Opportunity Information: Apply for RDBCP SDGG 2016
The Socially Disadvantaged Groups Grant (SDGG) is a competitive federal grant opportunity offered by the USDA Rural Development Rural Business-Cooperative Service to fund technical assistance projects that support socially disadvantaged groups in rural areas. For FY 2016, the program makes a total of $3,000,000 available nationwide. The SDGG program was previously known as the Small Socially-Disadvantaged Producer Grant program, and this round of funding is authorized under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114-113). The overall intent is to strengthen economic opportunity and improve quality of life in rural communities by helping eligible rural populations access the tools, knowledge, and support needed to develop or expand cooperative and related business activity.
Funding under this opportunity is specifically aimed at applicants that can deliver hands-on technical assistance to socially disadvantaged groups. In practice, that technical assistance can include education, training, and guidance that helps groups organize, form, improve, or sustain cooperatives or other collaborative business efforts, as well as assistance that builds management capacity, governance practices, market readiness, and long-term operational stability. While the notice does not list every permissible activity in the text provided, the central theme is capacity-building support rather than direct capital for construction or equipment, with the grant dollars intended to pay for the work of providing technical assistance and related project costs.
A stated priority of the program is directing resources to rural places with high economic need. The agency encourages proposals that are based in, or that serve, census tracts where the poverty rate is 20 percent or higher. This emphasis is meant to align with Rural Development's mission and to concentrate support in communities that face persistent barriers to economic participation. Applications that clearly demonstrate service to these higher-poverty rural areas, and that show how the project will reach and benefit socially disadvantaged groups, would be positioned to match the agency's stated focus.
Eligible applicants are limited to cooperative-oriented entities that serve socially disadvantaged groups, specifically cooperatives, groups of cooperatives, and cooperative development centers. The opportunity category is discretionary, the funding instrument is a grant, and the funding activity category is listed as Business and Commerce under CFDA 10.871. The listing indicates an expected 20 awards, with an award ceiling of $175,000 per grant, meaning individual awards cannot exceed that cap even though total program funding is $3 million. The funding opportunity number is RDBCP SDGG 2016.
Key administrative details include an original application closing date of August 1, 2016, and a posting/creation date of June 14, 2016. Taken together, the SDGG program for FY 2016 is best understood as a targeted technical-assistance grant competition designed to help cooperative-based organizations provide practical, on-the-ground support to socially disadvantaged rural groups, with an added encouragement to focus work in rural census tracts experiencing at least 20 percent poverty.Apply for RDBCP SDGG 2016
- The Rural Business-Cooperative Service in the business and commerce sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Socially Disadvantaged Groups Grant" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.871.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2016-06-14.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-08-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $175,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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