HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 4a. Selection of HRC Liaison for 2024-25 DEI High Impact Grants Item 4a
Human Relations Commission
Agenda Report
For Agenda of: 2/5/2025
Item Number: 4a
FROM: Greg Hermann, Deputy City Manager
Prepared by: Samantha Vethavanam, DEI Admin Specialist
SUBJECT: SELECTION OF THE COMMISSIONER LIAISON ROLES FOR THE 2024-
25 DEI HIGH IMPACT GRANT
RECOMMENDATION
Commissioners will designate and approve their liaison assignment roles for each of the
grant recipients from the 2024-25 DEI High Impact Grant program.
BACKGROUND
The Human Relations Commission (HRC) is tasked with reviewing grants and providing
funding recommendations to City Council for final approval. HRC is also tasked with
designating and approving their liaison roles for grant recipients, affording Commissioners
the opportunity to work and directly engage with various grant programs, projects, or
initiatives recommended by them, approved by City Council, and funded by the City.
The DEI High Impact Grant program provides financial support to non-profit organizations
to enhance the sense of belonging for all people in the San Luis Obispo community. This
funding allocation is an effort to uplift and support local projects, programs, and initiatives
that contribute to creating a San Luis Obispo that is welc oming, inclusive, equitable, and
safe.
The scope of inclusion and equity work is inherently broad and complex, and the funding
seeks to support initiatives that show understanding of “root causes” and “intractable”
problems, seek to address structural and systemic inequities, can demonstrate
measurable success, and will contribute to some aspect of systemic change.
Funding for the DEI High Impact Grant program should primarily focus on advancing and
implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion through innovative practices that seek to
narrow equity gaps and address intractable, systemic, and structural issues. Eligible
projects may provide a one-time service with long lasting impacts.
For the 2024-25 DEI High Impact Grant, a total of eleven (11) non-profit organizations
were awarded funding. The recipients include:
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Grant Recipient Program
1 AAPI of SLO Our Voices, Our Stories
2 Big Brothers and Sisters of SLO
County
Pacheco Elementary School
Mentorship Program
3 Diversity Coalition of SLO County BIPOC Board Leadership Training
Program
4 GALA Pride and Diversity Center Complex LGBTQ+ Mental Health
Support Program
5 Hillel of SLO Jews of Color Speaker Series
6 Hospice of SLO County Community Outreach Initiative
7 Mission Headstrong Autism Fitness Phase 2 Program
8 NAMI of SLO County Mental Health Resource Outreach
Campaign
9 Peace Academy of the Sciences and
Arts
Mawtini: Arab American Narratives of
Home and Belonging
10 R.A.C.E. Matters SLO Black Girl Wellness Project
11 SLO County UndocuSupport SLO County Immigrant Resource HUB
NEXT STEPS
Commissioners will designate and approve their liaison assignment roles for each of the
2024-25 DEI High Impact Grant recipients in preparation for the mid-year report review.
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