The Department of Housing & Community Development (DHCD) is accepting applications for the Community Catalyst Grants Program-Operating Funding.
Donor Name: Department of Housing & Community Development
State: Maryland
City: Baltimore
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Community Catalyst Grants are intended to:
- Value neighborhoods. Support community-based efforts that support residents as they take the lead in their communities’ redevelopment plans and projects.
- Promote equity and community development in long-disinvested neighborhoods. Funding emerging and established organizations in historically disinvested neighborhoods provides critical financial support to community-based initiatives that need it most.
- Be flexible. Applicants will identify their priorities for funds, whether it is increasing staff, retaining consultants, updating equipment, creating cooperative enterprises, or helping to finance a project that achieves a community identified need.
DHCD will be making up to Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) available in Operating Grants for organizational operating costs in the form of ten (10) Fifty Thousand Dollar ($50,000.00) grant awards. All funds from this NOFA will be awarded to Emerging organizations. Applicants may request funds for projects that previously received an award of CCG Funds.
CCG Operating Grants are intended to:
- Support efforts to stabilize and improve housing market conditions, through a combination of organizational growth, technical and financial assistance, partnerships, and collaboration.
- Create and/or formalize organizations.
- Expand programs to increase capacity resulting in visible and quantifiable impacts through increased staff, technical, and financial assistance.
- Community ownership of a project.
- Strengthen the community’s understanding of and ability to participate in development initiatives.
- Undertake a deferred project.
- Increase economic opportunities and prosperity for all stakeholders.
- Foster partnerships and collaboration.
Funding Information
Applicants may request a grant amount of $50,000. All applicants who are awarded funds will be required to execute a Grant Agreement with the Department of Housing & Community Development that will be subject to approval by the City’s Board of Estimates and to provide quarterly reports and other documentation regarding their project. Depending upon the amount of the grant award, applicants may also be required to meet the following City requirements:
- Minority and Women’s Business Participation
- Local Hire
- Employ Baltimore.
Grant Period
All CCG Operating Grant funds must be spent within 12-months of executing a Funding Agreement with the Board of Estimates.
Eligible Uses of CCG Operating Grant Funds
Operating Grants can be used to fund a variety of uses:
- Community Organizing.
- Consultants to assist with such activities as operations, accounting, fundraising, program development, and information technology.
- Professional Services.
- Staff to help start a new program or expand an existing program.
- Strategic planning.
- Equipment.
Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants include community development corporations, umbrella organizations, neighborhood revitalization organizations, faith-based organizations, merchant associations and other organizations that have a valid 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) status or that have received a temporary determination from the IRS. Organizations that do not have a 501(c)(3) status can apply through an eligible applicant or a fiscal agent. Eligible applicants must provide proof of their business entity’s status of good standing with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) – proof can be provided as a timestamped screenshot of SDAT’s Business Entity entry for the applicant or a scanned copy of the Certificate of Status. DHCD reserves the right to require organizations with annual operating budgets of $100,000 or less, or who have been operating for 12 or fewer months to identify a fiscal agent or to partner with an eligible applicant. Applicants using a fiscal agent must include information describing their policies, procedures, and fee structure. Both the applicant and the fiscal agent must sign and return the Certification and Authorization to Submit form. In the event funds are awarded, DHCD will require an executed Memorandum of Understanding between the fiscal agent and applicant. For-profit developers may apply for a grant provided they are a co-applicant with an eligible applicant and the eligible applicant is playing a significant role in the project including equity participation and/or other comparable financial benefits.
For more information, visit DHCD.
