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Funding Opportunities

Community Priorities

The CoC's overall priority is to make homelessness brief, rare and non-recurring. We seek to ensure adequate funding for programs that are effective in functionally ending homelessness and providing everyone with the opportunity for safe, decent, and affordable housing options. We work to leverage community resources with State and Federal funding and ensure a region-wide approach to service delivery.

The CoC is a collaborative of community partners working to create cost-effective interventions that enhance system-wide performance. Activities include stabilizing families to reduce the length of time families/individuals experience homelessness, fostering increases to household income, obtaining needed benefits, increasing successful housing placements, and supporting housing retention.

All CoC members must adhere to the written policies and by-laws approved by the CoC Board of Directors, including the CoC's Code of Conduct and PII policies. The CoC members funded through CoC collaborative application efforts must implement "Housing First" as the model to housing provision and service delivery. Funded partners must actively work to reduce barriers to services and housing. We prioritize services to those who are the most vulnerable and least likely to access services. The homeless populations we serve have varied needs and increased barriers to housing and include veterans, chronically homeless, unaccompanied youth, families, LGBTQIA, victims of domestic violence, and criminal histories.

2024-25 Funding Opportunities

Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Competition

2024-25 Information

Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition

2024-25 Information

Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Competition

2024-25 Information

2024-25 Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Competition

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The NC Department of Health and Human Services - Division of Aging and Adult Services is the grantee of NC Emergency Solutions Grant funding. Each Continuum of Care is eligible to apply for their fair share allocation of these funds. The ESG grant funds are available for Emergency Shelter Operations, Emergency Shelter Services, Street Outreach, Rapid Re-Housing Financial Assistance, Rapid Re-Housing Services, Homelessness Prevention, and Homeless Management Information Systems.

2024 Final ESG Applicant Rankings and Funding Recommendations - Budget Approved (8/6/24)

CFHCoC 2024 ESG Application Timeline

NC DHHS Request for Applications:

On Tuesday, June 11th, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) posted its public notice requesting applications for Emergency Solutions Grant funding. The CFHCoC had posted the anticipated timeline on June 16th. All agencies interested in applying must read the announcement, timeline, and other information provided by the NC DHHS and the CFHCoC.

NC SHHS Grant Applications: ESG FY24-25 Public Notification

NC DHHS has published the FY24-25 Grant Application for use by Applicants applying for Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Funding. Completed Grant applications are due to the CFHCoC by July 14th for review and scoring.

Applicants who did not apply for or DID NOT receive funding int he FY23-24 competition are considered new applicants, even if they applied in the past and were funding. Applicants who were funded in the FY23-24 competition are returning applicants.

The application is broken into sections. All applicants may apply for multiple projects on one application. The Ranking Committee will evaluate each project including on an application.

Link to ESG Application Information:

ESG FY24-25 Application Information

Links to ESG Application:

Be sure to review the 2024 ESG Applicant Document Checklist and Instructions posted separately on this webpage to ensure your organization submits all documents/forms required by the CoC's Ranking Committee.

Additional Forms:

Additional Resources:

2024 ESG Applicant Document Submission Instructions & Checklist
- The 2024 ESG Applicant Document Submission Instructions and Checklist applies to all applicants, new and returning.
FY24-25 Returning Applicant Document Submission Instructions and Checklist
- The Returning Applicant Scorecard is for currently funded applicants who are requesting funding.
FY24-25 New Applicant Scorecard CFHCoC
- The New Applicant Scorecard is for applicants who have not received ESG grant funding in the last year.
NC 506 Written Standards CFHCoC Approved (6/15/23)
- The NC 506 Written Standards describes CoC policies for programs funded within both the ESG and CoC Grant Competitions. Successful applicants will describe projects that adhere to the written standards both in the application and in the Project Operations Manual.

Notice of Fair Share Explanations for the NC 506 Region

ESG FY24-25 Public Notification

Continuum of Care

NC ESG Fair Share

Emergency Services

Street Outreach & Emergency Shelter (60% max.)

Housing Stability

Homelessness Prevention, RRH & HMIS (40% min.)

NC-506

CFHCoC

$161,295

$96,777

$64,518

Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition

2024-25 Information

24-25 Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition

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Each year, HUD announces their Notice of Funding Availability for the Continuum of Care grant competition. The CoC Grant is a nationally competitive process, funding designated homeless continuums of care for Transitional Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing, Rapid Re-Housing, HMIS, Coordinated Entry, and CoC Planning activities. The Continuum of Care is responsible for review of all new and renewal project applications and scoring them according to performance and alignment with community priorities and HUD goals.

Organizations interested in applying for new Continuum of Care funds must participate as a COC member, have attended at least the minimum number of monthly meetings per the by-laws, and commit to standards of the CoC.

Tools for the 2024-25 HUD CoC Grant Competition

CFHCoC 2024-25 Continuum of Care Application Timeline

FY24-25 Continuum of Care Notice of Funding Opportunity

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's HUD Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) has posted the Notice of Funding (NOFO) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-2025 Continuum of Care Competition and the Renewal Replacement of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program grants on Grants.gov and will be available on the Funding Opportunities page on HUD's website. Additional resources will be available on the Continuum of Care Program Competition page of HUD's website.

The application and selection process for the FY2024 funds awarded through this NOFO will proceed much like it has in prior-year competitions. However, COCs are only required to submit one CoC application that will be applicable to both FY 2024 and FY 2025 funds. Additionally, projects that are awarded FY 2024 funds may be eligible for award of FY 2025 funds using their FY 20245 application submission and are not required to apply for renewal for FY 2025 funds. Projects that did not meet the eligibly criteria to renew in FY 2024 but are eligible for FY 2025 renewal funding must submit a renewal application by the FY 2025 application submission deadline established in the NOFO.

CFHCoC Board of Directors Approved Application Process Documents (Approved: 8/10/23)

Prior ESG Funding Information Here

Prior CoC Funding Information Here