DCTA Program Resources

This publication reports on the progress of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA1) program in their distribution of funds appropriated under the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act and describes the Treasury’s reallocation process for ERA1 grantees, along with recommendations to ERA administrators and the Treasury to best serve low-income renters.

This report characterizes the nearly five million homes that constitute the federally assisted housing stock, analyzes preservation risks these homes face, and identifies policy priorities to support their preservation.

This blog post focuses on strategies for Emergency Rental Assistance money to reach the 7.1 million households that do not have bank accounts.

In this report author Gabriel Thompson, who has written extensively on farmworkers in California, profiles a range of people from the agricultural Coachella Valley whose lives were transformed through their participation in self-help housing.

This article weighs in on whether 3D printing, repurposed shipping containers, and offsite manufacturing can stand up as potential solutions to the country’s affordable-housing crisis.

This press release announced two measures to sustainably advance the affordability of homeownership for mortgage borrowers across the nation, especially those in underserved communities, by expanding eligibility for low-and moderate-income families and leveraging desktop appraisals to reduce inefficiencies in the mortgage process.

This article tells about the reuse of an old orphanage site to provide affordable and supportive housing to seniors in Rockland County, New York.

This press release announced that Freddie Mac plans to offer at least $3 billion in Single-Family affordable housing bonds to support affordable homeownership and serve historically underserved markets.

This press release announced that HUD will publish a rule that prohibits the eviction of tenants facing eviction for nonpayment of rent from HUD-subsidized public housing and certain properties with project-based rental assistance without providing a 30-day notice period that includes information about available federal emergency rental assistance.

This article tells how the Housing Trust Group recently opened a new 76-unit development to provide needed affordable housing options in the West Kendall area of Miami.

This resource includes the National Housing Preservation Database, along with reports, resources, tool kits and more to help organizations understand the stock of publicly supported housing in their community, and to preserve affordable housing options for low-income households.

This article, part two in a five-part series on small-scale, incremental development, discusses the challenges small developers face in navigating regulatory barriers.

In this article National Multifamily Housing Council president talks about how the pandemic revealed the critical shortage of affordable housing and how “quick” and “free” solutions, like rent control and eviction moratoriums, are serious mistakes to avoid.

This article discusses how multifamily developers and operators continue to adapt to the challenges spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as look for opportunities based on renters’ shifting needs and wants.

This article is part one in a five-part series on small-scale, incremental development.

This article discusses how the pandemic has taught a growing number of renters and apartment developers the value of healthy features.

This article explains how a nonprofit development organization renovated an old YMCA building, turning it into a 37 unit apartment complex for artists, veterans and others with incomes at or below 60 percent of the region’s median.

This invitation is a call for mayors, city and county leaders, tribal nation leaders, and governors to join the national All-Hands-on-Deck Effort to Address the Nation’s Homelessness Crisis partnership to address homelessness through a Housing First approach.

This article discusses HUD's new initiative to rehouse at least 100,000 households experiencing homelessness through a Housing First approach, and to add at least 20,000 new units of affordable housing into the development pipeline by Sept. 30, 2022.

This article provides insights into mission-driven practices at the intersection of policy and implementation to help elevate municipal asset management practice.

This article announces the recipients of the annual Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Awards, which recognizes outstanding affordable housing properties that have demonstrated impactful use of the low-income housing tax credit.

This report summarizes the results of a study which found that almost half of adults who say their student loan debt prevents them from buying a home also say that they cannot save for a down payment due to student debt.

The article announces a series of moves by the Biden administration aimed at creating, preserving, or selling 100,000 affordable homes for homeowners and renters in the next three years.

This white paper from LISC's Research and Evaluation team offers quantitative and qualitative evidence of how intensive and collaborative community development in rural America raises standards of living and civic engagement in concrete and enduring ways.

This news feed provides national and local housing-related resources and information from a rural lens, including national program and policy updates, summaries of Federal Register filings, findings from recent research reports, and much more.

This website offers access weekly national calls on Coronavirus, housing, and homelessness and past recordings that featured updates from national, state, and local advocates and service providers working to assist people experiencing homelessness, low-income households, and members of marginalized communities.

This HUD resource is focused on homeless and housing programs, property owners, grantees, lenders, and individuals. View the following pages to explore some of these resources.

• COVID-19 Guidance and FAQs for Grantees
• COVID-19 Toolkits, Policy Notices, and FAQs for Public Housing Agencies
• Coronavirus Resources from HUD Program Offices
• Quick Guide to CDBG Eligible Activities to Support Coronavirus and Other Infectious Disease Response
• Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Programs COVID-19 Grantee Guidance
• CDBG-CV Economic Development Quick Guide
• CDBG-CV Financial Management Quick Guide
• CDBG-CV Public Facilities Quick Guide
• CDBG-CV PPR Tieback Flexibilities Quick Guide
• CDBG-CV Rural Coronavirus Response Quick Guide

This report reviews the status of the national housing market and the inequalities amplified by the pandemic, including the exclusion of less affluent buyers from homeownership.

This blog shares insights gained over the 10 years of Enterprise’s Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute, including three mindsets have risen to the top as game-changing for the pursuit of break though, people-oriented affordable housing.

This article shares insights about how energy efficient building lowers operating costs that increases the bottom line, particularly when it comes to affordable housing.

This article takes a closer look at the recent housing market trends, the outlook, and how it will likely impact both local and state governments.

This policy brief provides a blueprint for using the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to meet the Fair Housing Act’s goal of affirmatively furthering fair housing.

This report presents findings from fifteen in-depth case studies of emergency rental assistance programs across the country and draws out key instances of program learning that can inform the newest round of rental assistance programs.

This research brief provides new evidence of how the pandemic has increased housing insecurity among renters and how households have navigated this ongoing hardship.

This report, available in English and Spanish with downloadable data, examines affordable housing supply and describes the demographics, disability status, employment status, and other characteristics of extremely low-income renters.

This action brief explains the difference between small- and large-scale developers and the important role small developers and incremental projects can play in city growth.

This overview provides resources related to the Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) program, which provides eligible grantees with direct grants for use in developing viable Indian and Alaska Native Communities, including decent housing, a suitable living environment, and economic opportunities, primarily for low- and moderate-income persons.

This report provides a set of robust solutions that housing stakeholders can pursue for effective, equitable, and sustainable housing. You can read or download the Executive Summary for an overview of solutions and principles, as well as a process to guide leaders through tailoring the most appropriate solutions to best meet the needs of their communities.

