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FY 2021 Neighborhood Prosperity Fund

The Neighborhood Prosperity Fund incentivizes community development, economic growth, and job creation by leveraging local funds to provide financing for projects that attract private investment to distressed communities. Grant funds support architectural and engineering costs, construction costs, tenant improvements, historical preservation building improvements to maintain compliance with applicable laws, development analysis, rent abatement and/or tenant concessions for up to 3 years to stabilize market rent.

FY 2021 Nourish DC Fund

The purpose of the Nourish DC Fund is to support a robust ecosystem of locally-owned small food businesses in communities in the District where decades of disinvestment have left such communities underserved by grocery and other food amenities. To achieve this goal, the District will award this grant to a fund manager that will provide flexible loans, catalytic grants, and technical assistance to emerging and existing locally-owned small food businesses in the District of Columbia with a preference for businesses located in and owned by residents of neighborhoods identified in the DC Food Access and Food Security Report or the DC Health Equity Report as having high rates of food insecurity, unemployment and poverty, and/or lower life expectancy.   
  

FY 2021 Locally Made Manufacturing Grant Program

The Locally Made Manufacturing grant program will support qualified small businesses located within a Great Streets designated corridor that have core operations which align with small to medium light manufacturing by providing funding for the capital or tenant improvements of commercial property with a designated industrial use.

For additional eligibility requirements and exclusions, please review the Request for Applications (RFA) which will be posted at https://dmped.dc.gov/ on Friday, February 12, 2021