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Program Status: Open
Application Deadline: May 9, 2016
Notice of Solicitation of Applications (.PDF)
What does this program do?
This program helps qualified non-profits and Tribes create a revolving loan fund (RLF) to extend access to clean, reliable water to households in eligible rural areas.
Who may apply for these grants?
Nonprofits that have:
Expertise and experience promoting the safe, productive use of...
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Saturday, 23 April 2016
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What does this program do?
This program helps eligible communities prepare for, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water for households and businesses.
Who may apply?
Most State and local governmental entities
Nonprofit organizations
Federally recognized Tribes i
What kind of event can qualify as an emergency?
Drought or flood
Earthquake
Tornado or hurricane
Disease outbreak
Chemical...
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Announcement: The Rural Utilities Service is pleased to announce that we have expanded our online mapping tool to now accept existing service area maps funded by our Telecom Infrastructure and Broadband Loan Programs. We sent out a letter (PDF) on April 20, 2016, informing all of our existing borrowers who are eligible to participate in this new effort. You may access our Broadband Mapping Tool in order to complete this task.
To...
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Announcement : The Rural Utilities Service is pleased to announce that we have expanded our online mapping tool to now accept existing service area maps funded by our Telecom Infrastructure and Broadband Loan Programs. We sent out a letter (PDF) on April 20, 2016, informing all of our existing borrowers who are eligible to participate in this new effort. You may access our Broadband Mapping Tool in order to complete...
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Program Status : FY2016 Application window closed Notice of Solicitation of Applications (NOSA) [PDF]
The USDA Telecommunications Program hosted webinars focused on the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Grant Program FY 2016.Recorded presentation slides on the DLT program webinar are available under Forms and Resources Tab.
What does this program do?The Distance Learning and Telemedicine program helps rural communities...
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Program Status: OPENApplication Deadline: Paper: June 17, 2016 | Electronic: June 17, 2016
Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) (PDF)
What does this program do?This program helps fund broadband deployment into rural communities where it is not yet economically viable for private sector providers to deliver service. For more information on other programs administered by RUS Telecommunications please visit :http://ww...
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What does this program do?This program helps State governments establish and support revolving loan funds to provide a more cost-effective means of purchasing fuel for remote communities that are not served by surface transportation (highways, transit systems, railways, and waterways) year round.
Who may apply?
State governments
What is an eligible area?
The law requires the consideration of several factors to determine whether an area qualifies...
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What does this program do?
The electric program makes insured loans and loan guarantees to nonprofit and cooperative associations, public bodies, and other utilities. Insured loans primarily finance the construction of electric distribution facilities in rural areas. The guaranteed loan program has been expanded and is now available to finance generation, transmission, and distribution facilities. The loans and loan guarantees finance the construction...
- 21:38:00
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Program Status: Open
What does this program do? Also known as the Section 504 Home Repair program, this provides loans to very-low-income homeowners to repair, improve or modernize their homes or grants to elderly very-low-income homeowners to remove health and safety hazards.
Who may apply for this program?To qualify, you must:
Be the homeowner and occupy the house
Be unable to obtain affordable credit elsewhere
Have a family...
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Program Status: Open
What does this program do? This program assists approved lenders in providing low- and moderate-income households the opportunity to own adequate, modest, decent, safe and sanitary dwellings as their primary residence in eligible rural areas. Eligible applicants may build, rehabilitate, improve or relocate a dwelling in an eligible rural area. The program provides a 90% loan note guarantee to approved lenders...
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Program Status: Open
What does this program do? Also known as the Section 502 Direct Loan Program, this program assists low- and very-low-income applicants obtain decent, safe and sanitary housing in eligible rural areas by providing payment assistance to increase an applicant’s repayment ability. Payment assistance is a type of subsidy that reduces the mortgage payment for a short time. The amount of assistance is determined by the...
- 21:34:00
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What does this program do?Provides grants to qualified organizations to help them carry out local self-help housing construction projects. Grant recipients supervise groups of very-low- and low-income individuals and families as they construct their own homes in rural areas. The group members provide most of the construction labor on each other’s homes, with technical assistance from the organization overseeing the project.
