Grant

August 21 - 25, 2017

  • $13.3 million ($13,309,065.93) in 11 Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms (TAAF). The TAAF program provides technical assistance to U.S. manufacturing and production firms affected by import competition in order to help them develop and implement projects to regain global competitiveness, increase profitability and create jobs, as follows: $1,709,960.89 to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, to fund the activities of the Great Lakes Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Ann Arbor, MI, which serves import-impacted firms located in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,323,352.49 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, to fund the activities of the Southeastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Atlanta, GA, which serves import-impacted firms located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,199,418.46 to Applied Strategies International, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, to fund the activities of the Midwest Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Chicago, IL, which serves import-impacted firms located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,197,821.37 to the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, to fund the activities of the Southwest Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in San Antonio, TX, which serves import-impacted firms located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,195,452.37 to the MidAtlantic Employers’ Association, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, to fund the activities of the MidAtlantic Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Blue Bell, PA, which serves import-impacted firms located in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and West Virginia, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,181,005.38 to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, to fund the activities of the Western Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Los Angeles, CA, which serves import-impacted firms located in Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,170,418.02 to the Trade Task Group, Seattle, Washington, to fund the activities of the Northwest Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Seattle, WA, which serves import-impacted firms located in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,162,385.99 to the Regents of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, to fund the activities of the Rocky Mountain Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Boulder, CO, which serves import-impacted firms located in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,149,848.84 to the Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, to fund the activities of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Center serving New York, New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in Binghamton, NY, which serves import-impacted firms located in New Jersey, New York, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,041,659.45 to the Curators of the University of Missouri-Columbia, to fund the activities of the Mid-America Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Independence, MO, which serves import-impacted firms located in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $977,742.67 to the New England Trade Adjustment Assistance Center, Inc., North Billerica, Massachusetts, to fund the activities of the New England Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in North Billerica, MA, which serves import-impacted firms located in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace.
  • $1,083,683 in 10 Technical Assistance-University Center projects. EDA’s University Center program is a five-year, competitively-based partnership between EDA and academic institutions to provide technical assistance and research and development tools to increase productivity, spur innovation, and promote entrepreneurship to help increase long-term regional competitiveness and economic diversification.
    • $160,373 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    • $102,590 to McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
    • $102,590 to West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas
    • $102,590 to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas
    • $102,590 to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Harlingen, Texas
    • $102,590 to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas
    • $102,590 to Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
    • $102,590 to Southern University A&M College, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    • $102,590 to the Regents of the New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
    • $102,590 to Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma
  • $177,900 in two Partnership Planning projects to support the development and implementation of the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) process. The CEDS process is designed to bring together the public and private sectors in the creation of an economic development roadmap to diversify and strengthen the regional economy.