The City of Newark is currently accepting applications for the 2024 Community Development Block Grant Program.
Donor Name: City of Newark
State: Ohio
City: Newark
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/10/2023
Details:
The CDBG grant dollars fund some of the Department staff in addition to many community and economic development programs.
The Department prepares a 5-Year Consolidated Plan that outlines the goals of how to spend the CDBG funding. Then each year, the Department prepares a 1-Year Action Plan for specific expenditures that must follow the goals of the 5-Year Plan. Some of these expenditures go toward activities that are carried out by the City (e.g. infrastructure projects, development incentives, and housing rehabilitation programs), while other funds go to entities that have applied for funding to support a specific program or initiative.
Goals
The proposed Activity meets which of the following goals:
- Create Suitable Living Environment: Activities designed to benefit communities, families, or individuals by addressing issues in their living environment (such as poor quality infrastructure) or social issues such as crime prevention, literacy, or elderly health services.
- Provide Decent Affordable Housing: Housing activities where the purpose of the Activity is to meet individual, family, or community needs and not activities where housing is an element of a larger effort, since such activities would be more appropriately reported under suitable living environment.
- Create Economic Opportunities: Activities related to economic development, commercial revitalization, and job creation.
National Objectives
Your proposal must meet one of these National Objectives.
- Benefit to Low- to Moderate-Income Person
- Prevent or Eliminate Slums or Blight
- Urgent Need
Objectives
- Availability/Accessibility: Activities that make services, infrastructure, public facilities, housing, or shelters available or accessible to low- and moderate-income people, including persons with disabilities. In this category, accessibility does not refer only to physical barriers, but also to making the affordable basics of daily living available and accessible to low- and moderate-income people where they live.
- Affordability: Activities that provide affordability in a variety of ways in the lives of low- and moderate-income people. It can include the creation or maintenance of affordable housing, basic infrastructure hook-ups, or services such as transportation or daycare
- Sustainability: Activities aimed at improving communities or neighborhoods, helping to make them livable or viable by providing benefit to persons of low- and moderate-income, by removing or eliminating slums or blighted areas through multiple activities, or services that sustain communities or neighborhoods.
For more information, visit City of Newark.