The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity is accepting applications for its Rural Communities Opportunity Grant.
Donor Name: Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity
State: Utah
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The RCOG empowers rural communities to take responsibility for economic development planning, projects, and activities, and to manage their unique opportunities. The grant is designed to address the economic development needs of rural communities, including:
- Business recruitment, development, and expansion.
- Workforce training and development; and
- Infrastructure, industrial building development, and capital facilities improvements for business development.
Funding Information
Grant funding is competitive and requires matching funds from awardees. A municipality, city, town, metro township, county, or AOG may receive up to $600,000. Rural counties may receive grant funds from the RCOG exceeding the $200,000 distributed to counties under the Rural County Grant (RCG), but counties may not receive more than $800,000 of state funds per fiscal year.
Geographical Areas
- Counties of the Third Class (Population of 40,000 or more, but less than 175,000)
- Cache County
- Tooele County
- Box Elder County
- Iron County
- Summit County
- Counties of the Fourth Class (Population of 11,000 or more, but less than 40,000)
- Uintah County
- Wasatch County
- Sanpete County
- Sevier County
- Carbon County
- Duchesne County
- San Juan County
- Millard County
- Morgan County
- Juab County
- Counties of the Fifth Class (Population of 4,000 or more, but less than 11,000)
- Emery County
- Grand County
- Kane County
- Beaver County
- Garfield County
- Counties of the Sixth Class (Population less than 4,000)
- Wayne County
- Rich County
- Piute County
- Daggett County
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible rural communities include:
- Counties of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth class
- Cities, towns, and metro townships located within those counties
- Municipalities with a population of 10,000 or less in counties of the second class
- Associations of Governments
For more information, visit UGOEO.
