The Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) is now accepting applications for the Capital Project Multi-Purpose Community Facilities Grant Program (MPCF). MPCF is an authorized use of funding from Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund Assistance Listing 21.029, which was designed to provide state governments with the resources needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects and to build a stronger economy during recovery.
DED will provide grants, not to exceed $35,000,000 to eligible projects that are located within a congressional district which contains a city of the metropolitan class. Within a city of the metropolitan class, grants shall be given to multipurpose community facilities.
Eligible projects should be located within or adjacent to one or more qualified census tracts or economic redevelopment areas as defined in Neb. Rev. Stat. § 81-12,153 in a city of the metropolitan class.
Priority for grants shall be given to a city of the metropolitan class in partnership with a nonprofit organization for eligible projects for the rehabilitation or expansion of existing multipurpose community facilities.
The application is now open. The deadline to apply for the Multi-Purpose Community Facilities Grant Program is Friday, December 22, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. CT.
For additional information regarding eligibility requirements for the Multi-Purpose Community Facilities Grant Program, please refer to the Program Manual linked here: https://opportunity.nebraska.gov/programs/recovery/multi-purpose-community-facilities/#resources.
For additional program information, please contact Economic Development Manager Elizabeth Blanco at elizabeth.blanco@nebraska.gov or 402-983-0911.