Community Development Block Grants Emergency & Long-Term Recovery
Community Development Block Grants Emergency & Long-Term Recovery supports Missouri local governments with emergency recovery projects that address serious, immediate threats to community health and welfare.
Funder: Missouri Department of Economic Development
Due Dates: Rolling (Emergency proposals, within the required 18-month period)
Funding Amounts:
Summary: Supports Missouri local governments with emergency recovery projects addressing serious, immediate threats to community health and welfare.
Key Information: Applicants must consult CDBG staff and receive approval before obtaining an emergency application.
Description
The Missouri Department of Economic Development administers this emergency recovery funding through the federally funded Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It supports non-entitlement local governments responding to existing conditions that pose serious and immediate threats to community health or welfare. Recovery activities must address conditions of recent origin or conditions that recently became urgent.
Emergency projects are typically evaluated under CDBG’s Urgent Need national objective. The focus is on what caused the emergency, the threat it presents, and why the response cannot wait. Communities must demonstrate that they cannot finance the activity themselves and that other financial resources are unavailable. Examples of emergency needs include leaking sewage, transformer outages, and emergency communications device failure.
