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June 28, 2005 -- Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Gilbert Gonzalez (click photo to enlarge) was in Dayton, Nevada, for National Homeownership Month to present a $113,805 grant to Citizens for Affordable Homes, Inc. The grant will support the company's activities on behalf of prospective self-help housing applicants interested in building their own homes in Gold Country Estates.
More Homeownership Month news
Pictured: Under Secretary Gonzalez addresses Dayton, Nevada, home builders and families who are part of the self-help housing development at Gold Country Estates.
June 21, 2005 -- Rural Development and the Minority Business Development Agency held a forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico (click photo to enlarge), to hear the concerns of minority business entrepreneurs. The goal of these listening forums is to make our business programs more accessible to minority entrepreneurs.
More news on the listening forum for minority entrepreneurs
Pictured L to R (click photo for full view): Rural Development Business Programs Deputy Administrator Bill Hagy; Rural Development Business Programs Administrator Peter Thomas; Minority Business Development Agency National Director Ronald Langston; MBDA Dallas Regional Director John Iglehart.
Jun. 21, 2005: Regional Listening Forum for Minority Entrepreneurs
June 16, 2005 -- Rural Development and the Minority Business Development Agency will host a regional listening forum on June 21, 2005, in Albuquerque, New Mexico for minority business entrepreneurs.
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June 14, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Johanns announced the appointment of Mark Simmons as the Oregon State Director for USDA Rural Development.
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June 14, 2005 -- Agriculture Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner announced the selection of 35 loan and grant recipients in 18 states that will receive $16.3 million in rural business development funds.
Full Story / Recipients List
June 9, 2005 -- National Homeownership Month June 2005
Agriculture Secretary Johanns (click photo to enlarge) met with and toured the Central City, Iowa home of Tina Wood, a mother of four adopted children with disabilities, to learn first-hand about how the USDA homeownership program is strengthening rural America.
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More Homeownership Month news
Pictured: Secretary Johanns gives teddy bears to Zakk and Hannah Wood while their mother holds them and their older sister Whitney looks on.
June 14, 2005 -- Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Gilbert Gonzalez (center, click photo to enlarge) and Sheldon Petersen, Governor and CEO of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (right) sign a commitment to rural America. To the left is Glenn English, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
More about Rural Development's Utilities Programs
June 9, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Johanns met with and toured the home of Tina Wood, a mother of four adopted children with disabilities, to learn first-hand about how the USDA homeownership financing program is strengthening rural America.
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June 7, 2005 -- Rural Development announced the 2004 National Multi-Family Housing Site Managers of the Year Award recipients.
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June 6, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Johanns announced a new pilot effort by Rural Development and Chase Home Finance to increase the availability of new home credit financing to provide more rural families the opportunity to achieve the dream of homeownership.
Full Story / Memorandum of Understanding
June 6, 2005 -- National Homeownership Month June 2005
Agriculture Secretary Johanns (click photo to enlarge) visited south Florida to celebrate Homeownership Month. While there, he announced a new pilot effort by Rural Development and Chase Home Finance to increase the availability of new home credit financing to provide more rural families with the opportunity to achieve the dream of homeownership.
Full Story / Memorandum of Understanding
Pictured above: Agriculture Secretary Johanns surrounded by the children of local farmworkers. The children performed dances at the homeownership event in Florida City, Florida.
June 2, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced more than $6.5 million in technical assistance grants to assist 35 nonprofit community-based development organizations and low-income communities or federally recognized tribes.
Full Story / Recipients List
June 1, 2005 -- At Rural Development, this year's theme is "Own Your Future" (click photo to enlarge). In 2005, we will provide more than $4 billion to rural families to help them become homeowners. Over 10 percent of the funds will help families build their own homes and bring homeownership opportunities to families living in the Colonias and other underserved areas.
President Bush's Proclamation
More about our homeownership programs
June 1, 2005 -- Rural Development's Housing Programs Administrator Russell Davis (click photo to enlarge) nails siding to one of the 15 houses now under construction at Cedar Creek Landing, a self-help housing subdivision in Lincoln, Delaware. The event was part of a wall-raising and work-day celebration hosted by Milford Housing Development Corporation to kick off National Homeownership Month.
