1. The Grants Management Advisory Committee created by NRS 232.383 shall:
(a) Review all requests received by the Department for awards of money from agencies of the State or its political subdivisions and nonprofit community organizations or educational institutions which provide or will provide services to persons served by the programs administered by the Department;
(b) Submit recommendations to the Director concerning each request for an award of money that the Advisory Committee believes should be granted, including, without limitation, the name of the agency, nonprofit community organization or educational institution that submitted the request;
(c) Adopt policies setting forth criteria to determine which agencies, organizations and institutions to recommend for an award of money;
(d) In accordance with subsection 2, establish a list of nonprofit community organizations eligible to receive awards of money from the Grief Support Trust Account created by NRS 439.5132;
(e) Monitor awards of money granted by the Department to agencies of the State or its political subdivisions, and nonprofit community organizations or educational institutions which provide or will provide services to persons served by the programs administered by the Department, including, without limitation, awards of money granted pursuant to NRS 439.630;
(f) Assist the staff of the Department in determining the needs of local communities and in setting priorities for funding programs administered by the Department; and
(g) Consider funding strategies for the Department, including, without limitation, seeking ways to avoid unnecessary duplication of the services for which awards of money to agencies of the State or its political subdivisions and nonprofit community organizations or educational institutions are granted, and make recommendations concerning funding strategies to the Director.
2. The Grants Management Advisory Committee may include a nonprofit community organization on the list of nonprofit community organizations eligible to receive an award of money from the Grief Support Trust Account created by NRS 439.5132 only if the nonprofit community organization satisfies the following criteria:
(a) The Secretary of the Treasury has recognized the nonprofit community organization as tax exempt pursuant to the provisions of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3), for at least 3 years, and the organization is organized as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to chapter 82 of NRS.
(b) The nonprofit community organization has provided age-appropriate peer support groups for children between the ages of 3 years and 18 years for at least 2 years, and provides such peer support groups from September to May of each calendar year on a biweekly basis.
(c) The nonprofit community organization is a member of the National Alliance for Grieving Children or its successor organization.
(d) The nonprofit community organization must provide its grief support services free of charge.
(e) The nonprofit community organization keeps and aggregates information relating to the number of children served by the organization and the demographic information of such children, including, without limitation, a child’s age, gender, race, ethnicity, school attendance and family income.
(f) Any other criteria set forth in the policies adopted by the Committee pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 1.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 472; A 2007, 2347; 2017, 3173)