Cooperative Agreement NU58DP007571

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded Dekalb County Department of Finance $1.5 million under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) federal grant program. The award will fund the Dekalb County Community Violence Intervention and Violence Prevention Initiative (DCCV-VIP) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. DCCV-VIP aims to reduce violent crime, particularly gun violence, aggravated assaults, and...

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137) to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. The grant aims to address disparities in hypertension control and food insecurity among marginalized communities in the Metro Atlanta area through a patient-centered social needs referral network called the Community Resource Hubs (CRH). Key objectives...

The federal Project Grant award of $800,000.00 was provided by the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF) under the Social Services Research and Demonstration (SSRD) program (CFDA 93.647). The award is for the project "LEAD INC TENNIS LADY AMBASSADORS: STRENGTHEN LEADERSHIP AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS FOR MIDDLE- AND HIGH-SCHOOL GIRLS IN ATLANTA" and will run from August 31, 2024, to August 30, 2025. The grant will be used by the...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047) supports a collaborative effort between the Latino Community Fund Georgia and the Lucky Shoals Community Association, Inc. to address hate crimes against Latinos in DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties, Georgia. The key products and services to be delivered through this three-year project include: 1) Providing education and...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $600,876 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grant to the Georgia Department of Human Services, specifically the Dekalb Community Service Board (DeKalb CSB), on March 11, 2025. The CoC Program is designed to promote community-wide efforts to quickly house homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness. The grant funds will be used by DeKalb CSB, a non-profit community mental...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $316,559 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grant (CFDA 14.267) to the Dekalb County Department of Finance in Decatur, Georgia. The CoC Program is designed to promote community-wide efforts to quickly house and support homeless individuals and families, while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness. The grant funding will be used to establish and operate CoC Program projects across five main components:...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $314,906 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grant to the Georgia Department of Human Services' Dekalb Community Service Board. This funding, provided under CFDA 14.267, will support a range of housing and supportive services to address homelessness in the Decatur, GA area. Eligible activities include permanent housing, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, supportive services, homeless management information systems (HMIS), and...

This $850,000 Project Grant award is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Economic Development Initiative, Community Project Funding/Congressional Directed Spending program (CFDA 14.251). The grant was awarded on August 13, 2024 to The Urban League of Greater Atlanta, Inc., a minority-owned non-profit organization, to support a range of economic development and community development activities in the Atlanta, GA metropolitan area. The funded activities are...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grant (CFDA 14.267) of $343,236 to Decatur Cooperative Ministry, a nonprofit organization based in Decatur, Georgia. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025, will enable Decatur Cooperative Ministry to provide a range of housing and support services to address homelessness in the Decatur and DeKalb County area. Specifically, the funding will support Decatur Cooperative...

The Decatur County Board of Commissioners received a $141,687 project grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance to support the South Georgia Circuit Rural Crime Reduction Initiative. The grant was awarded under the Rural Violent Crime Initiative program (CFDA 16.039), which provides competitive funding to small law enforcement agencies and prosecutors' offices in rural areas. The project aims to improve training, technology, and expand...