The Community-Oriented Connectivity Broadband Grant Program is designed to provide financial assistance to furnish broadband service in rural, economically-challenged communities where such service does not currently exist. Grant funds may be utilized to deploy broadband transmission service to critical community facilities, rural residents, and rural businesses and to construct, acquire, or expand, equip, and operate a community center that provides free access to broadband services to community residents for at least two years. Grants will be awarded, on a competitive basis, to entities serving communities of up to 20,000 inhabitants to ensure rural consumers enjoy the same quality and range of telecommunications service as are available in urban and suburban communities. strongApplications are due by June 19, 2009. /strongbr /span class=”fullpost”br /Document Type: Grants Noticebr /Funding Opportunity Number: RDRUS-09-01-CCbr /Opportunity Category: Discretionarybr /Posted Date: Apr 20, 2009br /Creation Date: Apr 20, 2009br /Original Closing Date for Applications: Jun 19, 2009br /Current Closing Date for Applications: Jun 19, 2009br /Archive Date: Jun 20, 2009br /Funding Instrument Type: Grantbr /Category of Funding Activity: Community Developmentbr /Category Explanation:br /Expected Number of Awards:br /Estimated Total Program Funding: $13,406,000br /Award Ceiling: $1,000,000br /Award Floor: $50,000br /CFDA Number(s): 10.863 — Community Connect Grant Programbr /Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yesbr /br /strongEligible Applicantsbr //strongState governments County governments City or township governments Special district governments Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education For profit organizations other than small businesses Small businesses /ppa title=”http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/commconnect.htm” href=”http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/commconnect.htm”http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/commconnect.htm/a /ppGRANT AWARDS BY YEAR – a href=”http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/commconnect/communityconnect-awards.htm”Grant Summaries/a/p/spandiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/5076203316942198080-4258015365762986616?l=nthpgrants.blogspot.com’//divimg src=”http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/nthpgrants/~4/QqB_phLWjDA” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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