Economic Development Notice Of Federal Funding | Eastern North Carolina Now

Press Release:

    Senator Tillis wanted to make sure you saw (attached) the Economic Development Administration's (EDA) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) providing access to federal resources through EDA's Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs. Additional information on these programs is listed below:

1. Public Works Program- Through the primarily construction-oriented Public Works program, EDA provides catalytic investments to help distressed communities build, design, or engineer critical infrastructure and facilities that will help implement regional development strategies and advance bottom-up economic development goals to promote regional prosperity. The Public Works program provides resources to meet the construction and/or infrastructure design needs of communities to enable them to become more economically competitive.
2. Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA)- Through the EAA program, EDA provides investments that support a wide range of construction and non-construction activities in regions experiencing adverse economic changes that may occur suddenly or over time. Supported activities include construction and non-construction such as sectoral partnerships for workforce training, design and engineering, technical assistance, economic recovery strategies, and capitalization or re-capitalization of Revolving Loan Funds (RLF). EDA utilizes EAA investments to provide resources that help communities experiencing or anticipating economic dislocations to plan and implement specific solutions to leverage their existing regional economic advantages to support economic development and job creation. Like Public Works investments, EAA investments are designed to help communities catalyze public-private partnerships to foster collaboration, attract investment, create jobs, and foster economic resiliency and prosperity

    Eligible applicants include:

    Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

    City or township governments

    County governments

    Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

    Private institutions of higher education

    Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

    State governments

    There are no application submission deadlines. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the publication of a new Public Works/EAA NOFO, cancellation of this Public Works/EAA NOFO, or all available funds have been expended. There are separate program funds for the Public Works and EAA programs. Applicants do not need to specify the program for which they are applying. EDA will consider the application under the most appropriate pool of funding.

    As a reminder, Senator Tillis would welcome the opportunity to support your grant application should you choose to pursue federal funding for these, or any other, federal programs. Thanks for the work you do in your communities and please reach out if we can ever assist you.

EDA_PWEAA_NOFO_Final_3.14.23.pdf


   Contact: Kyle B. Sanders
   Deputy Chief of Staff
   U.S. Senator Thom Tillis
   113 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg
   Washington, DC 20510
   Phone: 202.224.6342