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Family Homelessness Challenge Grant, Round 2

Grantor:
Department of Housing and Community Development
Portal ID:
145515
Status:
Closed
Opportunity Type:
  • Grant
Last Updated:
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Details

Purpose:

The Family Homelessness Challenge Grant (FHC) provides competitive grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions to promote rapid innovation and expand promising practices to create scalable solutions that can be shared across the state to address and ultimately end family homelessness. 

Description:

FHC was established for the purpose of providing one-time grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions and continuums of care to address and end family homelessness. There is a total of $15 million available in FHC-2 funds, which is the second and final round of funding for the FHC program. The FHC-2 program seeks to fund current eligible FHC-1 grantees who submit an innovative proposal that expands, complements, augments, and/or strengthens their FHC-1 proposal by making families’ experiences of homelessness rare, brief, and one-time. • Rare: Prevented whenever possible • Brief: Ended quickly whenever it does occur through a focus on Housing First approaches and housing outcomes • Onetime: Ended successfully the first time.An innovative proposal complements, augments, or strengthens a community’s efforts to address and end family homelessness. Innovative is relative to a community’s existing efforts (if any); it does not necessarily mean a paradigm shift. Proposals should demonstrate potential for being scaled and replicated to support statewide efforts to eliminate family homelessness. The Department will only fund proposals that:-   Expand, complement, augment, and/or strengthen their FHC-1 proposal. -   Proposals that offer promise for being scaled and replicated to support statewide efforts to address and end family homelessness. -   Demonstrate the most promising and innovate practices. Within the most promising and innovated practices, the Department will give preference to proposals that promote rapid innovation, accelerate nascent programs, expand promising practices, and meet new demands and conditions for solutions targeted towards ending family homelessness. The Department shall prioritize applications that demonstrate cross-systems collaboration, multi-funder initiatives, and innovative efforts that coordinate across funding streams and systems. To be eligible to receive FHC-2 funds, applicants must demonstrate adequate progress toward (FHC-1) program goals, remain in compliance with all program requirements, and demonstrate the most promising and innovative practices which could be scaled and replicated to support statewide efforts to eliminate family homelessness.    

Eligibility Requirements

Eligible Applicants:

  • Public Agency

Only eligible FHC-1 grantees may compete for the second round of funding (FHC-2).

To be eligible to apply for FHC-2, an awarded FHC-1 grantee must remain in compliance with FHC requirements and demonstrate adequate progress toward their self-identified, prioritized objective and demonstrate the most promising and innovative practices which could be scaled and replicated to support statewide efforts to eliminate family homelessness. 

 

Eligible Geographies:

Eligible applicants must be a local jurisdiction (city/county) or Continuum of Care in the State of California.

 

Important Dates

The date (and time, where applicable) by which all applications must be submitted to the grantmaker. Time listed as “00:00” equates to midnight.
The date on which the grantor expects to announce the recipient(s) of the grant.
July 1, 2024
The length of time during which the grant money must be utilized.
2.5 years

Funding Details

The total projected dollar amount of the grant.
$15,000,000
A single grant opportunity may represent one or many awards. Some grantors may know in advance the exact number of awards to be given. Others may indicate a range. Some may wish to and wait until the application period closes before determining how many awards to offer; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.
Dependent
Grant opportunities representing multiple awards may offer awards in the same amount or in varied amounts. Some may wish to wait until the application period closes before determining per-award amounts; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.
Dependent
Certain grants require that the recipient(s) provide a letter of intent.
No
Certain grants require that the recipient(s) be able to fully or partially match the grant award amount with another funding source.
No
The funding source allocated to fund the grant. It may be either State or Federal (or a combination of both), and be tied to a specific piece of legislation, a proposition, or a bond number.
  • State

Funding Source Notes:

Under Chapter 8 of Part 1 of Division 31 of the California Health and Safety Code (sections 50255 et seq.), the Family Homelessness Challenge Grant was established for the purpose of providing one-time grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions and continuums of care to address and end family homelessness. FHC-2 is the second round of this funding.

The manner in which the grant funding will be delivered to the awardee. Funding methods include reimbursements (where the recipient spends out-of-pocket and is reimbursed by the grantor) and advances (where the recipient spends received grant funds directly).
  • Advance(s)

Funding Method Notes:

Thirty million will be distributed across a minimum of two rounds of funding. Grantees that are awarded Round 1 funds, remain in compliance with FHC-1 requirements and demonstrate reasonable, sufficient progress toward their self identified, prioritized objective may apply for the second round of grant funding(FHC-2). Only FHC-1 grantees are eligible to compete for FHC-2.

How to Apply

State agencies/departments recommend you read the full grant guidelines before applying.

Resources

For questions about this grant, contact:
Nichole Zaragoza-Smith, 1-916-693-3892, HPDHomelessnessgrants@hcd.ca.gov

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