Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 30, Number 3, 1 March 2013 — USDA accepting Rural Business Enterprise Grant applications [ARTICLE]

USDA accepting Rural Business Enterprise Grant applications

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking grantees to promote sustainable eeonomie development for businesses in rural eommunities. The Rural Business Enterprise Grants are available to eligible puhlie bodies, private nonprofit corporations, and federally recognized Indian Tribal groups to hnanee and facilitate development of small and emerging private business enterprises located in any area other than a city or town that has a populahon of more than 50,000 and the urbanized area contiguous and adjacent to such a city or town. Last year the Hawai'iAVestern Paeihe region was allocated $ 17 3,000 for the RBEG program Applications for fiscal year 2013 are due by close of business on May 1. On the web, www.rurdev.usda. gov/bcp_rbeg.html.