The Concord City Council authorized the distribution of $150,000 to seven local nonprofits to support projects in the areas of workforce development, youth drug prevention and education, and mental health and substance abuse services.
The funds, which will be distributed in Fiscal Year 2024-25, were received from retail cannabis businesses in Concord as part of the City’s Cannabis Community Benefit Fund. These are voluntary contributions from the developers of the business as part of their development agreement with the City of Concord.
In 2022, the City Council established this fund and last year determined a procedure for distributing funding through grant awards based on applications reviewed and recommended by Concord’s Community Services Commission.
Organizations receiving grants must serve residents within the city and must provide any of the following services:
- Workforce development;
- Youth drug use prevention and education efforts; and
- Drug treatment programs and/or mental health programs, including programs providing supervised diversion from the criminal justice system to avoid recidivism.
Funding was also allocated to support the City’s recreation scholarship program, which supplements the cost of summer camps and swimming programs for youth from lower income households. Participating in organized recreation activities is a fundamental way for Concord’s youth to boost self-esteem and build healthy social connections that can be influential in preventing drug use.
View the chart of funding distributions here.
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Contra Costa Family Justice Center – $20,000.00
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COCOKIDS, INC. – $20,000.00
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Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Inc. – $20,000.00
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Opportunity Junction – $25,000.00
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Monument Impact – $25,000.00
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We Care Services for Children – $15,000.00
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Cancer Support Community – $15,000.00
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City of Concord – $10,000.00
Money from drug users to prevent drug use. Only in America 🤪
B.S. Youth drug use prevention and education efforts? The money is coming from pot sales.
Your city might be broken if your leadership openly states to receiving bribes from drug dealers.
The City of Concord allocated $7 million to local non-profits in March of 2023 from American Rescue Plan Act funding.
Vote buying. Money laundering.
Let’s look at the campaign donations for Edi and the other Council stooge running for office this year. I have a cut the Grass growing up through the asphalt in front of my house because Road maintenance is to expensive. But boy they can give that money away to anyone but the tax payers!
Throwing money away. Let’s see the accountability for these so-called donations.
AMERICAN CITIZEN,
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You’re going to love seeing what the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors has allocated $15+ million in Measure X funding for.
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