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2005 AFGP

Press Release From CHIEF Grants
Fire & EMS: Did You Receive a Letter from USFA about 2005 AFGP?
Originally Published on CHIEF Grants, May 26, 2005

Check your mail, your AFGP application login, and your email – do you have an inquiry letter from the USFA? If you do, your department may be about to win an AFGP grant. Here's what to do now.

Many departments have reported receiving their initial inquiry letter from the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), requesting confirmation of contact details, banking information, and whether or not the department still wants a grant under the 2005 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFGP).

While not an official indicator, this letter is usually an advance sign that the department's application is about to be approved for funding.

Respond to the USFA Letter Immediately
If your department applied for 2005 AFGP, it is important that you log in to your application and check for messages from USFA. Also check the email address you listed on your AFGP application for any email announcements pertaining to receipt of this letter.

Respond to any of these USFA communications immediately and confirm your department's contact and banking information, and verify that your department still wants a 2005 AFGP grant.

Get a Letter? Call Kurt
If your department received a letter, please let CHIEF Grants Consultant Kurt Bradley know: call (800) 992-0272.

Catch up on Your Past AFGP Grant Reporting
Did you department receive an AFGP grant between 2002-2004? If you have not filed closing reports or interim reports (for 2004 AFGP grants), you need to do as soon as possible. Until reports for all past awards have been filed and the previous grants closed out, DHS and USFA will not release a 2005 grant award to your department.

According to FEMA regional offices, many departments are delinquent in their grant reporting (including 175 delinquent departments in North Carolina alone). This is a "cardinal sin" in the world of grants – as with anything else, "the job's not over until the paperwork is done."

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