Funding Opportunities

Rural Infrastructure

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=320174">Grants for Transportation of Veterans in Highly Rural Areas
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs invests to support transportation programs in counties with fewer than seven people per square mile. https://www.va.gov/HEALTHBENEFITS/resources/publications/IB10-760_va_HRTG_brochure_071415.pdf">Specific requirements apply. Application Deadline: October 31, 2019 

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/rural-energy-america-program-renewable-energy-systems-energy-efficiency">Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)
USDA Rural Development offers https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/USDA_SA_REAP_NOSA083019.pdf">REAP funding to support agricultural producers and rural small businesses to reduce energy costs and consumption with by purchasing and installing renewable energy systems and making energy efficiency improvements in their operations. Application Deadlines: Grants - Oct 31 & March 31, 2020. https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/USDA_SA_REAP_NOSA083019.pdf">Loan Guarantees: Accepted year-round

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=319126">FY 2019 EDA Disaster Supplemental
U.S. Economic Development Administration assistance helps communities/regions devise and implement long-term economic recovery strategies. Application Deadline: Ongoing

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=306735">Economic Development Assistance Programs
U.S. Economic Development Administration solicits applications from applicants in rural areas to provide investments that support construction, non-construction, technical assistance, and revolving loan fund projects under EDA’s Public Works and EAA programs. Application Deadline: Ongoing basis until the publication of a new EDAP NOFO.

Economic Development

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=320198">Minority Education, Workforce, And Training Program
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) workforce improvement program helps public and private organizations collaborate to increase access for underserved and rural communities in STEM and energy fields. Application Deadline: October 7, 2019

https://www.rwjf.org/en/how-we-work/submit-a-proposal.html">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pioneering Ideas
Support to explore trends for healthy living in America and apply the findings to improve conditions in work, life and play. Application Deadline: October 15, 2019

https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/small-business-innovation-research-program-phase-i">Small Business Innovation Research Program - Phase I
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture offers funding for projects that should prove the scientific or technical feasibility of the approach or concept with agriculturally related manufacturing and alternative/renewable energy projects are encouraged. Application Deadline: October 23, 2019

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=315913">Rural Health Network Development Program
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration program offers funding to improve access and quality of health care in rural areas through network collaboration, adapting an evidence-based service model, and promoting sustainability of rural health networks through the creation of diverse products and services. Application Deadline: November 25, 2019

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/programs/financial/rcpp/">Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) 
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service invites potential partners to propose RCPP projects where NRCS and partners co-invest in impactful and innovative solutions to on-farm, watershed, and regional natural resource concerns where proposed projects must generate conservation benefits by addressing specific natural resource objectives in a State/multistate area or address one or more primary resource concerns within an NRCS-designated https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/programs/financial/rcpp/?cid=stelprdb1254053">critical conservation area (CCA). https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/programs/financial/rcpp/?cid=nrcseprd1477816">Applyhttps://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/programs/financial/rcpp/?cid=nrcseprd1477816">. Application Deadline: December 3, 2019

Funding Opportunities

Rural Infrastructure

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/telecommunications-infrastructure-loans-loan-guarantees">Telecommunications Infrastructure Loans and Loan Guarantees
USDA Rural Development’s Rural Utilities Services offers financing to qualified applicants for the construction, maintenance, improvement and expansion of telephone service and broadband in rural areas. Application Deadline: Ongoing

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/community-facilities-direct-loan-grant-program">Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program
USDA Rural Development provides funding to build and modernize educational, health care, municipal, public safety and many more types of essential community facilities in qualified rural areas. Application Deadline: Ongoing

https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/applying/notices-funding/integrated-mobility-innovation-demonstration-program-notice-funding">Integrated Mobility Innovation Demonstration Program
U.S. Department of Transportation offers grants for projects that demonstrate innovative and effective practices, partnerships, and technologies to enhance public transportation effectiveness, increase efficiency, expand quality, promote safety, and improve the rural traveler experience. Application Deadline: August 6, 2019

https://www.cdfifund.gov/programs-training/Programs/cmf/Pages/default.aspx">Capital Magnet Fund
Grants to finance affordable housing solutions and community revitalization efforts that benefit low-income citizens in communities nationwide. Application Deadline: August 26, 2019

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/farm-labor-housing-direct-loans-grants">Farm Labor Housing Direct Loans & Grants Program
USDA Rural Development is now accepting https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-07-08/pdf/2019-14390.pdf">applications for loans and grants to develop housing for year-round and migrant or seasonal domestic farm laborers and the funding may be used to construct off-farm rental housing for domestic farm laborers. Application Deadline: August 30, 2019

