• • • Granting Agency: USDA
    • Appropriation Amount: $44,500,000, Award Range $50,000 – $1,000,000, 15% match
    • Announcement Date: April 5, 2021
    • Closing Date: June 4, 2021

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/distance-learning-telemedicine-grants

Purpose: Helps rural communities acquire the technology and training necessary to connect educational and medical professionals with students, teachers, and patients in rural areas.

Eligible Expenditures:
Equipment, Broadband facilities, computer hardware, instructional programming, and technical assistance

Eligible Applicants: State and local governments, Federally recognized Tribes, Nonprofit organizations, for-profit businesses, and Consortia of eligible entities