FY26 CoC New Projects Application

Anchorage CoC (AK-500) FY26 HUD Continuum of Care

New Project Application

NOFO Release Date: Monday, June 1, 2026
Project Application Release Date: Monday, June 15, 2026
Project Application Due Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 5 p.m.

Complete this application to submit your new project for FY 2026 Continuum of Care Competition consideration. Please answer all applicable questions; fields are optional unless marked as required.

Please fill out this application to the best of your knowledge. If you miss a relevant field you will be asked to address it before acceptance. Please submit questions to grants@aceh.org before a question becomes an issue

Competition Information

HUD CoC Local Competition NOFO
The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness (ACEH) is soliciting Local Project Applications for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Continuum of Care (CoC) Grant Program funding competition.

Project Threshold Requirements
Please carefully review the project threshold requirements in the NOFO (view here) for your project type. Projects that do not meet the threshold requirements will not be selected for funding. This application will ask for details of how your project meets these requirements.

If you have questions regarding these requirements please reach out to us at grants@aceh.org.

Application Information
Questions and scoring will be aligned with the HUD NOFO requirements. Please reach out with any questions: grants@aceh.org.

Application Support
Application support will be offered via Teams on June 17 and 24 at 10 a.m. Find the links to these meetings here. Please send all questions regarding the application process to this ACEH email: grants@aceh.org.

Application Deadline
The FY26 CoC Project Application Packet is due to ACEH on July 7, 2026, 5 p.m. If an agency is applying for more than one project, each project requires a separate project application form. For questions and application submission, please email to: grants@aceh.org. A complete application packet will include:
- A completed New Project Application (this form)
- Verification of 25% cash or in-kind match
- Project Budget
- MOUs or Written Agreements with partners providing services, if applicable
- 501(c)3 IRS Determination Letter (if applicable)
- Organization Code of Conduct

Organization Information
Agency/Organization Name
Employer Identification Number (EIN)
Unique Entity ID (UEI)
Administrative Address

Street Address

Street Address Line 2
CityState / ProvincePostal / Zip Code
Organization Phone
Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
Organization Fax
Website
Authorizing Official

First NameLast Name
Authorizing Official Phone
Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
Authorizing Official Email
example@example.com
Primary Contact Information

Please list below the names and contact information for those staff who should receive correspondence regarding this proposal in addition to the Executive Director.
Primary Contact Name

First NameLast Name
Primary Contact Title
Primary Contact Phone
Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
Primary Contact Email
example@example.com
Secondary Contact Name

First NameLast Name
Secondary Contact Title
Secondary Contact Phone
Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
Secondary Contact Email
example@example.com
Authorization - Printed Name / Title

Project Component Type

Important note: Only fill out one of the project types below.

Total Number of Units
Total Number of Beds
Housing Type

Household Characteristics

Rows	Adult households without minors	Households with 1+ adult & 1+ minor	TAY	TAY head of household with 1+ minor
Total

Services Type

Transition Grants Only

Important note: This section should only be completed if your organization is submitting a new project application to transition an existing CoC renewal project to a new project component.
Is your organization currently operating a CoC-funded program that is now applying to transition to a new project type under this application?
Existing Project Name (as listed on GIW)
Existing Grant Number (as listed on GIW)
Existing Project Program Type
(this is the project component that you are transitioning from)
New Project Program Type
(this is the project component that you are transitioning to)
Describe in detail how you plan to transition the project from the prior program type to the new program type within one year.

0/2000
Describe how your project will fill an existing gap for the target population and demonstrate clear need for the requested funding.

0/2000

Experience of Applicant
Describe your organization’s experience in working with the proposed population and providing housing or services similar to that proposed in the allocation.

0/2000
Describe your organization’s experience in effectively utilizing federal funds and performing the activities proposed in the application.

