{"id":51899,"date":"2020-08-28T15:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/feds-award-region-9-with-2-grants\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:31:11","slug":"feds-award-region-9-with-2-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/feds-award-region-9-with-2-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds award Region 9 with 2 grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=385a805a-17f4-46f6-981e-e4aa6828cd3a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado will receive $743,000 through two awards from the U.S. Department of Commerce\u2019s Economic Development Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Rise and Recover Together COVID-19 recovery money will support the recovery efforts in Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma and San Juan counties as well as with the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.<\/p>\n<p>Loan funding of $440,000 will help support qualifying businesses\u2019 ability to reopen and recover. The federal funding will supplement traditional funding sources by providing gap financing, and also work to diversify and strengthen each community\u2019s unique economies.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that post-COVID-19 businesses will be able expand and create jobs long-term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEDA-RLF funding will grow our available capital to lend which will enable us to better serve local businesses and to help them get through the COVID crisis,\u201d said Jenny Stollar, a business loan officer with Region 9.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Region 9 was awarded $303,000 to assist communities impacted by COVID-19 through the Rise and Recover Together initiative. This program will support recovery efforts in the five-county area by providing a recovery coordinator in Archuleta County, support for the SWCODA website and other regional services to respond to recovery efforts over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese funds will provide part of the foundation so that community spirit, community voices and community talent can begin to build their futures, beyond COVID,\u201d said Heather Otter, economic development project manager.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Region 9 at 247-9621 or at www.scan.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>help businesses surmount COVID-19 total $743K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[374],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-economic-development"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51899"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}