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Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program Grants

 
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 10.855
Link
View Program Website
Sponsors
U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA Rural Development, USDA Rural Utilities Service
Deadlines
Mar 6, 2025
Contact

202.720.0800
Online contact form
Field representatives

Purpose

The Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Program provides grants to help rural communities use advanced telecommunications technology to connect to each other (and the world) overcoming the effects of remoteness and low population density. Projects that promote equity and economic opportunity in rural America are encouraged.

Priorities include:

  • Assisting rural communities recover economically through more and better market opportunities and through improved infrastructure
  • Ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to Rural Development programs and benefits from Rural Development funded projects
  • Reducing climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through economic support to rural communities

Grant funds may be used to purchase or support:

  • Audio, video, and interactive video equipment
  • Broadband facilities used for distance learning or telemedicine (up to a certain percentage)
  • Computer hardware, network components, and software
  • Instructional programming
  • Limited technical assistance and instruction on how to use distance learning and telemedicine equipment

Fact sheet

Eligibility

Eligible applicants include entities that provide education or healthcare through telecommunications, including:

  • State and local government entities
  • Federally-recognized tribes
  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Incorporated, for-profit businesses
  • Groups of eligible entities working together
Geographic coverage
Nationwide
Amount of funding

Award ceiling: $1,000,000
Award floor: $50,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 75
Estimated total program funding: $40,000,000

A 15% non-federal match is required.

20% of the funds will be set aside for projects that seek to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with substance use disorder (including opioid misuse) in rural communities by strengthening the capacity to address prevention, treatment and/or recovery at the community level.

Application process

Links to additional guidance and application instructions are available on grants.gov and the program website.

Tagged as
Access · Capital funding · Clinics · Community and economic development · Health workforce education and training · Healthcare facilities · Hospitals · Infrastructure · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth

Related Content

News (1)

  • RUS: Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants for Fiscal Year 2025, view details

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