Community Development Block Grant Services
CDR has assembled a team of experienced grant management professionals who have simultaneously managed several multi-billion CDBG-DR grants. Having worked on the grantee level, our team understands the complex challenges that grant managers face and can provide solutions that solve the largest and smallest problems.
CDR CAN PROVIDE CDBG-DR SUPPORT AND EXPERTISE TO SUCCESSFULLY ACHIEVE:
LEADING PRACTICES
CDR brings a wealth of disaster recovery expertise, with unmatched “Leading Practices” that have been refined as a result of response and recovery initiatives in Louisiana, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado, USVI, California, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Oregon, Florida, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico.
UNRIVALED RESULTS
OUR EXPERTS’ EXPERIENCE AND CAPACITY
CDBG SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE
Over 90 years of experience in CDBG-DR administration and program management across disasters throughout the US and US Territories. Our staff has developed and established leading practices that have been adopted in CDBG-DR throughout the nation. With that experience, our staff brings an extensive library of tried-and-true policies and procedures that can be adapted to meet the program needs for any CDBG-DR grant.
GRANTS MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES
CDR’s CDBG experts have experience assisting state and local jurisdictions in all phases of program
development and management—from grant agreement to closeout—while ensuring that all federal,
state, and local requirements have been met. Support provided to state and local governments include:
MEET OUR TEAM
Robbie Viator
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Robbie Viator has more than 16 years of federal, state, and local grant management and compliance experience with small to large-scale HUD and FEMA funded programs and projects. Mr. Viator has managed multi-disciplinary teams responsible for management, compliance, and monitoring of housing, economic development, and infrastructure programs and projects in Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia.
Robbie has also been responsible for compliance management and oversight of over $14 billion in CDBG-DR funded projects for the state of Louisiana. In his previous capacity as Compliance Manager for the Office of Community Development Disaster Recovery Unit (OCD DRU) and Louisiana Economic Development (LED), he directed the daily compliance and monitoring efforts of CDBG-DR funded programs and projects. In these roles, he managed, trained, and developed a staff of 15 analysts responsible for monitoring of public entities, non-profits, small businesses, and contractors. As part of these efforts, Robbie was instrumental in the development and implementation of the OCD DRU Disaster Recovery CDBG Grantee Administrative Manual.