Alaska Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)

Alaska CDBG

Supports Alaskan municipalities addressing housing, public facilities, and urgent community development needs.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The Alaska Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) programme is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) federal pass-through administered by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (DCCED) through its Division of Community and Regional Affairs (DCRA). The programme provides competitive grants to Alaskan municipal governments for community development projects addressing public health, safety, essential services, housing, slum and blight elimination, urgent community needs, public facilities, and special economic development in rural communities. In Federal Fiscal Year 2025, approximately $2.5 million was available for competitive awards. The maximum award per community is $850,000, structured as a single-purpose project grant.

Eligible applicants are Alaskan municipal governments, with the explicit exclusion of Anchorage, which receives CDBG funding directly as a HUD entitlement community. Non-profit organisations may participate as co-applicants alongside a municipal government but cannot apply independently. Municipalities and boroughs may also submit joint applications. The mandatory HUD eligibility threshold requires that at least 51% of the project's beneficiaries be low- and moderate-income persons. The FFY2025 application cycle used a distribution timeline of late fall, a deadline in early December, and award notifications the following spring, with all submissions made exclusively through the DGMS online portal.

The FFY2025 cycle is closed. The next competitive cycle for municipalities is expected to open late fall 2026 for FFY2027 funding, following the programme's firmly annual cadence. Contact for the programme is Amy Marshall at amy.marshall@alaska.gov, (907) 269-0376. To compete successfully, municipalities should identify a single-purpose project with a defined scope, demonstrate that the target beneficiary population meets the 51% low-and-moderate-income threshold, and prepare DGMS Portal documentation well in advance of the early-December deadline. Rural municipalities with limited alternative funding sources and significant infrastructure needs are the programme's most competitive applicant profile.