Resource Directory
Rural Economic Development
RESOURCES AND GRANTS FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES
Whether you’re an individual, a business or a community organization, you can use the directory below to search a vast library of resources, tools and services. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), its economic development partners and other organizations around the state offer a range of resources on all aspects of economic well-being, from childcare and education to businesses and housing. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Reach out to us directly, we want to help.
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Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program: Implementation and Expansion Grants
Health & Mental Health, Native Peoples
The Tribal MIECHV Grant Program supports evidence-based home visiting programs serving expectant families and families with young children aged birth ...Read more
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Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program
Health & Mental Health, Transportation, Workforce
Provides technical assistance (TA) to employers and labor unions in the United States and its territories to encourage employment of ...Read more
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Socially-Disadvantaged Groups Grant in Wisconsin
Business, Native Peoples, Other
This program is to provide technical assistance to socially-disadvantaged groups through cooperatives and Cooperative Development Centers.
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Section 242 Hydroelectric Incentive Payments
Energy
The hydroelectric production incentive payments are a benefit available for electric energy generation and sold for a specified 10-year period.
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USDA Rural Development’s Tribal Relations Page
Native Peoples, Other
The Rural Development Tribal Relations webpage is created by its Tribal Relations team, which helps ensure relevant programs and policies ...Read more
News
Rural housing resources
Housing
The programs listed here are just a few of the resources available to rural Wisconsin communities as they explore their ...Read more
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Wisconsin Assessment Monies (WAM)
Sustainability
The Wisconsin Assessment Monies (WAM) program provides funding to address specific brownfields sites where potential or known contamination is acting ...Read more
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Cornell Small Farms Program Online Courses
Business, Start-Up & Entrepreneur
The Cornell Small Farms Program offers a suite of more than 30 online courses, primarily taught by Cornell Cooperative Extension ...Read more
Support Organization
Cornell Small Farms Program
Education & Schools
The Cornell Small Farms Program was established in 2001 as a program of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life ...Read more
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Getting Started with Your Food or Farm Business Video Series
This weekly video series will give you the essential strategies when developing a business plan.
Support Organization
University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension
Business, Education & Schools, Other
Extension’s mission is to connect people with the University of Wisconsin. We teach, learn, lead and serve, transforming lives and ...Read more
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Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)
Business
The Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) provides payments to eligible livestock owners and contract growers who have covered livestock and ...Read more
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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)
Business, Other
LIP provides benefits to livestock producers for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by adverse weather or by ...Read more
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Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP-Recovery) Program
Other
The EWP Program offers technical and financial assistance to help local communities relieve imminent threats to life and property caused ...Read more
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Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
Business
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides technical and financial assistance to producers to address natural resource concerns and deliver ...Read more
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Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Emergency Haying and Grazing
Business
This program contracts with agricultural producers so that environmentally sensitive agricultural land is not farmed or ranched, but instead used ...Read more
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Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish (ELAP)
Business
ELAP provides financial assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish for losses due to disease, certain adverse ...Read more
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Emergency Loan Program
Business
When a tornado, flood, or drought strikes, or a quarantine is imposed by the Secretary of Agriculture, or when other ...Read more
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Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP)
Business
The Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) helps the owners of non-industrial private forests restore forest health damaged by natural disasters.
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Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)
Business
The Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) helps farmers and ranchers repair damage to farmlands caused by natural disasters and put in ...Read more
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