The Bureau of Economic Development (BED) partners with the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) to solicit grant applications for Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Program.
Donor Name: Cook County Government
State: Illinois
County: Cook County (IL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/17/2023
Size of the Grant: $25,000
Details:
Funding Information
- Minimums
- Minimum application funded: $25,000, can be spread across multiple activities and components.
- At minimum, the applicant must certify at least a dollar-for-dollar match for ESG. These matching funds must be available during the grant year itself
- Maximums
- No more than 20% of the applicant’s total budget (taken from the latest audit submitted) may be funded as an ESG grant.
- (For example, if an organization’s operating budget was $100,000, the highest ESG allocation they could get would be $20,000.)
Eligible Activities
- Homeless Prevention:
- Assistance and services to prevent households from becoming homeless
- Rapid Re-housing:
- Rapid Rehousing assistance can be used to help a homeless household move into permanent housing and achieve stability in that housing
- HMIS:
- Cook County has required sub recipients to use HMIS (and for Domestic Violence services agencies to use a comparable data tracking program), and it is now required by HUD
- Emergency Shelter:
- Renovation- including major rehabilitation or conversion, of a building to serve as an emergency shelter. The emergency shelter must be owned by a government entity or private nonprofit organization.
- Essential Services- including case management, child care, education services, employment assistance and job training, outpatient health services, legal services, life skills training, mental health services, substance abuse treatment services, transportation, and services for special populations.
- Shelter Operations- including maintenance, rent, repair, security, fuel, equipment, insurance, utilities, food, furnishings, and supplies necessary for the operation of the emergency shelter.
- Street Outreach:
- Essential Services related to reaching out to unsheltered homeless individuals and families, connecting them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services, and providing them with urgent, non-facility-based care.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-profit agencies with a 501(c) 3 are eligible to apply for ESG funding.
- Units of local government are not eligible for ESG funding.
For more information, visit Cook County Government.
