Coordinated Funding
Coordinated funding describes the Greater Richmond Continuum of Care’s (GRCoC) community-based process for planning, prioritizing, and distributing homelessness funding to support housing and services across the region. Through this process, community partners collaborate to align investments with local needs, funding requirements, and shared goals for preventing and ending homelessness. The GRCoC coordinates local funding processes for both federal and state homelessness funding opportunities.
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) solicits applications from communities to address the needs of those experiencing homelessness through a process called the Continuum of Care Program (CoC). View HUD CoC Funding Process. Click here for information on HUD funding programs targeted to fight homelessness.
Similarly, the Virginia Homeless Solutions Program (VHSP) is a state- and federally-funded program to support Continuum of Care (CoC) strategies and homeless service and prevention programs. Click here to view the VHSP Funding Process.
Both of these grant processes include the need for a collaborative application with supporting materials that are reviewed by our GRCoC Ranking Committee. The Ranking Committee uses the GRCoC Funding Priorities to guide it's decisions
New to Coordinated Funding? Start here to begin understanding the process.
GRCoC Funding Priorities & Investment Strategy
Each year, the Greater Richmond Continuum of Care (GRCoC) establishes local priorities to guide the allocation of approximately nine million dollars in federal and state funding for programs working to end homelessness in the region. This funding is made available annually through coordinated processes led by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), which rely on the data-driven Continuum of Care system.
GRCoC’s funding priorities are grounded in local needs and shaped by:
- Input from people currently experiencing or with lived experience of homelessness,
- Performance measures and gaps analysis using data from the Homeward Community Information System (HCIS),
- Federal and state policy priorities, including the HEARTH Act and Virginia Homeless Solutions Program (VHSP) guidelines.
Additionally, the GRCoC Board has adopted a local public sector investment strategy to guide how local public sector funds can be used to complement and strengthen the work of the coordinated homeless response system. This strategy encourages alignment across funding sources to maximize impact and ensure resources are directed to the most effective and equitable solutions.
2026-27 Coordinated Funding Priorities & GRCoC Investment Strategy
Collaboration Across the Region
Funding coordination is grounded in strong regional partnerships. Providers, local governments, and system stakeholders come together to identify gaps, align strategies, and maximize the impact of limited resources. This collaborative process promotes transparency, equity, and efficiency across our service area.
The GRCoC Funded Provider Impact Survey (August 2025) highlights how 13 local agencies collectively use more than $30 million in federal, state, local, and private funds to operate coordinated homeless assistance programs. It offers a snapshot of funding sources, program types, and the wide range of supportive services available to households experiencing homelessness in our region. Read more here.
GRCoC Resolutions
The Greater Richmond Continuum of Care board expresses it gratitude for the strategic investments in proven local homeless assistance programs and commits to continuing to build on our partnerships to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.
Coordinated Funding, Ranking, and Review Processes
These documents provide an overview of the GRCoC coordinated funding and ranking process, including funding expectations, local review procedures, and how projects and funding recommendations are evaluated to support community decision-making.
Collaborative Applicant MOU
Each year, the GRCoC confirms the appointment of an agency to act on its behalf as the designated Collaborative Applicant through a process of endorsement by the Governance Committee and approval by the GRCoC Board. Once approved the GRCoC Boad chair signed an MOU outlining the key practices and principles between GRCoC and our collaborative applicant. Homeward has served as the designated Collaborative Applicant since the formation of the GRCoC. This Collaborative Applicant MOU was signed September 2025 and in effect until the end of December 2026.
Participating in the GRCoC's Coordinated Funding Process
Step 1: Once you've read the overview (including the GRCoC Funding Priorities and Investment Strategy listed above), be sure to join as an active member by following the steps here.
Step 2: Review the Threshold Requirements, listed below, to understand minimum expectations for participation in the coordinated funding process.
Step 3: Review relevant program standards and CES policies here, as well as the CES Flowchart listed below for an overview of our community's coordinated entry system. To learn more about coordinated entry, please review materials or sign up for a training here.
Step 4: Review HCIS policies (including the HCIS Compliance Policy listed below) here.
