[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 2, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 10881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-04626]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5900-FA-06]


Announcement of Funding Awards for HUD's Fiscal Year 2015 
Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of Funding Awards.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement 
notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a 
competition for funding under the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 
for the HUD Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity 
Building program for Fiscal Year 2015. This announcement contains the 
names of the awardees and amounts of the awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lauren Deigh, Acting Director, 
Technical Assistance Division, Office of Community Planning and 
Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., Room 7218, Washington, DC 20410-
7000; telephone (202) 402-2197 (this is not a toll-free number). 
Persons with speech or hearing impairments may access this telephone 
number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service during 
working hours at 800-877-8339. For general information on this and 
other HUD programs visit the HUD Web site at http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The goal of Community Compass is to empower 
communities by providing effective technical assistance and capacity 
building so that successful program implementation is sustained over 
the long term.
    Recognizing that HUD's customers often interact with a variety of 
HUD programs as they deliver housing or community development services, 
Community Compass brings together technical assistance investments from 
across HUD program offices, including but not limited to the Office of 
Community Planning and Development, the Office of Housing, and the 
Office of Public and Indian Housing.
    The competition was announced in the NOFA published on August 12, 
2015, (FR-5900-06) and closed on September 25, 2015. The NOFA allowed 
for approximately $44,125,000.00 million for HUD Community Compass 
Technical Assistance and Capacity Building awards. Applications were 
rated and selected for funding on the basis of selection criteria 
contained in the Notice. For the Fiscal Year 2015 competition, awards 
totaling $44,125,000.00 were awarded to 23 different technical 
assistance providers nationwide.
    In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 
U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the awardees and the amounts 
of the awards in Appendix A to this document.

    Dated: February 23, 2016.
Clifford Taffet,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development.

Appendix A

                                                Fiscal Year 2015
                        [HUD Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Awards]
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               Recipient                                City                         State            Amount
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Abt Associates, Inc...................  Cambridge...........................  MA                    ($)9,100,000
HomeBase/The Center for Common          San Francisco.......................  CA                       1,700,000
 Concerns.
American Institutes for Research......  Washington..........................  DC                         800,000
Association of Alaska Housing           Anchorage...........................  AK                         600,000
 Authorities.
Collaborative Solutions, Inc..........  Birmingham..........................  AL                       1,325,000
Cloudburst Consulting Group, Inc......  Landover............................  MD                       4,800,000
Corporation for Supportive Housing....  New York............................  NY                         675,000
CVR Associates, Inc...................  Tampa...............................  FL                       1,200,000
Econometrica, Inc.....................  Bethesda............................  MD                       2,200,000
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc....  Columbia............................  MD                       2,075,000
FirstPic, Inc.........................  Gambrills...........................  MD                       2,000,000
ICF Incorporated, LLC.................  Fairfax.............................  VA                      11,225,000
National Association for Latino Comm.   San Antonio.........................  CA                         550,000
 Asset Bldrs.
First Nations Development Institute...  Longmont............................  CO                         275,000
National American Indian Housing        Washington..........................  DC                       2,875,000
 Council.
National Council for Community          New York............................  NY                         250,000
 Development, Inc.
TDA Consulting, Inc...................  Laurinburg..........................  NC                         500,000
Technical Assistance Collaborative,     Boston..............................  MA                         500,000
 Inc.
The Partnership Center, Ltd...........  Cincinnati..........................  OH                         525,000
Innovative Emergency Management, Inc..  Morrisville.........................  NC                         250,000
Corporate F.A.C.T.S., Inc.............  Plymouth............................  MI                         250,000
Fair Housing Council of Riverside       Riverside...........................  CA                         250,000
 County, Inc.
Rural Community Assistance Corporation  W. Sacramento.......................  CA                         200,000
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    Total.............................  ....................................  ..................     $44,125,000
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