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RURAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY GRANT (RBOG) PROGRAM
FIRST ROUND - FISCAL YEAR 2002
Alabama - $50,000
Crenshaw County Economic and Industrial Development Authority, Luverne, Alabama - A $50,000 grant for local economic development planning and leadership training.
Alaska - $30,037
Work Force Development Center, Sitka, Alaska - A $30,037 grant to provide a staff writer to assist businesses in writing business plans and other business-related documents. 1 job created.
Arizona - $137,962
Navajo Utah Commission, Arizona - A $137,962 grant to provide managerial tools to increase community empowerment and capacity as well as increasing business and job development. 50 jobs created; 6 businesses assisted.
California - $99,453
Desert Alliance for Community Empowerment, Mecca, California - A $50,000 grant for technical assistance to provide support for businesses to meet county compliances in order to stay in business. 20 jobs saved; 12 businesses assisted.
California Association for Local Economic Development, Sacramento, California - A $49,453 grant to provide technical assistance to facilitate successful implementation and continuation of Rural Development funded projects in California. Communities served will be under 10,000 in population. 25 jobs created; 25 jobs saved; 50 businesses assisted.
Colorado - $24,000
San Juan 2000 Development Association, Silverton, Colorado - A $24,000 grant to identify three to five new businesses interested in incubator process to work with providing technical assistance and training. Up to 25 jobs created; up to 8 businesses assisted.
Georgia - $100,000
Development Authority of Jefferson County, Louisville, Georgia - A $50,000 grant to fund a portion of the cost of planning and specification development for an industrial park in Jefferson County. 300 jobs created.
Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone, Inc., Cordele, Georgia - A $50,000 grant for the development and implementation of a leadership training program for new and existing business owners. 11 jobs created.
Illinois - $257,000
Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone, Ullin, Illinois - A $150,000 grant to provide technical assistance and businesses support services to train, assist, and advise businesses within the walls of a business incubator being developed. 40 jobs created; 7 jobs saved; 9 businesses assisted.
Southwestern Illinois Resource Conservation and Development, Inc., Illinois - A $67,000 grant to provide technical assistance on how to use GIS mapping of rural water businesses to promote better management, homeland security issues, and business development. 65 jobs saved; 65 businesses assisted.
Southeastern Alliance of Illinois, Inc., Illinois - A $40,000 grant for a variety of economic development activities in a nine county area. 465 jobs created, 20 businesses assisted.
Indiana - $50,000
Premium Producers Association, Indiana - A $50,000 grant to complete a business plan. Up to 25 jobs created; 1 business assisted.
Iowa - $50,000
Iowa Rural Water Association, Newton, Iowa - A $50,000 grant to support technical assistance to promote multi-county economic development.
Maine - $158,000
Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, Old Town, Maine - A $58,000 grant for strategic business planning, website planning, and export market planning for the Wabanaki Arts Center Gallery and products of Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance. 12 jobs created; 100 jobs saved, 100 businesses assisted.
Northern Maine Development Commission, Caribou, Maine - A $50,000 grant to strengthen and increase the tourism industry in the area and to provide technical assistance and planning. 36 jobs created; 12 businesses assisted.
Northern Maine Development Commission, Caribou, Maine - A $50,000 grant to expand the Maine Micro-Enterprise Initiative program. 200 jobs created; 100 businesses assisted.
Michigan - $50,000
Michigan Integrated Food and Farming Systems, Michigan - A $50,000 grant for the development and business planning of a Farmers' Market Cooperative in Clare County. 1 business assisted.
Missouri - $461,600
Creative Communities, Malden, Missouri - A $297,000 grant to create a center to obtain technology skills to meet the demands of established and emerging workforces.
City of Puxico, Puxico, Missouri - A $70,000 grant to conduct a feasibility study for the city of Puxico to attract new jobs.
Kaysinger Basin, PRC, Clinton, Missouri - A $50,000 grant to hire an experienced professional developer to establish a sustainable self-help economic planning and development program for small rural towns and communities.
Industrial Development Authority of Perry County, Perryville, Missouri - A $24,600 grant to conduct a feasibility study to determine how a farmers' cooperative can build and operate a strawboard plant in Perry County.
City of Cabool, Cabool, Missouri - A $20,000 grant to develop a marketing plan for the Cabool Speculative Building and Industrial Park.
Montana - $10,000
Powell County Economic Development Corp., Deer Lodge, Montana - A $10,000 grant for strategic planning designed to evaluate the needs of the communities and businesses of Powell County. 2 jobs created.
