OAR 813-047-0020: Grant

(1) The Department will confirm to the applicant in writing the amount of assistance, if any, to be provided from the Program. In the grant award letter, the Department will inform grant recipients of their eligibility to apply for additional grant funding from the Program within the same biennium. A grant is awarded subject to execution by the grant recipient and the Department of a grant award contract in form and substance satisfactory to the Department and such other documents as the Department considers appropriate or necessary to evidence the type and amount of assistance provided. (2) Grant funds will be used: (a) In the case of Initial Planning Grants, to provide funds for the purpose of payment of rent, staff salaries and benefits, office supplies and expenses, legal fees, filing fees, and other such expenses incurred by or on behalf of a CBO during its initial planning phase; (b) In the case of Capacity Building Grants, to provide funds for the purpose of payment of expenses incurred by or on behalf of a CBO for development or expansion of projects or programs, or expanding the organizational capacity of a CBO, such as expenses for additional staff, training, or capital outlay; and (c) In the case of Human Investment Strategies Grants, to provide funds for training and employment programs directly involved with the delivery of Community-Based Social Services (including, but not limited to, early childhood development, health care, services for the elderly, services for youth, services for substances abuse, and services for the developmentally disabled) to residents of a Targeted Area; additional staff for the development of a Human Investment Strategies Grant project; expanding a CBO’s organizational capacity to administer a Human Investment Strategies Grant; and overhead, training, or capital outlay costs associated with the development of a Human Investment Strategies Grant project. (3) The Department may establish such performance criteria, reporting requirements, termination provisions, remedies, including but not limited to suspension or termination of funding, and any other terms and conditions as the Department considers appropriate or necessary for the type and use of assistance provided.