POULSBO — The Kitsap Public Facilities District will review applications this month for its 2015 EventFund program, which will provide marketing and promotion dollars for events or tournaments at any of the three facilities that district funding helped build or improve.

Those facilities are: Kitsap Conference Center at Bremerton Harborside; Kitsap Fairgrounds and Event Center, including the new lighted artificial turf field at Gordon Field; and the North Kitsap Regional Event Center, primarily the lighted artificial turf fields at the North Kitsap Stadium and Strawberry Field.

Applications are being accepted until Jan. 15. Funding decisions will be made at the district Board of Directors meeting on Jan. 26.

A representative of the requesting organization must make a presentation to the board for consideration. There will be a second round of application and award in June; the deadline for submission of applications for Round II is June 15 and the instructions can be found on the KPFD website, www.kitsappfd.org/eventfund.html.

The funding may be provided over as many as three years, to assist the organizations to achieve self-sufficiency in that time or less. Funding has been provided in the past to organizations like Little League, wrestling organizations, Roller Hockey, the Kitsap Pumas and, more recently, to the North Kitsap Babe Ruth Baseball to host the 2012 Babe Ruth 13-year-old World Series in August 2012. According to the district, the World Series brought approximately $750,000 into the local economy during the one-week tournament, in which teams from across the U.S. competed.

The Kitsap Public Facilities District is an independent municipal corporation managing Washington state sales tax rebate funds allocated to Kitsap County. It is guided by four goals: 1) economic development; 2) efficient use of public and private money; 3) innovation and 4) multiple uses of facilities.