Job Creation

Innovation
Regional
Collaboration

EDA leads transformational job creation

and industry growth efforts in communities
across the nation to foster resilient and
eda.gov competitive regional economies.
 Investing in the People,
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN Places, and Potential
A Recent
EDA Investment
that Power America
Success Story Guided by the basic principle that sustainable economic
development should be locally-driven, EDA partners with
COMMUNITY IMPACT communities and regions to build capacity based on local
$3 Billion conditions and needs.
FUNDING DISPERSED

Through its network of regionally based staff and

780 PROJECTS
SERVING EVERY STATE portfolio of flexible grant tools, EDA helps communities
AND TERRITORY
take control of their future and position themselves for
economic prosperity and resiliency.
EXPECTED IMPACT
ACCORDING TO GRANTEE ESTIMATES
Key Investment Areas & Programs:
220,000
JOBS CREATED, • Public Works
SAVED, OR PLACED
• Economic Adjustment Assistance
$20 Billion • Local Technical Assistance
PRIVATE INVESTMENT • University Centers
• Trade Adjustment Assistance
• Indigenous Community Investment
• Coal Community Development
• Tech Hubs
• Recompete Pilot Program
• Disaster Supplemental Assistance
• I nnovation & Entrepreneurship

EDA’s Impact 2,000+ $5 Billion 300,000

PROJECTS ACROSS INVESTED JOBS TO BE GROWN
Since 2022 THE UNITED STATES IN COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY
 ABCs of EDA “EDA came to us
and asked, ‘How can
How we make we support you?’
a difference Sometimes federal
agencies come
Access to Grants & Funding in and think they know
EDA provides economic development funding opportunities how to do everything.
to communities to spur growth, job creation, innovation, and
This was completely
regional competitiveness in a way that works best for them.
different.”
Visit eda.gov to explore our investment priorities; current
funding opportunities; and an overview of programs. Chelsea Irvine
3CORE | Chico, CA

Best Practices
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from the public and private sector, academia, and community
coalitions sharing what works. EDA’s convening power helps
these communities connect to share best practices.
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$546 Million 69 $27.7 Billion

INVESTED IN UNIVERSITY PRIVATE INVESTMENT
ENVIRONMENTALLY CENTERS TO BE GENERATED
SUSTAINABLE FUNDED IN COMMUNITIES
PROJECTS
 EDA Leadership
Alejandra Y. Castillo
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Economic Development

Dennis Alvord Craig Buerstatte

Deputy Assistant Secretary Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Economic Development for Regional Affairs
and Chief Operating Officer

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