Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2017 ACF OCS ET 1218
The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Legal Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Center funding opportunity is a discretionary cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), specifically through the Office of Community Services (OCS). The goal is to fund a single, national-level Legal T/TA Center that will operate over a three-year period and strengthen the legal, fiscal, and organizational capacity of CSBG-eligible entities and state CSBG offices. The center is meant to function as a practical support hub, helping the CSBG Network improve operations, accountability, and compliance by delivering targeted training, technical assistance, and tools that can be used for organizational assessment and continuous improvement.
A central purpose of the award is to help CSBG-eligible entities meet CSBG organizational standards, which are the core expectations for sound governance and effective management across the network. The Legal T/TA Center is expected to focus its assistance on organizational, fiscal, and legal issues tied directly to these standards, with emphasis on key operational domains such as consumer input and involvement, community engagement, community assessment, leadership, board governance, strategic planning, human resource management, financial operations and oversight, and data and analysis. In practice, that means the center would help agencies interpret requirements, adopt defensible policies, strengthen board and leadership practices, and build systems that support oversight, documentation, and responsible decision-making.
The opportunity highlights three major legal focus areas for the center. First, it must provide organizational stability support for CSBG-eligible entities facing serious fiscal or organizational distress. This includes consultation and guidance for agencies considering legal options like strategic restructuring, shared administrative or service arrangements, or mergers, where legal complexity can be high and decisions can affect governance, assets, liabilities, personnel, and service continuity. Second, it must provide education and training to improve understanding of CSBG statutory and regulatory requirements and to help the network respond to changing legal and regulatory conditions. This is designed to build baseline legal literacy across the CSBG Network so agencies can avoid preventable compliance problems and respond more confidently when rules, interpretations, or risk environments shift. Third, it must promote exemplary legal practices and policies that support innovation while maintaining accountability and responsiveness to local needs. This includes legal approaches that help agencies pursue effective poverty reduction strategies, revitalize low-income communities, and empower low-income families and individuals in both rural and urban areas to move toward self-sufficiency, without compromising governance integrity or regulatory compliance.
A notable requirement is collaboration: the funded organization is expected to partner with the CSBG Organizational Standards Center of Excellence (COE). This partnership is intended to align legal technical assistance with broader organizational standards support already being provided to the network, so that guidance is consistent, coordinated, and directly tied to the real-world implementation of standards. The opportunity also explicitly calls out the importance of legal topics related to compliance with 45 CFR Part 75, the uniform administrative requirements that govern federal grants management, procurement, financial management, internal controls, and audit responsibilities. In other words, the center is not just offering abstract legal information; it is expected to help agencies apply federal grants rules and organizational standards in everyday operations, reducing risk and improving accountability.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a cooperative agreement (not a standard grant), which typically means substantial federal involvement in shaping priorities, deliverables, or coordination activities over the project period. The opportunity anticipated one award with an award ceiling of $300,000. It was listed under CFDA 93.569 and categorized within Income Security and Social Services. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education), as well as other applicants as allowed under the announcement’s additional eligibility details. The opportunity was created on June 13, 2017, with an original closing date of July 24, 2017, and required electronic submission by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.Apply for HHS 2017 ACF OCS ET 1218
- 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) Legal Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Center" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.569.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 13, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 24, 2017 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 $300,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 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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