocated for events or projects that have already occurred.

The following is the Funding Consideration Process:

1. Click the “REQUEST FORM” link to download and print a copy of the Funding Request Form.
2. Complete and submit an original paper copy of the signed Funding Request Form by U.S. Mail to Sylmar Neighborhood Council, Funding Request, c/o Sylmar Recreation Center, 13109 Borden Ave., Sylmar, CA 91342 or fax (call first to arrange a faxing time) the Form to (818) 833-8707. (The City of Los Angeles does not accept e-mailed Funding Request Forms.)
3. The appropriate Committee, at one of its monthly public Meetings which you and/or another representative of your organization are expected to attend, may discuss and possibly vote on whether to recommend that the Board of Directors allocate funds. Only the Board can allocate funds, not the Committee.
4. If the appropriate Committee votes to recommend allocating funds, the Board of Directors, at one of its monthly public Meetings which you and/or another representative of your organization are expected to attend, may discuss and possibly vote on whether to allocate funds. (Two levels of the Neighborhood Council consider allocating funds: first, the appropriate Committee, which does not allocate funds but can recommend to the Board of Directors to allocate funds, and second, the Board of Directors.)

Information to Include
Consideration of your funding request can include and your request is more likely to be supported and possibly funded if you provide the following information with your Funding Request Form:

• the name of your event or project;
• the date(s) and beginning and ending times of your event or project;
• the exact location of your event or project;
• the name of your organization;
• the name of your organization’s Executive Director, President or Chair;
• the exact location of your organization;
• your organization’s phone number, e-mail address and website address;
• who from your organization and/or who will your organization be recruiting to help at your event or project;
• from what part(s) of the City do or will your staff and/or volunteers live;
• a brief description of what activities will happen at your event or project;
• what you expect the benefit of your event or project to be;
  who you expect your event or project to benefit;
• from what part(s) of the City do or will the people live who you expect to benefit from your event or project;
• the expected attendance at your event or project;
• the total amount of funding your organization needs for your event or project;
• the amount of funding you are requesting from the Neighborhood Council;
• the latest date by which your organization needs the funding;
  all the expected expenses of your event or project;
• the specific expenses for which you are asking the Neighborhood Council to allocate funds;
• a line-by-line item budget of your event or project;
• the names of the other organizations from which you have already requested funds;
• the names of the other organizations that have already allocated funds;
• the amounts of funds that other organizations have already allocated;
• readable copies of event or project receipts that your organization has already received or will receive soon after your event or project;
• copies of event or project promotional materials you have or will have such as flyers, brochures and a paper copy of the banner design, if any, and what the Sylmar Neighborhood Council name will look like and where it will appear on the promotional materials;
• whether your organization will provide an outreach booth for the Neighborhood Council at your event or project and the cost of the booth;
• the names of other organizations that will or may participate in your event or project;
• the names of elected officials or other government officials or organizations that will or may participate in your event or project;
• whether your organization will expect or provide an opportunity for a Neighborhood Council representative to formally speak at your event or project, and if so, for how much time; and
  whether there is a former or existing relationship between your organization and a Neighborhood Council Board Member.