County of Maui Office of Recovery CDBG-DR Public Services Program
The County of Maui Office of Recovery is accepting applications for its 2026 Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Public Services Program. The current Version 2.0 NOFA designates $21 million for this funding opportunity, with individual project requests from $500,000 to $2,000,000.
Deadline: October 8, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. HST. The County extended the deadline on September 9, 2026. A second written-question period runs through September 20 at 5:00 p.m. HST, with responses scheduled for September 28.
Eligible applicants: County departments, qualifying 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations, and public agencies or authorities. Applicants must maintain active SAM.gov registration and Hawaii Compliance Express good standing. For-profit entities are generally not eligible as subrecipients unless specifically authorized.
Eligible public services include: medical care, behavioral and mental health services, crisis intervention, trauma-informed therapy, health navigation, case management, services for kupuna and persons with disabilities, youth and family services, homelessness outreach and stabilization, transportation access to healthcare and other essential services, and related recovery-oriented activities. Proposed activities must address disaster-related unmet need from the August 2023 Maui wildfires and generally must be a new service or a measurable expansion of an existing service.
The NOFA budget form includes personnel, fringe, travel, equipment, supplies, contractual, other direct costs, and indirect costs. All procurement using program funds must comply with 2 CFR 200.317-200.327 and applicable State of Hawaii and County of Maui procurement rules, with full and open competition and cost or price analysis required. This means any technology or vendor component must be justified within an eligible applicant-led recovery project and procured compliantly.
Atlas Fit Score: 99/100. N9+ Fit Score: 72/100, conditional. The Nonagon N9+ remote physical examination platform could potentially support a qualifying new or expanded mobile, street-medicine, school-health, satellite-clinic, or telehealth-enabled clinical service for wildfire-impacted residents. The NOFA includes equipment and contractual costs in its budget structure, but it does not specifically name N9+ or remote-exam technology, so project-specific allowability and procurement must be confirmed before budgeting the platform.
Submission: Applications must be submitted through the County’s Canopy portal; email, mail, and hand-delivery submissions are not accepted.
September 9 FAQ clarifications: The County confirms that the $500,000 minimum request applies to the full 24-month eligible program period, not per year. As currently written, the policy does not impose a separate administrative-cost cap, but all costs must remain allowable, allocable, reasonable, necessary, and tied to service implementation under 2 CFR 200. Necessary travel may be eligible. FEMA registration or FEMA assistance is not required to establish wildfire impact. For medical and behavioral-health services, costs already billed and paid through QUEST or another source cannot also be charged to this grant because that would be a duplication of benefits. Partner organizations may be contractors or program partners depending on their role, with contractor selection subject to applicable procurement requirements.
Official sources:
County of Maui Public Services Program
2026 CDBG-DR Public Services NOFA, Version 2.0
Public Services Round 1 FAQs, September 9, 2026
County deadline-extension announcement