Buncombe County Accepting Proposals for COVID Recovery Funding

Buncombe County is seeking project ideas to help the community recover from and respond to COVID-19 and its negative economic impacts. Nonprofits and public organizations can submit projects now for consideration to be funded by federal COVID Recovery Funding. This is the second Request for Proposals issued by the County as part of COVID Recovery Funding, which Buncombe County was allocated $50.7M through the American Rescue Plan Act. So far, the county has awarded $23.1M to 27 projects, leaving $27.6 M available still to award. Buncombe County Commissioners have selected ten categories for this round of proposals: Affordable Housing Aging/Older Adults Business Support/Economic Development Environment/Climate Homelessness K-12 Education Infrastructure and/or Broadband Mental Health/Substance Use NC Pre-K Expansion Workforce If you are interested in applying, the deadline is Tuesday, April 12 at noon. Learn more here. The county is also holding a workshop that will help you better understand what projects the County is looking to fund and best practices on creating a successful application. Learn more about the scope of projects Buncombe County is looking for and have a chance to ask questions. All questions and responses from the session will be posted in the form of an addendum, and a recording of the session will be published. The virtual funding workshop will be held on Monday, March 14 from 1:30-3 p.m. Register here.