This article summarizes results of a survey of service coordinators working with older adults in publicly funded housing, which identified unique challenges faced in adapting to COVID-19.

This toolkit provides best practice recommendations and tips for working on unsubsidized, affordable, small to medium-scale preservation projects, including tips for building relationships, identifying properties, securing financing, negotiating and deal closing, and effectively rehabilitating and managing property.

This brief provides a look at a series of policies that can support the economic well-being of vulnerable renters now and over the long-term.

This article discusses how inclusion and equity in more American metropolitan areas is possible through innovations in local, regional, and state policies related to mixed-income communities.

This article reports that while it may still be months until the community impacts of COVID-19 come into focus, there are ways to act now to minimize commercial and residential property deterioration and subsequent vacancy.

This report examines strategies to save costs on three affordable housing building components: the exterior shell, interiors, and services. The analysis focuses on how innovation in design and construction can reduce the costs of multifamily housing without sacrifice.

This article reports on the challenges of natural disaster planning and response, and how it takes on urgency during the pandemic.

This report published by the Democracy Collaborative provides an overview of strategies and tools that, as a group, represent an innovative and potentially powerful new approach that establishes, in various ways, community control of land and housing.

This article discusses best practices for cities to strategize their response to ransomware threats and explores how the proposed federal infrastructure bill includes $1 billion in grant funding for state and local governments in support of their initiatives to improve cybersecurity.

This resource provides guidance for navigating the funding options under the American Rescue Plan for state and local governments, schools and Tribes to help public sector officials know where, when and how to start.

The CDC publishes a wealth of information for individuals, schools, communities and local government about the Coronavirus pandemic.

• Communication Resources
• COVID-19 Vaccine-Specific Information
• COVID-19 Testing Overview
• COVID Data Tracker
• Guidance on Wildfire Smoke and COVID-19
• Key Resources for Health Departments
• Searchable Guidance for COVID-19

This website provides information, action learning guides, data, strategies and a host of resources to support COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.

NACo News explores many facets of county governments' response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including topics like health program development, emergency shelter provision, COVID-19 budget impacts, county election challenges, and more.

This bank of resources houses critical resources and information about funding available to counties as a result of the State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds legislation within the American Rescue Plan Act.

• Effective COVID-19 Communications for Your County
• Key Considerations for Counties in COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plans
• State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds
• American Rescue Plan Act Funding Breakdown
• County Finances and Administration
• Measuring Economic Recovery
• Status of Human Services and Education Funding under Supplemental COVID-19 Packages
• COVID-19 Pandemic Webinars and Events

This notice provides information regarding the requirements and timeline for applications for State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) funding.

This free toolkit provides suggestions about specific actions local leaders can take to stabilize their community, guidance on major decisions local leaders should anticipate, and resources for laying the groundwork for the strongest possible recovery.

This resource page offers guidance, data, and reports to provide support for vaccine efforts, rumor control, best practices, and a number of other recovery and economic assistance efforts.

• FEMA Resource Roadmaps
• COVID-19 Supplemental Resources
• Bringing Resources to State, Local, Tribal & Territorial Governments
• COVID-19 Healthcare Resource Roadmap (Version 2.0)

This page highlights resources identified or developed to address current response and recovery operations to COVID-19. Several topic collections include:

• HHS COVID-19 Federal Regulatory and Funding Flexibilities
• HHS COVID-19 State, Territorial, and Local Resources
• HHS COVID-19 Workforce Virtual Toolkit
• HHS Protect Public Data Hub
• COVID-19 Public Education Campaign: A Campaign to Increase Vaccine Confidence

This toolkit can assist grantees’ ongoing identification and implementation of CDBG-CV program activities that best serve their communities.

This article explores a three-pronged approach for using American Rescue Plan funding.

This resource provides guidance to entities that receive funding from the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Programs on how to meet compliance and reporting responsibilities.

This story describes how Montgomery County, Maryland customer service representatives maintained an 84 percent customer satisfaction level throughout the pandemic with callers unaware they were fielding calls from their homes.

This blog reports on the SolSmart Program milestone of over 400 counties, municipalities, and regional organizations receiving SolSmart designation. These SolSmart-designated local governments have expanded local solar knowledge, increased solar technology use, and reduced ‘soft costs’ and other obstacles to solar energy.

This resource brief for rural counties highlights strategies, key considerations, and best practices for increasing vaccination coverage.

This guide summarizes key components of the CARES Act (CDBG-CV) as they relate to State CDBG-CV program implementation.

This article announced the receipt of $9.4 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support Land-grant Universities and the Cooperative Extension System in delivering immunization education.

This report summarizes a conversation between Oji Alexander, Executive Director, and the National Housing Conference about how Home by Hand and the people it serves have been affected by COVID-19, and why their affordable homeownership mission is as important as ever.

This training curriculum provides a suite of information and tools to help CDBG grantees understand basic CDBG requirements and drill down into more nuanced issues related to the administration and implementation of the program, including manuals, tool kits, recorded sessions, quizzes, and project profiles.

This article examines how transformative placemaking investments can be essential to fostering a more equitable recovery and creating a more just and sustainable nation.

This guide was developed for community engagement regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and provides messaging strategies, data, and tips for understanding the media and resident landscape.

This article summarizes an open discussion that Zencity had with county administrators from McHenry County, IL, Nevada County, CA, and Ottawa County, MI about their personal experiences managing the pandemic.

This blog shares examples of two counties, Cook County, IL and Essex County, NJ, that are collaborating with Lyft to expand transportation access to their residents.

This toolkit, with new sections released on a rolling basis, presents a roadmap to help local governments and community stakeholders encourage the use of solar energy and related technologies, helping cities, counties, and small towns become “open for solar business.”

This tool guides users through a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis to collect and organize information to explore new opportunities, make decisions about new strategies, identify areas for change, and refine and redirect current efforts with new solutions.

This post offers three policy guidance recommendations for designing, implementing, and evaluating incentives to help state and local policymakers achieve their economic and entrepreneurship development objectives.

The SBA and Department of Treasury offer several avenues for grants and loans designed specifically to help American small businesses stay open and recover from the economic impacts of COVID-19.

