Goshen awards $409K in ARP funds to non-profits

Jordan Fouts, The Elkhart Truth, Ind.
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Jul. 12—GOSHEN — Nineteen organizations will split more than $400,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding under agreements passed Monday.

The Goshen Board of Works approved funding agreements totaling $409,664 as an allocation from the nearly $6.7 million in ARP funds the city received. A committee tasked with disbursing the money chose to direct some of it to nonprofit organizations that had suffered economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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