USDA Tribal & Rural Community Webinar

The USDA Tribal & Rural Community Webinar scheduled for 1 p.m., Oct. 31. How do you get there, simply follow this Zoom Link to register:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsduCsqDwjG9B7hHNBaVtFAMk6MLYyMwFH

Dr. Carol Crouch, NRCS State Tribal Liaison and Kenneth Corn, Rural Development State Director, will provide the welcome while Brian Wiles and Pam Bensley will share information about RD Programs & Grant Opportunities:

§  Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program in Oklahoma – This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas.

§  Community Facilities Guaranteed Loan Program in Oklahoma – This program provides loan guarantees to eligible lenders to develop essential community facilities in rural areas.

• • • Water and waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program – This program provides funding for clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary sewage disposal, sanitary solid waste disposal, and storm water drainage to households and businesses in eligible rural areas.

§  Single Family Housing Repair Loans & Grants in Oklahoma – This provides loans to very-low-income homeowners to repair, improve or modernize their homes or grants to elderly very-low-income homeowners to remove health and safety hazards.

§  Economic Impact Initiative Grants in Oklahoma – This program provides funding to assist in the development of essential community facilities in rural communities with extreme unemployment and severe economic depression.

§  Rural Community Development Initiative Grants in Oklahoma – This program awards grants 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.