BUTLER TWP — A brainstorming session for a grant organization will be held July 11 at Butler County Community College and the public is invited to help with ideas.

The Community Connections Grant Project will select regional community initiatives to distribute $1 million throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Funding, administered by The Sprout Fund, will be delivered to organizations in Allegheny,Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset, Washington and Westmoreland counties. The deadline to apply is Sept. 14. Recipients will be announced in October and November.

Information on applying will be available from 10 a.m. to noon at the session in Founders Hall on the college's main campus.

For information on the brainstorming session at BC3, contact Stephen Catt, executive director of planning and external relations, at 724-287-8711, Ext. 8376 or visit www.bc3.edu. For information on the Community Connections and Pittsburgh 250, contact Dustin Stiver, Community Connections program coordinator at 412-325-0646 or visit www.Pittsburgh250.org.