Who may apply for this...
- 21:32:00
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What does this program do?This program provides payments to owners of USDA-financed Rural Rental Housing or Farm Labor Housing projects on behalf of low-income tenants unable to pay their full rent.
Who may apply for this program?
Project owners as part of their Rural Rental Housing or Farm Labor Housing new construction financing applications
Projects must be established on a nonprofit or limited profit ba...
- 21:31:00
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Program Status: OPENApplication Deadline: 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time, December 31, 2017Notice of Funding Availability (pdf) | Posted: March 14, 2016
What does this program do?The program works with qualified private-sector lenders to provide financing to qualified borrowers to increase the supply of affordable rental housing for low- and moderate-income individuals and families in eligible rural areas and towns.
Who may...
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What does this program do?This program provides competitive financing for affordable multi-family rental housing for low-income, elderly, or disabled individuals and families in eligible rural areas.
Who may apply for this program?This program assists qualified applicants that cannot obtain commercial credit on terms that will allow them to charge rents that are affordable to low-income tenants. Qualified applicants include:
Individuals, trusts,...
- 21:27:00
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Program Status: CLOSEDApplication Deadline: March 15, 2016Notice of Solicitation of Application (pdf)
FY 2016 HPG NOSA Deadline Extension: March 15, 2016
What does this program do?It provides grants to sponsoring organizations for the repair or rehabilitation of housing occupied by low and very low income (1)people.Who may apply for this program?
Most State and local governmental entities
Nonprofit organizations
Federally...
- 21:25:00
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Program Status: Closed Application Deadline: Closed: December 31, 2015.Notice of Solicitation of Applications | (MPR NOSA) | Closed: December 31, 2015
MPR NOSA Corrections: Closed: December 31, 2015
MPR NOSA Responses
What does this program do?It restructures loans for existing Rural Rental Housing and Off-Farm Labor Housing projects to help improve and preserve the availability of safe affordable rental...
- 21:24:00
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Program Status: CLOSEDApplication Deadline: April 12, 2016Notice of Solicitation of Application (pdf)
What does this program do?It provides affordable financing to develop housing for year-round and migrant or seasonal domestic farm laborers. (1)
Who may apply for this program?This program assists qualified applicants that cannot obtain commercial credit on terms that will allow them to charge rents that are affordable to low-income...
Friday, 22 April 2016
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What does this program do?
This program provides funding to 1994 Land Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges) to make capital improvements to their educational facilities and to purchase equipment.
Who may apply for this program?
Tribal Colleges as listed in Section 7402 of the Agricultural Act of 2014.
How may funds be used?
Funds can be used by Tribal Colleges for infrastructure improvements, to purchase equipment and to develop essential community...
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Application Deadline: 4:00 pm Local Time - August 13, 2015Notice of Solicitation of Application (pdf) | Posted: May 15, 2015
What does this program do?This program provides funding to help non-profit housing and community development organizations support housing, community facilities, and community and economic development projects in rural areas.
Annoucement of recent RCDI Grant Awards and the list of recipients....
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What does this program do?This program provides funding to assist in the development of essential community facilities in rural communities with extreme unemployment and severe economic depression.
An essential community facility is one that provides an essential service to the local community, is needed for the orderly development of the community, serves a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial or business undertakin...
- 08:54:00
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Program Status: Open
What does this program do?This program provides loan guarantees to eligible private lenders to help build essential community facilities in rural areas.An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial or business undertakings.
Who may apply...
- 08:52:00
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Program Status: Open
What does this program do?This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial or business undertakings.
Who may apply for this program?Eligible borrowers...
- 08:49:00
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Application Deadline: June 30, 2016Federal Register Notice: (.pdf)
Section 6025 of the 2014 Farm Bill enables the Secretary of Agriculture to provide priority to projects that support strategic economic and community development plans. The result of that is a provision called Strategic Economic and Community Development (SECD).
