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Program Purpose
Eligible Recipients
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ARC - Distressed Counties
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.
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ARC - Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER)
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.
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ARC - Special Broadband Allocation (KY, TN, WV)
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.
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ARC - Telecommunications: Information Age Appalachia
ARC, through its Information Age Appalachia (IAA) program, is engaged in helping make advanced communications systems a reality in all of Appalachia.
Appalachian Regional Commission
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Department of Education - Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions
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.
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Department of Education - American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities
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.
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Department of Education - Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving 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.
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Department of Education - Impact Aid Programs
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.
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Department of Education - Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions
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.
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Department of Education - Promise Neighborhoods
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.
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Department of Education - Rural and Low-Income School 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.
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Department of Education - Small, Rural School Achievement Program
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.
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Department of Education - Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program
To improve student’s academic achievement by increasing the capacity of States, local educational agencies, schools and local communities.
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Department of Education - Title I, Part A
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.
Department of Education
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Department of Transportation - BUILD (F/k/a TIGER)
Funding provided under National Infrastructure Investments have supported capital projects which repair bridges or improve infrastructure to a state of good repair.
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Department of Transportation - Realty Program (Utility Right-of-way) (through EO: Accelerating Broadband Infrastructure Deployment 2012)
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.
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Department of Transportation - Utilities Program (through EO: Accelerating Broadband Infrastructure Deployment 2012)
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.
Department of Transportation
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Department of Treasury - Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
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.
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Department of Treasury - New Markets Tax Credit Program
The New Markets Tax Credit Program (NMTC Program) helps economically distressed communities attract private capital by providing investors with a Federal tax credit.
Department of Treasury
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DRA - Community Infrastructure Fund
The Community Infrastructure Fund was created to target physical infrastructure projects that help build safer, more resilient communities in the Delta region.
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DRA - States Economic Development Assistance Program
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.
Delta Regional Authority
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EDA - FY 2018 EDA Disaster Supplemental Notice of Funding Opportunity (FY18 Disaster Supplemental NO FO)
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.
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EDA - Public Works (PW) and Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA)
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.
Economic Development Administration
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FCC - E-Rate Program
The schools and libraries universal service support program, commonly known as the E-Rate program, helps schools and libraries to obtain affordable broadband.
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FCC - High Cost Program
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.
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FCC - Lifeline Program
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.
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FCC - Rural Health Care Program
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.
Federal Communications Commission
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HUD - Community Planning and Development - Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
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.
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HUD - Community Planning and Development - Section 108 Loan Guarantee
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.
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HUD - Multifamily Housing Neighborhood Networks
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.
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HUD - Public and Indian Housing - Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG)
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.
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HUD - Public and Indian Housing - Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG)
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.
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HUD - Public and Indian Housing - Neighborhood Networks (Public and Indian Housing)
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.
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HUD - Public and Indian Housing - Title VI Loan Guarantee
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.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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IMLS - Grants to States Program
Using a population based formula, more than $150 million is distributed among the State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs) every year.
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IMLS - Native American Library Services Basic Grants
Native American Library Services Basic Grants support existing library operations and maintain core library services.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
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NBRC - Economic & Infrastructure Development Program
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.
Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC)
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NSF - Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)
The CC* program invests in coordinated campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects.
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NSF - Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research
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.
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NSF - Smart and Connected Communities
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.
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NSF - US Ignite including Smart Gigabit Communities, NSF Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society (WINS) Challenges
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.
National Science Foundation
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USDA - Rural Business Service - Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program (REDLG)
The Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant program provides funding for rural projects through local utility organizations.
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USDA - Rural Business-Cooperative Service Business and Industry (B&I) Guaranteed Loan Program
The Business and Industry program bolsters the availability of private credit by guaranteeing loans for rural businesses.
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USDA - Rural Housing Service - Community Facilities - RHS, CF, Direct Loan and Grant Program
This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas.
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USDA - Rural Housing Service - Community Facilities Guaranteed Loan Program
This program provides loan guarantees to eligible private lenders to help build essential community facilities in rural areas.
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USDA - Rural Utilities Service - Community Connect Grant Program
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.
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USDA - Rural Utilities Service - Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program (Broadband Program)
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.
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USDA - Rural Utilities Service - Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program (ReConnect)
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.
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USDA - Rural Utilities Service - Telecom Infrastructure Loan Program
This program provides financing for the construction, maintenance, improvement and expansion of telephone service and broadband in rural areas.
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USDA - Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning Telemedicine (DLT) Grant Program
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.
Department of Agriculture