Disaster Supplemental

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

EDA will award investments in regions experiencing severe economic distress or other economic harm resulting from hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, and other natural disasters occurring in calendar years 2023 and 2024. EDA seeks projects that respond to community needs post-disaster by engaging all aspects of the community, with a special focus on private industry partners.

The Disaster NOFO provides funding through three pathways:

1. Readiness Path: Standalone, non-construction projects designed to increase a community’s readiness to apply for or implement disaster recovery funding from private and public sources, including, but not limited to, future EDA NOFOs. Projects will fund strategy development, capacity building, and/or pre-development costs necessary for future recovery projects.
2. Implementation Path – Standalone construction or non-construction projects designed to address the economic challenges faced by a community recovering from a natural disaster and improve economic trajectories beyond pre-disaster economic conditions.
3. Industry Transformation Path – Led by a coalition of regional stakeholders, a portfolio of large-scale, multicomponent construction and non-construction projects designed to fundamentally transform the economic trajectory of a region through the development or acceleration of an industry.