00-2044. Announcement of Funding Awards for the Youthbuild Program, Fiscal Year 1999

AGENCY:

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

ACTION:

Notice of funding awards.

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 Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for the Youthbuild Program. This announcement contains the names of the awardees and the amounts of the awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Donner Buchet, Director, Community and Economic Development Services, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410; telephone [phone] (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing-and speech-impaired persons may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service toll-free at 1-800-877-8339. For general information on this and other HUD programs, call Community Connections at 1-800-998-9999 or visit the HUD Website at http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Youthbuild Program was enacted in 1992 and is authorized under Subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing (the Act), as added by section 164 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102-550, 106 Stat. 3723, 42 U.S.C. 12899. The competition was announced in the SuperNOFA published in the Federal Register on February 26, 1999. Applications were rated and selected for funding on the basis of selection criteria contained in that Notice.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program is 14.243.

The Youthbuild Program is designed to provide disadvantaged young adults with education, employment, and leadership skills. Youthbuild provides funding to local private and public non-profit agencies, State or local housing agencies or authorities, State or local units of general local government, or any entity eligible to provide education and employment training under other Federal employment training programs, as further defined in HUD regulation 24 CFR 585.4. With HUD and other private and public funds, eligible agencies and organizations assist disadvantaged young adults between the ages of 16-24 years in completing their high school education, and provide them with construction and leadership skills to further their opportunities for gainful employment.

A total of $39,789,726 was awarded to 88 projects 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 grantees and amounts of the awards in Appendix A to this document.

Dated: January 18, 2000.

Cardell Cooper,

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.

Appendix A_FY 1999 Youthbuild Competitive Grants

State and city	Grant	Applicant
Alabama:
Birmingham	300,000	Birmingham Health Care for the Homeless.
Mobile	300,000	Mobile Housing Board.
Arizona: West Memphis	350,000	Mid-South Community College.
Arizona:
Guadalupe	399,950	Town of Guadalupe.
Phoenix	650,000	City of Phoenix.
California:
Fresno	400,000	Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission.
Gardena	650,000	Century Center for Economic Opportunity (CCEO).
Los Angeles	650,000	Youth Employment Systems, Inc.
Los Angeles	650,000	Pacific Asian Consortium In Employment.
Menlo Park	299,990	Opportunities Industrialization Center West, Inc.
Richmond	400,000	City of Richmond.
Riverside	300,000	Ujima (People Helping People) Inc.
Sacramento	650,000	Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency.
San Francisco	300,000	Asian Neighborhood Design, Inc.
San Francisco	400,000	San Francisco Conservation Corps.
Santa Rosa	400,000	Sonoma County People for Economic Opportunity.
Sun Valley	650,000	Community Partnership Development Corporation.
Venice	400,000	Venice Community Housing Corporation.
Colorado: Ignacio	336,285	Southern Ute Community Action Programs, Inc.
Connecticut:
Hartford	650,000	Co-Opportunity, Inc.
New Britain	400,000	New Britain.
District Columbia:
Washington	399,890	Latin American Youth Center.
Washington	400,000	Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc.
Washington	650,000	ARCH Training Center, Inc.
Florida:
Clearwater	400,000	Career Options of Pinellas, Inc.
Gainesville	400,000	Gainesville Housing Authority.
Miami	300,000	YWCA of Greater Miami & Dade Co.
Georgia: Marietta	299,985	Cobb Housing, Inc.
Hawaii: Honolulu	350,000	City & County of Honolulu.
Idaho: Nampa	193,756	Nampa Community Based Development Organization.
Illinois:
Bloomington	400,000	YouthBuild McLean County.
East Saint Louis	300,000	Emerson Park Development Corporation.
Rockford	650,000	Comprehensive Community Solutions, Inc.
Indiana: Gary	400,000	Tree of Life Community Development Corp. & Care Cent.
Kentucky: Lexington	300,000	Comm. Action Council for Lexington-Fayette, Bourbon.
Louisiana: Houma	650,000	Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government.
Massachusetts:
Brockton	400,000	Old Colony Y Services Corporation.
Cambridge	395,485	Just A Start Corporation.
New Bedford	400,000	People Acting in Community Endeavors, Inc.
Roxbury	650,000	Youthbuild Boston, Inc.
Worcester	399,794	Mass. Job Training, Inc.
Maryland:
Baltimore	400,000	The Housing Authority of Baltimore City.
Baltimore	650,000	Community Building In Partnership, Inc.
Maine: Portland	400,000	Portland West Neighborhood Planning Council.
Michigan:
Ann Arbor	400,000	Wastenaw County, Michigan.
Detroit	646,083	Young Detroit Builders.
Minnesota: Chaska	300,000	Carver-Scott Educational Cooperative.
Missouri: Saint Louis	400,000	Housing Authority of St. Louis County.
Mississippi: Moorhead	650,000	Mississippi Delta Community College.
North Carolina: Greensboro	300,000	University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
New Mexico:
Albuquerque	400,000	Youthbuild New Mexico Coalition, Inc.
Taos	400,000	Taos County.
New York:
Albany	650,000	City of Albany.
Bronx	399,964	South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp.
Bronx	400,000	Corporation for Youth Energy Corps. Inc.
Bronx	360,000	Banana Kelly Community Improvement Assoc.
Brooklyn	299,851	Urban Strategies, Inc.
New York	400,000	YMCA of Greater New York.
New York	400,000	Episcopal Social Services, Inc.
New York	650,000	Youth Action Programs & Homes, Inc.
Rochester	350,000	The Urban League of Rochester, N.Y. Inc.
Troy	650,000	Commission on Economic Opportunity for Renss. County.
Utica	400,000	Utica Community Action, Inc.
Ohio:
Dayton	400,000	Improved Solutions for Urban Systems.
McArthur	300,000	Vinton Community Commissioners.
Oklahoma:
Oklahoma City	400,000	City of Oklahoma City.
Tulsa	650,000	Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa.
Oregon:
Corvallis	395,724	Community Services Consortium.
Portland	650,000	City of Portland, Oregon.
Pennsylvania:
Greensburg	650,000	Private Industry Council of Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc.
Philadelphia	399,085	Impact Services Corporation.
Philadelphia	650,000	Phila. Youth for Change Charter School.
Pittsburgh	650,000	Youthbuild Pittsburgh, Inc.
York	650,000	Crispus Attucks Community Development Corp.
Rhode Island: Providence	400,000	Providence Plan.
Tennessee: Memphis	399,945	Tennessee Technology Center at Memphis.
Texas:
Brownsville	400,000	Community Development Corp. of Brownsville.
Crosbyton	300,000	Caprock Community Action Association, Inc.
Harlingen	400,000	Harlingen Community Development Corporation.
Houston	650,000	Houston Community College System.
New Waverly	398,522	Gulf Coast Trades Center.
San Antonio	400,000	George Gervin Youth Center, Inc.
Virginia: Waynesboro	525,417	Waynesboro Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
Vermont: Burlington	400,000	King Street Youth Center
Washington: Tacoma	300,000	Tacoma-Pierce County Employment & Training Consortium.
West Virginia:
Charleston	590,000	Multi-County Community Action Against Poverty, Inc.
Kincaid	650,000	Southern Appalachian Labor School.
Morgantown	400,000	Human Resource Development & Employment, Inc.