0/2000
Include:
- Organization’s experience in leveraging Federal, State, local and private sector funds
- Organization’s financial management structure (functioning accounting system that is operated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or has designated a fiscal agent that will maintain a functioning accounting system for your organization in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and in accordance with the requirements of 2 CFR part 200.)
- Flag any unresolved HUD monitoring or OIG audit findings for any HUD grants under your organization. If unresolved monitoring or audit findings, provide a detailed explanation as to why the monitoring or audit finding(s) remain unresolved and the steps that have or will be taken towards resolution (e.g. responded to the HUD letter, but no final determination received).

Project Description & Design of Housing and Supportive Services
Project Overview

Include information about the project plan for addressing the identified housing and supportive service needs, anticipated project outcome(s), coordination with other programs or organizations and how the CoC Program funding will be used.

The information in this description must align with the information entered in other portions of the application.
Provide an overview of how program participants will be assisted to obtain and remain in permanent housing and gain self-sufficiency:

0/2500
Participation Expectations

An acceptable response will acknowledge the needs of the target population and include a plan that includes service participation requirements, addresses the types of assistance that will be provided by the project applicant, or other partners, to ensure program participants served by this project will move into appropriate permanent housing as well as either remain in or move to other permanent housing once assistance is no longer needed. Additionally, if you will coordinate with other partners, include their role in meeting this criterion. The description should include:
- How you will determine the right type of housing that fit the needs of program participants (this should match the housing type selected when selecting the project type).
- The type of assistance and support you will provide to program participants to overcome challenges to permanent housing (e.g., case management; housing counseling, employment resources).
- How you will work with program participants to set goals towards successful retention of permanent housing.
DV Project Specific:

If this project will exclusively assist survivors of domestic violence, the description must include safety planning addressing the needs of this particular homeless population towards meeting the goal of obtaining and maintaining permanent housing. The response must also include in the description how eligible program participants (paragraph 4 of the homeless definition (24 CFR 578.3)) will be assisted to obtain and remain in permanent housing that addresses their particular needs and includes trauma-informed, survivor-centered approaches.
- Trauma-informed: Approaches delivered with an understanding of the vulnerabilities and experiences in trauma survivors, including the prevalence and physical, social, and emotional impact of trauma. A trauma-informed approach recognizes signs of trauma in staff, clients, and others and responds by integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, practices, and settings. Trauma-informed approaches place priority on reassuring the survivor's feelings of safety, choice, and control.
- Survivor-centered: Placing priorities, needs, and interests at the center of the work with the survivor; providing nonjudgmental assistance, with an emphasis on client self-determination, where appropriate, and assisting survivor's in making informed choices; ensuring that restoring survivor's' feelings of safety and security are a priority and safeguarding against policies and practices that may inadvertently re-traumatize survivors; ensuring that survivor's rights, voices, and perspectives are incorporated when developing and implementing system- and community-based efforts that impact crime survivors.
What percentage of your project will require participation in supportive services? Describe supportive service participation expectations and how individualized service plans support housing stability, recovery, employment/income, and self-sufficiency.

0/2500
Services Coordination

Describe how this project will help program participants obtain the benefits for which they are eligible. Additionally, if you will coordinate with other partners, include their role in meeting this criterion. The description should include:
- Assisting program participants with obtaining and increasing employment income that will lead to successful exits from homelessness (e.g., local employment programs, job training opportunities, educational opportunities).
- The type of mainstream services you will assist program participants with obtaining to increase non-employment income (e.g., SSI; SSDI; Food Stamps, Veterans benefits).
- The type of social services you will provide access and help program participants obtain (e.g., childcare, food assistance, TANF, early childhood education).
- Access to healthcare benefits and resources (e.g., Medicaid, Medicare, healthcare for the homeless, FQHCs).
Describe the specific plan to coordinate and integrate with other mainstream healthcare, social services and employment programs for which program participants may be eligible.

0/2000
For all the supportive services available to program participants, indicate who will provide them and how often they will be provided.

