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2025 Grant Season Closed

The application season for 2025 has closed. Full applications will open March 2 next year and close Oct. 16. If you haven’t discussed your project with staff yet, please do so before submitting an application. You can contact a project manager at any time or email [email protected]. Note: The Urgent Need program does not require a pre-application.

Propósito

En Urgent Need Grant Program provides funding to help local governments address severe, unforeseen conditions that pose an immediate threat to public health or welfare and have occurred within the past six months. Applicants must document the emergency, show all other funding options have been exhausted, and ensure activities meet federal eligibility guidelines. The scope of the Urgent Need project must focus solely on the immediate threat. Long-term solutions must be pursued through regular CDBG funding grants or other sources.

Proyectos subvencionables

A total of $200,000 is allocated for the Urgent Need Program in 2026. Eligible expenses include:

• Activities designed to meet urgent, health and welfare needs and for which no other financial resources are available to meet such needs
• Administration costs for grant funds (up to 12.5% of the grant)

CDBG National Objectives

All CDBG projects must meet a national objective and involve an eligible activity under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. The three CDBG national objectives are:

1. Benefit Low- and Moderate-Income (LMI) Persons
2. Prevention or Elimination of Blight
3. Addressing an Urgent Need

All activities proposed for in applications for the Urgent Need Grant Program must meet the Necesidad urgente national requirement to be eligible.

Candidatos admisibles

Only cities and counties (units of local government) can apply for CDBG funds. Large cities and urban counties are considered entitlement communities and receive CDBG funds directly from HUD. The following entitlement communities are NO eligible to apply to the State CDBG program: Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Manhattan, Overland Park, Topeka, Wichita, and all of Johnson County.

Criterios de selección

Revised 2026 guidelines will be available in March. Las consideraciones clave incluyen:

• The conditions are such that they pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community.
• These conditions must be of recent origin and have become urgent within six months following the disaster.
• Applications must be certified as an urgent need by the agency having jurisdiction over said conditions.
• The project must demonstrate that no other financial resources are available to address the conditions. This includes financing the project themselves or having access to any local, state, or federal funding resources.

Fondos de contrapartida

The applicant is responsible for paying the cost of the Environmental Review, which will count as the match for the application.