Grow Greene County to begin grant process

Applications may be filed starting Oct. 1 for 2017 competitive grants from Grow Greene County Gaming Corp., the local nonprofit that distributes funds from Wild Rose Casino and Resort in Jefferson.

The grant application form is available on the Grow Greene website at growgreenecounty.org.

The site also contains rules for grant eligibility and other requirements.

Competitive grant applications must be postmarked by Jan. 31. Nine copies are required in hard-copy form. The Grow Greene mailing address is Grow Greene County Gaming Corp., P.O. Box 437, Jefferson, IA 50129.

Filing online is not permitted.

Grow Greene competitive grants are for $35,000 or more.

Grants in smaller amounts from casino funds are awarded by the Greene County Community Foundation.

For more information, contact Grow Greene County president Norm Fandel at 515-370-0992.

This past April, Grow Greene awarded more than $900,000 in competitive and non-competitive grants at the organization’s first awards ceremony, held in the Greene Room at the casino.

The grants represented Grow Greene’s proceeds from the first partial year of casino operations.

The 2017 grants will represent a full year’s worth of proceeds from 2016.

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