CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Applications are open for Charlotte nonprofits to receive the city's next round of financial partner grants, but officials are changing the process this year to ensure greater transparency.

A mandatory virtual information session for applying nonprofits is scheduled for Friday at 12:30 p.m., a change the city has implemented to ensure funding reaches organizations where it's needed most.

The Charlotte Museum of History has relied on the financial partner program as its only municipal support for the past two years. Museum President Terri White said the funding comes with strict requirements.

"The best thing about the city partner program is that you have to operate within very tight parameters of working with a bunch of different types of companies, making sure that th

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