SHARE Grants: National Long Term Recovery Grant

Overview

Empowering Local Partners for Sustainable Impact

We're on a mission to scale our impact by sharing our deep knowledge and operational expertise with local nonprofit leaders and partners. By increasing the effectiveness of local nonprofit organizations with deep roots in at-risk communities, we’re building on what’s already working and delivering effective solutions at a greater scale to help more families return home.

How Our Share Program Works

In the wake of disasters, SBP’s SHARE Program fills critical capacity gaps in communities by providing local nonprofits with tailored funding, training, and capacity-strengthening initiatives to meet recovery needs. Through strategic partnerships with industry leaders, we empower local and national nonprofit partners to lead local recovery efforts with the specific tools, resources, and knowledge they need most. Through technical assistance, funding, specialized support for flood recovery, and training, our SHARE program equips partners to navigate challenges and support their communities to rebuild and recover.

National Long-Term Recovery Grant

The SHARE Program, SBP’s in-house foundation, awards grants to qualifying nonprofit partners to address the unmet housing needs of under-resourced neighbors and communities. In addition to funding, the SHARE Program offers grantees technical training and consulting services on a variety of topics, including how to implement the Toyota Production System, how to develop effective and efficient processes for volunteer management, case management, construction and contractor selection, and more. Additionally, the SHARE Program awards AmeriCorps member “slots” to qualifying organizations to help build capacity, launch new programs or support existing efforts.

Grant details:

SBP is offering eligible nonprofit organizations the opportunity to apply for grant funds to support impacted individuals impacted by a presidentially declared disaster in the last 4 years. These funds will support repairs for homeowners who reside in a FEMA Individual Assistance declared county and were impacted by the disaster event. Grantees will also assist impacted individuals in receiving the maximum eligible awards from FEMA, the Small Business Administration, and their insurance companies.

Grant funds may only be used to assist individuals at or below 120% of their respective Area Median Income. Please refer to the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s annual income limits for your specific county to ensure individuals meet this metric. In addition, these funds can go to either of the following:

* Homes being built or repaired with the intention of selling to renters whose unit was impacted and were deemed uninhabitable.
* Homeowners whose primary and only residence was impacted by the disaster event

On average the award will allow for $14,000 per home, with most organizations receiving funding to complete 4 to 6 repairs. Qualifying homes include owner-occupied properties, and first-time homes purchased after the rental unit was damaged and deemed uninhabitable.

Rebuild Guidelines:

This grant allows for an average of $14,000 of SBP funds per home, with a maximum allowance of $20,000 per home. The expectation is that SBP grant funds will be leveraged with other funding sources.

Costs associated with elevation certificates for homes in the floodplain are to be included in the allowance.

* All work done by contractors must comply with the state’s licensing requirements.
* All repairs will include resilient building modifications as appropriate and cost-effective
* All homes that receive repairs inside of the floodplain must carry flood insurance.
* Applicants can include up to 10% towards admin/project management costs.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* What types of organizations are eligible to apply:
* 501c3 nonprofit organizations that provide home repairs or new construction services to homeowners impacted by a presidentially declared disaster in IA-declared counties.
* Organizations that are committed to ensuring impacted individuals receive all eligible award funds from FEMA, the Small Business Administration (SBA), or any insurance they carry. SBP is available to provide training and support on this requirement.
* Organizations serving immigrant, migrant, refugee, Indigenous, BIPOC, and first-time/first-gen homeowners are especially encouraged to apply.
* Organizations repairing homes for the first time are welcome and encouraged to apply. 
* Impacted Individuals Eligibility:
* The minimum homeowner eligibility criteria:
* Occupied the damaged home at the time of the disaster
* Lives in an IA-declared county in the U.S.
* Does not own another home or residence.
* Earns incomes less than 120% of Area Median Income.
* Would put an undue financial burden on the homeowner to pay for market-rate contractors.
* Does not have flood or property insurance, has been denied a claim, or did not receive an adequate award.
* Can show proof of having received a denial or an inadequate award from FEMA and/or worked with SBP’s DAP program to appeal the award or denial to receive the maximum eligible award.