What I actually do
I write the application. The need narrative, the housing and demographic data tables with cited sources, the budget worksheet that clears HUD's own ratios, the capacity narrative, the partner letter templates, and the checklist of what only you can supply.
You verify the facts, get it signed, and submit it. It is your application and your program.
What I do not do
- I do not submit it for you. The applicant of record signs and files.
- I do not take a fee, a percentage, or a cut of the award.
- I do not get written into your budget as a required vendor. Any equipment or supplies your program buys goes through your own open procurement.
- I cannot tell you in advance whether you will be funded. Nobody can.
What happens after you send this
- I check the things that decide whether August 31 is realistic: your SAM.gov registration, which program fits, and whether your county's numbers score.
- I send you a short list of what only your organization can supply, usually the board authorization, your audit, and child blood-lead numbers from a health department.
- I draft the application and send it to you to verify. Every number is cited so you can check it.
- You sign and submit. If it is too late for this round, the same draft carries to the next one, and those come around every year.
Tell me about your organization
Nothing here commits you to anything.
Disclosure. I make lead test kits, so I have a commercial interest in more
lead programs existing. The application help is free and there are no strings on it. If a
program wants to count donated test kits toward its leverage requirement, they are valued at
fair market value like any other in-kind contribution, and the remediation work itself goes out
through the applicant's own competitive procurement, not to me.