Fiscal Year 2011 and Fiscal Year 2012 Technical Assistance and Capacity Building under the TI OneCPD | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published this discretionary Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) to fund technical assistance and capacity building for recipients of HUD Community Planning and Development (CPD) funding during Fiscal Years 2011 and 2012. The opportunity, listed as Funding Opportunity Number FR-5600-N-32 under CFDA 14.259 (Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building), was structured to strengthen how state and local partners manage HUD grants, comply with federal requirements, and deliver results in communities, particularly in the context of reduced local capacity during the economic downturn. Awards were made through cooperative agreements, with no cost sharing or matching requirement, and HUD estimated total available funding at $61,900,000. The NOFA was posted February 14, 2012, with an application deadline of March 15, 2012, and the opportunity archived March 22, 2012.

The NOFA had two main components: (1) the OneCPD Integrated Practitioner Assistance System (OneCPD) and (2) Core Curricula for Skills Based Training (Core Curricula). OneCPD was described as a cross-program, assessment-based, and impact-focused technical assistance delivery system. Its central idea was to create a more coordinated, performance-oriented approach to helping grantees and community partners build the management systems, planning capability, and operational capacity needed to implement comprehensive, sustainable, place-based development and revitalization strategies. Rather than limiting technical assistance to one-off support or narrow compliance fixes, OneCPD emphasized collaboration among HUD, state and local governments, Continuums of Care (CoCs), and selected providers to diagnose needs, deliver targeted assistance, and then track what changed as a result.

A major theme in OneCPD was accountability tied to results. HUD emphasized measuring more than outputs (for example, how many trainings occurred or how many communities received assistance). The design also pushed for documenting outcomes and community-level impact, enabling grantees to demonstrate what technical assistance actually improved, such as stronger grant administration practices, better planning, more effective use of funds, and improved delivery of local housing and community development activities. This focus on outcomes was also tied to HUDs dual role in grant administration: first, helping grantees build capacity to make sound local decisions using federal resources, and second, carrying out monitoring and oversight to ensure compliance and proper use of funds. OneCPD was positioned as a way to advance both objectives at once by combining skills development, planning support, and innovation with an emphasis on regulatory compliance.

The Core Curricula component focused more specifically on creating and delivering standardized, skills-based training. These trainings were meant to build practical competency in areas that commonly drive performance and compliance risk in CPD-funded work. The NOFA highlighted priority subject areas including development finance, environmental review and compliance, asset management and preservation, and construction and rehabilitation management. In other words, Core Curricula was the structured training backbone, while OneCPD was the broader integrated system for diagnosing needs, delivering tailored assistance, and tracking performance improvements and impacts across programs and jurisdictions.

Eligibility differed slightly between the two components. For OneCPD, eligible applicants included states and units of general local government; HOME participating jurisdictions (with stated exclusions for certain types of technical assistance such as MV TA or HOPWA TA); public housing authorities; public or private nonprofit organizations or intermediaries (including educational institutions and area-wide planning organizations); Indian tribes; and for-profit organizations. For Core Curricula, eligible applicants were public or private nonprofit organizations or intermediaries (including educational institutions and area-wide planning organizations) as well as for-profit organizations. This structure reflects HUDs intent to draw from a wide range of capable entities, including governments, nonprofits, universities, planning bodies, and private firms, to deliver technical assistance and training at scale.

Administratively, the opportunity sat within the Community Development and Housing funding activity category and used cooperative agreements, signaling that HUD expected an active federal role in shaping, coordinating, and overseeing the work rather than simply issuing a grant with minimal engagement. Applicants were directed to obtain the application and instructions through the download page using the CFDA number. For questions or difficulties accessing the announcement, the NOFA listed Julie Hovden, Director of the Technical Assistance Division at HUD Headquarters, as the point of contact (Julie.D.Hovden@hud.gov), and provided the Federal Relay Service number (800-877-8339) for applicants with hearing or speech impairments.

In practical terms, this NOFA aimed to rebuild and modernize local capacity to run CPD programs effectively at a time when many jurisdictions faced staffing and resource constraints. It sought providers who could help grantees strengthen internal systems, improve compliance, and deliver stronger community outcomes, while also creating consistent training content that could raise baseline competency across the field in core risk and performance areas like financing, environmental compliance, asset management, and construction oversight.

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