New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will announce a new pilot initiative to expedite the city\u2019s discretionary funding process. Launching this fall, the Discretionary Grant Pilot will replace the city\u2019s traditional contract process with direct grant agreements for approximately 100 organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0“Non-profits provide essential services to New Yorkers through city contracts and funding, but far too often are paid late for their work and forced to shoulder excessive administrative burdens,\u201d said Speaker Adams in a news release coming out Thursday. \u201cThis new Council discretionary grant pilot program, in partnership with Mayor Adams’ administration, will remove excessive barriers to get non-profits their funding faster and with less red tape.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the pilot eliminating 13 steps, the new model will ensure eligible nonprofits receive all of their Council-allocated funds in half the time of the current contracting process. In its second year, the pilot will be extended to more organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aimed at reducing bureaucratic hurdles and speeding up payments to the city\u2019s nonprofits, the new pilot will ensure that eligible nonprofits receive one-year grant agreements, bypassing the traditional months-long contract registration process. Once agreements are signed and returned, 100% of funds will be disbursed to the nonprofits, allowing organizations to serve their communities without delayed payments.<\/p>\n
Coinciding with New York City Nonprofit Week,\u201d the new initiative follows after the city announced a record number 812 contracts registered ahead of fiscal year 2026 \u2013 nearly doubling last year\u2019s figures. As it stands, 88% of the human services contracts planned for the next fiscal year are now registered \u2013 the highest percentage of registered contracts in the last five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThese organizations are a lifeline for so many families across the five boroughs, and we must have their backs to deliver day in and day out for New Yorkers,\u201d said Mayor Eric Adams in a statement. \u201cWhen New Yorkers need help, nonprofits are always there with the resources, expertise, and people that get the job done.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nonprofits who were awarded a total of $25,000 or less in City Council discretionary dollars in fiscal year 2026, and were funded by the Department of Youth Community Development, Aging, Veterans Services or the Department of Small Business Services can qualify. Participating organizations will be determined by the Council, Mayor\u2019s office of Contract Services and will be notified of grant agreements following October. With 30 days to return signed agreements, organizations can anticipate receiving funding by January 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Adams\u2019 administration\u2019s latest support comes as the city’s social safety nets grapple with the effects of the latest budget reconciliation bill<\/a>. With a focus on finally expediting payments to nonprofits, Michael Sedillo, executive director of the Mayor\u2019s Office of Nonprofit Services, has doubled down on the agency\u2019s shift to a customer-service oriented model<\/a>, in addition to efforts to unlock $6 billion in backlogged funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cNone of this progress would have been possible without the unrelenting public servants at the Mayor\u2019s Office of Contract Services, whose leadership in this year\u2019s Timeliness Initiative united this administration in getting resources where they belong: serving New Yorkers,\u201d said Sedillo in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n This initiative builds on the administration\u2019s pledge to $5 billion in advance payments<\/a> to city-contracted nonprofits and previous pledges of $741 million to 80,000 human services workers in 2024. Launched by the Mayor\u2019s Office of Nonprofit Services, the \u201cTimely Registration Initiative,\u201d aims to streamline contracting processes, encourage transparency, and support providers through contracting.\u00a0<\/p>\n Driven by system upgrades<\/a> like PASSPort, the city\u2019s digital procurement platform, along with the relaunch of ContractStat<\/a> \u2013 these latest systems aim to enhance technical assistance, accountability and service delivery for nonprofits.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cNonprofits are both partners in service delivery and the heart of our city\u2019s safety net. Every day, they stand alongside vulnerable New Yorkers,\u201d said Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives Ana J. Almanzar in a statement. \u201cNew York City cannot thrive without its nonprofits, and we will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with them to build a stronger, fairer city for all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will announce a new pilot initiative to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-163760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115066770983475180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}