Technical Assistance and Training Program - Manufactured Homes | TATFY23 MANUFACTURED HOMES

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The Technical Assistance and Training Program - Manufactured Homes (Funding Opportunity Number: TATFY23 MANUFACTURED HOMES) is a discretionary grant opportunity run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rural Utilities Service (RUS), listed under CFDA 10.761. Its purpose is to fund organizations that can deliver hands-on technical assistance and training focused on water and wastewater issues affecting manufactured home communities. Rather than paying for construction or equipment, the program is designed to support expert guidance, planning help, and practical training that improves how water and waste systems are managed, operated, and maintained in these settings.

Grant funds can be used for expenses tied directly to providing technical assistance and/or training (often referred to as TAT). That includes work to identify and evaluate solutions to drinking water problems connected to the water source, water storage, treatment processes, or distribution systems. It also includes identifying and evaluating solutions to waste-related problems, such as how wastewater is collected, treated, or disposed of. A major allowable use is helping potential borrowers or grantees who have already filed a pre-application with RUS by supporting them in preparing complete water and/or waste loan and/or grant applications. In addition, the program can fund training and technical support for water and wastewater system personnel, with the goal of improving day-to-day management, operations, and maintenance practices for water and waste disposal facilities serving manufactured home areas.

The opportunity has clear limits on what it will not pay for. Funds cannot be used to duplicate services that are already being provided, such as work being performed by an association consultant in developing a project. The grant also cannot support political or lobbying activities. It cannot be used to buy capital assets, purchase real estate or vehicles, renovate or improve office space, or repair and maintain privately owned property. Importantly, the grant is not meant to finance infrastructure projects themselves: it does not pay for the construction, improvement, rehabilitation, modification, or operation and maintenance of water, wastewater, or solid waste disposal facilities. It also cannot reimburse costs incurred before the grant effective date, which means expenses need to occur within the grant period and under the approved scope of work.

Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations that have 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, excluding institutions of higher education. The agency contact listed for this opportunity is Lorrie Davis (lorrie.davis@usda.gov). The opportunity record shows an expected 10 awards, with an award ceiling listed as 0 (which typically signals that the ceiling may be unspecified in the listing or set elsewhere in the full announcement). The posting shows a creation date of October 15, 2022, and an original closing date of November 13, 2022.

Overall, this grant is best understood as capacity-building support for manufactured home communities and the organizations that serve them. It focuses on expert assistance, problem diagnosis, solution evaluation, staff training, and application-development help tied to RUS water and waste programs, while explicitly excluding spending on construction, property, vehicles, major equipment, and other capital or pre-award costs.

• The Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service in the community development, environment, opportunity zone benefits sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Technical Assistance and Training Program - Manufactured Homes" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.761.
• This funding opportunity was created on Oct 15, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 13, 2022 Lorrie Davis lorrie.davis@usda.gov. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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