[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 230 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61634-61635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29228]




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Part IV





Department of Housing and Urban Development





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Notice of Request for Cooperative Agreement Applications for the 
Community Renaissance Fellows Program; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research
[Docket No. FR-3960-N-01]


Notice of Request for Cooperative Agreement Applications for the 
Community Renaissance Fellows Program

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of request for cooperative agreement applications.

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SUMMARY: The Department is seeking applications from public and private 
universities in order to provide funding to develop and implement the 
educational component of HUD's new Community Renaissance Fellows 
Program. The program will place 20 Fellows in distressed public housing 
developments undergoing conversion, for example, to mixed-income or 
mixed-use projects. HUD hopes, with the assistance of private 
foundations, to place additional Fellows in comparable projects being 
undertaken by community development corporations.

DATES: Application deadline. Applications must be physically received 
at the address shown in the ADDRESSES section of this notice by 4:30 
p.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 15, 1996. Applications faxed to 
this address will not be accepted. The above-stated deadline date is 
firm as to date, hour and place. In the interest of fairness to all 
competing applicants, the Department will treat as ineligible for 
consideration any application that is received after the deadline. 
Applicants should take this practice into account and make early 
submission of their materials to avoid any risk of loss of eligibility 
brought about by unanticipated delays or other delivery-related 
problems.
    Application kits may be requested from the address listed in the 
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
    Bidder conference date. HUD will be holding a ``bidders'' 
conference to explain, in more detail, the background behind this 
solicitation and clarify application requirements. The conference will 
be held on January 11, 1996. All interested applicants are encouraged 
to attend this conference. For more information about this conference, 
please call Jane Karadbil at (202) 708-1537 (this is not a toll free 
number), or for the hearing impaired, TDD 1-800-877-TDDY.

ADDRESSES: To obtain application kit. To obtain a copy of the 
application kit, contact: Jane Karadbil, Office of University 
Partnerships in the Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street S.W., Room 
8110, Washington, D.C. 20410. Requests for application kits must be in 
writing, but requests may be faxed to Ms. Karadbil at (202) 708-5536. 
(This is not a toll free number.) Requests for application kits must 
include the applicant's name, mailing address (including zip code), and 
telephone number (including area code).
    To submit applications. Applications must be physically received by 
the Office of University Partnerships, Office of Policy Development and 
Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in care of 
the Division of Budget, Contracts, and Program Control, in Room 8230 by 
4:30 pm. Eastern Standard Time on February 15, 1996. Applications faxed 
to this address will not be accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jane Karadbil, Office of University 
Partnerships in the Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, S.W., Room 
8110, Washington, DC 20410. Telephone number (202) 708-1537 voice (this 
is not a toll free number); 1-800-877-TDDY (TDD). Ms. Karadbil can also 
be contacted via the Internet at JaneK._
K[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

    The information collection requirements contained in this notice 
have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), under 
section 3504(h) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3501-
3520), and assigned OMB Control Number 2535-0084.

II. General Information

    Today's urban professional graduates do not have the education or 
skills to undertake complex, multi-disciplinary community building 
projects--from loan packaging, to design skills, to community 
organization to create real working partnerships with neighborhood 
residents, to securing the necessary social services to promote self-
sufficiency. And, too often, the brightest and the best of America's 
young urban professionals do not view local governments, public housing 
agencies, and community-based organizations as desirable employers, nor 
distressed neighborhoods as places to apply their creativity. These 
graduates are knowledgeable in the traditional methods of community 
revitalization but need additional skills to become visionary community 
builders, and they need an incentive to change the trajectory of their 
career paths from ``real estate'' to community building.
    At present there are no graduate programs or fellowships to promote 
comprehensive community building approaches. As the Federal agency 
charged with nurturing and sustaining urban neighborhoods, HUD has 
decided to take a catalyzing role in creating mechanisms to develop 
these skills. The paucity of these kinds of professionals has created a 
bottleneck in implementing important HUD programs.
    HUD is creating the Community Renaissance Fellowship program to (1) 
meet this pressing need and (2) to support a new generation of 
visionary, highly competent community building urban professionals. HUD 
seeks to foster a cadre of professionals who can take the practical 
experience gained working on community building and revitalization in 
distressed public housing projects and urban neighborhoods and transfer 
these skills to other complex neighborhood development projects. HUD 
will be funding 20 Fellows for two-year Fellowships at a cost of $3 
million (from technical assistance funding under the Public Housing 
Modernization Technical Assistance program authorized by the 
Department's FY 1995 Appropriations Act, Pub. L. 103-327, September 28, 
1994) for their stipends and other expenses. These Fellows will be 
placed in distressed public housing developments undergoing conversion, 
for example, to mixed-income or mixed-use projects. HUD has also 
reached out to private foundations with a stake in urban neighborhoods 
to become potential partners and hopes to receive funding for up to an 
additional 20 Fellows. These Fellows will be placed in community 
development corporations undertaking similar large-scale urban physical 
and human development projects.
    Since community building skills are evolving, there is a need to 
ensure that the Fellows benefit from up-to-date information and 
thinking on revitalization issues. Thus, there will be a strong 
educational component to the program. The education the Fellows receive 
will be provided through the highest quality courses and most respected 
participating faculty in the country. Over the two years, the Fellows 
will receive the equivalent of more than one full-time semester of 
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professional education in community-building skills.
    Subject to funding availability, HUD will be awarding a cooperative 
agreement to a nationally known university to design an entirely new 
path-breaking curriculum for the education component for the Fellows 
program and offer it to the Fellows.
    The university selected must demonstrate that it currently offers 
graduate courses in real estate and provides interdisciplinary 
practical experiences for its graduate students.

    Dated: November 22, 1995.
Michael A. Stegman,
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
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