Sustainable Community Development

Last updated: 03/09/06

 Note:  Users are invited to make suggestions concerning content they would find helpful or community development Web sites they believe would be useful to other communities.

• Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA)
• Department of Commerce Grants--The Economic Development Administration of the Dept. of Commerce on March 1, 2002, published its Availability of Funds Under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended and the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.  The purpose of this funding is to assist states, regions and communities create wealth and minimize poverty by promoting a favorable business environment to attract private capital investment and high skill, high paying jobs. Further information is also available at the EDA website, http://www.doc.gov/eda
• Department of Health and Human Services---RC/EZ/EC site--This web site provides health planning technical assistance for Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Enterprise Communities (RC/EZ/ECs). Specific areas of assistance provided on the site include: Good Health/Good Economy, Planning for a Healthy RC/EZ/EC, Mobilizing Partnerships and Making Contacts, Working on Priority Health Issues, Evaluating your Efforts, Funding and Links. Each area provides a topic overview, a story from the field, several examples from the field, tools, tips, and links. 
• Department of Housing and Urban Development's Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse--a web site designed to create more opportunities for affordable housing. The new web site includes a forum that will give builders and developers from around the country the ability to share ideas and solutions for overcoming state and local regulatory barriers to affordable housing.
• Department of Justice-Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention -- Information on the prevention of youth crime.
• Developing and Writing Grant Proposals--Guidelines developed by the Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance.
• Export-Import Bank--The official export credit agency of the U.S. government works with small businesses.  It helps small and medium-sized businesses that have exporting potential but need funds to buy or produce goods, and/or to provide services, for export. 
• Faith-Based and Community Initiatives--President George W. Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative represents a fresh start and bold new approach to government's role in helping those in need.
• Federal Funding Sources for Rural Areas--A database compiled by USDA's Rural Information Center.
• Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Federal Standard 1037C--Glossary of Telecommunications Term
• FirstGov--Federal Government web portal.
• FirstGov for Science--Science.gov is the gateway to reliable information about science and technology from across Federal government organizations. From science.gov, users can find over one thousand government information resources about science. These resources include: technical reports, journal citations, databases, Federal web sites, and fact sheets.
• HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program  
• National Rural Development Partnership
• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)--The national service organization dedicated to representing the national interests of consumer-owned cooperative electric utilities and the consumers they serve.
• Neighborhoods Online
• Neighborhood Funders Group--A national network of grant makers working to expand support for organizations that help low-income people improve their communities.
• Northwest Area Foundation--focuses all the Foundation’s resources on helping communities in our eight-state region to reduce poverty.
• Northwest Area Foundation Indicator Website--enables users to look up information such as population characteristics, income and poverty statistics, employment, housing and family household information.  
• RIC's Funding Page--USDA's Rural Information Center
• RIC's Rural Housing Page
• Rural Assistance Center--The Rural Assistance Center (RAC), established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is a new national resource on rural health and human services information. Information specialists are available to provide customized assistance, such as web and database searches on rural topics and funding resources, linking users to organizations, and furnishing relevant publications from the RAC resource library.  The RAC is the result of collaboration by the University of North Dakota's Center for Rural Health and its partners the Rural Policy Research Institute, the Welfare Information Network, and HHS's Office of Rural Health Policy in the Health Resources and Services Administration.  More features will be added in coming months including searchable databases, a Congressional bill tracking feature, and a quarterly newsletter. The RAC can be accessed at: http://www.raconline.org or by dialing 1-800-270-1898.
• Rural Information Center
• Rural Downtown Revitalization --USDA's Rural Information Center has loaded a new in-depth FAQ on Rural Downtown Revitalization
• Rural Transporation-Planning-FHWA-- The Federal Highway Administration provides information on rural transportation planning practices and issues.
• The Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Center on Faith Based and Community Initiatives--website provides one-stop-shopping for faith-based and community organizations looking for information about HHS programs and opportunities.  This site also features helpful hints about grant writing, nonprofit management and volunteerism.
• USDA/DOT Create Rural Transportation Toolbox--Information on all rural transportation programs offered by Agriculture and USDOT centralized on this site.

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