Southeastern Vermont Community Action is slated to receive a $50,000 grant to help extend its successful Emergency Home Repair program.
SEVCA started the program last year with stimulus money to help low-income home owners make small repairs to their properties.
“This is a huge, huge bonus for us,” said SEVCA Development Director Lisa Clarke. “This was a very competitive grant and it tells us that this is a worthy program to invest in.”
The repairs often helped the community organization move ahead with insulation work and last year 79 projects were paid for with the ARRA money. The federal stimulus funds had to be used up last month and before receiving the grant SEVCA was in danger of having to turn down requests for the emergency home repair projects.
Now, according to Clarke, the nonprofit organization can begin to process claims for people who are already backed up on a waiting list.