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"What would you do with $2.5 million dollars to advance racial equity?" That's the question community members in Marin County, Calif., were asked as part of a pilot project to invest in equity-centered projects, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
From Oct.
26 to Dec.
29, 3,700 ballots were submitted from 104 applications.
The top vote-getters were allowed to vote in person or online for their top seven choices.
The top 16 projects received the full amount they requested.
Twenty-four projects received grants ranging from $10,000 to $250,000.Extra Food, which dispatches volunteers to distribute leftover food from local businesses and schools to agencies serving hungry people, was the top vote-getter with 1,442 votes, but it received a $75,000 grant.
Canal Alliance's Community Health House project received a $250,000 grant despite finishing 15th in the voting with 635 votes.
The program will deploy Spanish-speaking outreach workers to offer COVID-19 testing, health information, insurance assistance, behavioral health referrals, and community-based education.
According to Marin County public health officials, only 8.7% of Marin's Latino population is up to date with its COVID-19, compared to 12.3% of the county's African-American population and 32.7% of the white population
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