American Rescue Plan Funding Opportunities

Following the American Rescue Plan Act, the U.S. Economic Development Administration was allocated $3 billion in supplemental funding to assist communities nationwide in their efforts to build back better by accelerating the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and building local economies that will be resilient to future economic shocks.

American Rescue Plan funding enables EDA to provide larger, more transformational investments across the nation while utilizing its greatest strengths, including flexible funding to support community-led economic development. These funding programs come in the form of innovative challenges, summarized on our EDA Funding Page.