Virginia: Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP)

This notification is to notify local service providers that EFSP funds may be distributed by the Prince William Area (PWA) Board to supplement and extend a program’s current available resources for the provision of emergency food and/or shelter assistance.

Donor Name: Prince William Area Continuum of Care (PWA CoC)

State: Virginia

County: Prince William County (VA)

City: Manassas

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/27/2022

Grant Size: $50,000

Grant Duration: 10 months

Details:

The Emergency Food and Shelter Program is designed to address emergency needs. This program funding is not intended to address or correct structural damage or long-standing facility problems. Rather, it is for the purchase/provision of served meals/mass feeding, other meals, mass shelter, and rent/mortgage/utility payments, to supplement and extend current available resources that a program is already providing. These funds are supplemental to the funding of programs already in existence and operating with dedicated internal funding (regardless of source) by the applicant agency. Funding is not to substitute or reimburse ongoing programs and services nor as start-up funding for a new program.

The PWA Board determined that Prince William County and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park’s allocated funding will be made available for four types of services only:

Mass Shelter
Mass Feeding
Rent/Mortgage Assistance
Utility Assistance
Other Shelter (Motel/Hotel)

Funding Information

Conduct an independent annual audit if receiving $50,000 or more in EFSP funds;
The spending period to use Phase 39 funding for eligible costs is June 23, 2022 to April 23, 2023.

Eligibility Criteria

Per National EFSP rules, for a local agency to be eligible for funding, it must:

Be a nonprofit or an agency of government;
Not be debarred or suspended from receiving Federal funding;
Have a checking account;
Have a Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN);
Have a Data Universal Number System (DUNS) number issued by Dun & Bradstreet and provide along with other required associated information;
Be providing services and using its other resources in at least one of the three jurisdictions in which they are seeking funding;
Practice nondiscrimination (those agencies with a religious affiliation wishing to participate in the program must not refuse services to an applicant based on religion or require attendance at religious services as a condition of assistance, nor will such groups engage in any religious proselytizing in any program receiving EFSP funds;
Have a voluntary board if private, not-for-profit; and
To the extent practicable, involve homeless individuals and families, through employment, volunteer programs, etc., in providing emergency food and shelter programs.