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Community development grants are typically awarded to communities for building and renovation projects that improve housing and public service facilities for low to moderate income people. Community development grants from the federal government are awarded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Helping more low- and moderate-income Americans become homeowners is a national priority. President Bush, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, and our Blueprint Partners for the American Dream are committed to helping everyone - especially first-time homebuyers and minority families - take advantage of new opportunities to own their own homes through community development grants.  While HUD does not offer direct community development grants or loans to individuals, they do work through local governments and non-profit organizations to make financial assistance and counseling available.

 

Private foundations and trusts, as well as corporate foundations and trusts all award community development grants as well, and like HUD, they do not offer direct grants to individuals.  There are over 2,000 private foundations in the United States that give community development grants with total giving that ranges from $462 million to less than $100,000.  The Lilly Endowment, Ford Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, New York Community Trust, Moody Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Wal-Mart Foundation lead the pack in total giving of more than $100,000,000 each. 

 

In 2002 the Moody Foundation in Texas granted $100,681,754 in community development grants to Moody Gardens for building and renovation to expand its convention center and hotel.  The Lilly Endowment, Inc. of Indiana granted $6,175,500 in 2000 to the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership for a matching grant for continued support to administer homeownership development, community development grants support and special counseling.

 

To learn how to write successful community development grants check out some of the grants sites listed by us. Many of them specialize in the arena of community development grants. They have good track records of success in writing grants, not only for community development, but also for elementary-secondary education, technology, healthcare, science, literacy programs, and labor-management cooperation.  With an average of 30 Billion dollars in grant awards each year, these sites have authored grants that have:

 

·         Encouraged economic growth.

·         Promoted labor-management cooperation.

·         Established community technology centers.

·         Advanced professional development.

·         Increased learning outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics.

·         Increased interest and learning outcomes in science and citizenship.