Miami Office - Matching Grant Program

The Matching Grant Program is an alternative program to public assistance that enables grantees to leverage additional resources with the aim of making refugees self-sufficient within four months from their date of arrival in the United States. The program is funded on a calendar-year basis by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Eligible grantees are voluntary agencies, such as the Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program, that are able to coordinate comprehensive multilingual, multicultural services for refugees at local sites, among other requirements. Clients eligible to be served under this program are refugees, certain Amerasians, Cuban and Haitian entrants asylees, and victims of a severe form of trafficking. Enrollment must be completed within 31 days of eligibility for the program. The Miami Office’s Matching Grant Program served 430 clients in 2007.