HUD requires your agency to have a Code of Conduct on file with them.
If you submitted a copy with your application last year, confirm that it is on file with HUD. If so, you will NOT need to submit another copy this year, UNLESS your policy has changed. If your agency is NOT on the list, you must submit the document again.
Important NOFA Deadline & Training Dates Suburban Cook County - 2009 Continuum of Care
The Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County invites you to participate fully in this year's Continuum of Care funding process. Please make a note of these important deadlines, workshops and training.
CONTINUUM OF CARE ORIENTATION & HOUSING GOALS WORK SESSION
March 13 - Orientation 8:30am to 1:00pm Housing Goals Work Session: 1:00pm-3:00pm Catholic Charities, Training Room 651 West Lake Street, Chicago, IL
Free parking is available. Park behind the Carnivale Restaurant located at 702 W fulton Market: drive behind it and to the left, and tell the guard you're there for a Catholic Charities meeting hosted by Eileen Higgins.
New and renewal applicants should consider this learning opportunity to be Can't-Live-Without information for this year's process. Plan for your executive director/program director and the person who writes your applications to attend. You'll hear from the Alliance, Cook County (invited), HUD, and Corporation for Supportive Housing staff on Continuum of Care and other resources to create supportive housing for homeless people. Plan to stay for the MANDATORY Housing Goals Work Session, where renewal and new applicants put their heads together to make our Continuum dollars go further through reallocation, cuts, swaps, and bonus projects.
LETTER OF INTENT DEADLINE
March 31, 5:00pm
New and Renewal Applications must submit a Letter of Intent by the deadline in order to be considered in the 2009 competition. All renewal applicants must submit a completed Outcome Evaluation Tool and required attachments by the deadline in order to be considered in the 2009 competition. The 2009 Letter of Intent form and Outcome Evaluation Tool will be posted on this page.
Deadline: March 31, 5:00pm Received (not postmarked) in the Alliance office 1107 S Mannheim Road, Suite 304 Westchester, IL 60154
SPECIAL NOTE: We invite all Evanston Alliance members to participate fully in the February and March trainings. We expect to know in advance of the March 31 deadline whether Evanston projects will be included in the Suburban Cook process this year or not.
The Continuum of Care NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability) will be released in May or June, and all subsequent deadlines and trainings will be finalized at that time. For an overview of the process, see the Timeline.
NOFA 2008
The Alliance submitted the NOFA response on behalf of suburban Cook County in advance of HUD's October 23, 2008 deadline. Here is the Exhibit 1 narrative and the Housing Inventory Chart from our 2008 submission.
The Alliance requires each renewal project to complete the new Outcome Evaluation Tool in time for the Letter of Intent deadline. This form is NEW and EXPANDED from last year. Completion of the OE Tool and the Letter of Intent are MANDATORY. Learn how to complete the OE Tool accurately and painlessly at this vital training.
February 27, 12:30-1:30 (immediately following the 10am board meeting) Hosted at Catholic Charities, 1717 Rand Road, Des Plaines. RSVP to the Alliance by February 23.
The DEADLINE for project application is Friday, 10/16 at 5pm. Renewal applications can be submitted entirely electronically (see instructions of the last page of the Alliance application). New applications will still be submitted in paper form--one original and three copies of the entire application package.
SHP Renewals, make sure your budgets match the Grant Inventory Worksheet. S+C Renewals, make sure your number of units matches the Grant Inventory Worksheet and that you're using the right Fair Market Rent. NEW projects, make sure your total request is no more than $731,507.
Please read the instructions carefully, complete your HUD application in e-snaps and your Alliance application as described, and submit everything in time for the 10/16, 5pm deadline. If you have any questions, please email Jennifer at jennifer@suburbancook.org.
NOFA 2009
The Alliance submitted the NOFA response on behalf of suburban Cook County in advance of HUD's November 25, 2009 deadline. Here is the Exhibit 1 narrative and the Housing Inventory Chart from our 2009 submission.