Eligible Support Services
- Additional information can be found about eligible support services per 24 CFR 578.53(a)(1) or on the HUD Exchange: https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/coc-esg-virtual-binders/coc-eligible-activities/supportive-services/
Provider
- Organization indicates the organization providing the service for the applicant.
- Applicant indicates the project applicant providing the service.
- Subrecipient is an agency you pass HUD grant funds to through an agreement or contract so that agency can deliver part of the funded program or services.
- Partner indicates an organization other than a subrecipient of CoC Program funds, but with whom a formal agreement or (MOU) was signed to provide the service.
If more than one provider offers the service equally as often, choose the provider according to the following order: (1) Applicant, (2) Subrecipient, and (3) Partner.

Frequency
- For each supportive service selected, use the dropdown to indicate how often the service is provided to program participants. If two frequencies are equally common, select the interval that is most frequent, (e.g., both weekly and monthly are equally common–select weekly).

Eligible Support Services

Rows	Applicant, Subrecipient or Partner	Organization Name	Frequency
Case Management
Child Care
Coordination of Public Benefits
Education Services*
Employment Assistance
Housing/Counseling Services*
Legal Services
Life Skills*
Mental Health Services*
Outpatient Health Services*
Outreach Services
Substance Use Treatment Services*
Transportation

Certify whether your project will include the following activities:

Transportation assistance to clients to attend mainstream benefit appointments, employment training, or jobs (select if the project provides regular, or as needed transportation assistance to mainstream and community resources, including appointments, employment training, educational programs, and jobs. Transportation assistance may include bus passes, cab vouchers and vehicle owned by the organization, etc.)
If any on the boxes are checked above, explain who will perform the service and how it will be documented

FY26 HUD Priorities
Review the FY 26 HUD Policy Priorities as described in the FY26 CoC NOFO and describe how your project is in alignment with each of these priorities.
Reduction in Homelessness

0/500
Prioritizing Treatment and Recovery

0/500
Advancing Public Safety / Reducing Encampments

0/500
Promoting Self-Sufficiency

0/500
Supportive Service Participation Requirement

0/500
Minimize Trauma for Vulnerable Populations

0/500
Describe plan for assessing workforce development needs regularly and/or connecting residents to specific workforce development resources such as training assistance in job search.

0/1000
Describe how participants will access behavioral health, substance use treatment, recovery supports, peer support, and crisis services. Include whether services are on-site, embedded, mobile, or provided by formal partner agreement.*

* If provided by 3rd party provide signed MOUs/letters of commitment with behavioral health, SUD, detox, crisis, ACT, peer recovery, or primary care providers.0/2000

Program Implementation Work Plan
Describe the activities that the organization will undertake to ensure the project is ready to house and/or serve the first participant within 90 days of the start of the grant award.

0/1000

Project Milestones

Rows	Days from Execution of Grant Agreement
New project staff hired or other expenses begin
Participant enrollment in project begins
Participants move in to units or beds*
Supportive Services at 75% of capacity**
Supportive Services at 100% of capacity**

Project Budget

Applicants must complete the budget table by eligible cost category and line item. In addition to completing the tables on your application, please attach a copy of your anticipated budget for this project in the full application packet. The budget should include any match or leverage that is anticipated for the project and be consistent with the information provided in the tables located in this section.

HUD Requested Budget for Project

Rows	Total
VAWA Expenses
Operations
Building Lease
Rental Assistance
Supportive Services
HMIS
Administrative
Total

HUD Project Funding Request
(Calculate by adding all budget line items above)

Rows	.
Value of Match
Value of Leverage
Percentage

Is this project scale-able? Can it still operate if funded below the full requested amount. If the project can be scaled, describe the minimum amount needed to operate, what services or staffing would change, and how many fewer people or households would be served.

Match & Leverage Details

List all sources of matching funds for this project below and make sure to include appropriate documentation for all match with your application submission according to the specifications in the project application guide.

