Who can apply:
Eligible applicants include all domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities.
Eligible entities must be physically located in New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, or Maine, and must have demonstrated experience serving eligible rural counties and rural census tracts in the NBRC service region, as listed in Appendix A. Eligible entities must be located within the state for which they are applying. For example, an applicant organization applying to serve New York must be physically located within New York. Applicants may only apply to serve one of the four states listed above.
All planned activities supported by this program must exclusively target the HRSA-designated rural counties and rural census tracts within the NBRC service area, as listed in Appendix A. Within partially rural counties, only HRSA-designated rural census tracts are eligible to receive activities and services supported by this award, as shown in the table above. For your reference, a list of HRSA-designated rural census tracts is available here.
Applicants must include in their target rural service area all eligible rural NBRC counties and census tracts for the state in which they are applying, as listed in Appendix A. Note that services and resources supported by this funding must be available and easily accessible throughout the entire target rural service area. However, it is acceptable to more actively focus on communities with disproportionate levels of need within the target rural service area.