Purpose
To advance projects which support long-term community and economic growth strategies that reflect both...
- 08:47:00
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What does this program do?Provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to purchase or install renewable energy systems or make energy efficiency improvements.
Who may apply?
Agricultural producers with at least 50% of gross income coming from agricultural operations, and
Small businesses in eligible rural areas.
NOTE: Agricultural producers and small businesses must have...
- 08:44:00
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What does this program do?
Grantees assist rural small businesses and agricultural producers by conducting and promoting energy audits, and providing renewable energy development assistance (REDA).
Who may apply for this program?
State and local governments;
Federally-recognized Tribes;
A land-grant college or university, or other Institutions of Higher Education;
Rural electric cooperatives;
Public power entities;
An Instrumentality of a state,...
- 08:38:00
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What does this program do?
This program assists in the development, construction, and retrofitting of new and emerging technologies for the development of Advanced Biofuels, Renewable Chemicals, and Biobased Product Manufacturing by providing loan guarantees for up to $250 million.
Who may apply for this program?
Lenders with legal authority, sufficient experience and expertise, and can demonstrate they meet the FDIC...
- 08:36:00
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What does this program do?Provides funding for up to 50% of the total eligible project costs for biorefineries to install renewable biomass systems for heating and power at their facilities; or, to produce new energy from renewable biomass
Who may apply?Biorefineries in existence on or before June 18, 2008, proposing to use only renewable biomass for replacement fuel, with no outstanding delinquent federal taxes, debt, judgment or debarment (renewable...
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What does this program do?Support and ensure an expanding production of advanced biofuels by paying advanced biofuel producers for finished advanced biofuel products
Who may apply?Any entity that produces and sells advanced biofuel is eligible to apply. Eligible advanced biofuels:
Meet the definition of an advanced biofuel in 7 CFR Part4288.102;
Are a liquid, gas, or solid;
Must be a final product;
Are produced in the United States; and
Are...
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What does this program do?
The primary objective of the DHCS program is to provide financial assistance to address the continued unmet health needs in the Delta Region through cooperation among health care professionals, institutions of higher education, research institutions, and other entities in the Delta Region. Grants are awarded through a national competition. Each fiscal year, applications are requested through a Notice published in the Federal...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
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What does this program do?
The VAPG program helps agricultural producers enter into value-added activities related to the processing and/or marketing of bio-based, value-added products. Generating new products, creating and expanding marketing opportunities, and increasing producer income are the goals of this program. You may receive priority if you are a beginning farmer or rancher, a socially-disadvantaged farmer or rancher, a small or medium-sized...
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What does this program do?
The primary objective of the SDGG program is to provide technical assistance to socially-disadvantaged groups through cooperatives and Cooperative Development Centers. Each fiscal year, applications are requested through a Notice published in the Federal Register and an announcement posted on Grants.gov.
Program Funding: $3 million
Maximum Grant Amount: $175,000
Matching Funds Requirement: None
Who...
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What does this program do?Provides loans and grants to Microenterprise Development Organizations (MDOs) to:
Provide microloans for microenterprise startups and growth through a Rural Microloan Revolving Fund
Provide training and technical assistance to microloan borrowers and micro entrepreneurs
Who may apply for this program?The following are eligible to be an MDO:
Nonprofits
Federally-recognized Tribes
Institutions of higher...
- 21:30:00
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What does this program do?This program provides a Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC) license to newly formed venture capital organizations to help meet the equity capital investment needs in rural communities.
Who may apply for this program?Eligible applicants for the RBIC license include newly formed:
For-profit entities, or
Subsidiary of an entity
All Applicants:
Must...
- 21:28:00
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What does this program do?
RBDG is a competitive grant designed to support targeted technical assistance, training and other activities leading to the development or expansion of small and emerging private businesses in rural areas that have fewer than 50 employees and less than $1 million in gross revenues. Programmatic activities are separated into enterprise or opportunity type grant activities.
Who may apply for this program?
Rural...
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