Community Development Block Grant Disaster Response Program (IL)

Community Development Block Grant Disaster Response Program (IL)

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)
Amount: Up to US $250,000
Last Updated: December 30, 2025

Summary

The Community Development Block Grant Disaster Response Program in Illinois provides vital funding to assist communities facing urgent threats to public health and safety due to disasters. Grants, capped at $250,000, support initiatives that benefit low-to-moderate income individuals or address significant community needs. Administered by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the program emphasizes enhancing economic development, improving infrastructure, and ensuring safe living conditions for all residents.

Overview

NOTE: All application writers and grant administrators must have administered an Illinois CDBG grant within the last 2 years or complete the grant administration segment as well as the application segment of the 2021 workshops. Additionally, ll Grantees must use an experienced environmental specialist, who has completed at least one Illinois CDBG Environmental Record Review since January 1, 2018 OR has successfully completed DCEO Environmental Training conducted on July 18, 2018. General announcement open for a period of time with no specific due dates for applications.Pre-Proposal - This deadline represents when registration, Internal Control Questionnaire completion, and prequalification are required before an organization can apply for an award. Community Development Block Grant Disaster Response Program (IL) The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program was established by the federal Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (Act). Administered nationally by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Act combined eight existing categorical programs into a single block grant program. In 1981, Congress amended the Act to allow states to directly administer the block grant for small cities. At the designation of the Governor, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (Department) assumed operation of the State of Illinois CDBG – Small Cities Program in the same year. Through this program, funds are available to assist Illinois communities to meet their greatest economic and community development needs, with an emphasis on helping persons of low-to-moderate income. To ensure that the State-administered program meets the intent of the federal Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, Congress has required that state-administered programs meet at least one of the following three national objectives: Benefiting low-to-moderate income (LMI) persons; or Aiding in the prevention or elimination of slums and blight; or Meeting other community development needs that pose a serious and immediate threat to the health and welfare of the community. To complement these federally-mandated objectives, the State has established the following specific objectives for the CDBG Program: Strengthen community economic development through the creation of jobs, stimulation of private investment and strengthening the tax base;Improve public infrastructure and eliminate conditions which are detrimental to health, safety and public welfare; andConserve and expand the State's housing stock in order to provide a decent home and a suitable living environment for persons of low-to-moderate income and the developmentally disabled. The purpose of grants relative to the Disaster Response (DR) Notice of Funding Opportunity is to assist communities experiencing an imminent and urgent threat to public health and safety as indicated by a disaster declaration by the Governor of the State of Illinois. Applications for the Disaster Response program must be received by the Department within six (6) months from the date of the Gubernatorial Disaster Declaration. The project must qualify for the National Objective of Urgent Need, however, if the project area meets or exceeds 51% LMI, the National Objective of LMI will be utilized in the grant award1. A grant ceiling of $250,000 per Unit of Local Government (UGLG) has been established. Funding $0 - $250,000

Eligibility

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