Field Empowerment Fund (FEF) - Housing Counseling Services: HSBC Geographies Grant

Field Empowerment Fund (FEF) - Housing Counseling Services: HSBC Geographies Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: National Community Reinvestment Coalition Inc
Amount: More than US $10,000
Last Updated: March 24, 2026

Summary

Overview

Note: The NCRC Field Empowerment Fund (FEF) - Housing Counseling Services track has two separate application deadlines: 1) The deadline for the HSBC Geographies is as above. 2) The deadline for KeyBank Geographies is linked here: NCRC Field Empowerment Fund (FEF) - Housing Counseling Services: KeyBank Geographies. About NCRC The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) is a nationwide network of nearly 800 organizations and champions working for a Just Economy, where all Americans can build wealth and provide for their families with stability and dignity. Our vision: To solve America’s historic racial and socio-economic wealth, income and opportunity divides. This vision is the foundation of the Just Economy Pledge. NCRC Field Empowerment Fund (FEF) - Housing Counseling Services The Field Empowerment Fund (FEF) empowers NCRC network members to level up established service lines. The Housing Counseling Services series within FEF supports HUD-approved housing counseling agencies in driving homeownership, such as through pre-purchase counseling. In addition, the program builds agency knowledge on heirs’ property challenges to better equip first-time and low-income homebuying households with the know-how to retain intergenerational wealth. In doing so, FEF-HCS aims to help underserved families begin their homeownership journey, with an additional goal of ensuring foresight into the long-term future of their home purchase. The FEF-HCS series is funded in partnership with Key Bank and HSBC, and targets communities within the Key Bank and HSBC branch footprints. Through these partnerships, $2.5 million in Key Bank geographies and $1.5 million in HSBC geographies has been allocated for the subgrants for direct-to-client housing counseling services that will be awarded in three rounds in the FEF-HCS track. Funding Support Awardee agencies will receive subgrants to support their housing counseling services to clients. Knowledge Building Awardee agencies will attend a training session on heirs’ property challenges and best practices, hosted by NCRC National Training Academy. Bolstering counselor knowledge on this topic will ensure that your agency is not only serving clients in their personal wealth-building journey now, but also helping them preserve that wealth in generations to come.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Be an active NCRC 501(c)3 member.Be a HUD-certified housing counseling agency Have a physical office location and attend clients in an eligible geography. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.