The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) was awarded a $200,000 Rural Cooperative Development Grant (CFDA 10.771) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service and Rural Business Cooperative Services on August 29, 2024. This Project Grant award will support UAA's provision of technical assistance, training, feasibility studies, and business planning services to establish, expand, or enhance rural cooperatives and mutually-owned businesses in Alaska. As a state-controlled...
The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) received a $200,000 Rural Cooperative Development Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services to provide technical assistance, training, feasibility studies, and business planning services to help establish and enhance rural cooperative enterprises in Alaska. This award, with a performance period from September 27, 2023 to September 27, 2024, supports UAA's Grants and Contracts Office in delivering a range of...
The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) received a $825,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service under the Community Facilities Loans and Grants program (CFDA 10.766). The award will fund the construction, enlargement, extension, or improvement of community facilities that provide essential services to rural residents in Alaska. Through this grant, UAA will leverage its expertise in Arctic-focused research, environmental monitoring, workforce...
The Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service awarded a $232,359 Project Grant to Kodiak Ocean Bounty Company through the Rural Cooperative Development Grants program (CFDA 10.771). The grant will support Kodiak Ocean Bounty's efforts to provide value-added agricultural product marketing, development, and business planning services to disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in Alaska from September 2022 through September 2024. The Rural Cooperative Development Grants program aims to improve...
This $199,871.00 Project Grant award, issued on September 9, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service and Rural Business Cooperative Services under the Rural Cooperative Development Grants (RCDG) program (CFDA 10.771), will support the University of Wisconsin System in providing technical assistance, training, feasibility studies, and business planning services to establish, expand, or enhance rural cooperatives and mutually-owned businesses in rural areas. This funding...
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...
This $200,000 Project Grant was awarded on August 6, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service and Rural Business Cooperative Services under the Rural Cooperative Development Grants (RCDG) program (CFDA 10.771). The grant recipient is the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, a public land-grant research university system that will use the funding to provide technical assistance, training, feasibility studies, and business planning services to individuals and...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) received a $150,000 Project Grant award on January 1, 2025 from the Denali Commission under the Denali Commission Program (CFDA 90.100). This federal grant supports UAF's efforts to provide automation and technology solutions for affordable rural construction projects in Alaska. As the state's flagship research institution and a land, sea, and space grant university, UAF leverages its specialized facilities, research capabilities, and expertise in...
This $730,585 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's Office of Advocacy and Outreach will fund efforts by the University of Alaska Fairbanks under the Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers program (CFDA 10.443). The grant aims to help tribal communities in Alaska start new gardens, farms, ranches or other food security, resiliency and economic diversity initiatives that also uphold traditional knowledge and ways of securing food. The...
The University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) was awarded a $470,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Grants program (CFDA 10.228). The grant will fund a 3-year initiative to establish a cross-disciplinary educational pathway in geocultural science, with the goal of advancing educational access for rural and Alaska Native student populations at UAS, an Alaska Native-serving institution. The key project...