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Rural Business Enterprise Grant, Opportunity Grant and Intermediary Relending Programs
Fiscal Year 2005 Funding Selections
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Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities and Rural Economic Area Partnership Rural Business Enterprise Grant Funding Selections
StateApplicantAmount Awarded

CACity of Coachella$25,000
CADesert Alliance for Community Empowerment$450,000
CADesert Alliance for Community Empowerment$80,000
GASouthwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone, Inc. (SWGUEZ)$99,900
GADooly County Industrial Development Authority$99,999
GAMiddle Flint Regional Development Center$99,999
HIKe Aupuni Lokahi, Inc.$92,483
ILSouthern Illinois Stimulus Corporation$250,000
ILDelta Development Council, Inc.$250,000
KYKentucky Highlands Investment Corporation$199,000
KYWayne County EZ Industrial Development Authority$499,000
METown of Van Buren$498,800
MEFranco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's$99,999
METown of Frenchville$58,295
MTFort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe$31,061
NYTioga County Rural Economic Area Partnership, LDC$93,414
NYSullivan County Division of Planning$175,000
NCRobeson Enterprise Community Development Corporation$450,000
NDHope Development Corporation$150,000
NDNorth Dakota Trade Office, Inc.$99,633
OHSouthern Ohio Growth Partnership (SOGP)$500,000
OKAllen Community Development Authority$492,763
OKJohnston County$499,980
PAFayette County Community Action Agency, Inc.$200,000
SCWilliamsburg Enterprise Community Commission, Inc.$190,000
SCWestern Carolina Higher Education Commission (WCHEC) - Salkehatchie Leadership Institute (SLI)$178,098
SDTulare Economic Development Corporation$177,600
TNEast Tennessee Enterprise Partnership, Inc.$200,000
TNHaywood County$300,000
VTNulhegan Gateway Association, Inc. (NGA)$99,000
VTNorthern Community Investment Corporation (NCIC)$200,000
WATri-County Economic Development District$60,000
 Total$6,899,024
 
Native American Rural Business Enterprise Grant Funding Selections
StateApplicantAmount Awarded

AKNative Council of Port Heiden$24,000
AKLower Kuskokwim Economic Development Council$14,000
AKNative Village of Tyonek$35,000
AZThe Havasupai Tribe$99,989
AZThe Havasupai Tribe$53,864
CACalifornia Indian Manpower Consortium$49,500
CAYurok Economic Development Corporation$45,000
CACalifornia Indian Manpower Consortium$49,500
IDShoshone-Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley Reservation$25,000
MEPenobscot Indian Nation$500,000
MEFour Directions Development Corporation$300,000
MNWhite Earth Investment Initiative$50,000
MTConfederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes$8,600
NEHo-Chunk Community Development Corporation$350,000
NMNative American Lending Group$95,000
NDImpact Foundation$200,000
OKMiami Tribe of Oklahoma$65,850
OKNational Native American Chamber of Commerce$61,200
SDLower Brule Sioux Tribe$99,800
SDRosebud Economic Development Corporation$99,990
SDFour Bands Community Fund, Inc.$55,000
UTThe Cross Mission$90,000
WAMakah Tribal Council$112,422
WASnoqualmie Indian Tribe$75,000
WASpokane Tribal Wood Products$55,000
WILac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa$88,000
WYWind River Development Fund$18,560
 Total$2,720,275
 
Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities, Rural Economic Area Partnership, Mississippi Delta Region and Native American Intermediary Relending Program Funding Selections
StateApplicantAmount Awarded

AK Bristol Bay Native Association$750,000
ARWhite River Planning and Development District$1,000,000
KYKentucky Highlands Investment Corporation$750,000
OKTri-County Indian Nations Community Development Corporation$500,000
VTNorthern Community Investment Corporation$750,000
  Total:$3,750,000
 
Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities and Rural Economic Area Partnership Rural Business Opportunity Grant Funding Selections
StateApplicantAmount Awarded

CADesert Alliance for Community Empowerment (DACE)$200,000
GASouthwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone, Inc.$50,000
ILCounty of Alexander$71,000
MENorthern Maine Development Commission, Inc.$50,000
MSNorth Delta Mississippi Enterprise Community Development Corporation, Inc.$344,750
MTGreat Northern Development Corporation$12,000
NDRural Economic Area Partnership Investment Fund, Inc.$98,000
SCAllendale County$50,000
VTNortheastern Vermont Development Association (NVDA)$116,250
 Total:$992,000
 
Native American Rural Business Opportunity Grant Funding Selections
StateApplicantAmount Awarded

AKLake and Peninsula Business Development Center$33,500
AZThe Havasupai Tribe$55,486
IDShoshone-Pajute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation$85,000
MEPenobscot Indian Nation$49,875
MNWhite Earth Investment Initiative$50,000
NCEastern Band of Cherokee Indians$150,000
NMPicuris Pueblo$102,000
SDFour Bands Community Fund, Inc.$75,000
WAColville Confederated Tribes$51,538
WINorthwoods Niijii Enterprise Community, Inc.$389,088
 Total:$1,041,487

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