Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Communities of Practice (COP)

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) - Office of Community Services (OCS) is seeking applications for the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Communities of Practice (CoP). The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support six 3-year cooperative agreements to provide training and technical assistance to the CSBG network. The CSBG network includes states, territories, directly-funded tribes and tribal organizations, eligible entities, state associations, and CSBG national TTA providers. The goal of this funding opportunity is to advance community-level strategies that prevent and reduce barriers to attaining economic mobility, education and workforce development, transportation, and access to safe and stable housing. • The six award recipients will be required to provide their respective grouping of CSBG states, territories, tribes, state associations, and eligible entities with capacity-building that creates scalable, evidence-informed interventions that improve earned income, employment stability, and asset development for families with low incomes through coordinated service delivery and systems alignment. • TTA developed under these CoPs will advance community-level strategies that prevent and reduce barriers to attaining economic mobility; education and workforce development; transportation; and access to safe and stable housing, including support for the A Home for Every Child administrative priority. • Each CoP is expected to invest in partnerships to support data-driven decision-making and infrastructure that strengthens service delivery, enhances reporting and compliance, and reduces opportunities for fraud, waste, and abuse across the Network.