2024 VB Home Now Grants

VB Home Now is accepting proposals from organizations that assist families and individuals experiencing homelessness or a housing crisis in Virginia Beach. Donor Name: VB Home Now State: County: All Counties Type of Grant: Grant Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 08/30/2024 Size of the Grant: Not Available Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year Details: VB Home Now is a nonprofit organization formed to support and enhance community system of services, programs, and facilities aimed toward preventing and ending homelessness. Their mission is to mobilize the community to help the neediest among them. For over thirty years, the Virginia Beach community has been committed to make homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring through a guild of nonprofit, faithbased and city organizations collaboration. VB Home Now supports causes that will have the greatest impact on those persons in community experiencing a housing crisis. VB Home Now is leading the fundraising campaign to support the work at the Housing Resource Center and impact the lives of the people who will be assisted there. They strongly believe in the BEACH Community Partnership vision: Their city, their homeless, and their shared responsibility. Specifically, the foundation is seeking innovative projects that contribute to the Virginia Beach homeless service system and will prioritize funding requests that provide resources, create partnerships, and address gaps within  community that directly impact the homeless and at-risk populations. Funding Priority and Principles VB Home Now prioritizes requests for funding that provides resources, creates partnerships, aides in, and addresses gaps within community directly impacting those individuals experiencing a housing crisis. Specifically, they are looking for innovative projects that contribute to the Virginia Beach homeless services system, making homelessness rare, brief and nonrecurring: To make homelessness rare they will need to strengthen the homeless response system’s capacity to prevent as many households from experiencing homelessness by investing in programs that provide prevention services. Prevention services include the provision of financial assistance and a moderate level of case management to households who are experiencing a financial housing crisis and are most vulnerable to experiencing homelessness. Reduce the length of time households experience homelessness will advance the goal of making homelessness brief. Currently, the average length of time households experience homelessness after connecting with system is 160 days. The goal is to reduce the time to 90 days. Additional investments in long and short-term housing subsidy programs are critical to increasing the system’s capacity to end a household’s episode of homelessness in the quickest amount of time. Project Period January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025. Geographic Focus VB Home Now welcomes funding requests from organizations serving residents within the city of Virginia Beach. For more information, visit VB Home Now.