David Bennett Email & Phone Number

Lovettsville, Virginia, United States

Hagerty helps clients prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Period. It blends exceptional management consulting skills with the industry’s deepest programmatic expertise to produce innovative strategies and results for its clients. As CDBG-DR Practice Leader, leads efforts in growing and managing the CDBG-DR portfolio within Hagerty's.

Ft. Myers, Florida

Lead team of professionals embedded in the Lee County, Florida Department of Strategic Resources and Government Affairs that assist the County in planning, designing, and implementing programs funded under the $1.1 billion allocation from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to address the $7 billion + in damages sustained during Hurricane.

West Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Develop and assist the Ouachita Parish Policy Jury as a recipient of US Treasury awarded $35M ARPA funds in creating a competitive subrecipient application process, project selections methodology, and implementation strategy for eligible infrastructure, public services, and economic damages sustained to the community as result of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19).

Various

Technical Advisor, HUD Community Compass Technical Assistance—HGA, Multiple Locations, April 2021–February 2023Developed and presented technical assistance training for HUD CDBG-DR, CDBG Entitlement, and CDBG-MIT grant recipients and subrecipients.Provided technical assistance to date in the areas of Environmental Review Records (ERR), Economic.

East Baton Rouge Parish County, Louisiana, United States

Work under direction of the Mayor/President’s Office in engagements with potential and current affordable housing and economic redevelopment initiatives developers.Reviewed non-profit housing development organizations applying for or recertifying their status as a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) to ascertain their eligibility to compete.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Manage all aspects of federal statutory and local programmatic compliance for the 3.5B allocation of HUD CDBG-MIT(igation) funds that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is using to change reactive disaster spending toward a data-supported, proactive investment in community resilience. Implements the Risk Assessment completed for the Puerto Rico Department of.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Responsible for implementing policy and program delivery protocols for the ERP, which serves more than 2,500 business applicants in economic stabilization and recovery efforts following Hurricane Harvey. Developed a novel program synthesizing policies and practices used by HUD, SBA, IRS, and USDA to create a $100M program that was stalled and within a year.

Loudoun County, Virginia, United States

Attached to the currently $35.4 Billion recovery work being performed under the Puerto Rico Department of Housing (PRDOH) as a result from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the initial work will be to develop and draft standard operating procedures and policies for the City Revitalization Program and Infrastructure. Serves remotely as senior operations.

Research Triangle Park, Raleigh-Durham, NC

Responsible for a team (at present) of 15 professional staff embedded with the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR). NCORR is the recipient of nearly $1,000,000,000 in long-term Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds to rebuild after Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. As lead subject matter expert provide technical.

Central Hudson Valley/Catskills/Mohawk Valley, New York State

Responsible for project and grant oversight and compliance for multiple communities in Orange, Rockland, Schoharie, Montgomery, and Ulster Counties that receive CDBG-DR funding through the New York Governor's Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) as well as projects supported by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY). These New York Rising.

Ashburn, Virginia

Responsible for development and management of IBTS’ Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships Funds (HOME), and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) offerings to units of local government and state programs. As part of its mission to assist communities effectively and efficiently carry out grant conditions and performance.

Arlington, VA, USA

• Responsible for program management and compliance of this urban county’s annual Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnerships Funds (HOME) entitlements funded by the US Department of Housing.
• Staff liaison to the Community Development Citizen Advisory Council which determines nonprofit partner funding and use of CDBG, CSBG, HOME, and the local Affordable Housing Investment Fund (AHIF) dollars
• Administering proposal and selections process for Community Development Fund
• Monitoring and auditing nonprofit partners and the City of Falls Church which is funded through a three year cooperation agreement
• Responsible for preparing and maintaining the City of Falls Church and Arlington County’s Cooperation Agreement
• Responsible for reporting single family and City of Falls Church HOME accomplishments and drawdown requests in the Integrated Disbursement Information System. Responsible for American Reinvestment Recovery Act project.

Leesburg, VA, USA

• Responsible for the daily operations of the Department of Economic Development in the fastest growing county in the US; staffing the Board appointed Economic Development Commission; leading the partnership with three.
• Leading the rebranding efforts (new marketing collateral, web design) of the department
• Responsible for growing international business cluster in the County
• Liaison between the County’s Board and Economic Development Commission
• Authored strategic white papers and studies to guide County policy
• Authored the Sister County agreement with the Main-Taunus-Kreis in Germany and accompanied County Board chair and business leaders to document signing in Germany for translation and marketing outreach purposesDuring.

Fairfax, VA, USA

• Responsible for an annual $16,000,000 contracted health services in the County
• Assisted in the creation of the Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly to prevent unnecessary institutionalization of the aging population
• Responsible for an annual $7,000,000 contracted mental health services in the County
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of programs and unmet needs
• Responsible for procuring and monitoring activities of the County Executive’s contracted legislative liaison in Richmond
• Due to previous expertise, only staff in department assigned to capital acquisition, architectural, design, construction and charette/visioning contracting activities.

• Administration (County and State projects, award to subrecipients, compliance, and monitoring) of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Home Investment Partnerships (HOME), Congressionally-targeted and.
• Administration of HOME Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) program
• Creating and reviewing pro-formas specific to federally assisted affordable housing projects
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of affordable housing programs (extant or planned)
• Eligibility determination and reporting to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and US Department of Labor
• Davis-Bacon, Copeland Anti Kickback, and Section 3 compliance and monitoring

34 Out Of 90 Requisite Graduate Hours In Core Curriculum Studies For Mdiv, Masters Of Divinity

Activities and Societies: Cross registration and coursework taken at Virginia Theological Seminary (Episcopal Church in the USA) as well.

Double Bachelor'S Degrees, Economics, German Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Program Board Director