Safe Routes to School Mini-grant Call for Applications
Applications due Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Protect Essential Highways, Highway Bridge Approaches, and Public Works
Applications accepted on continuing basis
Snow Assistance and Severe Winter Storm Policy
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Economic Development Administration (EDA) American Recovery Program
Applications accepted on continuing basis and processed as received
Bikes Belong Grant
Applications reviewed quarterly
EDA American Recovery Program
Pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the federal stimulus bill, EDA announces general policies and application procedures for grant-based investments under the auspices of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended, that will promote comprehensive, entrepreneurial and innovation-based economic development efforts to enhance the competitiveness of regions, resulting in increased private investment and higher-skill, higher-wage jobs in regions that have experienced sudden and severe economic dislocation and job loss due to corporate restructuring.
Under this competitive solicitation, EDA will give priority consideration to those applications that will significantly benefit regions “that have experienced sudden and severe economic dislocation and job loss due to corporate restructuring,” as stipulated under the Recovery Act. EDA provides financial assistance to distressed communities in both urban and rural regions. Such distress may exist in a variety of forms, including high levels of unemployment, low income levels, large concentrations of low-income families, significant declines in per capita income, large numbers (or high rates) of business failures, sudden major layoffs or plant closures, trade impacts, military base closures, natural or other major disasters, depletion of natural resources, reduced tax bases, or substantial loss of population because of the lack of employment opportunities. EDA’s experience has shown that regional economic development to help alleviate these conditions is effected primarily through investments and decisions made by the private sector. EDA will give preference to applications that include cash contributions (over in-kind contributions) as the matching share. See section III.C. below for more information.
Under the EDA American Recovery Program, EDA will help restore, replace and expand economic activity in regions that have experienced sudden and severe economic dislocation and job loss due to corporate restructuring, and prioritize projects that will diversify the economic base and lead to a stronger, more globally competitive and resilient regional economy. EDA’s economic development activities help create jobs by encouraging business inception and growth.
Applications are accepted on a continuing basis and processed as received. Applications may be submitted electronically in accordance with the instructions provided at www.grants.gov or mailed to the applicable EDA regional office.
EDA will evaluate and select applications according to the investment policy guidelines and funding priorities set forth in section V. of this announcement. View the full announcement available in PDF.
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