Chairman Cole Dear Colleague on FY25 Community Project Funding Request Guidance
Dear Colleague,
I am pleased to provide additional information for the Fiscal Year 2025 House appropriations process.
Earlier this month, the Committee released programmatic and language request guidance and opened the Committee’s database to receive those requests.
As of today, Members can begin submitting Community Project Funding requests to the Committee.
Per the GOP Conference’s decision to maintain Community Project Funding for the 118th Congress and our short timeline to draft and consider next year’s bills, the Committee is maintaining similar eligible program accounts and full committee guidance for Fiscal Year 2025 Community Project Funding.
One notable change is that non-profits are no longer eligible for Community Project Funding in the Economic Development Initiative (EDI) account. Similar to previous reforms made in this Congress, this change aims to ensure projects are consistent with the community development goals of the federal program.
Bill-specific Community Project Funding guidance is available here.
The deadlines this year are especially tight, given our short timeline to consider bills:
- Next Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. EST for programmatic and language requests.
- Next Friday, May 3, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. EST for Community Project Funding requests.
- Friday, May 17, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. EST for Members to post Community Project Funding requests on their websites, following a 2-week technical assistance period.
The Committee will offer general training sessions for staff on how to enter requests into the database. on Friday, April 26, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. EST and Monday, April 29, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. EST. Please use Committee staff as a resource to assist you and your office throughout the process.
I look forward to working with you during the Fiscal Year 2025 process.
Tom Cole
Chairman
Committee on Appropriations