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Success Stories

A mother and three daughters pose around a dining room table. There are lace curtains and blue wall in the background and some dishes on the table in the foreground.

“This is Home” – A Family Finds Their Forever Home in Calais, Maine

One of the first rooms Heather Gagne and her daughters began redecorating in their new home is the dining room, shown in the top photo. They have been busy repainting and making other updates. Raising a family in coastal Machias, Maine may sound lovely, but for Heather Gagne recent years proved stressful. There were few housing options in the Downeast community, and Heather was glad to find a rental home to…
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Charter School Receives Funding for Expansion

Quality education is a key to creating ladders of opportunity for rural students. Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School (PVCICS), a regional public charter school located in Hadley, MA has been providing quality education for its students since it’s opening in 2007.… [Read More]
Massachusetts
Community Facilities

City of La Feria Celebrates Library Grant Re-Opening

City of La Feria officials celebrated the Grand Re-Opening of the Bailey H. Dunlap Memorial Public Library.The City of la Feria has a population of 7,302 who will now have access to a state of the art computer lab and community meeting/training room.Mayor Pro-Tem Esmeralda… [Read More]
Texas
Community FacilitiesEconomic Development
wall mural

Community Clinic of Maui Offers One-Stop for Healthcare Needs

The Community Clinic of Maui opened its doors in 1993 with only a mid-level provider sharing an office at the Salvation Army, dedicated to serving the poor, uninsured and homeless of Maui. As the community needs exploded, the growing clinic struggled to find space to meet… [Read More]
Hawaii and Western Pacific
Community Facilities
Student manually developing 3D design at Lake Country Advanced Knowledge Center, a process that takes days - or even weeks.

Community Excels in Engineering

What happens when businesses are eager to hire local employees, but an equally eager workforce lacks the necessary skills for employment? A stalemate.South Hill and its surrounding region have suffered this dilemma for the last five years with an unemployment rate ranging from 3… [Read More]
Virginia
BusinessCommunity FacilitiesEducation
Quest Montessori School

Funding to Help the Expansion of Rural School

Providing necessary and quality education in rural communities is important to create ladders of opportunity for the future generations. Following up on this mission, in 2009 USDA Rural Development gave the Quest Montessori School a $2.4 million Community Facilities loan to… [Read More]
Rhode Island
Community FacilitiesEducation
USDA funds Greenhouse Cape Cod

Funds Help Build Greenhouse for Nauset Regional Middle School

The Nauset Regional Middle School in Cape Cod, Massachusetts currently has a three-year-old seasonal greenhouse that complements an indoor wet lab where fish and plants are grown. Currently, students are only able to use the greenhouse for a small part of the school year as the… [Read More]
Massachusetts
Community FacilitiesEducation

Geothermal Fueled Residence Hall

Outline Of Need: West Chester University is a public university with 15,415 students and 800 academic employees in West Chester, Pennsylvania (Chester County). Demand for student housing is very high, the existing university housing is near full capacity, and much of it is old… [Read More]
Pennsylvania
Community Facilities
In 2015 USDA Rural Development invested $40,000 to help a nonprofit purchase a new sport utility vehicle and trailer to transport equipment and personnel.

Health in the Hills

In the medically underserved central Appalachian Mountains a much-needed healthful vehicle has been navigating the winding tree-lined roads since 1980.Known as the Health Wagon, today this mobile health unit visits eleven sites in Virginia’s Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, Lee,… [Read More]
Virginia
Community FacilitiesHealth Care
Platte Health Center

High Quality Health Care Available in Platte, SD

When a patient’s fever raises suspicion of an infection, when an infection is potentially serious or when problems occur with treatment, an infectious disease specialist is usually called in to help. Working concurrently with the patient’s primary care physician, this specialist… [Read More]
South Dakota
Community FacilitiesGrants
C.O.R.E @ the Camptonville Academy's new Personalized Learning resource center, overlooking Ellis Lake in Marysville, California.

Homeschooled Students Find a School to Call Home

In Marysville, California, a unique charter school offers a special opportunity to homeschooled students: teachers and classrooms. C.O.R.E. (Community Options for Resources in Education) @ the Camptonville Academy serves 420 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. They… [Read More]
California
Community Facilities

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