• The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Forgiveness
• COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program
• Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program
• SBA and Treasury Announce Simpler PPP Forgiveness for Loans of $50,000 or Less

This report analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic has enhanced uncertainty around the ‘Future of Work’ which is impacted by automation, shifting demographics, and other factors.

This guide was created for community leaders and other local entities to help them access resources to create jobs, train talent, expand educational opportunities and provide technical assistance.

This article shares thoughts and considerations from county leaders on deciding which work practices and job functions, both internal and public facing, stay remote when the pandemic is over.

This playbook provides local leaders and stakeholders with recommendations for and examples of successful workforce development programs from across the country.

This article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on county transit systems. Several county transit administrators share their experience and perspectives about the future.

This resource provides data on how U.S. businesses changed their operations and employment since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic through September 2020 and shows changes in employment, wages, job openings and terminations, employer-provided benefits, and safety and health.

This report explores how the demand for labor is expected to shift in the post-pandemic economy, and how transferable skills could both pave the way for lower-wage workers to move up to higher-paying positions and help meet the talent needs of employers.

This report looks at why businesses owned by people of color, women, and immigrants were highly susceptible to an economic downturn prior to the pandemic, and how microbusinesses have been severely impacted by the virtual stoppage of economic activity in the sectors of the economy where they are most represented.

This report explores the harassment, threats and violence local leaders across the country are facing, along with recommendations for forming a pathway to a more civil discourse.

This article discusses how Federal provider relief funds have allowed rural hospitals to spend money that otherwise would have gone to personal protective equipment and other COVID-19 needs, to something they've long needed: upgraded technology.

This article explores how the Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board partnered with the Center for Disaster Philanthropy to build capacity of Native individuals and organizations to meet COVID-19 response and recovery needs of Natives living in urban Western South Dakota.

This publication shares reflections from ten county teams on the two-year, $2 million Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge initiative.

This website provides critical resources for rural healthcare facilities to prepare for and respond to a COVID-19 surge.

This resource provides a summary of the efforts and a list of alternative care sites across the country, which are facilities temporarily converted for healthcare use during a public health emergency to reduce the burden on hospitals and established medical facilities.

This resource provides information, resources, webinars, and more, including grant opportunities, to help states and local governments develop cost-effective ways to reduce lead-based paint hazards.

This press release announced an investment of up to $1 billion, including $500 million in American Rescue Plan funding, in The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) to support and expand the emergency food network so states, food banks, and local organizations can reliably serve their communities.

This press release announced plans to invest more than $4 billion (in addition to the $1 billion to purchase healthy food and build food bank capacity) to strengthen critical supply chains through the Build Back Better initiative.

This report calls for a decade-long effort to support locally led and voluntary conservation and restoration efforts across public, private, and Tribal lands and waters in order to create jobs and strengthen the economy’s foundation; tackle the climate and nature crises; and address inequitable access to the outdoors.

This resource compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing programs to address social determinants of health in rural communities across the United States.

This press release announced the release of HUD's climate adaptation and resilience plan to ensure its facilities and operations adapt and are increasingly resilient to climate change impacts.

In this LISC story Caitlin Cain, vice president and director of Rural LISC, explains how, as CDFIs, funders and community developers, we must radically shift our approach to investing for preparation and resiliency.

This resource guide provides an overview of programs and servicing options that can help rural residents, businesses, and communities impacted by disaster, and support long-term planning and recovery efforts that build for the future. View the Spanish version.

This resource offers interactive tools to help communities understand and manage their climate-related risks and opportunities.

This resource provides information, tools, and guidance about grant funds for pre and post emergency or disaster related projects, including hazard mitigation, preparedness, resilience, and emergency food and shelter.

This manual was developed to guide FEMA grant program applicants and recipients on how to manage their grants and other resources, including guidance on policies, procedures, rules and regulations that guide the proper management of FEMA grants.

This playbook includes practical, action-oriented aid to help communities identify the most effective resilience-improvement projects through a structured yet flexible method to set community-scale goals, align priorities and resources, identify key stakeholders, and develop plans for recovery of community functions.

This toolkit assists communities in enhancing their resilience to climate-related natural hazard risks. Local governments can use the toolkit to identify natural hazard risks and resilience actions that can be integrated into existing programs.

This toolkit is designed to help small- to medium-size communities jump-start their natural disaster planning process by providing information about tools and resources available through federal and state agencies, disaster relief organizations, and At-a-Glance Preparedness Checklists.

This page includes a brief synopsis of the history, objectives, rules and requirements of the program, and a summary of the process for implementing disaster recovery activities. View the CDBG-DR page on the HUD Exchange for more information.

This list of disaster resources provides partners with federal and state agencies to help implement disaster recovery assistance.

This article tells how the City of Rochester is striving to progress past historic pain by advocating for and uplifting minority voices while endorsing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

This resource shines the light on the pandemic’s disproportionate toll on Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people and on bold solutions for equitable recovery and renewal.

This article explains the challenges that developers of color face when seeking capital funds for community development projects.

This report explores the various ways that that the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the face of racism in America – particularly within our economy, our health care institutions, and our justice systems.

This website provides guidance for using data to support recovery and to engage community residents and youth in strategies for community-centered pandemic relief and response, along with timely articles on a variety of related topics

This article explores how the deep racial inequalities in both rental housing and homeownership in the United States and housing’s link to the country’s racial wealth gap, have prompted substantial investment and philanthropy from big companies looking to support racial justice.

This article summarizes the declaration by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and outlines the CDC’s stated role in addressing the impact of racism on public health.

Additional Resources:

• NACo County Resources on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• CDC, HHS Announce Multiple Grant Programs to Improve Vaccine and Health Equity
• Health Legislation to Focus on Equity, Social Determinants of Health
• Ways and Means Democrats Release Legislative Framework Addressing County Priorities for Health and Economic Equity

This series of resources, explores how governments can achieve an equitable recovery by ensuring that public investment, loans, and spending gets to woman- and minority-owned businesses to help them survive and thrive. Read the latest stories:

• How to Bring Manufacturing Back to Cities – and Bring People of Color Along Too
• Some Cities are Cutting Red Tape to Try to Save their Small Businesses
• How Cities Can Help Small Businesses Hire and Train Locally
• The Pandemic is Pushing Cities to Rethink How to Drive Capital to Small Business

This commentary examines research on the COVID-19 risk in rural communities by race and ethnicity and highlights the different issues that influence the health outcomes of people of color and Indigenous people living in rural areas during COVID-19.

