MD Economic Development Opportunities Program Fund (Sunny Day)

The Illinois Local Food Infrastructure Grant (LFIG) provides Illinois farms, cooperatives, processing facilities, food businesses, food hubs, nonprofits, and local governments with grants of up to $75,000 for individual projects or up to $250,000 for collaborative projects to develop local food processing, aggregation, and distribution infrastructure. Administered by the Illinois Department of Agriculture and created under the Local Food Infrastructure Grant Act, the program has approximately $1.8 million in total available funding per fiscal year. The grant’s purpose is to help Illinois applicants expand infrastructure that increases market access for Illinois agricultural products in Illinois communities. Grant funds may be used to purchase, lease-to-own, rent, build, or install infrastructure that supports the local food supply chain, including value-added processing, livestock processing, milling, dairy, refrigerated vehicles, food hubs, community kitchens, and other critical pieces of the local food supply chain. Eligible applicants must be Illinois-based and must store, process, package, aggregate, or distribute value-added products. Eligible organizations include Illinois farms, cooperatives, processing facilities, food businesses, and food hubs with 50 or fewer employees, as well as nonprofits and local governments. Grants are available for both collaborative and individual projects, and a match is generally required unless the applicant can demonstrate a high-need condition. All applicants must pre-register with the Illinois Department of Agriculture before submitting an application.

Now in its third year, this grant program will award 40 small businesses $5,000 each and two Grand Prize winners $20,000, fueling expansion, innovation, and long-term success across Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Small businesses with locations in Nassau or Suffolk Counties and 10 or fewer employees can apply.

Virginia Economic Development Incentive Grants are designed to attract competitive projects to Virginia. Projects must be significant, creating hundreds of jobs in Virginia by relocating headquarters, administrative, or service sector operations to Virginia. Depending on location and wages offered, companies must create between 200 and 400 jobs, ranging from 150 to 200 percent of the local prevailing wage, and meet minimum capital or job investment requirements. Award amounts vary and are calculated based on a return-on-investment analysis, jobs and wages, capital investment, regional unemployment and poverty figures, and more.

The city of Haysville is offering a cash incentive to new businesses coming to the area. New restaurants can receive $20,000 to put toward the business within city limits. The $20,000 grants would be paid to the business over the first three years of operation, when small businesses tend to struggle the most.

The Office of Nuclear Energy’s (NE) mission is to advance nuclear energy science and technology to meet U.S. energy, environmental, and economic needs. NE has identified the following goals to address challenges in the nuclear energy sector, help realize the potential of advanced technology, and leverage the unique role of the government in spurring innovation: - Keep existing U.S. nuclear reactors operating; - Deploy new nuclear reactors; - Secure and sustain our nuclear fuel cycle - Expand international nuclear energy cooperation. NE conducts crosscutting nuclear energy research and development (R&D) and associated infrastructure support activities to develop innovative technologies that offer the promise of dramatically improved performance for its mission needs as stated above, while maximizing the impact of NE resources. NE strives to promote integrated and collaborative research conducted by national laboratory, university, industry, and international partners under the direction of NE’s programs; deploy innovative nuclear energy technologies to the market; and optimize the benefits of nuclear energy.