Ohio University
Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs was awarded a $2.2 million investment from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration to accelerate the region’s transition from a coal economy through a new initiative called Resilience Initiative for Southeastern and Eastern Ohio (RISE Ohio).
RISE Ohio is a $2.7 million, two-year program led by Ohio University’s Voinovich School, in partnership with the Buckeye Hills Regional Council (BHRC) and Ohio Mid-Eastern Governments Association (OMEGA), focused on helping communities in an 18-county region make an economic transition to new industries and ensuring continued job creation, as well as economic growth and diversification. The new funding will enable these communities to engage in Opportunity Zone planning, along with assisting them with the impacts of coal-fired power plant closures.
Agencies awarded $2.2M grant to boost community economic growth
Staff Report
ATHENS Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs was awarded a $2.2 million investment from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration to accelerate the region’s transition from a coal economy through a new initiative called Resilience Initiative for Southeastern and Eastern Ohio (RISE Ohio).
RISE Ohio is a $2.7 million, two-year program led by Ohio University’s Voinovich School, in partnership with the Buckeye Hills Regional Council (BHRC) and Ohio Mid-Eastern Governments Association (OMEGA), focused on helping communities in an 18-county region make an economic transition to new industries and ensuring continued job creation, as well as economic growth and diversification. The new funding will enable these communities to engage in Opportunity Zone planning, along with assisting them with the impacts of coal-fired power plant closures.
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CARES Act spending deadline extended, but rural Ohio frustrated by short notice
The Daily Jeffersonian
After months of uncertainty and pleas for flexibility in southeast Ohio communities, Congress extended the deadline for local governments to spend their Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds from Dec. 30, 2020, through the end of 2021.
President Donald Trump signed that measure into law in the days between Christmas and New Year s.
But local officials in rural Ohio did not breathe many sighs of relief, as they pondered what-ifs and discussed their frustration with the last-minute notice of the extension from the federal government.
President Donald Trump signed that measure into law in the days between Christmas and New Year s.
But local officials in rural Ohio did not breathe many sighs of relief, as they pondered what-ifs and discussed their frustration with the last-minute notice of the extension from the federal government. Everybody was pressed to spend that money before the end of the year, Morgan County Commission President Adam Shriver said. Had they extended it earlier it would’ve been an opportunity to truly spend that money in ways that would be most beneficial.
Shriver explained that if county officials had been able to hit the pause button, rather than scramble to encumber all of their funds in late November, there would have been more consideration toward how CARES money could be used for COVID-19 inoculations.