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BIL Opportunity: Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE)

  • Open Now

Open Date:

8/23/2022

Close Date:

Continuous
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Eligible Recipients:

  • Educational Institution
  • Local Government
  • Native/Tribal Entity
  • Non-profit
  • State Government

Program Purpose:

  • Economic Development
  • Education and Workforce Development
  • Other Infrastructure
  • Telecommunications / Broadband

Reserved for Energy
Communities?

No

Upcoming Milestones:

ARISE program is open and accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Funded by:

Appalachian Regional Commission

Overview

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE) is an $80 million a year initiative to drive large scale, regional transformation through multistate collaborative projects. ARISE projects must address at least one of ARC's 5 strategic investment priorities: building businesses; building workforce; building infrastructure; building regional culture and tourism; or building leaders and community capacity. ARISE makes available federal resources to transform Appalachia's economy through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.

ARISE Webinars can be found here.

Related Resources

Rural America Placemaking Toolkit

Resource to identify placemaking projects that align with your community capacity and plan how to execute them. 

Thriving Downtowns: An Investment Playbook for Rural Appalachia

Resource that helps various stakeholders identify key factors that enable investments to be successful and provides examples of real investments that are leading to downtown revitalization in Central Appalachia.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Rural Playbook

Tool to help rural communities understand the available funding  for infrastructure provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Funding Details

Funding Source:
  • Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)
Funding Type:
Grant - match required
Total Amount Available:
$80000000.00
Limit per Applicant:
Up to $10,000,000 Implementation Grant; up to $500,000 Planning Grant
Estimated Awards:
25

Applicant Guidance

https://www.arc.gov/arise/

https://www.arc.gov/news/arc-awards-6-3-million-to-bolster-broadband-access-across-50-communities-in-every-appalachian-subregion/

ARISE FAQs (arc.gov)

https://www.arc.gov/arise-application-information/

Contact Information

[email protected]

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