The City of Santa Barbara is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for its Fiscal Years 2026 and 2027 Human Services Grant Funding and Fiscal Year 2026 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Programs.
Donor Name: City of Santa Barbara
State: California
City: Santa Barbara
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/12/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
The estimated amount of available funding is $1,600,000.
Funding Criteria
- Proposed programs/projects must primarily benefit low- and moderate-income residents, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Capital Project and Housing Rehabilitation applicants must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations incorporated or organized in the State of California or another state of the United States, or local units of government, whose proposals directly benefit low- and moderate-income City of Santa Barbara residents. Housing Rehabilitation applicants must be established affordable housing providers within the City of Santa Barbara. Economic Development applicants may be for-profit entities if they provide technical assistance, advice, and business support services to owners of microenterprises and persons developing microenterprises.
- Proposals must address specific social or physical needs and conditions of the people they propose to serve. Documentation could include social indicators, demographic data, surveys, community plans, and need as perceived by potential consumers.
- Economic Development Proposals must identify at least one and no more than three Measurable Outcomes, which are defined as: Specific and realistic results or changes that a client will experience from participating in the applicant’s program or receiving the applicant’s service.
- Proposals must present a marketing strategy, which includes specific efforts to reach ethnic communities.
- Proposals must demonstrate support from the people for which the program is proposed.
- Applicants must clearly identify all funding sources and justify their proposal if services are available through another source.
- Applicants shall demonstrate financial stability. Applicants shall seek funding, or demonstrate funding support from diverse public/private sources. The City shall not be committed to total support of a program, nor shall the City be committed to continuing funding in the case that other support is withdrawn. Administrative/overhead costs shall be held to reasonable levels. Additionally, applicants shall demonstrate sufficient net assets or operating reserves to cover the organization’s liabilities, operating deficits, or debt.
- City CDBG funds shall support only those services and projects that directly benefit residents of the City of Santa Barbara. Programs operated on a countywide or regional basis must show documentation that: (a) services benefit City residents, and (b) sufficient funds are available to support non-city residents.
- Proposals shall identify geographical areas where they propose to provide services.
- Proposals that pay the local minimum wage to all staff for which Economic Development funds are requested shall receive an extra point in the rating process.
For more information, visit City of Santa Barbara.