This article provides an overview of the vulnerability of firms owned by minorities prior to the crisis and shares insights from organizations that work with minority firms on how these firms are being affected during the crisis.

This report provides suggestions for how the new Presidential administration can reform U.S. disaster policy and outlines four key reforms that could get bipartisan support, reduce federal spending, and protect American lives. The report provides data that demonstrates how disasters affect millions of Americans and are particularly devastating for low-income communities and communities of color.

This report provides guidance on some key considerations when integrating equity into service delivery and design and includes references to existing resources and helpful information.

This fact sheet explains racial disparities in housing and the policies and practices behind them.

This report discusses the Indian Health Service response to the pandemic and gaps in pandemic-related services, including telehealth access, underfunded and understaffed healthcare facilities, data quality and information access, cultural literacy, and behavioral health needs.

This study links historically redlined neighborhoods and the systemic effects of limited access to investment and other financial resources to poverty, reduced life expectancy, and chronic diseases, all of which are risk factors for poor outcomes from COVID-19.

This paper argues that to mitigate COVID-19’s economic harms and begin to eradicate persistent inequities, relief efforts must account for harms created by discriminatory policies that have segregated communities and systematically denied them the public and private investment needed to thrive.

This index reveals significant racial inequities even in the most prosperous cities and metros and provides data to help leaders develop targeted strategies for inclusive prosperity.

This video presentation is one of seven in a series called the Poverty Narrative that is dedicated to a deeper understanding of poverty in the U.S. and Midwest. This video focuses on examining poverty as well as practices and factors that influence poverty in rural, urban, and suburban settings.

The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank has released a series of briefs to identify those most at economic risk from COVID-19 and set a policy framework for a more equitable recovery.

• Which Neighborhoods and Households Will Be Most Impacted by COVID-19?
• Which Workers Will Be Most Impacted by COVID-19?
• What Small Businesses Will Be Impacted by COVID-19?

This report of site-based work to dramatically reduce youth incarceration, especially for youth of color, spans 12 demonstration sites across the United States and employs intentional and data-driven strategies that move systems toward equity and specifically focus on youth of color.

This resource provides a glossary of terms related to structural racism and terms used to promote racial equity analysis identified by a group of leading innovators to produce strong and reliable frameworks for successful and sustainable community change and development.

This article explores the complex nature of innovation and its impact on affordable housing and the associated labor market.

This article, part three in a five-part series on small-scale, incremental development, shares the story of what can happen when incremental development is an organic response from within the community to a particular need, offering great potential to accelerate.

This resource provides an avenue for sharing programs and resources that support comprehensive, logical and theoretically sound community development processes and a searchable library that Extension professionals can use in their work.

This article examines the rationale for rural remote work, looking at rural remote work from an economic developer’s perspective, and sharing potential factors of analysis when considering whether to pursue a rural remote work strategy.

This article, part four in a five-part series on small-scale, incremental development, discusses how building a conscious community centered around incremental development can be transformative.

This article, the final in a five-part series on small-scale, incremental development, wraps up the series by trying to answer the question of who will do the work and for what reasons.

This announcement summarizes President Biden's Build Back Better framework to guide legislative language and set the U.S. on a course to meet the administration's climate, labor force, and economic goals.

This article reviews the current reconciliation bill under consideration and a number of priorities that local governments have been calling on Congress to address for years, such as workforce development and affordable housing.

This news brief explains the impact being achieved by a pair of economic development specialists from the Utah Association of Counties as they help take counties beyond the finish line of securing new economic development projects.

This press release announced a significant expansion of access to high-speed internet, health care and educational services for millions of rural Americans.

This report summarizes research designed to help build a better foundation for leveraging rural assets and to better understand these strengths so policymakers from the local to the federal level, practitioners, and investors can build on communities’ potential to better target investment and support.

This article shares insights from mayors and city officials of several Utah towns involved in the Utah Main Street Program, part of a larger, national initiative.

This resource guide can help partners and stakeholders meet the growing need for quality, affordable child care infrastructure in rural communities, promoting strong rural economic recovery and development, and championing the success of working families. View the Spanish version.

This website offers resources for revitalizing downtowns and commercial corridors as well as a forum for exchanging news, information, and ideas about how to rebuild the hearts of cities and towns.

This report explores solar energy's role in transitioning to carbon-free electric grid and suggests that with aggressive cost reductions, supportive policies, and large-scale electrification, solar could account for as much as 40% of the nation’s electricity supply by 2035 and 45% by 2050.

This article discusses the impact of Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) and looks back at several cities where CBAs were won to find out where those agreements stand now.

This E-book explores how communities can build the kind of place where generations can stay and thrive and suggests strategies intended to help communities take control of their own economic destiny by building wealth from within that can be sustained across generations.

This report identifies factors that support local engagement in regional economies, how these factors vary for urban and rural places, and whether the benefits of economic connectivity are equitably distributed among places and people in regions.

This report explains how land banks and community land trusts (CLT) are two entities that, in concert, can help reverse the trajectory of disinvestment and unlock a pipeline of VAD properties to provide much needed quality affordable housing for current and future generations.

This fact sheet provides an overview of seven community capitals and suggests that the lifeblood of any community can be linked to the presence, strength and balance of these capitals, resources that can be invested or tapped for the purpose of promoting the long-term well-being of communities.

This resource guide was developed for rural communities to identify resources that can help develop the recreation economy.

This paper offers the latest thoughts for communities to undertake capacity building efforts that lead to successful economic development game plans. The paper provides a capacity building framework and answers important questions to help communities lead successful economic development.

This relaunched website includes news briefs, videos, and resources that examine the intersection of arts, culture, and equitable development, and also shares how community development goals can be reached through the integration of arts and culture in partnership with non-arts organizations

This resource provides guidance for transportation planners, public works agencies, and local elected officials who want to collaborate with artists, highlighting eight common ways artists contribute to transportation and infrastructure projects with an equity lens to allow for more genuine public engagement.

This study, commissioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), highlights successful strategies small cities and towns use to promote economic development. The study focuses on how these places emphasize existing assets and distinctive resources to complement a broad economic strategy.

This research report explores the outcomes of place-based programs and presents strategies for strengthening place-based programs to better support distressed area. The report includes a literature review of more than 100 studies and more than 30 interviews with national experts, governmental officials and researchers. The results indicate a number of actions state and local governments should take to begin solving the problems associated with current models.

