Green Bay area non-profits celebrate Community Block grants [Video]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Several Green Bay area non-profits are celebrating into the weekend after being selected to receive federal grant money through the city.

The money comes from what’s called the Community Block Grant Program. It’s vital federal funding the city receives every year and can choose how to disperse it into the community to help target key issues and services. This year, more than $300,000 will be split up between seven non-profits.

Many of them work on affordable housing solutions for families at risk of eviction, rental assistance for low-income households, and teen services at the Boys and Girls Club of the Bay & Lakes Region.

“This funding is going toward a teen engagement specialist and teen population, what we saw during Covid, we had to take a step back and focus on child care for working families and turned into virtual school, or those younger populations …