Beatty Now Accepting Submissions for Community Project Funding Requests

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03) opened applications for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Community Project Funding. Community project funding allows Members of Congress to request direct funding to fifteen qualifying projects within their congressional district. A detailed summary of project requirements can be found here.

"As Representative of Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District, I am proud to have secured hundreds of millions of federal dollars that we have reinvested into our Central Ohio community, including more than $18 million in Fiscal Year 2023,” said Beatty. “With the ability to submit up to fifteen projects this year, I encourage all of my constituents who have eligible projects to submit them for review and contact my office with any questions they may have."

Applications for funding are open to all individuals and organizations located in Ohio's 3rd Congressional District and can be submitted online here. The deadline to submit community project funding requests to Congresswoman Beatty's office is March 20, 2023.

In FY23, Beatty used community funding project requests to secure over $18 million in direct funding to support Columbus-area projects including:

• $4.5 million to the Ohio State University’s Battery Innovation Lab
• $2 million to Franklin County for the Ferris Road project
• $1 million to Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority for the Ready, Set, RISE Program
• $1 million for the Boys & Girls Club of Central Ohio for the J. Ashburn Jr. Club renovation
• $1 million for Zora’s House Women’s Entrepreneurship Incubator
• $650,000 to IMPACT Community Action for the Columbus Solar Training Lab