The City of Auburn Community Services Division is requesting proposals from qualified agencies to provide microenterprise assistance services utilizing Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.
Donor Name: City of Auburn
State: Washington
City: Auburn
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $75,000
Details:
The Auburn City Council adopted Resolution 5688 on November 7, 2022, adopting the 2023 CDBG Annual Action Plan. Within that plan was an allocation for Microenterprise Assistance Services, to be made available via an application process in 2022-2023. This project will be required to be operated in compliance with all pertinent federal regulations, including but not limited to 24 CFR Part 570 and OMB Uniform Guidance, 2 CFR Part 200.
Funding Information
Total funding available in this round is $75,000.
Eligible Activities
The City of Auburn is interested in receiving proposals for Microenterprise assistance programs:
- Microenterprise assistance programs provide technical assistance and general business support to low and moderate income (LMI) individuals wishing to establish a Microenterprise or expand an existing Microenterprise they own. A microenterprise is defined as a business with five or fewer employees, including the owner.
- Programs can include technical assistance to microenterprise businesses or direct assistance to microenterprise businesses, or a combination of both.
- Programs must demonstrate technical microenterprise assistance services provided directly by the applicant organization to individual LMI clients or individual businesses owned by LMI persons, and not through partners or subcontractors.
- Applicants must directly be able to demonstrate that the project meets the CDBG
- National Objective of benefitting LMI persons by assisting LMI clients who want to establish a microenterprise or expand an existing microenterprise.
- One hundred percent of the clients assisted must be individuals from LMI households.
- Applicants awarded FY 2023 CDBG funding to complete this activity must maintain written documentation on unduplicated City of Auburn LMI clients (including household income, race and ethnicity data, and head of household status).
- Client household income verification and eligibility determination is required prior to the provision of CDBG assistance under this category.
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate they have an intake and documentation process that would ensure the accurate collection and reporting of such data monthly.
- All part-time and full-time employees on the business payroll at the time of assistance must be counted.
- Program application proposals must not supplant any existing Auburn City funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be incorporated public, nonprofit, or for-profit agencies able to implement the approved project serving residents of Auburn and must have an active UEI (Unique Entity ID) number.
- Applicants must have experience managing federal funds, with preference given to those agencies that have experience with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) or Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds in particular.
- Applicants must demonstrate the financial management and programmatic expertise to successfully develop, design, implement, and monitor the proposed project. This expertise can be demonstrated through previous experience in successfully developing projects similar to the one proposed, either by partners or key agency staff.
- Applicants must be able to meet all federal, State of Washington, and City of Auburn requirements relative to the CDBG program, specifically those concerning equal opportunity and fair housing, affirmative marketing, environmental review, displacement, relocation, acquisition, labor, lead-based paint, conflict of interest, debarment and suspension, and flood insurance. Pertinent requirements are noted in General Sub recipient Requirements. All applicants should be aware that if funded, additional requirements will apply.
For more information, visit City of Auburn.
