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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
FR-5300-N-25
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jul 22, 2009
Creation Date:
Jul 22, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Sep 18, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Sep 18, 2009
Archive Date:
Sep 19, 2009
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Housing
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$28,000,000
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):
14.870
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RESIDENT OPPORTUNITY AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES - SERVICE COORDINATORS
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are PHAs; tribes/TDHEs; nonprofit organizations including grassroots faith-based and other community-based organizations that have resident support or the support of tribes; Resident Associations (RAs)As; resident councils (RCs); resident organizations (ROs); City-Wide Resident Organizations (CWROs); Intermediary Resident Organizations (IROs); Jurisdiction-Wide Resident Organizations; Regional Resident Organizations; Resident Management Corporations (RMCs); Site-Based Resident Organizations; Statewide Resident Organizations (SROs); and Tribal/TDHE resident groups. The term “Resident Association” or “RA” will be generally used to refer to all types of eligible resident organizations. Please see the section on “Definition of Terms” for a complete definition of each type of eligible resident organization.
Agency Name
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Description
The purpose of the Public and Indian Housing Resident Opportunity and Self Sufficiency (ROSS) program is to provide grants to public housing agencies (PHAs), tribes/tribally designated housing entities (TDHEs), Resident Associations (RAs), and nonprofit organizations (including grassroots, faith-based and other community-based organizations) for the provision of a Service Coordinator to coordinate supportive services and other activities designed to help Public and Indian housing residents attain economic and housing self sufficiency. This program works to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under the Public Housing program with public and private resources, for supportive services and resident empowerment activities. These services should enable participating families to increase earned income, reduce or eliminate the need for welfare assistance, make progress toward achieving economic independence and housing self-sufficiency or, in the case of elderly or disabled residents, help improve living conditions and enable residents to age-in-place. A Service Coordinator ensures that program participants are linked to the supportive services they need to achieve self-sufficiency or remain independent. Funds in this program will no longer be allowed to be used for the direct provision of these services. This program is similar to the Public Housing FSS program (PH FSS), however, the PH FSS program is open only to PHAs and Tribes/TDHEs, has a requirement of an escrow account for its participants and is one-year funding. The ROSS SC program is open to non-profit and Resident Association applicants, is three-year funding, includes administrative expenses and training as eligible uses of the funds and requires a 25% match by statute. A PHA or Tribe may receive grants in both programs.
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For answers to your questions, you may contact the Public and Indian Housing Resource Center at 800-955-2232. Prior to the application deadline, staff at the number given above will be available to provide general guidance, but not guidance on actually preparing the application. For programmatic questions, you may contact Anice Schervish, ROSS Program Manager at 202-402-2341. For persons with hearing or speech impairments, please call the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-8339.
ROSS Program Manager
Synopsis Modification History
There are currently no modifications for this opportunity.
