Rolnictwo i żywność · 29.03.2010
Inviting Applications for Rural Business Opportunity Grants
The Rural Business--Cooperative Service (RBS), an Agency within the Rural Development mission area, announces the availability of grants under the Rural Business Opportunity Grant (RBOG) program for fiscal year (FY) 2010, to be competitively awarded based on the terms of this notice and RBOG program regulations found at 7 CFR part 4284, subpart G in the following amounts: 1. Up to $250,000 per application. These dollar limits do not apply to Federally Recognized Native American Tribes" (FRNAT), and Rural Economic Area Partnerships, for which the RBOG appropriation for FY 2010 provided specific funding. Grant applications may be submitted for a work period not to exceed two years. Applicants are strongly encouraged to review the regulations prior to submitting an application. While not precluding any of the previous uses of these funds, the Agency is particularly interested in recruiting applications that will establish "best practice" projects in the area of regional economic and community development using key strategies of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Regions can be either multi- jurisdictional areas within a State, territory, or Federally-designated Tribal