H-GAC provides this list of regional, state, federal, and private funding sources for revitalizing, improving, enhancing, or maintaining downtowns for information and convenience for downtown planners and managers.
For annual grant programs, some due dates have passed but may be anticipated around this time every year.
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Federal Programs
| Rural Business Development Grants |
| 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. |
| Offered By |
U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Frequency |
Annual |
| Amount |
$10,000 to $500,000 |
| Match |
None |
| Application Due Date |
February |
| Rural Community Development Initiative Grants |
| RCDI grants are awarded to help non-profit housing and community development organizations, low-income rural communities and federally recognized tribes support housing, community facilities and community and economic development projects in rural areas. Funds may be used to improve housing, community facilities, and community and economic development projects in rural areas. |
| Offered By |
U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Frequency |
Annual |
| Amount |
$50,000 to $500,000 |
| Match |
Matching fund requirement equal to amount of grant |
| Application Due Date |
July |
| Community Facilities Technical Assistance and Training Grant |
| 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 associations Technical 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. |
| Offered By |
U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Frequency |
|
| Amount |
Up to $150,000 |
| Match |
None |
| Application Due Date |
June |
| Our Town Placemaking Grants Program |
| This competitive grant program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. |
| Offered By |
National Endowment for the Arts |
| Frequency |
|
| Amount |
$25,000 to $150,000 |
| Match |
Matching fund requirement equal to amount of grant |
| Application Due Date |
August |
State Programs
| Downtown Revitalization and Main Street Programs |
| The DRP program objective is to provide infrastructure improvements to address the conditions that contribute to the deterioration in an area designated as slum or blighted in the applicant community's downtown or main street area. Eligible applicants must be an incorporated municipality and not be designated as an official Texas Historical Commission Main Street City. |
| Offered By |
Texas Department of Agriculture |
| Frequency |
Annual |
| Amount |
$250,000 to $500,000 |
| Match |
Dependent on Community Size |
| Application Due Date |
May |
Regional Programs
| Community Development Partnership Program (CDPP) |
| Funds capital improvement projects including energy efficiency and water conservation, education, volunteer fire departments, and public safety organizations impacted by wildfires and extreme drought conditions. Projects must be in LCRA's service area. |
| Offered By |
Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) |
| Eligible Entities |
Local governments, school districts, emergency medical services, volunteer fire departments, libraries, civic groups, nonprofits |
| Total Program Funding |
$1,000,000 |
| Max-Min Award per Project |
$50,000 maximum award |
| Match |
20% |
| Application Due Date |
January and July each year |
Private Programs
| Affordable Housing for Rural Veterans (AHRV) Initiative |
| HAC’s Affordable Housing for Rural Veterans (AHRV) Initiative supports local nonprofit housing development organizations that meet or help meet the affordable housing needs of veterans with low incomes in rural places. Grants typically range up to $30,000 per organization and must support bricks-and-mortar projects that assist low-income, elderly and/or disabled veterans with critical home repair, accessibility modifications, support homeless veterans, help veterans become homeowners, and/or secure affordable rental housing. |
| Offered By |
|
| Frequency |
Annual |
| Amount |
Up to $30,000 |
| Match |
|
| Application Due Date |
January |
| Community Change Grants |
| The Community Change Grants program supports the growing network of advocates, organizations, and agencies working to advance walkability. Grants are awarded to innovative, engaging, and inclusive programs and projects that create change and opportunity for walking and movement at the community level. |
| Offered By |
America Walks |
| Frequency |
Annual |
| Amount |
$1,500 |
| Match |
|
| Application Due Date |
October |
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