Block grant rule comments due Nov 30, and CSBG money arrives in pieces

For your finance office: ORR plans about 50 awards of $2 million to $5.6 million for shelter, group home and transitional foster care beds. You must already hold the state license for that care when you apply, and current grantees not in their final year can only propose a new site. Due Dec 29.

For your finance office: 501(c)(3) nonprofits can apply for up to $500,000, and EPA expects about 30 awards. The money pays for site inventories, environmental assessments and reuse planning, not cleanup. EPA posted four related brownfield calls, including cleanup and revolving loan fund grants, all due Jan 21, 2027.

For your finance office: HUD expects about 143 awards of $272,250 to $816,750 to pay service coordinators who link public and Indian housing residents to education, job training and health services. Housing authorities, tribes, resident associations and nonprofits can apply. A match is required, so confirm where it comes from before you commit. Due Jan 5, 2027.

For your finance office: This is maintenance money for primary care residencies HRSA already supports at community-based outpatient centers, with about 12 awards of up to $2.88 million. If you don't already run an accredited residency, it isn't for you. Due Dec 11.

For your finance office: Nothing is open yet. HRSA expects to post it around March 29, 2027, with applications due around May 28 and a single award of up to $1 million. Nonprofits and for-profits can both apply. With one award nationally, apply only if rural health IT is already core to your work.

For your finance office: Only marine mammal stranding network participants and their collaborators can apply. FWS expects about 21 awards of up to $150,000, and a cost share is required. Due Nov 30. If that's you, check this week that your SAM.gov registration is active, because an expired one blocks the Grants.gov submission.

For your finance office: Two awards of up to $3 million each, out of $5 million total, for groups that train OVC-funded anti-trafficking task forces and legal service providers. It's training money, not direct services. OJP has two deadlines: Grants.gov by Dec 1 and the full application in JustGrants by Dec 8.

For your finance office: ACF wants to delete outdated and duplicate sections of 45 CFR part 96, the block grant rules that cover CSBG, LIHEAP and SSBG. For CSBG it removes the regulation's audit section because the CSBG Act already requires the audit, so your single audit stays the same. Comments close Nov 30.

For your finance office: OCS released $150.5 million in partial first-quarter CSBG funds on Oct 22 under the stopgap spending law that runs through Dec 11. Expect your state's pass-through to come in pieces, and plan cash around the gap. You can still use the income limit of up to 200 percent of poverty where your state allows it.

For your finance office: OCS confirmed CSBG can pay for gas cards, mileage reimbursement, fuel for agency vehicles that carry clients, and emergency heating fuel. Each cost has to tie to a need your needs assessment or plan identifies and meet the 2 CFR 200 cost principles. If fuel isn't in your plan, ask your state CSBG office about updating it before you charge it.

For your finance office: USDA expects to buy about $481.5 million in TEFAP foods for FY 2027 and deliver about $360 million more in surplus foods bought last year. Your state decides how much reaches each food bank and pantry. Foods you receive count toward your federal spending, at fair market value or the value USDA assigns, so they can push you past the $1 million single audit threshold.

For your finance office: ED draws on these priorities when it sets up discretionary grant competitions. The proposal adds areas such as youth in foster or kinship care, child care for student parents and Registered Apprenticeships. If you apply for ED grants, expect to see them in future competition notices. Comments close Dec 7.