This article examines lessons learned from the $180 million Health Futures Fund, which combined the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and New Markets Tax Credit to provide loans to community developers and award grants supporting project development. Thoughtful site selection, effective coordination among partners, and provision of trustworthy community services led to the most successful outcomes.

This website provides connections to resources, information, tools, how-to guides, and community examples, along with connections to people in nearby communities, discussion forums, and local meeting resources aimed at helping local communities become strong towns.

This toolkit aims to help communities build and capitalize on outdoor recreation spaces. Through interviews with over 60 practitioners, a collection of principles and best practices are provided for building outdoor recreation economies.

This study documents the critical role community banks play in providing access to credit in several key areas of the U.S. economy, particularly through lending to support commercial real estate, small businesses, and agriculture.

This article explains HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, which promotes increased earnings and savings among families receiving HUD-funded rental assistance. In addition to the explanation, the footnotes provide a wealth of links and resources related to rental assistance programs and benefits.

This publication highlights and reveals the high value of adopting and enforcing International Codes for hazard mitigation as a return on investment.

This guide provides a useful first step in making federal funding more accessible to creative placemaking practitioners, including a wide array of federal funding resources that go beyond typical arts grants to encompass various aspects of creative placemaking.

This report draws out valuable lessons learned from Reimagining the Civic Commons, a philanthropy-funded national initiative focused on reviving shared civic assets—parks, libraries, plazas, recreational centers, and more—into places that have the power to foster engagement, equity, environmental sustainability, and economic development.

• Learn about the Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative.

This report describes how economic development organizations can modify their incentive programs to help struggling small businesses. The guide helps state economic development organizations identify things to consider as they determine whether or how to extend their incentive programs to small, locally serving businesses.

This analysis of the CDFI industry’s initial forays into the capital markets examines how CDFIs can expand their role as trusted intermediaries for capital investment in people and places where disparities in health, employment, wealth and financial security, and overall quality of life have stemmed from a lack of capital access.

This brief focuses on how local experiences with arts and culture have changed the internal values, structures, and operations of community development organizations, and the concrete methods by which the organizations implemented those changes.

This training manual for states was developed to guide and assist State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) grantees in the implementation of their programs.

This report is a comprehensive Analysis of 2019-2020 Volume Cap Trends and how Private Activity Bonds (PABs) are used from state to state.

This resource contains analyses and trends of county investment priorities, stories about how counties are supporting residents, resources to guide planning and utilization, and a database of county ARPA Recovery Fund investment plans.

This annual report provides insight into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and proactive federal policy on city finances.

This website provides information and resources to learn about the bipartisan INVEST in America Act aimed at modernizing US roads, bridges, transit, rail, drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, broadband services, and so much more.

In this article NACo Transportation Steering Committee Chair Liz Hausmann looks at the national infrastructure outlook for counties and what she sees at home in Fulton County, Ga.

This resource on the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund provides up-to-date resources, guidance, certification guidelines, and a direct link to apply for fiscal recovery funds.

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Compliance and Reporting Guidance
• Interim Final Rule
• Federal Register Announcement

This resource is designed to provide county leaders with options for safeguarding residents’ financial security and economic mobility during COVID-19.

This resource considers links in the farm-to-consumer supply chain that may be affected by the pandemic, including farms, processors, handlers, retail outlets, and trade.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has updated information about the CARES Act and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021. Specific resource links include:

• Assistance for American Workers and Families
• Assistance for Small Businesses
• Assistance for State, Local, and Tribal Governments
• Preserving Jobs for American Industry
• Emergency Rental Assistance Program
• Emergency Capital Investment Program

This resource provides an overview of the $1.5 billion allocated to EDA under the CARES Act for economic development assistance programs.

This resource provides analyses, maps, and data related to jobs, payroll, and the impact of COVID-19 on employment trends and economic changes across the United States.

This fact sheet summarizes how states and non-entitlement units of local government are to distribute, receive, and report the funds from the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund.

This article discusses the impact of COVID-19 on families with young children, and how American Recovery Act funds can be used to advance existing early childhood programs.

This report outlines key provisions of the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act (S. 914) which provides $35 Billion over five years in federal financing to address the nation’s water infrastructure needs.

This web page provides the history and text of the American Rescue Plan made into law on March 11, 2021.

This resource provides an extensive searchable summary of provisions relevant to the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund, including agency, program, summary, amount, eligible city sizes, and links to the relevant federal program.

This playbook provides guidance for practitioners, residents, and city and regional leaders to carry out community-rooted economic inclusion work designed to help build wealth and opportunity, while driving city and regional economic growth that centers equity at its core.

This report provides guidance that draws on lessons learned from past recessions, research on incentive best practices, and responses to economic priorities, along with a framework for considering the critical issues and trade-offs that will help state leaders assess their incentive options in 2021.

This report provides a summary of each title of the American Rescue Plan Act.

This report has an interactive credit monitoring tool for states and counties nationwide, with state and county level data, information about credit health, and policy actions that governments can take to fill the gaps and protect consumers.

This document answers frequently asked questions about the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund grants to help cities prepare for local allocations.

This article summarizes the comments made by state government experts about how the Coronavirus will continue to drive the work of state governments in the coming year.

This interactive resource provides discussions, links, and interactive data graphics to help city leaders navigate the dramatically accelerated disruptions and innovations of the pandemic on local economies and community main streets across America. View the full report The Future of Cities: Reenvisioning Retail.

This resource provides guidance, best practices, trainings, videos, tools, and templates for people interested in municipal finance and financial management, as well as a downloadable municipal finance glossary with terms and definitions for the language of municipal finance.

This report examines the way the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a dramatic short-term economic and revenue growth shock for many U.S. states.

This overview provides resources related to the State CDBG program, which offers grants to non-entitlement areas (cities with a population less than 50,000 and counties with a population less than 200,000) for housing, community services, and job retention.

This report outlines the results of a county leader survey, four focus groups, and 15 interviews with county leaders on their experiences and needs to manage economic recovery related to the community impacts of COVID-19.

This article discusses how the pandemic is putting rural downtowns in an increasingly precarious economic position due to their heavy reliance on retail and restaurants, as well as their limited access to the capital and broadband infrastructure small businesses now need to survive.

