Gulf Coast Partnership Membership Invitation
August 9, 2019 You are invited to become a member of the Gulf Coast Partnership Continuum of Care! Historically, under the McKinney Vento Act the Continuum of Care (CoC) was a local network that plans and coordinates funding for services and housing to assist homeless individuals and families. With the enactment of the...
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The Gulf Coast Partnership has created a survey to solicit and consider opinions from individuals and organizations with knowledge of homelessness in Charlotte County or an interest in preventing or ending homelessness in Charlotte County. The survey is short and will take between 2-5 minutes. Take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2019_GCP_Homelessness_Survey...
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NOFA RFP General Information Updates
August 7, 2019 Good Afternoon, THE GULF COAST PARTNERSHIP IS ACCEPTING AND CONSIDERING PROPOSALS FROM ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED HUD COC FUNDING FOR THE CURRENT HUD NOTICE OF FUNDING (NOFA) 2019 Information on the current NOFA can be found here: https://gulfcoastpartnership.org/nofa/ Also, we at the GCP want to make sure that...
Read More July 15, 2019 Notice of Funding Availability Update
July 15, 2019 Please visit https://gulfcoastpartnership.org/nofa/ for additional documents recently added to our Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) page including our updated timeline.
Read More 2019 HUD Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) Timeline
July 11, 2019 Gulf Coast Partnership HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Request for Project Applications (RFA) – 2019 Timeline July 3, 2019 – FY2019 HUD Continuum of Care Program Competition NOFA will be posted emailed to the Continuum of Care. July 11, 2019 – Gulf Coast Partnership 2019 HUD Continuum of Care (CoC)...
Read More 2019 HUD Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
July 11, 2019 Click the PDF thumbnail to download the FY2019 CoC Program Competition Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
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Homeless Systems Training, May 23, 2019
April 29, 2019 JOIN US AT Charlotte Community Foundation 227 Sullivan Street Punta Gorda, FL 33950 Description The Gulf Coast Partnership will be hosting an all day Homeless Systems training event for all Community Partners, staff, volunteers, and board members working with Charlotte County's homeless community members on Thursday, May 23, 2019...
Read More GCP State Grant Award Announcement
March 15, 2019 Stakeholders and Community Partners, All of us at the GCP are excited to announce the 2019 – 2022 State grant funding level and agency recommendations. The review committee had a tough job and we are happy to see new agencies represented. I will be reaching out to each agency to...
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***NOTICE*** Revised RFP Timeline
March 7, 2019 The only change being made is to the Timeline (RFP Page 5) regarding Extending the Scoring Period and Date of Announcement for Notification of Project Selection. Timeline Request for Funding Proposals (RFP) Released January 29, 2019 State of Florida, Department of Children & Families, Office on Homelessness Solicitation Conference Call...
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The One Charlotte Dashboard is a data visualization tool that shows the current state of the coordinated entry process in Charlotte County. Coordinated entry is the process of providing access, assessment, prioritization, and referral of persons experiencing homelessness to housing. The data is pulled from the local Community Information System...
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CIS Data Quality as of March 6, 2019
March 6, 2019 Data quality reports are generated from the Gulf Coast Partnership's Community Information System (CIS). These reports provide a snapshot of the quality of data being entered into the county wide database used to help us prevent and end homelessness in Charlotte County. The reports are broken down by agency and...
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2019-2021 STATE FUNDING REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (19-21 RFP)
February 14, 2019 The 19-21 RFP is focused on improving the quality and capacity of the Charlotte County Continuum of Care’s Homeless Response System. Click the image below to view the full presentation
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Thank You To All Who Attended The 2019 Leader Award Breakfast!
February 4, 2019 Thank you to our sponsors: WellCare Health Plans, Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Charlotte Behavioral Health Care, Virginia B. Andes Volunteer Community Clinic, Grafico Industries, Charlotte Community Foundation, and the Gulf Coast Community Foundation. Thank you to our partners: Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce and Charlotte County Economic Development. Thank...
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2019 Leader Award Winners!
January 31, 2019 The Gulf Coast Partnership would like to extend a special thank you to our sponsors: WellCare Health Plans, Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Charlotte Behavioral Health Care, Virginia B. Andes Volunteer Community Clinic, Grafico Industries, Charlotte Community Foundation, and the Gulf Coast Community Foundation. Annual Breakfast and Community Leader Awards...
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RFP for State Funding Issued
January 29, 2019 GCP Stakeholders, The Gulf Coast Partnership – Request for Proposals (RFP) for State Funding issued. Please find the document attached. Feel free to share with anyone who may be interested. Thank you, Angie Click to expand document
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Homeless Count reveals Charlotte’s invisible population
January 27, 2019 By RUSTY PRAY Sun Correspondent - Detective Matt Woelk was on the hunt for Jimmy. The Punta Gorda Police Department officer was taking part Thursday in the Point in Time Homeless Count with Lt. Justin Davoult and two volunteers. Woelk met Jimmy a few times and had developed a soft...
Read More 2019 Community Leader Award Winners Announced!
January 22, 2019 Join fellow community leaders at the Annual Breakfast and Leader Awards hosted by Gulf Coast Partnership & Together Charlotte! WHEN: Friday, February 1st from 8AM-10AM WHERE: Isles Yacht Club - 1780 West Marion Avenue, Punta Gorda, FL 33950 (View Map) What: Once a year, the Gulf Coast Partnership accepts nominations...
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Understanding our ‘shadow population’
January 19, 2019 Volunteers prepare to count homeless people in the community By RUSTY PRAY SUN CORRESPONDENT It’s about more than counting heads. The Point in Time Homeless Count, scheduled for the evening of Jan. 23 and the morning of Jan. 24, is a full survey of the sheltered and unsheltered homeless population...
Read More HUD is trying to help thousands of low-income renters amid shutdown
January 14, 2019 The Department of Housing and Urban Development is hoping to find roughly $15 million to renew 170 contracts with private building owners who rent to poor Americans. HUD is hoping to use existing funds to renew the contracts, which expired prior to last month's partial government shutdown. The shutdown has...
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2018 Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day Vigil
January 9, 2019 Last month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress which stated that on a single night in 2018, approximately 552,830 individuals across the country were identified as experiencing homelessness, a 0.3 percent increase from the previous year. Sadly,...
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