The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education awarded a $2,192,546 Project Grant under the Career and Technical Education -- National Programs (CFDA 84.051) to the Region One Education Service Center in Edinburg, Texas. The award, titled "RIO GRANDE VALLEY (RGV) - OPERATION YOUTH CAREER LINK (RGV - OYCL)!", will support the implementation of a range of career and technical education (CTE) programs and services in the Rio Grande Valley region from...
The Rio Grande Council of Governments was awarded a $262,500 project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration's Economic Development Support for Planning Organizations program. The grant will support the development and implementation of a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for the six-county region comprising Brewster, Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, and Presidio Counties in Texas from January 2022 through December 2024. As part of the...
The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration awarded a $104,552 Project Grant to the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council (LRGVDC), doing business as the Area Agency On Aging, to provide preventive maintenance and operating assistance for public transportation services in the five-county region of Hidalgo, Cameron, Willacy, Starr, and Zapata, Texas. This grant funding, which runs from July 26, 2023 to November 30, 2025, will ensure the continuation of safe and...
The Panhandle Regional Planning Commission (PRPC) received a $3.05 million Project Grant award from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) program on September 2, 2021. The funding will allow PRPC to purchase and rehabilitate a workforce development center in Amarillo, Texas to provide job training, placement, and other employment services. Twenty-two of the twenty-six counties in PRPC's service area had below-average...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service Washington Office Rural Business Cooperative Services awarded a $500,000 Rural Business Development Grant (CFDA 10.351) to Valley Economic Development Partners Inc. (doing business as Valley Partners) on September 15, 2023. This 2-year Project Grant supports Valley Partners' efforts to promote sustainable economic development and facilitate the growth of small and emerging private businesses in rural communities. Specifically, the...
The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration awarded a $2.5 million Project Grant to the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation on April 22, 2021 under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) program. The EAA program aims to provide technical, planning, and infrastructure assistance to regions experiencing adverse economic changes. Funding will support the Brownsville CIC's CARESACT COMPETITIVE RLF project, which will likely involve public works or other...
The City of Cameron, Texas was awarded a $700,000 project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration on January 19, 2021. The grant funding will support infrastructure and facility improvements through the Investments for Public Works and Economic Development Facilities program (CFDA 11.300). Administered by EDA, this program provides catalytic investments for distressed communities to build, design, or engineer critical infrastructure and facilities that implement...
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was awarded a $199,633 Rural Cooperative Development Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services on Sep 26, 2023. This Project Grant funding will support UTRGV's efforts to improve economic conditions in rural areas by assisting individuals and businesses in the startup, expansion or operational improvement of rural cooperatives and other mutually-owned businesses. As a Cooperative Development Center, UTRGV...
The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) program (CFDA 11.307) to the University of Texas at El Paso on December 15, 2021. The grant funds the West Texas Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Coalition led by the University of Texas at El Paso to develop the El Paso Makes Advanced District and West Texas Advanced Technology Corridor. This will reinvent West Texas' historical roots in...
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley received a $198,954 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service on September 22, 2022 to support rural cooperative development through September 22, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Rural Cooperative Development Grants program (CFDA 10.771), which aims to improve economic conditions in rural areas by assisting individuals and businesses with starting, expanding, or improving the operations of rural cooperatives...