June 1, 2005 -- Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Gilbert Gonzalez visited the Delta Region to meet with minority business owners at a listening forum. Ephram Lewis (center, click photo to enlarge) owns a rice processing facility in Earle, Arkansas, that received financing through Rural Development's Business and Industry loan program. While Mr. Gonzalez was in the Delta Region, he toured Mr. Lewis's plant.
More news on the listening forum for minority entrepreneurs
Pictured: Under Secretary Gonzalez inspects the finished rice product, along with Mr. Lewis and the Rural Development Arkansas Business Programs Director Shirley Tucker.
Jun. 1-30, 2005: National Homeownership Month
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May 25, 2005 -- $19.5 million in grants is available to energy facilities serving rural communities with extremely high energy costs.
Federal Register Notice
May 25, 2005 -- Rural Development is soliciting applications for our Technical and Supervisory Assistance (TSA) grant program. Through TSA grants, Rural Development provides funds to eligible organizations to conduct technical and supervisory assistance programs -- like homeownership or financial counseling -- for low-income rural residents to help them obtain or keep their homes.
Federal Register Notice
May 25, 2005: Regional Listening Forum in Clarksdale, Miss. for Minority Entrepreneurs
May 19, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the selection of 83 applicants in 29 states that will receive approximately $15.4 million in grants and loans for business development and job creation.
Full Story / Recipients List
May 18, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced $5.9 million in economic development grants are available to assist in cooperative development ventures through establishing and operating cooperative development centers.
Full Story / Federal Register Notice
May 13, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Luis Derbez Bautista signed a partnership arrangement to improve access to USDA rural development programs for eligible Mexicans in the United States.
Full Story / Transcript of Remarks
May 13, 2005 -- Acting Rural Development Under Secretary Gilbert Gonzalez (right, click photo to enlarge) recently toured a Self-Help Housing development in Cidra, Puerto Rico. He and Construction Supervisor Abimael Rodriguez are looking at housing plans. Through the Self-Help project in Cidra, 20 families are constructing their own homes with the help of construction experts.
Learn more about the self-help housing program
May 12, 2005: Broadband Loan Program Workshop in Washington, D.C.
May 11, 2005 -- 70 Years of Commitment to Rural America
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns (click photo to enlarge) lauded USDA Rural Development and its predecessor agencies for 70 years of commitment in serving America's rural residents and communities.
Full Story / Our 70-Year History
Rural Development Progress Report 2004 (PDF)
70 Years of Commitment to Rural America
May 11, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns lauded USDA Rural Development and its predecessor agencies for 70 years of commitment in serving America's rural residents and communities.
Full Story / Our History
May 6, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the appointment of Mark Reisinger as the Iowa Rural Development State Director.
Announcement for Mr. Reisinger
April 28, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the selection of 16 loan and grant recipients in 10 states that will receive $6 million in rural business development funds.
Full Story / Recipients List
April 22, 2005 -- Earth Day 2005
Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Gilbert Gonzalez (click photo to enlarge) celebrated Earth Day with rural Maine elementary school children. Pictured are Under Secretary Gonzalez and State Director Michael W. Aube with 'Rural Rover' as they get ready to hand out seedlings to the school children.
Additionally, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns highlighted $143.4 million in Earth Day investments to 29 states by the Bush Administration and Rural Development for rural water and waste disposal loans and grants to assist 59 rural communities.
Full Story / En Español / Recipients List / Backgrounder
April 19, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the appointments of Scott Blehm as the Nebraska Rural Development State Director and Robert Steptoe as the West Virginia Rural Development State Director.
Announcement for Mr. Blehm / Announcement for Mr. Steptoe
April 12, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced that $5.5 million will be invested in nine organizations for business development and job creation in six states, including hurricane-stricken areas of Florida.
Full Story / En Español
April 5, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez announced that they will hold three listening forums across the country to increase minority business ventures. Pictured (click photo to enlarge) are Rural Development's Business and Cooperative Programs Administrator Peter Thomas and Acting Under Secretary Gilbert Gonzalez, with Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Ronald Langston, National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency, discussing the project.
Full Story / En Español / Transcript of Remarks
April 5, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez announced that they will hold three listening forums across the country as part of the Bush Administration's effort to increase minority business ventures. The first forum will be held May 25, 2005, in Clarksdale, Miss.
Full Story / En Español / Transcript of Remarks
April 4, 2005 -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the appointment of Paul Gutierrez as the New Mexico State Director for Rural Development.
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