The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) supports San Franciscans with affordable housing opportunities and essential services to build strong communities.
Donor Name: Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development
State: California
County: San Francisco County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/11/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The department is organized into four divisions: Housing, Community Development, Homeownership and Below Market Rate (HBMR) programs, and Fiscal/Administrative. The Community Development division works with a broad network of community-based partners to create an inclusive and equitable City where all residents can thrive. Specifically, MOHCD’s Community Development division:
- Manages local General Fund money to support programs that meet the essential needs of the city’s most vulnerable residents
- Administers major federal grant programs, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program and its Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program
- Manages the Housing Trust Fund to support housing stability services
- Manages the City’s Cultural Districts Program and the SoMa Community Stabilization Fund
- Oversees the City’s Digital Equity Program
MOHCD’s investments support the city’s most vulnerable residents by providing much needed services, strengthening civil society, and advancing individual and collective opportunity. It is imperative for the office to be intentional and explicit in meeting its goals of reducing racial disparities in service delivery and increasing social and economic opportunities within San Francisco.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 — June 30, 2030.
Eligible Expenses
Examples of eligible uses of grant funds include, but are not limited to:
- Salaries and fringe benefits — including US federal payroll tax (FICA), state unemployment insurance, and health, medical and retirement benefits — of all program, supervisory, and support staff that work directly on the program
- Contractual services provided to program participants or the agency by consultants, independent contractors, or other entities that are non-staff individuals
- Materials and supplies used in the operation of the program
- Facilities or occupancy costs associated with building space, space used to run the program, main space and auxiliary space, and costs associated with facility upkeep and maintenance (including janitorial services)
- Percentage allocation of utilities, such as gas, electric, and water bill, used by the program
- Equipment purchase, lease, and maintenance costs that directly benefit program participants
- Transportation and travel costs used for the program (including pre-approved vehicle purchase (s) as required to perform scope of funded services)
- Staff development costs used to pay registration or attendance fees for staff to attend workshops or trainings aimed to build capacity for the program
- Events, field trip, and food costs related to the program
- Insurance fees for required insurance policy maintenance costs such as commercial general liability, auto, workers compensation, and event insurance
- Telecommunications costs used for the program (including telephone, fax, internet, and cell phones used for programmatic purposes)
- Capital costs for real property necessary for the delivery of programs (including mortgage interest fees);
- Professional licenses for staff, if required for program
- Job posting and fingerprinting of staff, if required for program
- Administrative costs up to 15% of the total grant amount (including administrative costs of subcontractors).
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to submit a grant proposal if you meet all the following minimum eligibility requirements:
- You are (or you have a fiscal sponsor that is) a nonprofit, public benefit corporation tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) as a public charity.
- Your service site is located within the City and County of San Francisco.
- Your service helps low and moderate-income individuals and their families who reside within the City and County of San Francisco.
For more information, visit MOHCD.
