The City of Roswell is accepting applications for Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) Round 3 funding program that provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs.

Beginning in 1974, the CDBG program is one of the longest continuously run programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The CDBG program provides annual grants on a formula basis to 1209 general units of local government and States.

The City of Roswell currently qualifies as a CDBG entitlement community. Entitlement communities develop their own programs and funding priorities and give maximum feasible priority to activities which benefit low and moderate income persons. HUD awards annual grants to entitlement community grantees to carry out a wide range of community development activities directed toward revitalizing neighborhoods, economic development, and providing improved community facilities and services.

HUD determines the amount of each entitlement grant by a statutory dual formula which uses several objective measures of community needs, including the extent of poverty, population, housing overcrowding, age of housing and population growth lag in relationship to other metropolitan areas.

Funding Priorities

• All proposed projects must qualify as an eligible activity and primarily benefit low to moderate income persons impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Along with the national objective, the Roswell Mayor and City Council have identified five funding priorities for the CDBG-CV program:
  • Job Training Services;
  • Child Care Services;
  • Senior Services;
  • Education Services;
  • Public Facility Improvements.
• Additionally, Mayor and City Council have emphasized a preference for priority projects that have a multiplier effect that maximizes the impact of these funds to Roswell citizens and its economy AND a preference for priority projects that make the most impact to the health, safety, and security of Roswell residents.

Funding Information

• The minimum project request is $25,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Funding is being made available to local nonprofits serving Roswell residents.

For more information, visit City of Roswell.