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Connects transportation stakeholders with objective information and experts to assist with alternative fuels, fuel economy improvements, and emerging transportation technologies.

Supports small businesses through loans, credit support, and engagement with financial institutions

Free help on training and technical assistance to small wastewater and decentralized wastewater treatment works serving approx. 10,000 or fewer people.

Technical assistance related to energy use and future scenarios for U.S. state, local, and tribal jurisdictions.

Matches consultants with communities to support brownfield redevelopment and access to EPA funding.

Grant writing, mentoring, skills development, economic development, healthy communities, funding navigation

The Rural Partners Network (RPN) is an alliance of federal agencies and commissions working directly with rural communities to expand rural prosperity through job creation, infrastructure development, and community improvement.

Qualified, private nonprofits provide technical assistance and training to identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste problems; helps applicants prepare applications for water and waste disposal loans/grants; and helps associations improve the operation and maintenance of water and waste facilities in eligible rural areas.

Helps communities plan and develop transportation and community revitalization activities for underresurced communities.  

Loans, grants and loan guarantees, and technical assistance to support economic development, community empowerment, agricultural producers and cooperatives, and housing.

Informs decision-making on topics related to developing clean energy projects on mine land. Through this effort, NREL provides no-cost technical assistance to communities and organizations that supports the development of successful, impactful, and replicable projects in line with CEML program priorities. These priorities are explicitly defined in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

ARC’s Community Capacity Initiative program will build capacity throughout Appalachia to enable communities to deploy the substantially increased funding opportunities provided by the Federal Government. Funds will be used to provide large-scale project development assistance.

ARC’s Ready Appalachia program offers flexible funding to organizations in four key economic development pillars: nonprofits, community foundations, local governments, and Local Development Districts, and free training to the Appalachians that work for them.

DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing and Recycling Grant program provides technical assistance and grants to small and medium manufacturers in former coal communities. The program is available to re-equip, expand or establish a manufacturing or recycling facility for the production or recycling of advanced energy technologies or to re-equip an industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of that facility.

Energy Storage for Social Equity Initiative assists as many as 15 underserved and frontline communities to leverage energy storage as a means of increasing resilience and maximizing energy flexibility. This funding will help promote an equitable clean energy transition and produce more affordable and reliable electricity.

Communities Local Energy Action Program (LEAP) aims to facilitate sustained community-wide economic and environmental benefits primarily through DOE’s clean energy deployment work. This opportunity is specifically open to low-income, energy-burdened communities that are experiencing either environmental justice impacts or economic impacts from a shift away from historical reliance on fossil fuels. Under Communities LEAP, DOE matches selected communities with technical assistance providers who assist them with bringing their clean energy planning and economic development vision to life.

SolSmart The purpose is to prepare communities to be “open for solar business.” The solar industry is a leading source of American job creation. Attracting solar investment in your community is a great way to promote economic development and new jobs.

State-led technical assistance in energy related training, energy efficiency, block grants and other methods to expand the weatherization provider network to assist low-income families with home energy retrofits.

State and Local Solution Center provides states and communities with resources addressing strategic energy planning, policy, financing, data management, and technologies to help them implement successful energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.

DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant supports local governments, tribes, and states to reduce barriers to achieving their clean energy and energy efficiency goals and maximize project impact. The Program technical assistance (TA) is available via peer networks and cohort-based learning, expert assistance in problem solving, document templates, and more opportunities that help meet specific needs of individual communities.

Manufacturers in Former Coal Communities DOE experts are available to help manufacturers assess what types of assistance would be most impactful based on an individual company’s priorities and challenges focusing on assessing eligibility, enhancing the impact of projects that may be supported and connecting manufacturers to existing programs and resources.     

Thriving Communities Initiative This program will support communities with planning and project development of infrastructure projects that increase affordable transportation options, enhance economic opportunity, reduce environmental burdens, improve access and quality of life, and provide other benefits to disadvantaged communities. DOT is partnering with HUD to provide complementary technical assistance as part of the program to improve the coordination of housing and transportation planning to advance residents’ access to opportunity and increase housing supply.

The Building Resilient Economies in Coal Communities (BRECC) Initiative is designed to help communities in coal-reliant regions enact place-based, locally driven development strategies to build thriving, resilient economies.

Tribal Electrification Program This program is to provide financial and technical assistance to Tribes to increase the number of Tribal homes with zero-emission electricity. Eligible uses: For (1) the provision of electricity to electrified Tribal homes through zero-emissions energy systems. (2) Transitioning electrified Tribal homes to Zero-emissions energy systems; and (3) Associated home repairs and retrofitting necessary to install the zero-emissions energy systems.