This issue brief summarizes new research on how state and county leaders can use evidence to make strategic budget cuts in the face of economic downturn. The research outlines four strategies, updating budget guidelines, assessing needs and analyzing program performance, using national clearinghouses, and adapting program delivery that can help government officials reduce spending while addressing increasing community needs.

This brief provides an overview of the structural barriers that have made low- to moderate-income immigrant households particularly vulnerable to the public health and economic crises precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This collection of COVID related tools and resources provides links to and information about housing, finance, small business, workforce development, funding, and household financial stability.

This report provides a summary of the major individual and business tax provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

This report examines the role of counties in the recovery process as local leaders support America’s 10 million unemployed workers amidst the challenges of delivering essential services during a global pandemic.

This resource includes the EPA's Air, Land, and Water Finance Clearinghouses which are web‐based portals that provide resources to bolster community services and improvements related to land management, air quality, and water infrastructure.

This toolkit tracks the steps the federal government has taken to implement new resources and administrative changes within human services and education programs.

This report explores county partnerships with post-secondary education systems and shares key findings from its national landscape analysis on counties’ role and decision-making authority in post-secondary education. The analysis includes key consideration for county leaders to partner with post-secondary education institutions.

This data resource provides state and county level interactive maps of the 2022 Qualified Census Tracts (QCTs) and Difficult Development Areas (DDAs) that will be effective January 1, 2022.

This brief discusses population growth and its variation in the rate and direction of population change among the numerous racial and Hispanic origin groups that together represent the U.S. population.

This resource provides a collection of real-time charts and reports documenting the impact of COVID-19 on rural areas, including tracking hot spots across the country, COVID-19 growth in rural counties, state rural hospital and community vulnerabilities, and more.

This page provides the latest data on socio-economic indicators and provides maps, data displays, and data downloads in Excel format for states and counties.

This interactive data hub includes COVID-19 resources that provide users with demographic risk factor variables along with economic data on 20 key industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report on the COVID-19 pandemic explains how American views have changed and how opinions have shifted on key issues over the past 12 months.

This annual report documents the significant gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing across the United States and provides a media kit with graphics that present key data from the report. View the full Out of Reach 2021 report.

This resource incorporates the latest data and evidence on COVID-19 risk factors and aggregates dozens of tailored indicators into a simple composite score for each census tract, county, and state in the country to inform COVID-19 planning and mitigation at a granular level.

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the data compiled in the U.S. COVID Community Vulnerability Index (CCVI) and makes policy recommendations for mitigating the impact of COVID in the most vulnerable communities across the country.

This research project maps community well-being across the country down to the zip code scale. The report is accompanied by a digital mapping interactive that allows users to explore all of the data included in the DCI across zip codes, counties, and congressional districts.

This report discusses the impact of the Coronavirus on American cities and how the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic raise questions about the future attractiveness of large cities as places to live and do business.

This article announces the opening of the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, a collaboration of 39 tribal nations designed to share their stories and cultures with other Americans.

This resource provides regular updates on the pandemic, along with resources and materials that can be used to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

This resource provides information on a wide range of grant and loan programs that support rural communities’ economic development efforts, help rural and disadvantaged communities recover economically from the impacts of COVID-19, and maintain and improve health, wealth and economic stability of rural populations.

This resource provides information and guidance about immediate and long-term assistance for rural communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including:

• COVID-19 Federal Rural Resource Guide
• Immediate Actions Factsheet

This report provides an overview on how the pandemic is affecting rural America, including the spread of cases and unemployment among the U.S. metro and non-metro populations and by county economic types.

This report features national, state, and county-level information on rural transit in the United States and includes rural and urban comparisons on demographics and transportation.

This resource brings together CDFA’s knowledge of development finance programs, along with the strategic support from private sector partners, to create a transferrable toolkit of finance programs and other resources capable of leveraging community facilities infrastructure in rural communities throughout the nation.

This article describes the strategies being pursued to launch a city-provided high-speed broadband service that the city hopes will benefit Allentown’s poorest communities and attract investment to the city.

This article shares insights from a survey of affordable housing service coordinators on the impact of COVID-19 and how lack of internet reliability impacted vulnerable populations and their access to resources.

This resource provides county-level data, with comparisons to peer counties, to create comprehensive reports with detailed maps and charts on key metrics such as employment in digital jobs, CS graduation rates, and broadband connectivity to help rural leaders understand their tech ecosystems.

This resource provides maps and other data depicting broadband availability and several indicators of need, including broadband speeds and access to connected technology at the census block level across the country.

This report describes the availability of broadband by state and across urban, rural, and tribal areas. The report includes a summary of federal broadband programs, along with broadband status of access and data mapping.

This report on broadband deployment in the U.S. provides information specific to broadband access in rural and tribal communities and the U.S. territories. The report also includes rural broadband deployment data by state and county.

This article offers summary information on broadband and telehealth programs and funding opportunities from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act which establishes or re-appropriates a number of significant broadband-related support programs.

This article describes the launch of the Digital Navigator program and a Financial Opportunity Center (FOC) to serve the residents of Randolph, Barbour, Tucker, Upshur, and Lewis counties in West Virginia.

This report discusses a study that provides the first empirical analysis of the impact of COVID-19-induced automation on job losses and whether the potential threat of future pandemics has expedited the process of automation in the U.S.

This article highlights a useful virtual tool that allows government officials to virtually reach thousands of people at once and the importance of local governments maintaining open communication with residents in their community.

This toolkit provides expert advice and field-proven tools for assessing broadband adoption, planning new infrastructure, and engaging a wide range of partners in broadband projects.

This virtual festival consist of a series of online events, some live and some prerecorded, and will include the first World CLT Day on October 29th.

This workshop is fifth in a series about the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program and will provide insights related to expanding PACE assessments to benefit buildings and properties for other non-energy related improvements such as indoor air quality, lead water pipe replacement, surface storm water mitigation and sewer overflows.

The event offers a full schedule of workshops and new virtual gathering spaces, including a premier opportunity to learn from experts and connect with the entire affordable housing industry.

This webinar will answer questions, provide tips for local priority alignment with funding opportunities, and highlight existing federal programs, as well as show how investments in GIS can support recovery initiatives related transportation.

This webinar will answer questions, provide tips for local priority alignment with funding opportunities, and highlight existing federal programs, as well as show how investments in GIS can support recovery initiatives related to broadband development.

