Community Services Consortium

Community Services Consortium, doing business as C S C, is a U.S. local government council of governments based in Albany, Oregon, that acts as a federal grant recipient to coordinate homelessness intervention, community development, early childhood education, and wildfire resilience services across its service area. The organization operates as a grant recipient (53% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on federal grants administered through state pass-through agencies (47% of awards). C S C does not hold federal contracts and is not a contract prime or subcontractor; its federal footprint is entirely grant-based.

C S C's grant portfolio concentrates heavily on homelessness support and community development. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development is the dominant grantor, accounting for 30 awards under the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267). Representative work includes a $292,314 Project Grant awarded November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2026, supporting CoC program activities designed to promote community-wide commitment to ending homelessness in the Albany region; the CoC award covers eligible components including permanent housing (including permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities and rapid rehousing), transitional housing, supportive services, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS), and homelessness prevention activities. C S C also holds a Head Start Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Head Start, effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030. The Department of Energy awarded C S C a $4.935 million Enhancing Landscape Resiliency Public Safety and Community Fire Adaptation in Santiam Canyon Project Grant (September 17, 2024, through June 30, 2029) for fuels reduction work within the Santiam Canyon, Oregon, including property assessments, defensible space creation, and ingress/egress access improvements to reduce fire risk in local communities.

Customer concentration centers on HUD's homelessness programs and Department of Health and Human Services early-childhood and family-support initiatives, which together account for 76% of awards. HUD's CoC Program dominates by volume (30 awards); HUD and HHS Administration for Children and Families together represent 51 of 85 total awards. The Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Corporation for National and Community Service round out the grantor set, with smaller award counts.

C S C operates as a sub-recipient on the majority of awards flowing through the Oregon Department of Housing and Community Services as prime grantee. Recent sub-award activity (April 30, 2026, backward) shows recurring monthly and quarterly pass-throughs from Oregon HCS covering administrative costs, direct client services, program delivery, technical assistance, weather readiness funding, HMIS, and energy education activities. One sub-award from the Oregon Health Authority (May 5, 2022) supported Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) activities. Activity has accelerated in the past two years — three awards in 2022 and 2023 each, rising to 24 in 2024 and 10 in 2025 — with only one award (combined potential value not specified in source) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. C S C's grant footprint reflects its role as a council of governments managing federal homelessness, community development, and resilience funding for the Albany metropolitan region in partnership with state pass-through agencies and community service providers.