The Urgent Need for Disasters Program helps communities address an urgent need resulting from a sudden and severe natural or other disaster where no other financial resources are available.
Donor Name: Kansas Department of Commerce
State: Kansas
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/01/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $100,000
Details:
These funds will be for project activities that address an urgent need resulting from a sudden and severe natural or other disaster that has created conditions that pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community. These conditions must be of recent origin and have become urgent within six months following the disaster. Applications must be certified as an urgent need by the agency having jurisdiction over said conditions. The project must demonstrate that no other financial resources are available to address the conditions.
Only the immediate emergency will be addressed through this category with long-term resolution of the problem being addressed through regular rounds of awards or other funding sources. The project must demonstrate that no other financial resources are available to address the conditions. This includes financing the project themselves or having access to any local, state or federal funding resources.
Funding Information
$100,000 is allocated for the Urgent Need for Disasters program in 2023. Communities can request up to $100,000 for eligible expenses.
Qualifying Projects
This program funds projects that address an urgent need resulting from a sudden and severe natural or other disaster.
Eligible expenses include:
- Activities designed to meet urgent, health and welfare needs and for which no other financial resources are available to meet such needs
- Activities on the approved list of eligible expenditures adopted from Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants under the CDBG program are defined as “general purpose units of government.” These “units” are all counties and cities that are not participants in the entitlement program. The entitlement program areas in Kansas are: Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Manhattan, Overland Park and all of Johnson County.
For projects proposed to resolve problems that exist in unincorporated areas of a county, the county governing body is the eligible applicant:
- For county projects that are located in two counties, the county with the highest number of beneficiaries is the applicant, but an intergovernmental agreement must be executed prior to the application submittal.
- For projects that propose to resolve problems that exist in a city, the city governing body is the eligible applicant. A municipality may apply for a project that would include activities to be located outside city limits if 51 percent of the beneficiaries are residents of the city.
Selection Criteria
- Grant applications are evaluated for funding based on project need, readiness, impact, matching funds source and availability.
- Key considerations include:
- Other federal, local or state programs should be used to match or participate to relieve the threat.
- Communities are discouraged from proposing activities that displace persons, unless no feasible alternative exists.
- Applicants must be sensitive to potential environmental impacts based on federal environmental regulations. At least 51% of all program participants must meet LMI (low-to-moderate income) requirements – which is at or below 80% of the Average Median Income for the county in which the family resides.
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