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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 13, 2010

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to report on this council’s current or planned engagement with philanthropic organisations on joint projects to provide community facilities and/or programmes throughout the county?

REPLY:

The Council is in the very early stages of negotiation with the Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) which is an organisation partly funded by a philanthropic organisation, Atlantic Philanthropies.

The Council along with CDI is currently considering a joint proposal on how they may be able to combine resources in certain areas of work to optimise the benefit to the community.

The Council has considerable resources in the form of its experienced and dedicated staff. In particular, it may be possible for staff in both the Housing Department and the Community Services Department to assist, advise and augment the programmes rolled out by CDI. 

The Council further assists both financially and in kind CPLN (Clondalkin Partnership) on a number of projects that attracts funding from Atlantic Philanthropies such as the Incredible Years Programme, FFT and the proposed Childhood Development Project for Balgaddy.