Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration has ended a major city-funded grant program that allowed Kensington residents to decide how national opioid settlement dollars were distributed in their neighborhood.
The Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund, or Prevention Fund, used a community-led grantmaking process to distribute $3.1 million to 43 organizations in 2024. It will no longer be managed by the Scattergood Foundation, which oversaw the participatory funding process, according to a spokesperson for the foundation.
Meanwhile, the Parker administration has launched a new $3.6 million grant program for community-based organizations dedicated to communities impacted by the opioid crisis, led by the Office of Public Safety…