Following five successful years that yielded more than $1.3 million in grants for the township, the Falls Supervisors opted on Monday to continue its annual contract with a grant writing company.
Millennium Strategies, LLC has helped Falls secure $1,373,438.33 in alternative governmental and nongovernmental grant funding since beginning work with the township in March 2020. Within the last year, the company has secured two grant awards totaling $295,745.
The Supervisors voted 3-0 in favor of continuing work with the company. Supervisor Jeff Boraski was absent and Vice Chairperson Erin Mullen had a death in her family.
As part of the annual contract, which costs $1,700 per month, Millennium Strategies will develop a strategic plan, research available opportunities, provide monthly reporting and review possibilities that township officials are interested in. In addition, Millennium will provide the township with access to GranTrack, a web-based tool equipped with real-time access to downloadable summaries of all grant opportunities presented to Falls and a record of all applications submitted. Project-based grant writing services would be provided at a rate of $130 per hour.
Supervisor John Palmer said the contract is “money well spent,” noting that Fallsington Library and the fire departments have benefited from grant funding.
“This works out pretty good,” Palmer said. “I know we used them many times for our nonprofits.”
Falls began working with Millennium Strategies, LLC after neighboring Middletown Township used the company’s services to generate more than $10 million in grant funding over a 10-year span. In 2021, Millennium helped Falls obtain a $756,881 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to fund pedestrian safety improvements at various intersections.
In addition to Falls and Middletown, Millennium Strategies provides grant writing services to more than 180 municipalities, counties, school districts and nonprofits in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Missouri. Since its inception in 2005, the company has secured more than $2 billion in both governmental and non-governmental grants for its clients.
Millennium has secured funding for a wide range of projects, including arts and culture, economic development, open space preservation, parks and recreation, environmental planning and restoration, public safety, sustainable energy, historic preservation, as well as transportation-related projects.
