ReConnect Round 4 “Ask Me Anything: ReConnect”

The USDA Rural Development Rural Utilities Service (RUS) will be hosting another “Ask Me Anything: ReConnect” Q&A session. The webinar will provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions about the Program.

Webinar: Thursday, October 20th from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM PT

Register for Webinar

Reconnect Program Information

EmployNV Job Center Grand Re-Opening – October 20, 2022

Please join Nevadaworks as they re-introduce Northern Nevada’s workforce development center.

Please join Nevadaworks as they hold the reopening of the EmployNV Job Center on October 20th! This is a wonderful opportunity to get to know our community partners and the services provided at the EmployNV Career and Business Hub!

Nevadaworks is Northern Nevada’s partner for job seekers looking for training and employment opportunities, and employers looking to develop and hire skilled workers. By helping you achieve your goals, we’re building a stronger Nevada workforce and more diverse economy.

Where:
Reno Town Mall
4001 S. Virginia St.
Reno, NV

When:
Thursday, October 20, 2022
3:00 to 5:00 PM

Special Guests:
Governor Steve Sisolak
Various Federal & State Officials

Nevadaworks

Curated by: The Western Nevada Development District…

This edition of Five for Friday focuses on opportunities for economic development around the region in the areas of resiliency, infrastructure and grant assistance.

Grant Opportunities & More

Futures Event Highlights Humboldt & Pershing County Economies

Nevada US-95 I-80 Futures presents the annual economic outlook for these crossroads communities in the Pershing/ Humboldt County region on Wednesday, October 26 at the Boys and Girls Club of Winnemucca. Speakers representing leading businesses will share up-to-the minute information, trends, expansions, and their company’s outlook and growth for the upcoming year. The key theme of this year’s Futures Forum is community capacity building to support businesses so they might survive and thrive. Presented by the Nevada 95-80 Regional Development Authority the event is free to attend.

Annual Economic Outlook Forum: October 26, 2022

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FEMA and EDA Release New Resource to Align Community Plans and Build Resilience

A new resource will help economic development and hazard mitigation planners achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. The Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy and Hazard Mitigation Plan Alignment Guide connects economic development and hazard mitigation plans so communities can be more resilient from natural hazards.

The guide was a collaboration between FEMA and the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). Communities, states and federal officials can use the guide when preparing or reviewing FEMA Hazard Mitigation Plans and EDA Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS).

Included in the guide are strategies to help align strategies with approved local plans. When communities align their CEDS and mitigation plans:

• Businesses and business districts are built in safer areas with a lower risk of hazard impacts.
• Private investment is directed to safer areas. It is also developed to be more resilient to hazards.
• Buildings are placed and built to design standards that help withstand hazard events.
• Businesses can reopen more quickly after hazard events.
• Critical facilities and infrastructure keep working during and after events.
• The community can manage open space and natural resources in ways that reduce hazard impacts and support the economy through agriculture and tourism.

Disaster Recovery

CEDS and Hazard Mitigation Plan Alignment Guide

FHWA Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund

Transportation fatalities and injuries severely impact the quality of life in Indian country. Each year under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 4% of the available TTP funds are set aside to address transportation safety issues identified by federally recognized Indian tribes through a competitive, discretionary program. Projects are chosen whose outcomes will reduce fatal and serious injuries in transportation related incidents, such as motor vehicle crashes. FHWA advocates the development of strategic transportation safety plans as a means for tribes to determine how transportation safety needs will be addressed in and around tribal communities.

Eligible projects for the TTP Safety Fund include:

• Develop and update transportation safety plans
• Safety data assessment, improvement, and analysis
• Systemic roadway departure countermeasures
• Infrastructure improvements and other eligible activities as listed in 23 U.S.C. 148(a)(4)

FY2023 Application Deadline: January 15, 2023

Webinar: October 11, 2022. 1:00 PM PT. Use link below or call 551 285 1373 and enter meeting ID 160 835 1138 and passcode 923902.

Federal Register of Tribes

FHWA Safety Fund Information

Safety Plan Toolkit

Webinar

Searching for Grant Opportunities? The Nevada Grant Lab Can Help

Nevada GrantLab, a nonprofit corporation, started in 2020 with a vision to help nonprofits, local governments, and State agencies better access and maximize historically underutilized federal funding that can be used to build greater quality of life and opportunity for all Nevadans.

