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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  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  • Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Community Change Grants aim to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate justice challenges.

  • Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program (EJ TCGM)

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Sustainability

    The EJ TCGM Program is a competition to select multiple Grantmakers around the nation to reduce barriers to the federal grants application process communities face and increase the efficiency of the awards process for environmental justice grants.

  • EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Business, Sustainability, Workforce

    Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants provide funding for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving loan fund and to provide loans and subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites.

  • EPA Envirofacts Database

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Housing, Other, Sustainability

    Envirofacts provides users an assessment of their environment using their ZIP code.

  • EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Sustainability

    Agencies use their own mechanisms to announce grant opportunities that use GLRI funds. Some are posted here.

  • EPA Risk Assessment

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Health & Mental Health, Sustainability

    EPA uses risk assessment to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and ecological receptors from chemical contaminants and other stressors that may be present in the environment.

  • EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Health & Mental Health, Sustainability

    The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a resource for learning about toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities reported by industrial and federal facilities.

  • Geothermal Heat Pumps Tax Credit

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Energy, Sustainability

    Residential Clean Energy Tax Credits are available, with specific amounts available for prescribed periods.

  • The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Program (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Child Care, Energy, Forestry & Paper, Health & Mental Health, Parks & Outdoor Recreation, Sustainability

    EJCPS assists organizations working on or planning to work on projects to address local environmental and/or public health issues in their communities.

  • The Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Child Care, Energy, Forestry & Paper, Health & Mental Health, Native Peoples, Parks & Outdoor Recreation, Sustainability

    The EJG2G Program works to support and/or create model state activities that lead to measurable environmental or public health results in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms and risks.

  • Tribal and Insular Area Grants: Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA)

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Energy, Sustainability

    This grant funds projects that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions. Eligible entities include tribal governments (intertribal consortia) and Alaska Native Villages, and insular area government agencies, which have jurisdiction over transportation or air quality. Insular areas include the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.