Step 5: Review the Project Performance Measures, Appeals Process, and Reallocation materials listed below to understand how project performance is evaluated and how local funding decisions are guided, reviewed, and adjusted by the GRCoC Ranking Committee.
Step 6: Review the LOS Process document listed below to understand how the process works. If relevant to your agency or proposed project, complete the LOS Request Form.
Step 7: Contact the Director of Coordinated Funding, Frances Marie Pugh, at fmpugh@homewardva.org with questions or to discuss participation in the GRCoC coordinated funding process.
Applicant Threshold Requirements and HMIS Compliance
These documents outlines the minimum eligibility standards, data compliance expectations, and core funding policies that agencies must meet to participate in coordinated funding.
CES Flowchart
This document provides a visual overview of how households move through the Coordinated Entry System, from access and assessment to prioritization and referral.
GRCoC 2024 Project Performance Measures
These documents outline project performance expectations used to guide system planning, monitor outcomes, and inform coordinated funding processes across the GRCoC. Measures are periodically reviewed and may be updated to better align with community needs, local priorities, and evolving federal funding requirements and expectations.
Appeals and Reallocations
These documents describe the processes for appealing funding decisions and for reallocating funds to better align with community needs and system performance.
Letter of Support (LOS) Process and Request Form
These documents outline how to request a letter of support from the CoC, including submission requirements and the review and approval process.
Archived Documents
Funding Resources Archive
- 2021-22 Funding and Action Priorities
- 2021-22 Project Performance Measurements
- 2021-22 System Performance Measurements
- Regional Pandemic Response Resource Strategy
- COVID-19 Funding Priorities Amendment
- 2020 GRCoC Funding and Action Priorities
- 2020 GRCoC System Performance Measurements
- 2020 GRCoC Project Performance Measurements
- GRCoC Collaborative Action Winter Planning 2020-21
Performance Measures Archive
GRCoC 2022 Performance Measures
On Monday, July 18, 2022, the GRCoC Board approved FY 2022GRCoC project and system performance measures. The GRCoC project and system performance measures are used to score renewal projects during HUD CoC and DHCD VHSP funding competitions. They were updated and endorsed by the GRCoC Ranking Committee on Wed 7/13/22 based on review of baseline data from Homeward’s HMIS team and feedback from Quality Improvement Leadership (QIL) Committee. This is the first time since COVID, so the baselines have changed significantly.
GRCoC 2020 Performance Measures
On February 7, 2020, the GRCoC Board approved the 2020 System and Project Performance Measurements. Each year, the GRCoC develops performance measures that allow us to evaluate how well the system, as a whole, and individual projects are meeting the goal of preventing and ending homelessness for our neighbors. The project performance measures will also be used to evaluate the performance of individual projects in the 2020-2022 VHSP and FY20 HUD Continuum of Care funding processes.
Funding Priorities and Investment Strategy Archive
2023-24 GRCoC FUNDING PRIORITIES
Each year, the GRCoC develops performance measures that allow us to evaluate how well the system, as a whole, and individual projects are meeting the goal of preventing and ending homelessness for our neighbors. The project performance measures will also be used to evaluate the performance of individual projects in the current VHSP and HUD Continuum of Care funding processes.
2024-25 Funding Priorities
Each year, the Greater Richmond Continuum of Care (GRCoC) establishes local priorities for allocating federal and state funds that provide approximately nine million dollars for programs working to solve homelessness in the region. The U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development make this funding available to communities annually, through a data-driven, coordinated network known as the Continuum of Care. GRCoC funding priorities for these coordinated funding processes reflect local needs and are based on:
- input from people experiencing/with lived experience of homelessness in our community
- performance measures and gaps analysis based on data from the Homeward Community Information System
- priorities established in the federal HEARTH Act and the Virginia Homeless Solutions Program guidelines.
2024-25 Proposed Funding Priorities
GRCoC INVESTMENT STRATEGY
The GRCoC Board approved GRCoC's local public sector investment strategy approach encouraging specific strategies to be funded by local public sector funding in order to amplify the work of the coordinated network of homeless assistance programs.