Deadline: 3-Jul-24
The Rural Housing Service (RHS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), announces that it is accepting applications under the Community Facilities Technical Assistance and Training (TAT) Grant Program for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
Rural Development Key Priorities
- The Agency encourages applicants to consider projects that will advance the following key priorities:
- Creating More and Better Market Opportunities: Assisting rural communities recover economically through more and better market opportunities through improved infrastructure.
- Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Reducing climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through economic support to rural communities.
- Advancing Racial Justice, Place Based Equity, and Opportunity: Ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to RD programs and benefits from RD funded projects.
Purpose of the Program
- The purpose of the Community Facilities TAT Grant Program is to provide technical assistance and training with respect to essential community facilities programs. To meet this purpose, the Agency will make grants to public bodies and private nonprofit corporations (such as States, counties, cities, townships, and incorporated towns and villages, boroughs, authorities, districts, and Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations) to provide assistance and/or training with respect to essential community facilities programs.
- The Technical Assistance and/or training will assist communities, Indian tribes, and nonprofit corporations to identify and plan for community facility needs that exist in their area. Once those needs have been identified, the Grantee can assist in identifying public and private resources to finance those identified community facility needs.
Funding Information
- Available Funds: $540,000.
- Minimum/Maximum Award Amount: Grant awards made to Ultimate Recipients will not exceed $50,000. The Agency has capped the grant awards for Technical Assistance Providers assisting Ultimate Recipients to not exceed $150,000. This applies even if the Technical Assistance Provider covers entities in one county, multiple counties, or multiple states.
- Anticipated Award Date: Awards will be made on or before September 15, 2024.
- Performance Period: The grant period is to be for no more than three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- Special district governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
