Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=116L.362&year=2011
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116L.362, 2011 Minnesota Statutes
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Chapter 116L Table of Sections
Chapter 116L Text
Youthbuild Advisory Committee
2009 Subd. 1 Amended 2009 c 78 art 2 s 24
116L.362 GRANTS.
(a) The commissioner shall make grants to eligible organizations for programs to provide education and training services to targeted youth. The purpose of these programs is to provide specialized training and work experience for targeted youth who have not been served effectively by the current educational system. The programs are to include a work experience component with work projects that result in the rehabilitation, improvement, or construction of (1) residential units for the homeless; (2) improvements to the energy efficiency and environmental health of residential units and other green jobs purposes; (3) facilities to support community garden projects; or (4) education, social service, or health facilities which are owned by a public agency or a private nonprofit organization.
(b) Eligible facilities must principally provide services to homeless or very low income individuals and families, and include the following:
(1) Head Start or day care centers;
(2) homeless, battered women, or other shelters;
(4) youth or senior citizen centers;
(5) community health centers; and
(6) community garden facilities.
Two or more eligible organizations may jointly apply for a grant. The commissioner shall administer the grant program.
Subd. 2.Grant applications; awards.
Interested eligible organizations must apply to the commissioner for the grants. The advisory committee must review the applications and provide to the commissioner a list of recommended eligible organizations that the advisory committee determines meet the requirements for receiving a grant. The total grant award for any program may not exceed $150,000 per year. In awarding grants, the advisory committee and the commissioner must give priority to:
(1) continuing and expanding effective programs by providing grant money to organizations that are operating or have operated a successful program that meets the program purposes under section 116L.364; and
History: 1988 c 686 art 3 s 2; 1989 c 328 art 7 s 3; 1992 c 376 art 5 s 1; 1993 c 369 s 82; 2000 c 488 art 2 s 18; 2004 c 206 s 52; 2009 c 78 art 2 s 24