The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority is accepting applications from Indiana-based 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organizations to fund Domestic Violence Coordinated Entry Supportive Services Only Awards.
Donor Name: Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/31/2023
Size of the Grant: $30,000
Grant Duration: 7 months
Details:
Mission
The IHCDA creates housing opportunities, generates and preserves assets, and revitalizes neighborhoods by facilitating the collaboration of multiple stakeholders, investing financial and technical resources in development efforts, and helping build capacity of qualified partners throughout Indiana.
Vision
At IHCDA, they believe that growing Indiana’s economy starts at home. Everyone can agree that all Hoosiers should have the opportunity to live in safe, affordable, good-quality housing in economically stable communities. That’s the heart of IHCDA’s mission. Their charge is to help communities build upon their assets to create places with ready access to opportunities, goods, and services. They also promote, finance, and support a broad range of housing solutions, from temporary shelters to homeownership.
Domestic Violence Coordinated Entry Supportive Services Only projects must improve communication and collaboration between Domestic Violence and non-Domestic Violence service providers with the goal of reducing barriers to access for survivors and decreasing housing wait times. Participants served by this funding must meet the HUD definition of homelessness and be fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and/or human trafficking.
Project Initiatives
The applicant may propose one of three project initiatives and may use one or multiple suggestions offered:
- Landlord Engagement
- Develop a method of effectively engaging with landlords in the region
- Create a clearinghouse of landlords willing to work with program participants and meet HUD requirements (e.g. meet FMR/rent reasonableness, ensure property meets HQS, confidentiality, etc.) that can be utilized by housing programs
- Identify a way to efficiently communicate with landlords and promote housing programs
- Other
- Mobile Delivery of Services
- Make available alternative methods/locations for CE assessments for survivors of DV.
- Provide services to those in the process of fleeing, such as food/meals, medical care, and legal services.
- Provide transportation to a shelter or other safe location
- Engage in mobile outreach
- Other
- Outside Partner
- Find and engage a partner typically outside of the homeless response system to decrease the barriers that survivors face in your area
- School system, police, animal rescue/shelter, urgent care, hotel, etc.
- Identify and conduct outreach in new locations and/or use new methods
- Build long-term partnerships with partners that DV survivors are likely to interact with
- Other
- Find and engage a partner typically outside of the homeless response system to decrease the barriers that survivors face in your area
Funding Information
- Through this award opportunity, IHCDA will award up to five awards of no more than $30,000 each in CoC funding to not-for-profit organizations that provide homeless services in the Balance of State (BoS).
- The grant will have a seven-month term and is tentatively scheduled to begin on May 1, 2023 and expire on November 30, 2023.
Eligible Project
To be considered, the project must meet the following requirements:
- Project must involve, at a minimum, the Regional CE Lead Agency and a DV service provider in the design.
- Project must be designed to serve persons experiencing homelessness as defined by HUD.
- Project must serve persons fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and/or human trafficking.
- Project must identify and remove barriers to accessing CE for survivors of DV.
- Project must attempt to decrease wait times for survivors to access housing.
- Project budget must consist of eligible costs as enumerated in 24 CFR § 578.53.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, an applicant must be a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation in good standing with the Indiana Secretary of State and have the ability to comply with financial requirements and internal controls required to receive and manage Federal funds. Any applicant selected through this process must have or obtain a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) before it can receive any funding. Each applicant must also be registered and in good standing in the federal System for Award Management (SAM). If the applicant is the recipient of HUD or sub recipient of IHCDA CoC, Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), or CARES Act funding, the applicant must be in good standing with HUD or IHCDA, with no active Performance Improvement plan.
- IHCDA shall not award any grant until the applicant has been determined to be responsible. A responsible applicant must:
- Have adequate financial and human resources to perform the project, or the ability to obtain them;
- Be able to comply with the required or proposed delivery or performance schedule, taking into consideration all the applicants existing commercial and governmental business commitments;
- Have a satisfactory performance record with IHCDA;
- Have a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics;
- Have the necessary organization, experience, accounting and operational controls, and technical skills, or the ability to obtain them;
- Have the necessary production, construction, and technical equipment and facilities, or the ability to obtain them;
- Have supplied all requested information;
- Be legally qualified to contract in the State of Indiana, and, if it is an entity described in IC Title 23, it must be properly registered with the Indiana Secretary of State and owe no outstanding reports to the Indiana Secretary of State; and
- Be otherwise qualified and eligible to receive an award under applicable laws and regulations, including not be suspended or debarred.
For more information, visit IHCDA.
