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: (mm/dd/yyyy) 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.