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Rural Community Development Program (RCD) Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems Training and Technical Assistance Project

Federal funding opportunity HHS-2025-ACF-OCS-EF-0177 from Administration for Children and Families - OCS (Department of Health and Human Services).

Posted
September 2, 2025
Closed
September 5, 2025
Award ceiling
$1,381,975
Award floor
$400,000
Program funding
$11,000,000
Expected awards
8
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
93.570
Category
Income Security and Social Services

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 93.570 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$29.1M
FY2025 obligated
$29.8M
FY2026 (to date) obligated
−$126,928
Awards in window
169

A negative year is a net de-obligation: downward adjustments to earlier awards exceeded new obligations in that year.

Top recipients: Great Lakes Community Action Partnership, Rural Community Assistance Corporation, Midwest Assistance Program, Inc., Rcap Solutions, Inc., Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project, Inc.

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed September 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

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Synopsis

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services announces the availability of approximately $11million in Rural Community Development (RCD) discretionary grant funds. RCD funds must be used to provide training and technical assistance to: Increase access for low-income families to water supply and waste disposal services, preserve affordable water and waste disposal services in low-income rural communities, increase local capacity and expertise to establish and maintain needed community facilities, increase economic opportunities for low-income rural communities by ensuring they have basic water and sanitation, utilize technical assistance to leverage additional public and private resources, and promote improved coordination of Federal, state, and local agencies and financing programs to benefit low-income communities.

Who can apply

Eligible organizations include multistate, regional, private, nonprofit organizations with the ability to enable organizations to provide training and technical assistance to small, rural communities concerning meeting their community facility needs. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity. Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject to the protections and requirements of 45 CFR Part 87 and 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., ACF will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization's religious character, affiliation, or exercise.

The official record

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Agency contact: Administration for Children and Families - OCS · [email protected] · 202-690-7110

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