Whole Community Resilience Planning Program: Program Development, Strategy, and Capacity Building
Foundation for Puerto Rico
The Challenge:
To help Puerto Rican communities better withstand future natural disasters
Our Strategy:
In 2020, Ochoa Urban Collaborative provided advice and strategy in the development of program guidelines and the Request for Proposal for the Whole Community Resilience Program, a CDBG-DR funded program of the Puerto Rico Department of Housing (PRDOH) in the wake of Hurricanes Maria and Irma. The Whole Community Resilience Program is a competitive planning grant for communities to develop planning goals and actions that include infrastructure projects that will help communities better withstand future natural disasters. The Foundation for Puerto Rico is a non-profit whose mission is transformative economic development for the island. OUC also provided training in federal procurement and cross-cutting regulations as well as HUD CDBG-DR program regulations.
Progress to date:
OUC provided advice to the Foundation for Puerto Rico on renegotiating their role in managing the program
The program launched in June 2021. Applications were submitted in November 2021 with an expected announcement of grantees in March 2022.
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