The Douglas County Board of Commissioners, in conjunction with the Douglas County PIER Selection Committee, have launched Phase One of the Douglas County PIER Disaster Recovery Grant Program.
Donor Name: Douglas County
State: Oregon
County: Douglas County (OR)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/07/2023
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Douglas County Board of Commissioners, in conjunction with the Douglas County PIER Selection Committee, have launched Phase One of the Douglas County PIER Disaster Recovery Grant Program.
The PIER grant program is part of ReOregon, a program offered by the Disaster Recovery and Resilience Division of the Oregon Housing and Community Services Department. ReOregon is funded by a US Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant (CDBG-DR). The CDBG-DR program supports community development activities to help build stronger and more resilient communities. As a part of the disaster recovery process, ReOregon awarded PIER opportunity grants to the eight most impacted counties in Oregon to address the unmet infrastructure, planning, and economic revitalization recovery needs following the 2020 Labor Day fires.
The grant allocation for Douglas County is $2,399,446, and each county is responsible for establishing a local application process and allocation program. Douglas County put together a local grant selection committee (Douglas County PIER Selection Committee) consisting of representatives from the Douglas County Board of Commissioners, Douglas County Emergency Management Department, Glide Revitalization, Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and CCD Business Development Corporation.
Eligible Uses of funds
- Recovery
- Economic revitalization, Infrastructure, and planning projects or programs relating to recovery needs.
- Mitigation
- Forward looking projects or programs that would reduce the expected loss of Me or properly from natural hazards identified in adopted Hazard Mitigation Plans.
- Examples include community resilience plans. applying ignition-resistant materials to public facilities, or other projects that would increase refinance to future disasters.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants and projects must be located in Douglas County to be eligible. Groups and Programs that are eligible to apply include Tribal, State, County, and Municipal Governments, Agencies, Districts, and Authorities; Schools (K-12); Public Housing Authorities; and Other Public, Quasi-Public or Nonprofit Entities.
For more information, visit Douglas County.
