The City of Yonkers Request for Proposals Year 50 – 2024 for Community Development Block Grant and Emergency Solutions Grant funding is now available.
Donor Name: City of Yonkers
State: New York
City: Yonkers
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/09/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Categories
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) applications can be submitted in the following categories:
- Economic Development projects such as business assistance, job training and placements.
- Must demonstrate the ability to create/retain jobs.
- Public Facilities projects that improve neighborhoods, community facilities, and open green spaces and/or city parks. Must demonstrate project readiness.
- Public Services:
Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) applications
Homeless Services:
ESG funds are available for five program components: street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re-housing assistance, and data collection through the Homeless Management Information System or HMIS. Below is a summary of the components and related eligible costs:
- Street Outreach: funds may cover costs related to essential services for unsheltered persons (including emergency health or mental health care, engagement, case management, and services for special populations.
- Emergency Shelter: funds may be used for renovation of emergency shelter facilities and the operation of those facilities, as well as services for the residents (including case management, child care, education, employment assistance and job training, legal, mental health, substance abuse treatment, transportation, and services for special populations)
- Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing: both components fund housing relocation and stabilization services (including rental application fees, security deposits, utility deposits or payments, last month’s rent and housing search and placement activities). Funds may also be used for short- or medium-term rental assistance for those who are at-risk of becoming homeless or transitioning to stable housing.
HMIS: funds may be used to pay the costs for contributing data to the HMIS designated by the Continuum of Care for the area. Eligible activities include (computer hardware, software, or equipment, technical support, office space, salaries of operators, staff training costs, and participation fees)
Grant Period
February 1, 2024 – January 31, 2025.
Eligible Target Areas Activities
CDBG funds may be used for acquisition, demolition, clearance removal or rehabilitation of real property and blighted buildings; the construction, reconstruction, or installation of public works projects; neighborhood facilities and other site improvements; relocation assistance, economic development; assistance to the elderly or handicapped and public services.
For more information, visit City of Yonkers.
