Applicants are invited to apply for the Minnesota Multi-Purpose Community Facility Projects to Support Community Revitalization, Connectedness and Equity by Promoting Education, Work and Health.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Education
State: Minnesota
County: Anoka County (MN), Carver County (MN), Dakota County (MN), Hennepin County (MN), Ramsey County (MN), Scott County (MN), Washington County (MN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 appropriated $10 billion to the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) to provide payments to states, territories, freely associated states, and Tribal Governments to carry out critical capital projects directly enabling work, education, and healthcare monitoring in response to the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic public health emergency. This established the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (“CPF”) program, which aims to:
- Directly support recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency by strengthening and improving the infrastructure necessary for participation in work, education, and healthcare monitoring that will last beyond the pandemic.
- Enable investments in capital assets designed to address inequities in access to critical services; and
- Provide the modern infrastructure necessary to access critical services, including a high quality and affordable broadband internet connection.
To be eligible for grant award consideration, the proposed project must:
- be for the construction of a new or the expansion or renovation of an existing Full-Service Community School, Community Health Center, Public Library or Multi-purpose Community Facility that is open and accessible to the public; and
- provide for high-speed internet, and
- directly and jointly enable work, education, and healthcare monitoring; and
- addresses a critical need for the Project in the community to be served by it.
Funding Information
This grant opportunity estimates that $47.5 million is available on a one-time basis. The minimum grant award amount is approximately $200,000 for each qualifying applicant. The maximum grant award amount is approximately $500,000. The estimated number of awards is approximately 70 grants for metro organizations and approximately 70 grant awards for Greater Minnesota organizations. Applicants will be asked to select in the Application Coversheet if their organization is located in the metro area or located in Greater Minnesota and which of the six regions they are located in.
Approximately $23,750,000 is available for the Seven-County Metro Area (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, or Washington counties.)
Approximately $23,750,000 is available for Greater Minnesota regions, distributed as follows:
- $6,774,023- Central Minnesota/ Initiative Foundation (Benton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing, Isanti, Kanabec, Mile Lacs, Morrison, Pine, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wadena, Wright)
- $2,471,858- Northwest Minnesota (Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau)
- $6,170,716- Southern Minnesota- South Central & Southeastern (Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Le Sueur, Martin, Mower, Nicollet, Olmsted, Rice, Sibley, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan, Winona)
- $2,829,711- Southwest Minnesota (Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Swift, Yellow Medicine)
- $2,329,375- West Central Minnesota (Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse, Wilkin)
- $3,174,316- Northeast Minnesota/ Northland (Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, St. Louis).
Grant Period
The term of the initial grant period is anticipated to be from April 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2026.
Eligible Project Costs
Grants may be used for pre-design, design, construct/build, furnishings, and to equip facilities, including renovating and expanding existing buildings.
- Costs associated with completing the grant or application and grant plan such as development costs:
- Data-gathering;
- Feasibility studies;
- Community engagement and public feedback processes;
- Equity assessment and planning;
- Building permits;
- Architectural and engineering design;
- Environmental, historical, and cultural reviews.
- Costs and associated with costs of construction:
- Acquisition of real property;
- Construction of the building;
- Repair, reconstruction, and improvement;
- Equipment (e.g. devices, office equipment, and telecommunications);
- Cost of long-term leases (for terms greater than one year) of facilities required to provide qualifying broadband service, including indefeasible right-of-use (IRU) agreements and capital leases;
- Personnel costs (including salaries and fringe benefits) for staff and consultants required for carrying out a capital project such as project managers, program directors, subject matter experts, equity consultants, grant administrators, financial analysts, accountants, and attorneys.
- Costs associated with monitoring of and reporting on projects in compliance with the Department of the Treasury requirements, including closeout costs;
- Costs associated with collecting and measuring performance data and conducting activities needed to establish and maintain a performance management and evaluation schedule related to the project funded by the Capital Projects Fund program.
Eligible Projects
Examples of eligible projects include, but are not limited to, the construction of a new Multi-purpose Facility or expansion of a Public Library, which includes providing publicly accessible computer labs with public Wi-Fi that allow users to:
- access job workshops, work programming, virtual job fairs, meetings with workforce development groups, virtual job interviews, accessing job interview guidance and materials, or compose resumes and apply for jobs.
- attend telehealth or wellness appointments, virtually meet with a healthcare provider, access online materials relating to a health condition, or review instructions for an upcoming health appointment; or
- build educational opportunities by attending online classes/sessions, access available educational and work partnerships such as internships, apply for college, register for classes, virtually visit with an academic advisor, review study materials, or conduct research as needed for educational classes.
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