ARC targets special resources to the most economically distressed counties in the Region, using a measure of economic distress based on three economic indicators: three-year average unemployment rates, per capita market income, and poverty rates.

POWER is a congressionally funded initiative that targets federal resources to help communities and regions that have been affected by job losses in coal mining, coal power plant operations, and coal-related supply chain industries due to the changing economics of America's energy production.

ARC is expanding outreach and technical support associated with the $20 million special allocation to help improve rural broadband access in distressed coal- impacted communities in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia and the 13-state Appalachian Region.

ARC, through its Information Age Appalachia (IAA) program, is engaged in helping make advanced communications systems a reality in all of Appalachia.

This program helps eligible institutions of higher education increase their self-sufficiency and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions.

This program helps eligible institutions of higher education increase their self-sufficiency by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions.

This program provides grants and related assistance to Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions to enable such institutions to improve and expand their capacity to serve Asian Americans and Native American Pacific Islanders and low-income individuals.

The mission of this program is to disburse Impact Aid payments to local educational agencies that are financially burdened by federal activities and to provide technical assistance and support services to staff and other interested parties.

This program provides grants and related assistance to Native American-serving, nontribal institutions to enable such institutions to improve and expand their capacity to serve Native Americans and low-income individuals.

The purpose of Promise Neighborhoods is to significantly improve the educational and developmental outcomes of children and youth in our most distressed communities, and to transform those communities by— Identifying and increasing the capacity of eligible entities that are focused on achieving results for children and youth throughout an entire neighborhood; Building a complete continuum of cradle-to-career solutions of both educational programs and family and community supports, with great schools at the center; Integrating programs and breaking down agency “silos” so that solutions are implemented effectively and efficiently across agencies; Developing the local infrastructure of systems and resources needed to sustain and scale up proven, effective solutions across the broader region beyond the initial neighborhood; and earning about the overall impact of the Promise Neighborhoods program and about the relationship between particular strategies in Promise Neighborhoods and student outcomes, including through a rigorous evaluation of the program.

The purpose of the Rural and Low-Income School (RLIS) grant program is to provide rural districts with financial assistance for initiatives aimed at improving student achievement.

The purpose of the Small, Rural School Achievement (SRSA) program is to provide rural LEAs with financial assistance to fund initiatives aimed at improving student academic achievement.

To improve student’s academic achievement by increasing the capacity of States, local educational agencies, schools and local communities.

This program provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards.

Funding provided under National Infrastructure Investments have supported capital projects which repair bridges or improve infrastructure to a state of good repair.

Demands for accommodating new technologies such as ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) are causing many states and local governments to re-evaluate past policies and seek to gain benefits from their land assets by making their rights-of-way available for these uses.

The utility facilities jointly use the right-of-way of public roads and streets when such use and occupancy does not adversely affect highway or traffic safety, or otherwise impair the highway or its aesthetic quality, and does not conflict with the provisions of Federal, State, or local laws and regulations.

CRA requires federal banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business, including low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods.

The New Markets Tax Credit Program (NMTC Program) helps economically distressed communities attract private capital by providing investors with a Federal tax credit.

The Community Infrastructure Fund was created to target physical infrastructure projects that help build safer, more resilient communities in the Delta region.

The States Economic Development Assistance Program makes strategic investments in DRA’s congressionally mandated four funding areas of basic public infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, business development, and workforce development.

Program funds for disaster relief and recovery as a result of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, wildfires, and other calendar year 2017 natural disasters under the Stafford Act.

EDA’s PW and EAA programs provide economically distressed communities and regions with comprehensive and flexible resources to address a wide variety of economic development needs.

The schools and libraries universal service support program, commonly known as the E-Rate program, helps schools and libraries to obtain affordable broadband.

The federal universal service high-cost program (also known as the Connect America Fund) is designed to ensure that consumers in rural, insular, and high-cost areas have access to modern communications networks capable of providing voice and broadband service, both fixed and mobile, at rates that are reasonably comparable to those in urban areas.

The Lifeline program provides a discount on phone and broadband service for qualifying low-income consumers to ensure that all Americans have the opportunities and security that those services bring, including being able to connect to jobs, family, and emergency services.

The Rural Health Care (RHC) Program provides funding to eligible public or non-profit health care providers for broadband and telecommunications services necessary for the provision of health care.

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program provides annual grants on a formula basis to states and local governments, to be used for economic and community development, principally for low- and moderate-income persons.

Section 108 offers state and local governments the ability to transform a small portion of their Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds into federally guaranteed loans large enough to pursue physical and economic revitalization projects.

Neighborhood Networks establishes multi-service community technology centers that bring digital opportunity and lifelong learning to low- and moderate-income residents living in HUD housing.

The ICDBG Program provides eligible grantees with direct grants for community and economic development in viable Indian and Alaska Native Communities, primarily for low and moderate income persons.

The IHBG program provides grants to be used for affordable housing activities which must develop or support rental or ownership housing or provide housing services to benefit low-income Indian families on Indian reservations and other Indian areas.

Neighborhood Networks (Public and Indian Housing) allows Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) to use Public Housing Capital and Operating funds to establish and operate Neighborhood Networks centers.

Title VI is a loan guarantee program that HUD offers to federally recognized tribes and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs). It provides an additional source of financing for affordable tribal housing activities.

Using a population based formula, more than $150 million is distributed among the State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs) every year.

Native American Library Services Basic Grants support existing library operations and maintain core library services.

NBRC's 2018 EID Investment Program offers up to a $500,000 maximum award to eligible infrastructure projects, up to a $250,000 maximum award for all other types of eligible projects.

The CC* program invests in coordinated campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects.

The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program aims to support advanced wireless research platforms conceived by the U.S. academic and industrial wireless research community.

The goal of the NSF S&CC program solicitation is to accelerate the creation of the scientific and engineering foundations that will enable smart and connected communities to bring about new levels of economic opportunity and growth, safety and security, health and wellness, and overall quality of life.

This activity consists of multiple efforts aimed at the creation of a connected-community ecosystem that leverages the latest advancements in information technology and connectivity.

The Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant program provides funding for rural projects through local utility organizations.

The Business and Industry program bolsters the availability of private credit by guaranteeing loans for rural businesses.

This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas.

This program provides loan guarantees to eligible private lenders to help build essential community facilities in rural areas.

The Community Connect program helps fund broadband deployment in rural communities where it is not yet economically viable for private-sector providers to deliver service.

The Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program (Broadband Program) furnishes loans and loan guarantees to provide funds for the costs of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide service at the broadband lending speed in eligible rural areas.

ReConnect offers three types of funding options for broadband infrastructure to connect rural families, businesses, farms, ranches, schools, libraries, and public safety facilities to modern, high-speed internet. A rural area is eligible if it currently does not have sufficient access to broadband. The ReConnect grants, grant and loan combinations, and low-interest loans can be used to construct, improve, and acquire facilities that provide internet services to customers’ premises, with reliable technologies that are suitable for the type of rural community and the type of high-speed internet use.

This program provides financing for the construction, maintenance, improvement and expansion of telephone service and broadband in rural areas.

The Distance Learning and Telemedicine program helps rural communities use the unique capabilities of telecommunications to connect to each other and to the world, overcoming the effects of remoteness and low population density.