The Federal Government Created Block Grant Programs to
It is one of the oldest of all federal block grant programs. Grants given by an agency of the Federal government also known as discretionary grants -- for instance a homeless assistance grant given out by the Department of Health and Human Services to a homeless shelter. Block Grant Definition To sort through the federal grant programs the authoritative source is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance CFDA. . The TANF block grants overall purpose is to increase the flexibility of states to meet four statutory goals. The Community Development Block Grant Program was the first substantial federal block grant program. Block grant funding levels typically are fixed. The block grant share of federal aid for education training employment and social services which also peaked in the mid-1980s has risen slightly in the past few years with new block grants for educational technology teacher quality and English language acquisit...