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OUP invites Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) to apply for grants through its Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC) program. These grants can be used to revitalize local communities while fostering long-term changes in the way HSIs relate to their neighbors. The HSIAC program has facilitated numerous partnerships that are successfully addressing the most critical social and economic issues that this country is facing, including poverty, education, housing, healthcare, and local neighborhood capacity building. In addition, the program has assisted colleges and universities in integrating community engagement themes into their curriculum, academic studies, and student activities.
Eligible Applicants. All applicants must be institutions of higher education granting 2- or 4-year degrees that are accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Additionally, institutions must meet the definition of an HSI established in Title V of the 1998 amendment of the Higher Education Act of 1965. To meet this definition, at least 25 percent of the full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the institution must be Hispanic and not less than 50 percent of these Hispanic students must be low-income individuals.
Eligible Activities. Each activity proposed for funding must meet both a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program national objective AND the CDBG eligibility requirements. Examples of eligible activities include:
- Acquiring property.
- Clearing lots and demolishing rundown buildings.
- Rehabilitating residential structures.
- Acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, or installing public facilities and improvements such as water and sewer lines and streets.
- Giving payments and other assistance to temporarily relocate individuals, families, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and farm operations.
- Providing direct homeownership assistance.
- Providing technical or financial assistance that helps to establish, stabilize, and expand microenterprises, including minority enterprises.
- Helping a community development organization carry out neighborhood revitalization.
- Providing public service activities, including those concerned with employment, crime prevention, childcare, health, drug abuse, education, fair housing counseling, energy conservation, homebuyer downpayment assistance, or recreational needs.
- Offering fair housing services designed to further the fair housing objectives of the Fair Housing Act.
Program Contact
Madlyn Wohlman-Rodriguez
Grant Specialist
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office of University Partnerships
Room 8106
451 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20410
Telephone: (202) 708–3061, ext. 5939
Fax: (202) 708–0309
Email: madlyn.wohlmanrodriguez@hud.gov
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