The Department of Commerce, on behalf of the Governor’s office, is implementing the Economic Development Administration, (EDA) Statewide Public Space Initiative- Placemaking (SPSI) Planning Grant.
Donor Name: North Dakota Department of Commerce
State: North Dakota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/01/2022
Grant Size: Up to $100,000
Details:
Community-driven placemaking matters in creating healthy, prosperous communities where people want to live, work, play, and learn. The planning and preliminary design efforts that result from this proposal will generate economic benefits and is a complementary strategy to aid workforce development.
The EDA SPSI grant program supports local governments in completing the planning phrase of Placemaking that involves economic, resiliency, and diversification plans. The goal in the EDA Statewide Public Space Initiative, Placemaking Planning Grant is the planning and design necessary to enhance the statewide attraction of businesses, promotion of economic activity, and the retention and attraction of talented workers, thus strengthening the economic resiliency across North Dakota communities as we recover from the economic impacts Covid-19.
Placemaking activities are a multi-faceted approach to planning, designing, and managing public spaces, and these community assets are critical to economic resilience and workforce attraction and retention across the state of North Dakota. Placemaking as an economic development strategy, also called place-based economic development, is the practice of using a community’s public amenities to make economic progress.
Funding Information
Up to $100,000 per community
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Entities – City, County, Tribal entities
- Non-eligible Entities: Regional organizations, nonprofits, for-profit entities, individual businesses, political affiliated organizations, and individuals.
For more information, visit North Dakota Department of Commerce .