The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs.
Donor Name: Cobb County Government
State: Georgia
County: Cobb County (GA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/10/2026
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The CDBG Program provides annual grants on a formula basis to Entitlement Communities as a means to support viable communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and opportunities to expand economic opportunities, principally for low-and moderate-income persons.
The CDBG Program has three national objectives:
- Provide a direct benefit(s) to low to moderate income households
- Prevent or eliminate slum or blightAddress an urgent need or problem within the community
Anually, the Cobb County CDBG Program Office requests proposals from local non-profit organizations and government entities to carry out eligible activities in the County.
Funding Priorities
The following barriers were identified in the 2024 Strategic Plan:
- Employment and Education
- Income Inequality
- Substance Abuse
- Domestic Violence and Unsafe Living Conditions
- Homelessness
- Housing Insecurity
- Mental Health Issues.
CDBG Public Facilities & Improvement Funds are eligible for the following activities:
- Public Facilities & Improvements
- Acquisition
- Commercial/Residential Rehabilitation
- Removal of Architectural Barriers for Accessibility
- Construction/Reconstruction
- Equipment Installation
- Water
- Sewer
- Economic Development Activities
- Construction of a Business Incubator
- Technical assistance to a business
- facing bankruptcy
- Providing training for low-income persons to enable them to qualify for jobs created by CDBG-assisted special economic development activities
- Housing Activities
- Rehabilitation of Single Family Housing
- Historic preservation
- Lead-based paint hazard evaluation and reduction.
Grant Period
January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2027.
Criteria
The criteria for how CDBG activities benefit low and moderate income (L/M) persons are categorized as follows:
- Area Benefit Activities: These activities must benefit all residents in a particular service area where at least 51% of persons in the service area are low-to-moderate income, per most recent U.S. Census Data.
- The service area is determined based upon the nature of the activity, location of the activity, accessibility issues, availability of comparable activities, and boundaries for public facilities and public services. Service area must be determined prior to the provision of CDBG assistance. Examples of eligible activities include infrastructure, public facilities, and economic development.
- Limited Clientele Activities: At least 51% of the beneficiaries of the proposed project activity must be low-to moderate income. In contrast to the area benefit category, it is not the low-to-moderate concentration of the service area of the activity that determines whether the activity will qualify or not, but rather the actual number of low-to-moderate income persons that benefit from the activity.
- Activities in this category provide benefits to a specific group of persons rather than everyone in an area. It may benefit persons without regard to their residence, or it may be an activity that provides a benefit to only particular persons within a specific area.
For more information, visit Cobb County Government
