Economic Development Agency (EDA)
Mission: “To lead the federal economic development agenda by promoting competitiveness, preparing American regions for growth, and success in the worldwide economy.‖
EDA is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce that partners with distressed communities throughout the United States to foster job creation, collaboration and innovation the federal economic development agenda by promoting innovation and competitiveness, preparing American regions for growth and success in the worldwide economy.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The Stronger Economies Together (SET) Program is sponsored by USDA Rural Development (USDA RD), in partnership with the Regional Rural Development Centers, for interested counties that desire to work together to develop and implement a regional economic development strategy or plan.
Eight states have been selected for this pilot program: AZ, KY, LA, MO, NM, OH, PA, and WV. State Partner Teams will provide training and technical assistance to largely rural counties that are interested in working together on a regional basis or wish to strengthen the effectiveness of an existing regional development effort. Your current or potential region can cross state lines, but it must meet one of the ―rural‖ definitions provided in the application.
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
The SBA was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.
The SBA recognizes that small business is critical to our economic recovery and strength, to building America’s future, and to helping the United States compete in today’s global marketplace. Although SBA has grown and evolved in the years since it was established in 1953, the bottom line mission remains the same.
The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD’s mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.
HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes: utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination; and transform the way HUD does business.
Health and Human Services (HHS)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
The Department includes more than 300 programs, covering a wide spectrum of activities. Some highlights include:
- Health and social science research
- Preventing disease, including immunization services
- Assuring food and drug safety
- Medicare (health insurance for elderly and disabled Americans)
- Medicaid (health insurance for low-income people)
- Health information technology
- Financial assistance and services for low-income families
- Improving maternal and infant health
- Head Start (pre-school education and services)
- Faith-based and community initiatives
- Preventing child abuse and domestic violence
- Substance abuse treatment and prevention
- Services for older Americans, including home-delivered meals
- Comprehensive health services for Native Americans
- Medical preparedness for emergencies, including potential terrorism.
Department of Transportation (DOT)
The mission of the Department is to: Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Our Mission: EPA’s mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment — air, water, and land — upon which life depends. For 30 years, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. Also view EPA’s Strategic Plan and policy resources.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Indian Affairs (IA) is the oldest bureau of the United States Department of the Interior. Established in 1824, IA currently provides services (directly or through contracts, grants, or compacts) to approximately 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.
There are 565 federally recognized American Indian tribes and Alaska Natives in the United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is responsible for the administration and management of 55 million surface acres and 57 million acres of subsurface minerals estates held in trust by the United States for American Indian, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives.
Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) provides education services to approximately 42,000 Indian students. BIA and BIE‘s missions are to:
Enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives.
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
The mission of the Community Development function of the Federal Reserve System is to support the economic growth objectives of the Federal Reserve Act by promoting community development and fair and equal access to credit.
To this end, the Community Development Department seeks to promote:
- The active engagement of depository institutions in traditionally underserved markets for credit and other banking services;
- Cooperation between community organizations and financial institutions to their mutual benefit;
- Greater public understanding of financial services products, their intrinsic benefits and risks, and the consumer’s rights and responsibilities as expressed in pertinent regulations;
- A better understanding, on the part of policy-makers, community leaders, and private decision-makers, of the process of community development, the factors critical to success, and best practice models of community development programs; and
- A better understanding of the effect of Federal Reserve policies on the less advantaged segments of the economy.
International Trade Administration
With offices throughout the United States and in U.S. Embassies and consulates in nearly 80 countries, the U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce‘s International Trade Administration utilizes its global network of trade professionals to connect U.S. companies with international buyers worldwide.
Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC)
The Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) and the North American Development Bank (NADB) were created in 1993 under a side-agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for the purpose of enhancing the environmental conditions of the US-Mexico border region and advancing the well-being of residents in both nations.
The institutions fulfill an essential role in effectively applying bi-national policies and programs that support the sustainable development of environmental infrastructure in the border region.
The scope of their mandate and the specific functions of each institution are defined in an agreement between the two governments (the ―Charter‖), as amended in August 2004. BECC and NADB work closely with other border stakeholders including federal, state, and local agencies, the private-sector and civil society to identify, develop, finance and implement environmental infrastructure projects on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
BECC focuses on the technical, environmental, and social aspects of project development, while NADB concentrates on project financing and oversight for project implementation. Both entities offer various types of technical assistance to support the development and long-term sustainability of these projects.
Created as interdependent institutions, BECC and NADB function as a team, working with communities and project sponsors in the U.S.-Mexico border region to develop, finance and build affordable and self-sustaining projects that address a human health or environmental need. Within this project development process, each institution is charged with specific responsibilities:
North American Development Bank (NADB)
The NADB is a bi-national financial institution capitalized and governed equally by the United States and Mexico for the purpose of financing environmental projects certified by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC).
The two institutions work together with communities and project sponsors in both countries to develop and finance infrastructure necessary for a clean and healthy environment for border residents.
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