Note: The CoC Program requires a 25 percent match of the awarded grant amount minus funds for leasing. Cash or in-kind resources will satisfy the match requirement. In-kind match for support services requires a formal memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the agency providing the in-kind service(s) and must establish a system to document the actual value of services provided during the term of the grant.

Complete the following tables below, however you are also required to submit a match commitment letter to this application. In the case where there are in-kind services, the subrecipient may use a letter from the partner agency to document the commitment to provide the in-kind service in advance of executing a formal MOU, for instance, if the subrecipient opts to wait to execute an MOU upon receipt of notification of award from HUD. The MOU may be between a subrecipient and another agency, but the terms must be described in the MOU.

I.e. A $100,000 project requires a minimum of $25,000 in matching funds.

Please reach out to grants@aceh.org if you have any questions or need technical assistance.

Matching Fund Source 1

Rows	Please Provide
Type of Commitment (Cash or In-Kind).
Name the Source of the Commitment (Be as specific as possible and include the office or grant program as applicable).
Date of Written Commitment.
Value of Written Commitment.

Matching Fund Source 2

Rows	Please Provide
Type of Commitment (Cash or In-Kind).
Name the Source of the Commitment (Be as specific as possible and include the office or grant program as applicable).
Date of Written Commitment.
Value of Written Commitment.

Matching Fund Source 3

Rows	Please Provide
Type of Commitment (Cash or In-Kind).
Name the Source of the Commitment (Be as specific as possible and include the office or grant program as applicable).
Date of Written Commitment.
Value of Written Commitment.

Please add additional Sources as needed:
Type of Commitment (Cash or In-Kind):
Name the Source of the Commitment (Be as specific as possible and include the office or grant program as applicable):
Date of Written Commitment:
Value of Written Commitment:

Transitional Housing Only

** Items with asterisks are HUD threshold criteria and projects that do not meet threshold minimums will not move forward. Further, these items will be required by HUD if awarded.
** Describe how the project will provide and/or partner with other organizations to provide eligible supportive services that are necessary to assist program participants to obtain and maintain housing (i.e., case management, behavioral healthcare, employment training, etc.)

0/1000
** Explain your organization’s prior experience operating transitional housing or other projects that have successfully helped homeless individuals and families exit homelessness within 24 months.

0/1000
** Explain whether your organization has previously operated or currently operates transitional housing or another homelessness project, or has a plan in place to ensure, that at least 50 percent of participants exit to permanent housing within 24 months and at least 50 percent of participants exit with employment income as reflected in HMIS or another data system used by the applicant.

0/1000
** Explain how the project will be supplemented with resources from other public or private sources, that may include mainstream health, social, and employment programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, SSI, and SNAP.

0/1000
** Explain how the proposed project will require program participants to take part in supportive services (e.g. case management, employment training, substance use treatment, etc.) in line with 24 CFR 578.75(h) by attaching a supportive service agreement (contract, occupancy agreement, lease, or equivalent).

0/1000
** Will your project participate in the CoC’s HMIS or is the applicant organization a victim service provider, as defined in 24 CFR 578.3 ?

Supportive Services Only – Street Outreach

** Items with asterisks are HUD threshold criteria and projects may be rejected by HUD if not met. Further, these items will be required by HUD if awarded.
** Explain how the project will be supplemented with resources from other public or private sources, that may include mainstream health, social, and employment programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, SSI, and SNAP.

0/1000
** Demonstrate that the proposed project has a strategy for providing supportive services to eligible program participants including those with histories of unsheltered homelessness and those who do not traditionally engage with supportive services.

0/1000
** Demonstrate that your organization has a history of partnering with first responders and law enforcement to engage people living in places not meant for human habitation to access emergency shelter, treatment programs, reunification with family, transitional housing or independent living. The applicant must cooperate, assist, and not interfere or impede with law enforcement to enforce local laws such as public camping and public drug use laws.

