The City of Waltham, Massachusetts is accepting applications from eligible applicants seeking funds to undertake eligible activities benefiting Low- and Moderate-Income (LMI) persons or serving another national objective within the federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.

The CDBG program was established by Congress in 1974 with passage of the Housing and Community Development Act (HCDA) and is administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Eligible Activities

Eligible activities must:

• Take place within the City of Waltham or provide services to Waltham residents.
• Benefit LMI persons, as determined by the most current HUD Income Limits, or meet another national objective. If benefiting LMI persons, participants served must live in a household with an income at or below 80% of the HUD Income Limits for the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH metropolitan area.
• Alternatively to verifying participants’ income information, the following populations are presumed eligible:
  • elderly persons,
  • severely disabled persons,
  • persons experiencing homelessness,
  • illiterate adults,
  • survivors of domestic violence,
  • abused children, and
  • persons living with AIDS.
• CDBG funds are subject to oversight, reporting, and requirements that each grantee have adequate procedures to prevent the duplication of benefits. Therefore, grant funds may not be used to pay costs if another source of financial assistance is available to payment that cost. Awarded subrecipients will be required to certify during the contract term that there is no supplanting of federal funds for the requested activity.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible applicants include:

• Government Agencies
  • Includes public agencies, quasi-public agencies, commissions, or authorities.
• Private Nonprofit Organizations
  • Associations, corporations, and organizations (including faith-based organizations) that are recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and exempt from federal taxation.
• To ensure that funds can be distributed as quickly as possible if/once awarded, all prospective applicants are required to register with online Systems for Award Management (SAM) and the online Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) at the time of the application’s submission. There are no costs for either registration.

For more information, visit CDBG Program.