PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
EDA oversees three (National, Local and University Center) technical assistance which to promote economic development and alleviate under-employment and unemployment in distressed areas. The program provides funds to: (1) establish and operated University Centers which enlist the resources of their sponsoring institutions of higher education in promoting economic development; (2) support innovative economic development projects; (3) disseminate information and studies of economic development issues of national significance; and (4) finance feasibility studies and other projects leading to local economic development. Aids the long-range economic development of areas with severe unemployment and low family income problems; aids in the development of public facilities and private enterprise to help create new, permanent jobs.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
- Economic Development;
2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Technical Assistance and Services;
3. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Program Development;
4. INFORMATION AND STATISTICS;
- General;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Local;
- Profit organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization;
- Unemployed;
- Low Income;
- Rural;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments;
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Small business (less than 500 employees);
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);