8365 - Flagship Training Grant
Funding Opportunity Details

06 Network Capacity Support

Final Application Deadline: Feb 26, 2026 11:59 PM

Description

• Notice of Funding Opportunity:

  Capacity Building Flagship Training Grant

  November 2025

   

  Funding Purpose:

  The Capacity Building Flagship Training Grant program seeks to expand the Virginia Housing Capacity Building Training Grant to support annual participation in high-impact leadership and developer training programs. These trainings must align with the grant’s mission to enhance professional and leadership development across Virginia’s housing and community development network.  This program is designed to:

  • Deliver structured, curriculum-based learning
  • Provide coaching, technical assistance, and peer networking
  • Address sector-wide leadership and development gaps

  Flagship Training Grant requests may not exceed:

  • $250,000 for statewide trainings
  • $150,000 for regional trainings

  Eligibility Criteria:

  • Eligible applicants must be a non-profit organization, unit of local government, or quasi-governmental organization. 
  • Organizations must be based in Virginia, unless the following conditions apply:
    1. Organization has a physical office in Virginia.
    2. Organization provides significant services in Virginia.
  • Training must be related to carrying out at least one of the following housing-related focuses.  This relationship may be secondary, such as training impacting an organizations overall capacity, if the organization addresses one or more of these focuses.
    1. Creating economically integrated and inclusive housing opportunities including housing options for people with disabilities.
    2. Planning and Community Development to include significant attention to housing planning needs throughout Virginia.
    3. Providing services and/or educational opportunities in order to further affordable housing.

  Program Parameters:

  • An applicant is limited to one Flagship Training Grant application per round of funding.

  • Funds will be awarded under an annual competitive round of funding. The budget and period of performance for this grant is 18 months from the grant award.

  • Trainings must target a statewide audience or a regional audience. Regional requests must target a specific, large geographic region (for example, Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads). A single city and the surrounding county do not qualify as regional.

  • Funds will not support membership associations to bring in conference speakers.

  • Virginia Housing does not expect to be the sole funder of the training. Grantees will be required to provide documentation of other funds in the project. Other funds supporting the project will be considered as a scoring criterion.

  Proposals received for Flagship Training Grants will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  • Alignment with Virginia Housing strategic priorities
  • Demonstrated history of impact of the training focus
  • Geographic and demographic reach of the intended audience
  • Organizational capacity to deliver training at scale
  • Outcome: Specific identified outcomes from the successful completion of the project.
  • Plan for evaluation of the training that assesses the effectiveness of the delivery and makes recommendations for improvement.