Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2020 ACF OCS EF 1831
The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Rural Community Development (RCD) Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems Training and Technical Assistance Project is a discretionary grant opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), through the Office of Community Services (OCS). It makes roughly $9.2 million in RCD discretionary funds available to support organizations that can deliver training and hands-on technical assistance focused on improving water and wastewater services in low-income rural communities. The core purpose is not primarily to pay for construction, but to strengthen the people, systems, planning, and coordination needed for rural communities to secure and sustain safe, affordable water supply and waste disposal services.
The opportunity is designed to address several connected outcomes for low-income rural areas. First, it aims to increase access for low-income families to reliable water supply and waste disposal services, including helping communities navigate technical, managerial, and financial barriers that keep basic services out of reach. Second, it focuses on preserving affordability and long-term viability of existing water and wastewater services in low-income rural communities, recognizing that small systems often struggle with aging infrastructure, limited rate bases, and operator capacity constraints. Third, it emphasizes building local capacity and expertise so communities can establish, operate, and maintain needed community facilities over time, rather than relying on one-time fixes. Fourth, it links water and sanitation to broader community and economic stability by supporting the basic infrastructure conditions that enable households, employers, and community institutions to function and grow.
A key feature of the program is the expectation that training and technical assistance will help rural communities leverage additional resources. In practice, that means assisting communities in identifying, packaging, and applying for other public and private funding, and improving readiness for financing by strengthening governance, compliance, asset management, project planning, and budgeting. The program also prioritizes improved coordination among federal, state, and local agencies and financing programs, with the goal of reducing fragmentation and making it easier for low-income communities to access aligned support. This can include aligning technical assistance with available loan and grant programs, helping communities meet prerequisites for funding, and encouraging partnerships that reduce duplication and close service gaps.
Funding is offered as grants under Funding Opportunity Number HHS-2020-ACF-OCS-EF-1831, associated with CFDA 93.570 (Income Security and Social Services). The agency anticipated making about 8 awards, with an award ceiling of $1,156,250 per award. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (also other than institutions of higher education), and certain other eligible entities as described in the full eligibility instructions of the announcement. Applications were required to be submitted electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the listed due date (original closing date June 30, 2020).
Overall, this grant opportunity targets the practical capacity-building work that helps low-income rural communities secure safe water and sanitation services and keep them affordable over the long term. By funding training, technical assistance, leveraging support, and cross-agency coordination, the program aims to create durable improvements in rural water and wastewater system management and in the community conditions that depend on those essential services.Apply for HHS 2020 ACF OCS EF 1831
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families - OCS in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Community Services Block Grant (CSBG)/Rural Community Development Program (RCD) Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems Training and Technical Assistance Project" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.570.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 19, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 30, 2020 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,156,250.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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