AGENCY TESTIMONY
Lead pillar: Joseph P. Dwyer Program and NYC Council Funding
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Commissioner Hendon discusses two key initiatives under the 'Lead' pillar: the Joseph P. Dwyer Program and New York City Council Funding opportunities.
- The Joseph P. Dwyer Program, now including New York City, aims to increase social engagement and connectivity for veterans and their families.
- DVS is distributing Dwyer program funding to multiple veteran-serving organizations in a dispersed, hyper-local way.
- The commissioner encourages veteran-serving organizations to apply for discretionary funding from the New York City Council, highlighting it as an enduring resource for nonprofits supporting veterans.
James Hendon
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Our 3rd and final pillar in engagement is lead.
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Leading in this context involves ways that veteran serving entities can leverage available local government resources in order in order to fuel and maximize the value that their organizations deliver to our community.
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There are 2 efforts that I'd like to highlight with regard to leading.
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First is the Joseph P.
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Dwyer program.
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The private 1st class, Joseph P.
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Dwyer program is a New York state funded effort, which aims to increase social engagement and connectivity for US military veterans and their families.
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After starting in 2012 with 12 New York communities, why initially excluded New York City?
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The state legislature has recently expanded the program to include 25 communities.
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New York City is now a Dwyer program funding recipient.
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Funding from the for the Dwyer program flows from the state to the NYC Department of Health And Ohio team to us at DBS.
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Through DBS, New York City is the 1st community to receive Dwyer Money and then take measures to issue the funding to multiple veteran serving organizations in a dispersed hyper local way.
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Here in the 5 boroughs, Dwyer will empower frontline organizations to normalize, help seeking behavior amongst veteran and military families.
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Our spirit is to treat this like it's a grant program for our veteran serving institutions.
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That said, we are conducting this an effort in the context of mayor's office of contract services guidelines and procurement policy board rules.
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The deadline for veteran serving organizations to apply for this inaugural Post pilot round of Dwyer funding is Monday, September 30 2024 at 2 PM.
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Please visit n y c dot gov slash vet Dwyer to learn more.
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New York City Council Funding.
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We preventantly encourage all veteran serving organizations to apply for discretionary funding from the New York City Council.
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Council discretionary funding is the most enduring, long standing resource available to the 501c3s, 501c19s, and other nonprofits that support US military service members past and present in the city of New York.
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Given that the deadline to apply for Council funding is in mid to late February, we update our website with information about the Council funding application process as soon as it is made public.
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Details would speak to the most recent council funding process, FY 25, but are still relevant to next year's process.
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FY 26 can be found online atnyc.gov/ vet council funding.
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It is important to note that for both of these efforts, the Dwyer program and council funding, we encourage veteran serving nonprofits that help navigate and city procurement system that need help navigating city procurement systems to contact our friends at the LaGuardia Community College Apex Accelerator for technical assistance.
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Details about how to schedule a meeting with the LaGuardia Community College Apex Accelerator can be found atnyc.gov/vetwire.
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We do not want anyone to say that they were not afforded good tools to compete for these resources.
