VA Homeless Providers GPD Capital Grants

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is announcing the availability of funds for applications for assistance under the Capital Grant component of VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program.

Approximately $25 million is available for the capital grant component. Capital grant awards will be limited to transitional housing projects, (service center programs will not be considered in this round). Vans must be directly connected to a new or existing Grant and Per Diem Grant project and will be limited to one per project number. Per diem payments to capital grant recipients are subject to the availability of funds and recipients maintaining the program for which the grant was awarded.

Funding Priorities: VA is offering to eligible applicants funding priorities for transitional housing and services to; (1) Serve women, women with care of dependent children, (2) serve all veterans in the States of Vermont, Nebraska, and Alaska, (3) Indian Tribal Governments or non-profit agencies that will provide transitional housing and services on Indian Tribal Property. Finally, VA is encouraging interested state and local governments and faith-based and community-based organizations to apply for funding under this NOFA. In this round of capital grant funding, VA expects to award funding to create approximately 1,250 community-based supported housing beds.

An original completed and collated capital grant application (plus three completed collated copies) for assistance under the VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program must be received in the Grant and Per Diem Field Office, by 4:00 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. Applications may not be sent by facsimile (FAX). In the interest of fairness to all competing applicants, this deadline is firm as to date and hour, and VA will treat as ineligible for consideration any application that is received after the deadline.

For a Copy of the Application Package: Download directly from VA's
Grant and Per Diem Program Web page at: http://www.va.gov/homeless/page.cfm?pg=3 or http://www.grants.gov/. Questions should be referreded to the Grant and Per Diem Program at (toll-free) 1-877-332-0334. For information relating to VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program, see the Final Rule published in the Federal Register on September 26, 2003.

To view the full notice in the Federal Register, go to: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-2937.htm.

Technical assistance is available through the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. Call Melanie Lilliston at 202-546-1969.

Click here to download frequently asked questions about the Grant and Per Diem Program. 

To download NCHV's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program fact sheet, click here.

To view profiles of organizations who have received funding under the Grant and Per Diem program and learn more about the various ways that programs can be structured under this grant, visit our Grant and Per Diem Program Profiles Project page.

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