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Community Connect

USDA & Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation, and Technology Offer Broadband Grant Workshop March 12

USDA has a number of broadband programs that can pay for connections to get rural cities, counties, schools and health clinics connected to the Internet.

Come learn how your community can benefit, at a Broadband Grant and Loan Workshop March 12, 2019 from 1:30-4:30 at two sites:

  • Nevada State Libraries and Archives, 100 N. Stewart St., Room 110, Carson City

  • Grant Sawyer Building, 555 East Washington Ave. St., Room 1400, Las Vegas

A call-in phone line is also available:

USDA Launches New Program to Create High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity in Rural America

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering up to $600 million in loans and grants to help build broadband infrastructure in rural America. Telecommunications companies, rural electric cooperatives and utilities, internet service providers and municipalities may apply for funding through USDA’s new ReConnect Program to connect rural areas that currently have insufficient broadband service.

USDA Rural Development Innovation Center Launches Interactive Webpage to Share Best Practices for Rural Economic Development

Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today unveiled a new interactive webpage to identify best practices for building rural prosperity.


“Rural communities need forward-thinking strategies to build strong, resilient futures,” Hazlett said. “USDA’s Rural Development Innovation Center is focused on identifying unique opportunities, pioneering new, creative solutions to tough challenges, and making Rural Development’s programs easier to understand, use and access.”