City Of Erie

The City of Erie, Pennsylvania, registered in SAM.gov since November 2001, is a U.S. local government municipality located at 626 State Street in Erie, PA. As a participating jurisdiction, the City of Erie receives federal grant awards across multiple agencies to support critical community development, public safety, and social services initiatives. The city has demonstrated consistent engagement with federal funding mechanisms to enhance municipal capacity in areas ranging from law enforcement and emergency response to affordable housing and homelessness prevention.

The City of Erie has received substantial federal grant awards totaling millions of dollars across diverse program areas administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Justice, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, and Environmental Protection Agency. In housing and community development, the city has been awarded multiple rounds of HOME Investment Partnerships Program grants (formula grants totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars through 2025) for affordable housing rehabilitation, homebuyer assistance, and rental housing activities, as well as Community Development Block Grants for general community development purposes. For homelessness services, the city receives Emergency Solutions Grant funding to support street outreach, emergency shelter operations, homelessness prevention, and rapid re-housing assistance. Law enforcement and public safety represent a major focus, with the City of Erie Police Department receiving grants including a $3,125,000 COPS Hiring Program grant for community policing expansion, a $500,000 Comprehensive Forensic DNA Analysis Grant for a cold case task force partnership with the Erie County District Attorney's Office, auto theft prevention cooperative agreements, body-worn camera expansion grants, and various technology and equipment grants through the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Emergency services have been supported through multiple Assistance to Firefighters Grant awards from FEMA totaling over $900,000 for equipment and training, as well as a Port Security Grant Program award. Additional initiatives include youth violence prevention programming through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, substance abuse and opioid response efforts through the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program, transportation safety planning through the Safe Streets and Roads for All program, energy efficiency improvements via the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, and environmental protection projects including litter prevention in Lake Erie's watershed. Sub-grant awards have flowed through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure improvements and through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for coastal zone management and stormwater awareness initiatives.