LEAD APPLICANT ORGANIZATION NAME: CAMERON WORKS, INC. DBA WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS CAMERONLEAD APPLICANT ENTITY TYPE IS A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INVOLVED IN ADMINISTERING THE PUBLIC WORKFORCE SYSTEM ESTABLISHED UNDER WIOA, INCLUDING STATE AND LOCAL WDBS AND INDIAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM ENTITIES ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING UNDER WIOA SECTION 166(29 U.S.C. 3221).LEAD APPLICANT IS LOCATED IN BROWNSVILLE, IN CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S. SENATE DISTRICT 38 AND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 34.REQUIRED PARTNERS: EMPLOYER PARTNERS, INDUSTRY TRADE ASSOCIATIONS EDUCATION TRAINING PARTNERS WITH LETTERS OF COMMITMENT AND MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING (ATTACHED)EMPLOYER PARTNERS: NETSYNC, PALO ALTO NETWORKS TXDOT PORT OF BROWNSVILLE NETSYNC, ACCIONA ENERGIA, PUB, TEXAS BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT OFFICEDEVELOPMENT TRACK: A REPRESENTATIVE GROUP, AND NO LESS THAN TWO (2) EMPLOYER PARTNERS WHO ARE COMMITTED TO HIRING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTICIPANTS AND OR AN INDUSTRY TRADE ASSOCIATION THAT REPRESENTS AT LEAST 2 EMPLOYERS IN THE SERVICE AREA WHO ARE COMMITTED TO HIRING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTICIPANTS TRAINED THROUGH THE GRANT.NAME OF EMPLOYER PARTNERS INDUSTRY TRADE ASSOCIATION: SOUTH TEXAS MANUFACTURING, RGV CHAPTER OF INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS, RGV CHAPTER ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS, PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD RIO GRANDE VALLEY BROADBAND COALITIONEDUCATION OR TRAINING PARTNERS: TEXAS SOUTHMOST COLLEGE, SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE, AND TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE POINT ISABEL ISD, ESC REGION ONE NAME OF THE STATE APPRENTICESHIP AGENCIES (SAAS): APPLICANTS PROPOSING RAPS IN STATES WITH FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED STATE APPRENTICESHIP AGENCIES (SAAS) MUST INCLUDE THE SAA AS A PARTNER. (REQUIRED ONLY IF APPLICANT IS PROPOSING TO PROVIDE RAP TRAINING) RGV INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORSNAME OF ENTITIES INVOLVED IN ADMINISTERING THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM: WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS CAMERON, IN CONJUNCTION WITH WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF SOUTH TEXAS, WHO ADMINISTER THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS IN THE REGION, OFTEN JOIN FORCES TO ASSIST JOB SEEKERS AND EMPLOYERS IN THIS COMMUNITY WITH THEIR EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING NEEDS. BOARDS PROPOSE TO WORK AS A COLLABORATIVE TO ENCOURAGE THE UNEMPLOYED, UNDEREMPLOYED, AND INCUMBENT WORKERS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS GRANT FUNDED OPPORTUNITY TO ADVANCE IN THE SPECIALIZED CAREERS PATHS IDENTIFIED FOR THIS GRANT FUNDING.OPTIONAL PARTNERS: NAME OF OPTIONAL PARTNER(S): TYPE OF ORGANIZATION: GREATER BROWNSVILLE INCENTIVE CORPORATION - EDCCITY OF HARLINGEN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION - EDCGEOGRAPHIC SCOPE: THE REGION IS COMPRISED OF TWO CONTIGUOUS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD AREAS WHOSE GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE IS SERVED BY THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (EDD) RECOGNIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY AS SUCH. GRANT SERVICES WILL BE PROVIDED IN ALL AREAS OF CAMERON COUNTY (MAJOR CITIES OF: BROWNSVILLE, HARLINGEN, SAN BENITO, AND THE SURROUNDING RURAL AREAS) HIDALGO COUNTY (MAJOR CITIES OF MCALLEN, MISSION, EDINBURG, AND THE SURROUNDINGRURAL AREAS) AND STARR AND WILLACY COUNTY, WHICH ARE BOTH RURAL COUNTIES IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. THE AREA TO BE SERVED INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES (STARR AND WILLACY) WHO MEET SMALLER OR RURAL COMMUNITIES AS DEFINED IN THIS SOLICITATION AND 2 COUNTIES (CAMERON COUNTY AND HIDALGO COUNTY) LOCATED WITHIN AN URBAN AREA, RUCA CODE 1.0, AND WHOSE POPULATION IS WHICH IS 8.42 AND 5.14 RURAL, RESPECTIVELY. CAMERON COUNTY: 48061011903 48061012301 48061012304 48061012305 48061014200 48061980001 48061990000 HIDALGO COUNTY:48215024201 48215024301 48215024302 48215980000 48215980000 ENTIRE STARR: 48427950101 48427950104 48427950105 48427950106 48427950107 48427950108 48427950202 48427950203 48427950204 48427950401 48427950402 48427950500 48427950600 48427950701 48427950702 AND ENTIRE WILLACY: 48489950300 48489950400 48489950500 48489950600 48489950700