NOFA for HUD's FY16-17 Housing Counseling Training Grant Program

Post Date

February 18th 2016

Application Due Date

April 4th 2016

Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.

Funding Opportunity Number

FR-6000-N-30

CFDA Number(s)

14.316

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Housing

Number of Awards

4

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)

Applicants must be a public or private non-profit organization and must submit evidence of “tax exempt” status under section 501(a) pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 USC 501(a) and (c)(3)). Applicants may also be SHFAs and other units of local, county or state government. Applicants must have at least two years of experience providing housing counseling training services nationwide to housing counselors employed by housing counseling agencies participating in HUD’s Housing Counseling Program. Applicants may utilize in-house staff, sub-grant recipients, Training Partners, qualified third-party trainers, and consultants,with requisite experience and capacity. HUD strongly encourages the partnering by Grantees with SHFAs and other Training Partners. However, one organization must be designated as the primary applicant. This NOFA is structured to encourage agencies to sub-allocate funding to sub-grantees and/or Training Partners. Sub-grantees and Training Partners may include SHFAs; units of local, county or state government; and local or state housing coalitions/networks that are public or private non-profit organizations. sub-grantees and/or Training Partners must have “tax exempt” status under section 501(a) pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code [26 USC 501(a) and (c)(3)] or be an established SHFA. The funding methodology of this NOFA will incentivize such Training Partnerships. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $2000000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $2000000

Grant Description

This NOFA provides notice of a grant program that supports the provision of both basic housing counseling training and specialized topics of training to help meet these perceived needs. This financial support will assist housing counseling agencies to increase the use of partnerships with local and state-wide organizations to provide additional place based training on state and local issues.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Virginia F. Holman
  virginia.f.holman@hud.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Grants Policy

• Agency Email Address:

  virginia.f.holman@hud.gov

• More Information:

  http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/administration/grants/fundsavail