OpportunityTitle: Rural Business Development Grant (RBDG)
CategoryExplanation: This program is designed to provide technical assistance and training for small rural businesses. Small means that the business has fewer than 50 new workers and less than $1 million in gross revenue.
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Rural public entities including, but not limited to:Towns, Communities, State agencies, Authorities, Nonprofit corporations, Institutions of higher education, Federally-recognized tribes, Rural cooperatives (if organized as a private nonprofit corporation).
Description: The purpose of the program is to promote economic development and job creation projects through the awarding of grant funds to eligible entities. Applicationswill compete in two separate categories, business opportunity grants and business enterprise grants, for use in funding various business and community projects that serve rural areas.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: RBDG Program Contact
GrantorContactText: Cindy Mason &lt;br/&gt;Program Manager
CloseDateExplanation: Complete applications may be submitted in paper or electronic format and must be received by 4:30 p.m. localtime on February 28, 2022, in the USDA Rural Development State Office for the State where the Project is located.  Late submissions will not be considered