Enterprise Community Partners and the City of Charlotte are proud to launch Faith in Housing Charlotte: An Enterprise Faith-Based Development Initiative Cohort.
Donor Name: City of Charlotte
State: North Carolina
City: Charlotte
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/12/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
Houses of Worship, Faith-Based Organizations, and/or Community Development Organizations (formally affiliated with a HOW) with development sites located within the City of Charlotte, NC are invited to apply for this series of training and peer learning sessions designed to help them understand and navigate the development process. Training sessions will be open to FBDI-eligible organizations interested in transforming their underutilized land into affordable housing and/or community serving facilities. Priority will be given to applicants who are pursuing affordable housing development. Once selected, cohort participants will gain a solid understanding of the development process from visioning and partnerships to construction and property management. Local, Charlotte-based experts and practitioners who have successfully developed affordable housing and are thinking outside the box when it comes to financing developments will help deliver the training sessions. Training sessions will be delivered in-person and subsequent office-hours virtually.
Training topics include, but are not limited to:
- Introduction to Real Estate Development
- Development Decision and Community Engagement
- Project Design and Construction
- Structuring the Deal
- Project Operations
Outcomes
The Faith in Housing Charlotte: An Enterprise Faith-Based Development Initiative Cohort has been crafted to help participants understand and navigate the development process to advance their development projects. The expected outcomes to participation include:
- Strengthen the participants understanding of the overall development process,
- Increasing the capacity to pursue the development of affordable housing development on real estate owned by the HOW, Faith-Based Organizations, and/or Community Development Organizations (formally affiliated with a HOW)
- Improved knowledge of funding optionsfor development projects,
- Support and technical assistance from industry and local housing and community development experts,
- Broaden the participants’ awareness of, and access, to funding support and options offered by the City of Charlotte, Enterprise Community Partners and other funders supporting affordable housing and community development
Project Period
The training portion of the FBDI Technical Assistance Cohort will occur over a seven to eight-month period beginning October 16, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must meet all requirements specific to this call for applications. Organizational Eligibility Organization type: Applicants may be either (a) a House of Worship and/or a Faith-Based Organization that owns land/property located within the City of Charlotte and are pursuing development, or contemplating the development, of affordable housing and/or community serving facilities on the real estate the house of worship currently owns in the City of Charlotte, or (b) a non-profit community development organization (CDO) formally affiliated with a HOW that owns land/property in the City of Charlotte upon which they are pursuing development or contemplating the development of affordable housing and/or community serving facilities on the real estate the organization owns in the City of Charlotte.
- Geographic Focus: Applications may only be considered for a FBDI-eligible organization that desires to develop affordable housing and/or community serving facilities on property that they own in the City of Charlotte.
- Project Type Preference: Priority will be given to applicants who are pursuing affordable housing development.
- Participant Commitment: Staff time dedicated from the senior Faith Leader, senior CDO leader, and up to two lay leaders or CDO staff.
- Participation in all FBDI Technical Assistance Cohort training sessions (over a 7– 8-month timeframe beginning October 16, 2025).
- Participate in at least one participant peer exchange held during the term of the FBDI cohort.
- Consistent coordination and communication with Enterprise and the City of Charlotte throughout the cohort for access to direct technical assistance.
- Presenting a post cohort presentation which summarizes the participants analysis of their property and their development concept for the real estate owned.
For more information, visit City of Charlotte.
