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Grants Management & Innovation Department
 Welcome to the September 2026 edition of GrantsNews from Pima County’s Grants Management & Innovation (GMI) Department. Every other month we will share important information and tips to help all Pima County grant recipients and subrecipients maintain compliance with federal rules and regulations. Compliance is key to successful fundraising!
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Is Your Organization Ready for Federal Funding?
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Federal grants can expand your impact—but they require strong systems, capable staff, and careful stewardship.
Federal funding can help nonprofits and community-based organizations expand services, reach new communities, build partnerships, and strengthen operations. However, accepting a federal award also requires accurate records, compliant policies, measurable outcomes, and responsible use of public funds.
What Federal Funding Can Make Possible
An award may support staff, equipment, training, technology, outreach, and direct services. It can also help organizations develop partnerships, improve coordination, document results, and build a record for future funding.
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Highlights of a Pima County Subrecipient
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Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace, Inc.
Mission Garden: Cultivating Tucson’s Heritage and Future
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Reclaiming Tucson’s Roots
Nestled at the base of Sentinel Peak—known as Cuk Ṣon (pronounced Chuk Shon), meaning “black base”—Mission Garden, located at 946 W. Mission Lane, serves as a living testament to Tucson’s rich agricultural and multicultural history. Mission Garden is located within the footprint of the same 4-acre adobe walled garden of the 18th century Mission San Augustin. Spanish priests planted and cultivated trees and crops in an area that was also farmed by Indigenous peoples prior to the arrival of the Spanish. After the mission was abandoned in the 1840’s, the area was eventually damaged by development. Only fragments of the former mission wall remain.
Pima County acquired the Mission Garden property in 2002 to protect the historic area from further destruction and to preserve and reconstruct it for educational and agricultural purposes. With assistance of many volunteers, reconstruction of the garden area started in 2009, and opened to the public in 2012. Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace (FOTB), a non-profit organization incorporated in 2009, currently operates Mission Garden. Its goal is to inspire the community to reconnect with the land by reclaiming agricultural traditions in a changing world.
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