Indigenous Community of Practice This initiative is designed to convene current and potential EDA tribal grantees to build capacity for project planning and implementation via training and technical assistance for indigenous communities, and to facilitate expanded access to EDA’s economic development funding opportunities for tribes.​

The Community Revitalization Assistance provides resources from across EPA to help communities protect the environment, improve health, and strengthen their economies.

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund General Assistance & Low-Income & Disadvantaged Communities Grant Program Projects that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of air pollution, with a particular emphasis on projects in low-income and disadvantaged communities. The objectives of the GGRF are to (1) reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants; (2) deliver benefits to low-income and disadvantaged communities; and (3) mobilize financing and private capital to stimulate additional deployment of greenhouse gas and air pollution reducing projects.

EPA engages TA providers to deliver technical, managerial, financial, and administrative support to communities. An EPA representative works with an entity to address a specific request (e.g., applying for a grant and/or loan, addressing basic water and wastewater needs.)

Indian Health Service Sanitation Facilities Construction Program To support the Indian Health Service mission, the Sanitation Facilities Construction Program provides technical and financial assistance to American Tribes and Alaska Native Villages for the cooperative Development and construction of safe drinking water supply, sewage, and solid waste disposal facilities, and related support facilities.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Tribal Assistance The Tribal Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center offers TA on mental and substance use disorders, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion using the Strategic Cultural Framework.

The Distressed Cities and Persistent Poverty Technical Assistance (DCTA) program is designed to build capacity of local governments experiencing economic distress and assist local governments and their nonprofit partners in alleviating persistent poverty in specific areas (census tracts). Through DCTA, HUD provides technical assistance (TA) directly to entities serving smaller communities with populations under 50,000.

The program helps HUD’s customers navigate complex housing and community development challenges by equipping them with the knowledge, skills, tools, capacity, and systems to implement HUD programs and policies successfully.

The Capacity Building Initiative offers a variety of training and direct technical assistance opportunities to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) to strengthen their organizations and, ultimately, serve distressed communities in new and innovative ways. The education and support tools empower CDFIs to grow, achieve organizational sustainability, and contribute to the revitalization of their communities.

State Small Business Credit Initiative Technical Assistance and Best Practices Assistance for Capital Access programs, Collateral Support programs, Loan Guarantee programs, and Venture Capital program.

Broadband Technical Assistance (BTA) provides financial assistance through cooperative agreements to eligible entities to receive or deliver broadband technical assistance and training and supports the development and expansion of broadband cooperatives.

Loans, grants and loan guarantees, and technical assistance to support economic development, community empowerment, agricultural producers and cooperatives, and housing.

Rural Placemaking Innovation Challenge (RPIC) This program helps provide planning support, technical assistance, and training to foster placemaking activities in rural communities.

Create a forum for public and private partners to help increase access to workforce opportunities across rural America through in-person workshops.

The Equitable Transportation Community is an interactive web application that uses 2020 Census Tracts and data, to explore the cumulative burden communities experience, as a result of underinvestment in transportation, in the following five components: Transportation Insecurity, Climate and Disaster Risk Burden, Environmental Burden, Health Vulnerability, and Social Vulnerability.

The Rural EV Infrastructure Toolkit serves as a one-stop shop to help rural stakeholders scope, plan, and fund EV charging infrastructure.

This is a listing of formal technical assistance provided by entities or programs that can support disadvantaged communities, biking, multiuse paths, and active transportation.

The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program will provide grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to develop and implement plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s BroadbandUSA team provides expert assistance and support to stakeholders that are interested in broadband infrastructure and digital inclusion programs that advance economic development, education and public safety initiatives.

Federal Highway Administration Technical Support. FHWA is here to support local public agencies with technical assistance for planning, design, construction, preserving, and improving public roads and in the stewardship of Federal funds.

On behalf of the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), NREL provides no-cost technical assistance to communities and organizations interested in energy improvements in rural or remote areas.

The Federal Highway Administration’s LTAP program is a network of 51 local Centers across the US and in Puerto Rico. The program supports local and rural road agencies across the US by providing training, technical assistance and technology transfer services to help them manage and maintain their roadway systems.

The Federal Highway Administration’s TTAP delivers highway curriculum and technical assistance to the 567 federally-recognized tribes. These resources enable them to build workforce capacity and innovatively address roadway network challenges.

This program provides technical assistance to rural water systems that are experiencing day-to-day operational, financial or managerial issues.