34 shop tech correction 030711 final.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR: 5415-C-34]

Notice of Funding Availability for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010; Self-Help Homeownership

Opportunity Program (SHOP); Technical Corrections

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of technical corrections.

SUMMARY: This Notice makes corrections to the FY 2010 SHOP NOFA that was posted on the Grants.gov website on February 1, 2011. Specifically, this Notice corrects the Threshold

Requirement to make clear that a SHOP applicant and its affiliates must qualify as eligible public or private nonprofit organizations under federal or state law. This Notice also corrects related sections. This notice also makes you aware of the correction to the eLogic Model form HUD

96010 SHOP V12.3 012811. The forms coding didn't allow the macros to function properly.

The coding has been corrected and the corrected HUD 96010 SHOP V12.3 030311 form is contained in the Instructions Download. Applicants that have already submitted an application using an earlier version of the eLogic Model, should pull a new Logic Model from the instruxtions download, complete a new eLogic Model, attach the new Logic Model to their application and resubmit the application.

DATES: The application submission deadline for the FY 2010 SHOP NOFA is being extended until April 18, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information concerning the

Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program, contact Ginger Macomber, SHOP Program

Manager, Office of Affordable Housing Programs, Office of Community Planning and

Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room

7162, Washington DC 20410–7000; telephone 202–402–4605 (this is not a toll-free number).

Persons with speech or hearing impairments may access this telephone number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service during working hours at 1-800–877–8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

On February 1, 2011, HUD posted its FY 2010 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program. The FY 2010 SHOP NOFA announced the availability of approximately $26.7 million in FY 2010 funding to be awarded to national and regional nonprofit organizations and consortia which facilitate and encourage innovative homeownership opportunities for low-income individuals and families. This NOFA was posted to the Grants.gov website http://www.grants.gov/. A link to Grants.gov was also made available on the HUD website at http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/nofa10/grpshop.cfm.

HUD has determined that the posted NOFA requires a correction to make clear that a

SHOP applicant and its affiliates must qualify as eligible public or private nonprofit organizations under federal or state law. Since this correction addresses a threshold issue, HUD is also extending the deadline for applications to April 18, 2011. Applicants that are eligible public or private nonprofit organizations under federal or state law that have already submitted an application through Grants.gov are not required to download a new application or resubmit a revised application. Applicants that submit a revised application, including any faxed materials, should note that HUD will only rate and rank the last application received that meets the timely receipt requirements.

Corrections

1. Page 3, Section III.B.1.a., HUD is correcting the definition of “affiliate” to read as follows:

http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/nofa10/grpshop.cfm

1. Affiliate. An affiliate must be located within your service area. An affiliate is:

a. A local nonprofit self-help housing organization that is a subordinate organization (i.e., chapter, local, post, or unit) of your central organization and covered by the group exemption issued to the central organization under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; or

b. A local nonprofit self-help housing organization with which you have an existing relationship

(e.g., you have provided technical assistance, mentoring or funding to the local self-help housing organization); or

c. A local nonprofit self-help housing organization with which you do not have an existing relationship, but to which you will provide technical assistance, mentoring or funding as part of your SHOP application.

2. Page 4, Section III.F.2., HUD is correcting the requirement for nonprofit status to read as follows:

2. Nonprofit Status. You and your affiliates must qualify as eligible public or private nonprofit organizations under federal or state law.

3. Page 15, Section IV.E.2.a. The FY 2010 SHOP NOFA required a Statement of

Qualifications. HUD is correcting the requirement for self-help housing organization qualifications, to read as follows:

2. Applicant Eligibility (no page limit)

a. Self-Help Housing Organization Statement of Qualifications. You must submit a narrative statement of qualifications that demonstrates your organization’s eligibility to participate in the

SHOP program. You must clearly state how your organization or consortium qualifies as a national or regional public nonprofit self-help housing organization or private nonprofit self-help housing organization as defined in SHOP NOFA Section III.A. and Section III.F.2. If you are not a current SHOP grantee you must submit evidence that you qualify as a public or private nonprofit organization under federal or state law (such as a current Internal Revenue Service

(IRS) ruling that your organization is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986). If you are a consortium, you must submit evidence of the nonprofit status of each consortium member that does not currently receive SHOP funds.

This evidence must be provided in an Appendix. This Appendix does not count towards your application page limits.

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