This webinar is the last in a series convening finance experts, federal agencies, and local practitioners to discuss the variety of federal programs available to restore local economies, preserve small businesses, invest in our communities, and protect our environment.

This webcast will discuss how various tools such as Low Income Housing Tax Credits and Private Activity Bonds play a role in decisions about what percentage of affordable housing should comprise a residential development.

This conference brings together nearly 2,000 elected and appointed county officials to focus on federal policy issues that impact counties and their residents.

This 8-part web-based training course provides basic information and resources to HUD grantees and funding recipients on URA requirements for HUD funded projects.

This short video introduces CDBG-DR grantees to the applicability of both Uniform Relocation Assistance (URA) and Section 104(d) when using HUD CDBG-DR funds.

This webinar featured expert guidance for cities and counties, innovative housing work by city and county leaders and a forthcoming tool from the National Association of Counties and the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program to support local policymaking.

This webinar covered both the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act and the Build Back Better plan, including key provisions of importance to counties.

This webinar discussed how improving and expanding early learning facilities can increase access to high quality child care and enable parents to participate in the labor force, as well as how counties can include early learning infrastructure investments in broader economic development efforts.

In this episode of the Green in Action podcast, host Kimberly Vermeer spoke with Dana Bourland about their motivations to push for healthy and equitable housing and discussed what that looks like on a community scale.

This webinar provided a funding overview and discussed how to look at the various federal funding streams in order to develop a grant management strategy and plan to ensure that funding is maximized, duplication does not occur, and necessary first steps are taken to maximize federal investments.

This webinar introduced Fitwel, a building certification system that sets standards for design features and operational strategies that support the health of people living in multifamily residential properties.

In this webinar panelists discussed how state and local governments are considering Opportunity Zones (OZ) as part of broader strategies to deliver COVID-19 and economic relief funding, and how OZ equity is being integrated into the suite of economic development financing tools.

This live panel discussion brought municipalities and governmental agencies together to show how federal funding and collaboration can lead to innovative solutions for urban water challenges.

In this episode of Green in Action, host Kimberly Vermeer speaks with five 'green' leaders about how they apply the integrated design process in their work.

This webinar focused on how counties can use their ARP State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations to support the critical need for investments and improvements to existing water and sewer infrastructure.

This webinar features the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and the Housing Initiative at Penn (HIP) covering tools, resources, and the types of emergency rental assistance available nationwide.

This webinar focused on how counties can use their ARP State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations to address the pandemic’s negative economic impact on children, families, and individuals in underserved communities.

This webinar provided an overview of NACo's new interactive tool that aims to help counties assess potential funding streams established by ARPA so they can better utilize their direct allocation.

This webinar focused on how counties can use their ARP State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations for the provision of “government services” to the extent of the reduction in revenue experienced due to COVID-19.

This webinar provided information and best practices for creatively stacking capital and essential financing sources employed by rural communities to complete projects in today’s economy.

This webinar shared learned experience, current approaches, and practical lessons from rural childcare providers and organizations that support and advance their work to create a stronger and more viable rural childcare system.

In this webinar Andre Perry, senior fellow at Brookings Institution and author of “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities”, discussed the challenges and shared data on the disparities in home values in majority-Black communities.

This webinar introduced the Pathway to Recovery® and showed how liquidity management can position an entity for success in managing American Rescue Plan Funds in 2021 and beyond.

This call unpacked the Treasury Department’s comprehensive guidance on the allowable uses of the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund in the American Rescue Plan Act, including downloadable resources and recommendations for municipal officials to ensure appropriate use of the funds.

In this webinar, two authors discussed their respective ideas about how delivering on the human right to housing and combatting the climate crisis go hand-in-hand. Each discussed the intersection between equity, housing, and sustainability.

This webinar about county-based approaches for improving employment outcomes for local residents included tips and strategies that counties can pursue to expand career pathways and strengthen the local economy.

This webinar discussed ways to strengthen career pathways and achieve economic mobility for low-income residents, including creating cross-sector partnerships with higher education and coordinating services across multiple sectors to promote positive outcomes for adult students and job seekers who are disconnected from education and employment opportunities.

This workshop explored how counties can partner with local post-secondary education systems and other sectors, such as workforce development, human services, and health, to maximize educational and employment opportunities for residents.

This webinar included a presentation and Q&A on methods of bringing clean energy to low-income communities through community-based financing and explained how this can help communities nationwide tap into renewable energy.

This webinar featured a panel discussion on how cities, intermediaries, community organizations, and philanthropy can support industrial district ecosystems in ways that advance equitable economic outcomes and a review of the findings form a recent white paper, Industrial District Revitalization in Three Cities, on how LISC helped revitalize industrial districts in Duluth, Jacksonville, and Indianapolis.

In this webinar experts discussed the variety of financing tools available from federal, state, and local sources to encourage investment resilient infrastructure and introduced a new technical assistance program for rural communities recently impacted by a natural disaster.

In this webinar Hagerty Consulting team discussed ongoing response and recovery challenges and offered potential solutions by outlining recent federal policy changes, current federal funding opportunities, and tangible ways to jumpstart your community’s financial recovery process.

In this webinar nationally recognized Treasurer Scott German of Genesee County, NY discussed how he has maximized the value of Genesee County's cash through liquidity data and treasury service monitoring and explained how to leverage technology and follow data findings to ensure every tax dollar is being maximized and to optimize short- and long-term cash performance.

This webinar about a partnership created to provide a comprehensive strategy to county Information Security Programs described how the partnership can maximizes the cost and operational efficiency of leading-edge software solutions, maximizes the efficiency of county resource utilization, and will uphold the highest cybersecurity standards.

This webinar, designed to help communities access federal funds and harness the power of arts and culture to achieve community development goals, introduces the Creative Placemaking Public Resources Guide which helps community development practitioners, artists, and arts and cultural organizations survey the landscape and decode the language of federal government funding opportunities that might support creative placemaking efforts.

In this webinar county leaders, congressional staff, and national experts discussed how emergency COVID-19 legislation can help counties combat food insecurity and the implications it may have for national anti-hunger policy moving forward.

In this webinar county leaders discussed challenges and solutions to the eviction crisis, including county programming and support for children and families whose housing and financial stability are at heightened risk due to COVID-19.

This webinar series engaged Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge winners to delve into the research, policies and practices that inform and drive innovations in their respective communities and nationwide.