They accomplish this by:

• Capacity Building: Helping partners discover and build skills, capabilities, and partnerships.
• Grant Services: Assisting partners identify funding that is a good fit and submit competitive applications.
• Data, Engagement, and Policy: Activating stakeholders and decision-makers, ensuring they have the data they need, and supporting aligned action and policy improvements that maximize the benefit of federal grants for Nevadans.

Nevada GrantLab

Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (AWARE) Grant

The purpose of Project AWARE is to develop a sustainable infrastructure for school-based mental health programs and services. Grant recipients are expected to build collaborative partnerships with the State Education Agency, Local Education Agency, Tribal Education Agency, the State Mental Health Agency, community-based providers of behavioral health care services, school personnel, community organizations, families, and school-aged youth. Grant recipients will leverage their partnerships to implement mental health related promotion, awareness, prevention, intervention, and resilience activities to ensure that students have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services.

Application Deadline: October 13, 2022

AWARE Grant

Western Nevada Development District (WNDD), is a vital partner to our member organizations in Grant Research, Writing and Management. Our professional team is available to assist in identifying and obtaining funding sources to grow a stronger Nevada.

For more information about membership, visit WNDD.org

Five for Friday: Latest From the World of Grants and More

Curated by Western Nevada Development District (WNDD), this edition focuses on opportunities for economic development around the region in the areas of water infrastructure, connectivity, housing and more.

Grant Opportunities & More

EPA Seeks Investments in Water Infrastructure

The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 (WIFIA) established a federal credit program administered by EPA for eligible water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

Eligible borrowers are:

• Local, state, tribal, and federal government entities
• Partnerships and joint ventures
• Corporations and trusts
• Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) programs

Eligible projects range from improving drinking water systems and reducing energy use at water and sewer facilities, to acquisition of property and engineering/design. More than $6 billion will be awarded in this program. Letters of Interest can be submitted and will provide information that EPA uses to determine the project’s eligibility, creditworthiness, engineering feasibility, and alignment with EPA’s policy priorities.

Submit Letters of Interest Starting: September 6, 2022

WIFIA Grant

New US DOT Grant Program Reconnects and Revitalizes Communities

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program has been established to remove, retrofit, or mitigate transportation facilities like highways or rail lines that create barriers to community connectivity, including mobility, access, or economic development. The program provides technical assistance and grant funding for planning or capital construction to address infrastructure barriers, reconnect communities, and improve people’s lives.

Eligible projects can include: high-quality public transportation, infrastructure removal, pedestrian walkways and overpasses, capping and lids, linear parks and trails, roadway redesigns and complete streets conversions, and main street revitalization. Planning Grants may range from $100,000 to $2,000,000. Capital Construction Grant awards are no less than $5 million per project. DOT anticipates that Capital Construction Grants may range from $5 million to $100 million.

Application Deadline: October 13, 2022

Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program

Multifamily Housing Loan Guarantees

USDA Rural Development provides up to a 90 percent guarantee for loans made by commercial lenders to borrowers developing or rehabilitating multifamily rental housing for low and moderate income tenants in rural areas. The agency guarantees construction advances and permanent financing once regulatory requirements have been met.

Eligible borrows can include:

• Nonprofit and for-profit corporations
• Individuals, partnerships, and trusts
• Most state and local governmental entities
• Federally-recognized Tribes

Application Deadline: Continuous

Multifamily Housing Loan Guarantees

Inflation Reduction Act: Energy and Climate Programs

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act covers a broad range of issues impacting Nevada from climate change and health care, to affordable housing and energy conservation. Five for Friday will be tracking the fallout from this piece of legislation.

Here are a few early takeaways on the legislation’s impacts:

What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Do for State and Local Government?

What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Nevada

2022 National Tribal Broadband Grant Program (NTBG)

The Indian Affairs Office of Indian Economic Development (OIED) is accepting applications from eligible federally recognized tribes for the 2022 National Tribal Broadband Grant Program (NTBG). With grant funding, tribes will be able to explore the possibility of developing or extending broadband services in their communities through feasibility studies of those broadband development opportunities. The Office of Indian Economic Development seeks to fund approximately 15 to 27 grants, ranging in value from $100,000 to $175,000, and eligibility is limited to federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal entities as listed in 87 FR 4636. These grants will be for a two-year term.

Application Deadline: October 17, 2022

NTBG Program