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Community Connect
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To encourage community-oriented connectivity by providing grants to eligible applicants who will deploy broadband transmission service in rural communities where such service does not currently exist; who will connect all critical community facilities such as local schools, education centers, libraries, hospitals, health care providers, law enforcement agencies, public safety organizations, fire, and rescue services, as well as residents and businesses; and who will operate a community center which provides free and open access to area residents.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
$11,740,000 is available for awards in FY 2016, all of which is expected to be obligated by the end of the fiscal year. The application window closed June 17th, and review of the 72 submitted applications is proceeding In FY 2016, grants totaled $15,604,851 and benefited 5 states.
In FY 2017, the application window closed on June 16, 2017. As of that date RUS received 72 applications which are currently going through the review process.
14 grants were awarded for a total of $30 million
For FY 24, the program received 57 applications totaling $188 Million in requested funding. Of the amount received, 19 awards were approved.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
