Community And Agency Grant Opportunities

Residential Emergency Services to Offer Home Repairs to the Elderly (RESTORE)
http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ocd/progs/restore/ocdprgre.htm
Home Depot Building Grants
http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/
NYS Governor's Office for Small Cities - Block Grants
http://www.nysmallcities.com/default.asp
Rural Housing and Economic Development Grants
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rhed/index.cfm
Weatherization Assistance Program
http://www.npcnys.org/Public/State/stateWAP.htm
FEMA Money for Organizations
From a friend who worked FEMA during Katrina:

They may be eligible for FEMA disaster assistance grants if they had losses or responded to the flood. This includes operation expenses for vehicles as well as use of a building for a POD (point of distribution). The trick is that they have to file a request for public assistance with FEMA. They are supposed to ask for help. FEMA is not going to come around and ask. At least they didn’t down the road. Had I not done something no one would have gotten a nickel. All expenses need to be documented. Keep track of hours of use daily. It’s a minor record keeping that will yield good dividends.

Volunteer Fire Departments
The NVFC Volunteer Firefighter Support Fund provides a stipend of up to $250 in individual assistance to volunteer firefighters who are affected by a disaster. Volunteer firefighters in need should contact their state fire association. A full list of NVFC state fire associations can be found at www.nvfc.org/links.html#State_Members, or contact NVFC at nvfcoffice@nvfc.org or 888-ASK-NVFC (275-6832).

None of these are for individuals, but only for communities and not for profit organizations.

Individual grants are the slowest to be approved. Those from Katrina are still trickling in. I will continue looking for individual grants throughout the following YEAR - for it will take that long for many of them to become available.