Join us for an informative conversation where our Texas Veterans Commission Women Veterans, Entrepreneur and Fund for Veterans Assistance Programs provide viewers with an overview of our programs and how we assist veterans.
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The Texas Veterans Commission’s (TVC) Fund for Veterans Assistance (FVA) awards annual grants to non-profit organizations and local governments who provide a wide range of assistance to veterans and their families ranging from financial to transportation, legal services to family support services and home modification to rental and mortgage assistance. To find services available in your area, click on FVA.
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FVA staff will conduct a workshop for newly awarded grantees in the Houston area, introducing them to the policies and procedures used to manage FVA grants. Attendees will learn about how to work with the Grant Officer, how to acknowledge and promote the grant (and why), walk through GovGrants with a Grant Officer, and ask questions of TVC staff.
Open to FVA grantees in the Houston area who were just awarded their first grant, or whose last grant was prior ...
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The Fund for Veterans’ Assistance staff has published Grant Application and Award Policies (“Policies”) and the Expenditure Supporting Document Policy (“SDP”) to support awarded grantees in the 2019-2020 grant year. The Tables of Contents for both documents are reproduced below.
Click on the name of the document you wish to view below, and the PDF will open in a new browser window.
*All grantees are expected to spend 70% of their award funds and serve 70% of their veterans by the end of the third quarter grant period. Grantees not meeting benchmarks were notified of these compliance issues by hard copy letter in mid-February 2019.
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Continue Reading*All grantees are expected to spend 70% of their award funds and serve 70% of their veterans by the end of the third quarter grant period.
Grantees not meeting benchmarks were notified of these compliance issues by hard copy letter in mid-February 2019.
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Featured Photo Background Source: The U.S. Army, “Green Light, Go!” on Flickr. Creative Commons license, Attribution Required.
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The FVA Advisory Committee met on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 to discuss and/or act on recommendations for awards in the 2019-2020 funding cycle. Committee members met in an open public meeting from Austin.
The video of that meeting have been posted here and on TVC’s YouTube channel.
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Featured Photo Source: FVA Advisory Committee, All Rights Reserved.
Continue ReadingFVA Advisory Committee members will meet in Austin to discuss and vote on funding recommendations for the 2019-2020 grants cycle.
This meeting is open to the public, and a video of the proceedings will be posted to TVC’s YouTube account within two weeks of adjournment.
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Q: Our organization has several offices across several counties using the same EIN and DUNS. We have an active grant in city A. Now, the office in city B would like to start offering these services in a new area. Can we apply for a separate grant in the same category for the two separate offices?
A: No. All offices and locations of an organization that share the same EIN and DUNs must apply for grants as one unified organization (See ...
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