Total State Responses: 4 (out of 8 states)

Has your state or eligible area spent some or all of your Statewide Planning Grant?

• Yes: 3
• No: 1

What activities did your State or eligible area fund with the Statewide Planning Grant? Check all that apply.

• Develop plans that identify new or existing industry clusters: 1
• Undertake a statewide supply chain and logistics assessment to increase efficiencies.: 1
• Support statewide broadband data collection, mapping, deployment and technical assistance: 1
• Other related activities as approved by EDA: 1
• No states indicated that the grant funded:
  • Bring together existing local and regional economic, workforce and related plans
  • Conduct a statewide skills assessment and analysis
  • Identify state assets/resources and developing related plans that will benefit the state in regional and global markets
  • Catalog innovation and entrepreneurship assets including business financing and associated gaps between rural and urban areas
  • Analyze persistent poverty communities and formulating strategies to decrease disparities
  • Facilitate planning coordination with Tribes or other indigenous communities

Has your Statewide Planning Grant been fully expended?

• No: 2
• Yes: 1
• No Answer: 1

What activities do you expect to fund with remaining grant funds? Check all that apply.

• Develop plans that identify new or existing industry clusters: 2
• Bring together existing local and regional economic, workforce and related plans: 1
• Undertake a statewide supply chain and logistics assessment to increase efficiencies.: 1
• Support statewide broadband data collection, mapping, deployment and technical assistance: 1
• Other related activities as approved by EDA: 1
• No states indicated that the grant would fund:
  • Conduct a statewide skills assessment and analysis
  • Identify state assets/resources and developing related plans that will benefit the state in regional and global markets
  • Catalog innovation and entrepreneurship assets including business financing and associated gaps between rural and urban areas
  • Analyze persistent poverty communities and formulating strategies to decrease disparities
  • Facilitate planning coordination with Tribes or other indigenous communities

Have your state’s Planning Grant spending plans changed in any significant way from the initial plan proposed to EDA?

• No: 4
• Yes: 0
• No Answer: 0

Did you, or do you plan to, involve your state’s or eligible area’s regional organizations (sometimes referred to as Economic Development Districts) in the Statewide Planning Grant? Check all that apply.

• Yes – Regional organizations will assist (or have assisted) in the activities funded by the Statewide Planning Grant: 2
• No – Regional organizations are not actively involved: 1
• Yes – Other assistance: 1
• Yes – Regional organizations assisted in the development of the Statewide Planning Grant application: 0

 

The materials included on these State-Local Alignment webpages were prepared by the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness using Federal funds under award ED21HDQ3070060 from the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Economic Development Administration or the U.S. Department of Commerce.