The City of DeKalb is accepting applications for the 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Public Services Funding grants.
Donor Name: City of DeKalb
State: Illinois
City: DeKalb
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/13/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The City is seeking proposals from non-profit agencies that are consistent with the community objectives of the Community Development Block Grant. Projects must be for new public services or for a documented increase in a current public service that promotes independent living and self-sufficiency for homeless individuals and families, the elderly, people of low income, and people with disabilities.
National Objectives
Activities must qualify through one area of CDBG’s National Objectives for activities benefiting low/moderate-income persons.
- Area Benefit Activities – An activity, the benefits of which are available to all the residents in a particular area, where at least 51% of the residents are low-/moderate-income persons. The service area must be primarily residential, and the activity must meet the identified needs of low/moderate-income persons. The Community Development Department shall determine qualifying service areas based on the most recent U. S. Census and/or American Community Survey data.
- Limited Clientele Activities – An activity that benefits a specific group of people, at least 51% of whom are low-/moderate-income persons, or an activity designed for the removal of material and architectural barriers that restrict the mobility and accessibility of the elderly or persons with disabilities to publicly and privately-owned non-residential buildings, facilities, and improvements.
Program Objectives
- Strategies to Address Priority Housing Needs: Provide additional permanent and affordable housing choices for low-/moderate-income renters and owners, including the elderly, persons with a disability, and persons with other special needs.
- Effectively utilize the City’s existing housing stock by encouraging the maintenance and rehabilitation of housing units for low-/moderate-income persons.
- Strategies to Address Priority Needs of Homeless Persons: Provide adequate emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families.
- Provide adequate emergency shelter, transitional housing with supportive services, and permanent supportive housing to homeless adults, families with children, and survivors of domestic violence as they work toward solutions to their long-term housing needs.
- In coordination with the Housing Authority of the County of DeKalb and other providers, identify resources to increase the number of permanent housing choices that will provide homeless persons with a decent and safe living environment that will not create an excessive cost burden or result in overcrowding.
- Coordinate long-term housing needs for homeless individuals, families with children, and survivors of domestic violence in DeKalb County in collaboration with the Northern Illinois Homeless Coalition.
- Strategies to Address Priority Needs of Special Populations: Provide adequate supportive services to persons with special needs by supporting service providers who work to ensure a continuum of care for the elderly and other individuals with special needs.
- Provide supportive services to persons with special needs and very low-income persons to allow them to live independently and with dignity.
- Continue to support a process that provides seniors and persons with special needs the continuum of care necessary for them to live independently and with dignity for as long as possible by providing affordable housing choices and supportive services that promote independence in the community.
- Strategies to Address Priority Needs for Community and Economic Development
- Promote neighborhood revitalization programs by addressing housing and community development needs in neighborhoods identified as priority, revitalization, or slum/blighted areas.
- Explore ways to increase economic opportunities by expanding the availability of affordable childcare, increasing employment training, improving access to nontraditional education, and implementing other programs as identified.
For more information, visit City of DeKalb.