This series of events featured experts who spoke about how the Coronavirus will continue to drive the work of state governments in the coming year.

This webinar featured experts from Witt O’Brien’s who outlined strategies for action and a framework for designing a successful rental assistance program.

In this webinar Witt O’Brien’s experts outlined the immediate steps counties should take when evaluating whether to opt-in to receive the reserved allocation in the new $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, the strategies for immediate actions ahead of receiving funds, and a framework for a successful program.

In this webinar KPMG and county officials discussed different approaches to enhance resilience in light of shifting public health, economic, budgetary and community dynamics – and how the difficult lessons of 2020 can help counties navigate a still uncertain 2021 outlook.

In this webinar Christian Michael, Program Manager for Grow with Google, discussed the work that Google is doing to create opportunities for nontraditional talent to kickstart their career in high demand fields, including IT.

This virtual conference about a results-based framework for measurable equity, showed how leaders can collectively work together to target equity strategies, move beyond services to focus on policies, institutions, and structures, and align partners to take action and track progress.

This webinar explored how communities, NGOs, and the private sector can work together to create a more sustainable economy that delivers environmental justice and creates opportunity for all.

This webinar series consists of a total of six sessions spread across three topic areas. The topic areas are housing, health, and economic development. The following recordings are posted:

• Responding to the Housing Challenges Posed by the Pandemic: Session 1 | Session 2
• Addressing Challenges to Health and Childcare Systems: Session 1 | Session 2
• COVID-19 Recovery Strategies for Small Business Districts: Session 1 | Session 2

This webinar focused on how counties can use liquidity analyses and data to maximize the value on current tax dollars and any CARES Act funding received and review ways to look under every stone for taxpayer benefit.

This webinar shared how disaster preparedness and response continue in communities dealing with wildfires, hurricanes, and extreme weather, all while also feeling the impacts of a pandemic.

This webinar focused on the impacts of COVID-19 on access to safe and affordable childcare, and what counties have done to maintain the current supply of childcare and sustain childcare businesses upon reopening.

This Reinventing Our Communities (ROC) Local was a series of 11 webinars that examined local solutions to housing, jobs, and wealth through an equity lens, and provided community leaders with strategies to frame, contextualize, and organize around community challenges.

This webinar featured community-based organizations and local artists sharing stories and lessons learned from local strategies to build stronger connections with residents, create and enhance neighborhood identity and solidarity, and achieve better outcomes in local planning and policy.

This webinar provided an overview of the rural health focused efforts by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture HHS and USDA and highlighted specific tools and resources to help combat COVID-19.

This catalog from FEMA Region II provides links to more than 70 pre-recorded webinars held in 2020. Webinars are grouped by 14 topic areas offering guidance on a wide array of individual and community awareness, preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience concerns.

This five-part webinar series, recorded pre COVID-19, focused on broadband development finance with an emphasis on the legal, technical, and financial challenges facing communities working to develop broadband.

This webinar features two Rubinger Fellows who spoke about how they have leveraged Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), which offer an alternative to customary housing units, taking the form of basement apartments, living units above the garage, new detached units, or 'tiny houses' built in the backyard of an existing home.

In this webinar Barbara Geries from Champlain Housing Trust and Harold Nassau from The Consortium for Housing Asset Management (CHAM) discussed the value of operating an Eviction Prevention Program (EPP), provided basic information about program structuring, and gave examples of existing programs.

In this webinar presenters provided an overview of how to use State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to promote economic development.

This pilot program provides new federal funding to support the expansion of broadband Internet access, connectivity, and digital inclusion.

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to improve access to healthy foods in underserved areas, to create and preserve quality jobs, and to revitalize low-income communities by providing loans and grants to eligible fresh and healthy food retailers and enterprises to overcome the higher costs and initial barriers to entry in underserved areas.

This program invites applicants to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on Environmental Water Resources Projects, including water conservation and efficiency, water management or infrastructure improvements, and watershed management or restoration projects.

This grant program helps firefighters and other first responders obtain critically needed resources necessary for protecting the public and emergency personnel from fire and related hazards.

This funding initiative will leverage the power of the arts to support city leaders’ efforts to improve the health, cohesion, and resilience of their communities. Deadline for Letters of Intent is December 17, 2021 and for applications, February 4, 2022.

This grant program supports local Stand Down events that assist homeless veterans by providing a wide variety of employment, social, and health services.

This resource provides information, links, and guidance for the FY 2022 round of AmeriCorps grants.

This opportunity provides funding for projects that enhance mobility innovations for transit and that advance emerging technologies, strategies and innovations in passenger-centric mobility in two distinct areas.

This grant program is designed to help get Americans back to work by developing and strengthening regional systems to develop and execute sectoral partnerships that will lead to well-paying jobs.

This EDA ARPA Tourism NOFO is designed to provide a wide-range of financial assistance to communities and regions to rebuild and strengthen their travel, tourism, and outdoor recreation industry through various infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects.

The Rural eConnectivity Program (ReConnect Program) provides loans, grants, and loan/grant combinations to facilitate broadband expansion and infrastructure to fuel long-term economic development and opportunities in rural America.

The Rural Business-Cooperative Service is inviting applications for business opportunity grants and business enterprise grants to promote economic development and job creation in rural areas.

This grant program is designed to support indigenous communities as they respond to, and recover from, the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, including long-term recovery and resilience to future economic disasters.

This opportunity is designed to provide a wide-range of financial assistance to communities and regions as they respond to, and recover from, the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, including long-term recovery and resilience to future economic disasters.

National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWGs) are discretionary grants awarded to states, outlying areas, tribal governments, and local Workforce Development Boards to provide employment-related services for dislocated workers under two categories - Disaster Recovery and Employment Recovery.

This resource provides information on a wide range of technical, planning, and public works and infrastructure assistance in regions experiencing adverse economic changes that may occur suddenly or over time, including CARES Act and ARP Act funding.

This grant program makes planning and local technical assistance investments to support economic development, foster job creation, and attract private investment in economically distressed areas of the United States.

This program offers reimbursement to local governments for expenses related to the release (or threatened release) of hazardous substances and associated emergency response measures.

This program provides resident-driven groups in small cities and towns $10,000 in startup funding to implement the Community Heart & Soul model which is based on three powerful principles–involve everyone, focus on what matters most, and play the long game.