Economic Development

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/rural-microentrepreneur-assistance-program">Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program
USDA Rural Development provides loans to intermediaries to establish revolving loan funds and to provide training and technical assistance to microloan borrowers and micro entrepreneurs. Application Deadline: Ongoing

https://ami.grantsolutions.gov/HHS-2019-ACF-OCS-EE-1580">Community Economic Development Focus on Social Enterprises Program 
Administration for Children and Family’s Office of Community Services offers grants to support innovative incubator projects to develop products, services and activities that result in new positions for individuals with low incomes and addresses unmet needs. Application Deadline: August 5, 2019

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=318754">Rural and Small Urban Transit Applied Technology Technical Assistance Center
The Federal Transit Administration is soliciting proposals to deliver expert focused technical assistance directly to rural areas and small cities to support transit technologies and innovative deployments with a goal to make services in rural and small city America more cost-effective and efficient. Application Deadline: August 9, 2019

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/16/2019-14825/office-of-partnerships-and-public-engagement-outreach-and-assistance-for-socially-disadvantaged">Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program
USDA's Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement supports target entities to conduct outreach and training to assist eligible farmers/ranchers improve their ability to start and maintain successful agricultural business. Application Deadline: August 15, 2019

https://forefdn.org/">Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)
FORE offers support for rural projects, include expanding the use of telehealth and work with the criminal justice system to address barriers to treatment and increase access to care. Letter of Intent Deadline: August 25, 2019

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=305782">Research and National Technical Assistance Projects
Economic Development Administration issues https://www.eda.gov/funding-opportunities/">funding support notice for economic development activities to assist enhance qualified applicants with outreach, training and information dissemination. Specific requirements apply. Application Deadline: September 30, 2020

Funding Opportunities

Rural Infrastructure

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/telecommunications-infrastructure-loans-loan-guarantees">Telecommunications Infrastructure Loans and Loan Guarantees USDA Rural Development’s Rural Utilities Services offers this program to provide financing for the construction, maintenance, improvement and expansion of telephone service and broadband in rural areas. Application Deadline: Ongoing

https://www.rural-design.org/apply">Citizens' Institute on Rural Design
National Endowment for the Arts’ Housing Assistance Council offers opportunities that connect rural communities to design resources to improve community streets, buildings, public spaces, or landscapes to address the specific physical, environmental, social, and economic challenges facing rural areas. Application Deadline: July 22, 2019

https://www.cdfifund.gov/programs-training/Programs/cmf/Pages/default.aspx">Capital Magnet Fund
Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund competitively awards this grant to CDFIs and other qualified non-profit housing organizations to finance affordable housing solutions and community revitalization efforts that benefit distressed communities, including underserved rural areas. Application Deadline: July 26, 2019

https://www.fundersnetwork.org/partners-for-places/">Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities: Partners for Places
Partners for Places, an initiative of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, is a matching grant program that creates opportunities for cities and counties to improve communities by building partnerships between local government sustainability offices and place-based foundations. Application Deadline: July 30, 2019

https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/applying/notices-funding/integrated-mobility-innovation-demonstration-program-notice-funding">Integrated Mobility Innovation Demonstration Program
Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation Grants for projects that demonstrate innovative and effective practices, partnerships, and technologies to enhance public transportation effectiveness, increase efficiency, expand quality, promote safety, and improve the traveler experience. The program intends to test models across rural, suburban, and urban settings. Application Deadline: Aug 6, 2019

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/farm-labor-housing-direct-loans-grants">Farm Labor Housing Direct Loans & Grants Program 
USDA is seeking applications for loans and grants to build new farm labor housing projects or to purchase and rehabilitate non-RD property for farm labor housing. Application Deadline: August 30, 2019

Economic Development

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/rural-microentrepreneur-assistance-program">Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program 
USDA Rural Development provides loans to intermediaries to establish revolving loan funds and to provide training and technical assistance to microloan borrowers and micro entrepreneurs. Application Deadline: Ongoing

https://www.fundersnetwork.org/partners-for-places/">Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities: Partners for Places
Matching grant program that creates opportunities for cities and counties to improve communities by building partnerships between local government sustainability offices and place-based foundations, helping national funders invest in local projects to promote a strong economy. Application Deadline: July 30, 2019

https://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL_12-17_Acc.pdf">National Health Emergency Dislocated Worker Demonstration Grant
The Employment and Training Administration offers a new grant program to help communities solve economic and workforce-related issues due to the opioid crisis. Application Deadline: July 31, 2019

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=316509">Conservation Innovation Grants
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service offers funds to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in conjunction with agricultural production. Application Deadline: July 30, 2019

https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Design_Challenge_2019_FInal.pdf">Community Mobility Design Challenge Planning Grants
The National Center for Mobility Management offers support to rural communities seeking innovative ways to address mobility challenges to support increased economic indicators. Application Deadline: Aug 1, 2019