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Community Development Block Grants - Alaska

Alaska Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) goals include: 1) Providing financial assistance to Alaskan communities for projects and planning activities addressing issues detrimental to public health and safety; and 2) Reducing essential community service costs.

CDBG competitive grants are single-purpose project grants with a maximum award of $850,000 per community. Funds can be used to support the following National and State of Alaska Objectives:

  • housing,
  • aid in prevention and elimination of slum and blight,
  • to meet an urgent need,
  • a variety of public facility, public improvement to benefit low- and moderate-income persons, and
  • special economic development projects primarily in rural communities with a minimum of 51% of low-and moderate-income persons.

Specific projects will be determined by a competitive application process focusing on improving self-sufficiency, eliminating public health and safety hazards, and reducing the costs of essential community services.

The Alaska CDBG Program is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Approximately $2.5 million is available for competitive grants for the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2025 grant cycle.

Any Alaskan municipal government (except Anchorage) is eligible to apply for the grant. Non-profits may apply as co-applicants for these pass-through funds. Municipalities and/or municipalities and boroughs applying together may apply as joint applicants.

Applications are distributed to municipalities in late fall and due in early December. Awards are made the following spring. Federal regulations require 51 percent of persons benefitting from a CDBG funded project be low- and moderate-income persons as defined by HUD.

Federal Fiscal Year 2025 solicitation application materials are now available online through our DGMS Portal.

DGMS Portal

Note: the application must be completed within the DGMS system and all supporting documents uploaded with the application. DCRA is no longer accepting paper applications. If you need assistance please contact CAA@alaska.gov.

ATTENTION: You MUST download the PDF to your computer BEFORE you begin filling it in to save your information. Application documents are provided as fillable PDF forms. Some sections are limited by the number of characters and additional pages will be necessary.

FFY 2025 CDBG Solicitation - Application Handbook, Instructions Application Handbook
FFY 2025 CDBG - Appendix Packet Appendix Packet
FFY 2025 CDBG - Fillable Appendix Fillable Appendix
FFY 2025 CDBG - Notice of Intent to submit CDBG Application Notice of Intent

Grant Related Resources

For more information about CDBG Grants contact

Division of Community and Regional Affairs
Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Location: Anchorage
Phone: (907) 269-7906
e-mail:CAA@alaska.gov

Revised 09/29/2025