Nevada $100,000
City of West Wendover, Nevada, West Wendover, Nevada - A $100,000 grant for a feasibility study to evaluate the annexation of the City of Wendover, Utah, into the State of Nevada and the City of West Wendover, Nevada.
New Hampshire - $50,000
University of New Hampshire, Upper Strafford, New Hampshire - A $50,000 grant to provide a circuit rider/mobile business counselor to deliver professional management counseling to existing and prospective business owners.
New Mexico - $50,000
Siete del Norte, CDC, Costilla, New Mexico - A $50,000 grant to fund the costs associated with the completion of a feasibility study for the development of a recreational and land use initiative in the Rio Costilla area.
North Carolina - $50,000
Mountain Microenterprise Fund, Inc., Asheville, North Carolina - A $50,000 grant to assist small and emerging rural businesses in western North Carolina.
North Dakota - $100,000
City of Harvey, Harvey, North Dakota - A $50,000 grant to help finance a consultant who will assist in further development and marketing of an internet marketing network for grain and oilseed commodity merchants in a 4-State area. 3 jobs created; 4 jobs saved; 1 business assisted.
Roosevelt-Custer Regional Council for Development, Dickinson, North Dakota - A $50,000 grant to update and revise the strategic plan for the Southwest REAP Zone.
Oregon - $85,000
City of Baker City, Baker City, Oregon - A $50,000 grant to pay contract expenses for an enterprise facilitator who will provide coaching and networking assistance to entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs. 30 jobs created; 10 businesses assisted.
Burns-Paiute Tribe, Burns, Burns-Paiute Indian Reservation, Oregon - A $35,000 grant to pay for the cost of professional services for a feasibility study and business plan for the tribe's proposed beef cattle enterprise. 3 jobs created; 8 jobs saved, 1 business assisted.
Pennsylvania - $30,000
Fayette County Community Action Agency, Inc., Uniontown, Pennsylvania - A $30,000 grant for a feasibility study to identify and analyze business opportunities at the Rebublic Business Incubator in Redstone Township in Fayette County. 75 jobs created; 11 businesses assisted.
South Dakota - $87,500
Rosebud Economic Development Corporation, Mission, South Dakota - A $50,000 grant to promote sustainable economic development on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation by providing technical assistance for Tribal business development. 25 jobs created.
South Dakota Ag. Producers Ventures Cooperative, South Dakota - A $37,500 grant to establish whether it is feasible to construct a new, state-of-the-art packing plant in South Dakota. 45 jobs created.
Tennessee - $17,400
Tennessee Leadership, Inc., Tennessee - A $12,000 grant to assist in the financing of expenses associated with the Tennessee Leadership's leadership development program for women in Decatur, Fayette, and Hardeman Counties.
Sequatchie County-Dunlap Chamber of Commerce, Dunlap, Tennessee - A $5,400 grant to finance expenses associated with the Chamber's leadership development program.
Texas - $50,000
City Development Corporation of El Campo, El Campo, Texas - A $50,000 grant for a feasibility study for constructing a modern rice mill, the development of a business plan, and promotional expenses. 45 jobs created.
Vermont - $89,695
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, Inc., Montpelier, Vermont - A $50,000 grant to develop a statewide, multi-sector approach to maintain and improve Vermont economy.
Vermont Council on Rural Development, Kingdom Connect, Vermont - A $39,695 grant to hire a coordinator to survey Northeast Kingdom of Vermont users of telecommunications to better coordinate services to business, education, and industrial users.
Virginia - $50,000
Eastern Shore of Virginia Public Service Authority, Virginia - A $50,000 grant to coordinate economic development activities, develop guides for action, assist multi-county community leaders in the economic development of the Easter Shore of Virginia rural areas. 15 jobs created, 550 jobs saved, 3 businesses assisted.
Wisconsin - $278,190
Northwoods Nijii Enterprise community, Inc., Menominee Nation and Township of Shawano, Wisconsin - A $178,190 grant to provide technical assistance to the Menominee Sub-Zone for the development of a position to organize community involvement to further define benchmarks established for the area. 98 jobs created.
Impact Seven, Inc., Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Bayfield, Wisconsin - $50,000 grant to create the Lake Superior Center for Community Revitalization to provide technical assistance to local businesses and entrepreneurship training.
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin - A $50,000 grant to provide technical assistance to entrepreneurs who are attempting to diversity agricultural products and commodities. 37 jobs created, 15 businesses assisted.
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