Grant Opportunities and More!
Curated by: The Western Nevada Development District…This edition of Five for Friday focuses on opportunities for economic development around the region in the areas of rural housing, mobility, rural microlending and more.
Grant Opportunities & More
Manufactured Housing Pilot Program Renewed
The USDA’s Section 502 Direct Loan 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 for this pilot program is determined by the adjusted family income. Loan funds may be used to help low-income individuals or households purchase homes in rural areas. Funds can be used to build, repair, renovate or relocate a home, or to purchase and prepare sites, including providing water and sewage facilities.
Application Deadline: Open until November 4, 2024
Manufactured Housing Pilot Program
FY 2023 Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants
Guidelines are now available for EPA grants offered by the Brownfields Program used to address sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum) and petroleum. Assessment provides funding for brownfield inventories, planning, environmental assessments, and community outreach.
Application Deadline: November 22, 2022
Types of EPA Brownfield Grant Funding
Multipurpose, Assessment, RLF, and Cleanup (MARC) Grant
Community Mobility Solutions for Economic Health
The National Center for Mobility Management (NCMM) recognizes the vital role transportation plays in all activities that support the empowerment of individuals across the board. Yet often community transportation systems lack the resources and/or strategies to provide the level of mobility to residents that they would like to. The 2023 Ready-to-Launch Grants, funded by the Federal Transportation Administration, of up to $75,000 will allow communities to pilot a promising mobility solution, the development of which was inspired and informed by the results of community research. The solution being proposed must be a new idea, not the expansion or continuation of an existing service.
Application Deadline: November 23, 2022
National Center for Mobility Management (NCMM)
Want to Give Business a Boost? Learn About the USDA’s Rural Microlending Program
Nonprofits, federally recognized tribes and institutions of higher education are eligible entities to administer the USDA’s Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program as a Microenterprise Development Organization (MDO). Grants are available to provide technical assistance to rural microentrepreneurs or microenterprises, up to $205,000 annually. Loans of $50,000 – $500,000 may be used to establish a Rural Microloan Revolving Fund managed by the MDO.
Microlenders may make microloans for qualified business activities and expenses including, but not limited to:
• Working capital
• Debt refinancing
• Purchase equipment and supplies
• Improve real estate
Application Deadline: Open
Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program
Building Cultural and Community Resilience
The National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural and Community Resilience program supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. The program prioritizes projects from disadvantaged communities in the United States or its jurisdictions, and NEH encourages applications that employ inclusive methodologies.
Maximum award amount is $150,000.
Application Deadline: January 12, 2023
Building Cultural and Community Resilience
Western Nevada Development District (WNDD), is a vital partner to our member organizations in Grant Research, Writing and Management. Our professional team is available to assist in identifying and obtaining funding sources to grow a stronger Nevada.
