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RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
(RCDI)
The Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI)
program provides grants to qualified intermediary organizations that will
provided financial and technical assistance to recipients to develop their
capacity and ability to undertake projects related to housing, community
facilities, or community and economic development.
On March 10,
2004, Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman announced more
than $6.8 million in technical assistance grants to 27 nonprofit
community-based development organizations, low-income communities or
Federally recognized tribes to improve their ability to develop rural
housing, technology, economic development and community facilities in 18
states.
Congress appropriated approximately $6 million in
Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 for the Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI).
A Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) will be published in the Federal
Register inviting applications for this program. There will be a 90-day
application period from the date of publication. The NOFA will be available
on this website when it is published in the Federal Register. We do
not have an anticipated publication date at this time. You can review the
NOFA and correction for FY 2003: however, this should not be used to develop
your application since the FY 2004 NOFA may contain changes. You will have
access to the NOFA and required forms from this page.
Key program points are:
1. The purpose of this
initiative is to provide a program of technical assistance to recipients to
develop or increase their capacity to undertake projects in the areas of
housing, community facilities, and community and economic development in
rural areas.
2. The RCDI grant, which
has a dollar-for-dollar matching funds requirement, is made to an
intermediary. The intermediary provides a program of technical assistance to
recipients to build their capacity and ability to undertake projects related
to housing, community facilities, and community and economic development in
rural areas.
3. The intermediary can be
a private or public organization, including tribal, that has been organized
a minimum of 3 years and has experience working with the recipients eligible
for this program.
4. The recipients can be
nonprofit organizations, low-income communities, or federally recognized
tribes, based on the definitions in the Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA).
Recipients must be located in eligible rural areas, as defined in the NOFA.
5. Matching funds must be in the form of cash or
confirmed funding commitments and be at least equal to the grant amount.
In-kind contributions cannot be used as matching funds.
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