MOUs with partners and AMDOT (Anchorage Multi-Disciplinary Outreach Team) are required.0/1000
** Explain how your organization has experience providing outreach services consistent with the activity description at 24 CFR 578.53(e)(13) and has demonstrated effectiveness at helping people successfully exit from places not meant for human habitation to emergency shelter, treatment programs, transitional housing or permanent housing programs.

0/1000

Supportive Services Only - Standalone

** Items with asterisks are HUD threshold criteria and projects may be rejected by HUD if not met. Further, these items will be required by HUD if awarded.
** Demonstrate that the proposed project will require program participants to take part in supportive services (e.g. case management, employment training, substance use treatment, etc.) in line with 24 CFR 578.75(h) by attaching a supportive service agreement (contract, occupancy agreement, lease, or equivalent).

0/1000
** Explain how the Supportive Services project is necessary to assist people in exiting homelessness and increasing self-sufficiency and how your organization will conduct an annual assessment of the service needs of the program participants.

0/1000
** Explain the proposed project strategy for providing supportive services to eligible program participants including those with histories of unsheltered homelessness and those who do not traditionally engage with supportive services.

0/1000
** Explain how the project will be supplemented with resources from other public or private sources, that may include mainstream health, social, and employment programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, SSI, and SNAP

0/1000

Supportive Services Only – Coordinated Entry

** Items with asterisks are HUD threshold criteria and projects may be rejected by HUD if not met. Further, these items will be required by HUD if awarded.
** Explain how the Coordinated Entry system is easily available and reachable for all persons within the CoC’s geographic area who are seeking homelessness assistance. The system must also be accessible for persons with disabilities within the CoC’s geographic area.

0/1000
** Explain the strategy for advertising that is designed specifically to reach households experiencing homelessness with the highest needs.

0/1000
** Describe the use of a standardized assessment process.

0/1000
** Describe how the project will ensure program participants are directed to appropriate housing and services that fit their needs.

0/1000

Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Only

** Items with asterisks are HUD threshold criteria and projects may be rejected by HUD if not met. Further, these items will be required by HUD if awarded.
Describe how the HMIS funds will be expended in a way that furthers the CoC's HMIS implementation.

0/1000
Will the HMIS collect all Universal Data Elements as set forth in the HMIS Data Standards?
Will the HMIS have the ability to un-duplicate client records?
The HMIS produces all HUD-required reports and provides data as needed for HUD reporting (e.g., APR, quarterly reports, data for CAPER reporting) and other reports required by other federal partners.

Required Attachments

Applicants should upload all applicable required attachments before submitting the application. If you prefer to email the attachments send them to grants@aceh.org.

A complete application packet may include, as applicable:
- Completed application form (online or PDF)
- Project Budget
- Verification of 25% cash or in-kind match
- Match commitment letters or in-kind letter
- MOUs or written agreements with partners providing services, if applicable
- MOU with AMDOT, if outreach project
- Supportive service agreement, if applicable
- Behavioral health, substance use treatment, recovery, crisis, ACT, peer recovery, or primary care partner agreements, if applicable
- 501(c)(3) IRS Determination Letter, if applicable
- Organization Code of Conduct
Attachments should be clearly named. A recommended naming convention is:
Organization Name_Project Name_Attachment Type

Example:
ABC Services_Street Outreach Project_Match Letter
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Anchorage CoC (AK-500) FY26 HUD Continuum of Care

New Project Application

Please fill out this application to the best of your knowledge. If you miss a relevant field you will be asked to address it before acceptance. Please submit questions to grants@aceh.org before a question becomes an issue

Competition Information

Organization Information

Primary Contact Information

Organization & Proposal Information

Project Component Type

Transition Grants Only

Experience of Applicant

Project Description & Design of Housing and Supportive Services

Project Overview

Participation Expectations

Services Coordination

FY26 HUD Priorities

Program Implementation Work Plan

Project Budget

Match & Leverage Details

Transitional Housing Only

Supportive Services Only – Street Outreach

Supportive Services Only - Standalone

Supportive Services Only – Coordinated Entry

Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Only

Required Attachments

Local Application Certification