• State Drinking Water Revolving Fund
  To assist eligible drinking water systems in maintaining their infrastructure and the health objectives of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
• Community Facilities Loans
  To construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential services to rural residents.
• Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities
  To provide basic human amenities, alleviate health hazards and promote the orderly growth of the rural areas of the state by meeting the need for new and improved rural water and waste disposal facilities.
• Community Program Guaranteed Loan
  To construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential services to rural residents.
• Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan & Grant Program
  To encourage, improve and make affordable the use of telecommunications, computer networks and related technology for rural communities to improve access to education and/or medical services.
• Disaster Public Assistance
  To provide financial assistance for restoring public facilities and infrastructure to pre-disaster conditions and to reimburse eligible costs associated with disaster response and recovery operations.
• Disaster Individual and Business Assistance
  To provide financial assistance to businesses, homeowners, and renters who have suffered losses in a presidentially declared disaster.
• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
  To provide financial assistance to eligible citizens of Iowa to mitigation hazards that threaten their environment and safety.
• Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)
  To fund cost-effective measures that reduce the risk of flood damage to structures insurable under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
• Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) - Entitlement Cities
  To provide funds to entitlement cities for a variety of community development projects that further the national goal of “development of viable urban communities by providing decent housing and suitable living environment and expanding economic opportunities principally for persons of low and moderate income.”
• Revolving Loan Fund
  Installation of permanent soil and water conservation practices.
• Promise Jobs
  The PROMISE JOBS program is designed to provide FIP (ADC) applicants and recipients with maximum opportunities to develop vocational skills and become economically self-sufficient. The program offers a variety of services including job club which includes job-seeking skills training and job search activities, high school completion, post-secondary vocational classroom training, and work experience. In addition, the wide array of services offered by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program are available to PROMISE JOBS participants.
• RISE Program (Revitalize Iowa’s Sound Economy)
  To promote economic development in Iowa through the construction or improvement of Iowa roads. RISE is designed to maximize economic impacts, emphasize local involvement and initiative and provide for situations requiring immediate response and commitment of funds. Funding categories are as follows: 1. Immediate Opportunity Projects: reserved for cases where a location decision actually hinges on a quick commitment of RISE funds. The project must be a key to the creation or retention of jobs. 2. Local Development Projects: for projects which support local economic development but which do not require an immediate commitment of funds; projects will be selected through an evaluation process, conducted semi-annually; applications received by Feb. 1 of each year will be eligible for the spring/summer funding commitment; applications received by Sept. 1 will be eligible for the fall/winter funding commitment.
• Clean Water State Revolving Fund
  Loans for municipal wastewater treatment.
• Regional Collection Center Grant Program
  To provide grants to regional governments to cover costs of education program and capital outlay for construction of regional collection centers. At a regional collection center hazardous wastes from households and small businesses are collected and packaged prior to transport to a final disposal site by a licensed hazardous waste company.
• Solid Waste Alternatives Program
  To implement education and solid waste management programs to achieve a reduction in solid waste generation and a reduction in solid waste landfilling.
• Resource Enhancement and Projection Grants (REAP) Park and Open Space Protection
  To protect and make available to the public an expanded system of park and open space areas. To implement the Iowa Open Spaces Protection Plan (1988).
• Wildlife Habitat Promotions with Local Entities Program
  In 1979, the Iowa General Assembly passed legislation requiring hunters and trappers to purchase a wildlife habitat stamp. All revenue derived from the habitat fee is used for the acquisition of land, leasing of land or obtaining easements from willing sellers for use as wildlife habitats and for the development and enhancement of wildlife lands and habitat areas.
• Volunteer Fire Assistance Program
  To assist and upgrade rural wildland fire protection services.
• State Drinking Water Revolving Fund
  To assist eligible drinking water systems in maintaining the health objectives of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
• Water Recreation Access Cost-Share Program (WRACP)
  To provide cost sharing between state and local public agencies to provide for the acquisition or development of public recreational boating accesses to Iowa waters.
• Snowmobile & All-terrain Vehicle Registration Revenue Cost-Share Program
  To provide state cost sharing for he purpose of enhancing/creating recreational opportunities for snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles through the maintenance and development of linear trails and park facilities.
• Workforce Investment Act
  The Workforce investment Act provides funding to assist in the development and maintenance of a Workforce Development Center System and to provide workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by participants, which will improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare dependency, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the Nation’s economy. The Act authorizes the establishment of a State workforce board which will oversee the regional workforce investment boards. New youth councils will be set up as a subgroup of the regional board to guide the development and operation of programs for youth. Customers will benefit form a “One-Stop” delivery system, with career centers in their neighborhoods where they can access core employment services and be referred directly to job training, education or other services.
• Hiring Professional Consultants
  Provide financial assistance to hire professional consultants outside the peer advisory network and IAC staff.
• Historic Site Preservation Grant Program
  The program provides funds for the restoration, preservation, and development of historical sites.
• REAP/Historical Resource Development Program
  The program provides grants to preserve, conserve, interpret and enhance the historical resources of the state.
• Country School Grant Program
  The purpose of the Country Schools grant program is to provide up to $5,000 in funding, per applicant, for the preservation and maintenance of country school buildings, for planned educational activities within a country school and for projects that interpret the history of country schools.
• Land and Water Conservation Fund (LAWCON)
  To buy/develop outdoor recreation areas and facilities.
• Northwest Area Foundation
  To help communities in our eight state region be effective in reducing poverty. Our eight-state region includes: Idaho, Iowa Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington.
• Self-Supported Municipal Improvement Districts (SSMID)
  Provide for the construction of improvements with designated areas of a city. Chapter 386 of the Iowa Code authorizes city councils to establish Self-Supported Municipal Improvement Districts (SSMID), to provide for the construction of improvements affecting property in the district and to levy special taxes within the district for the purpose of paying for those improvements. Such districts may be established only in areas zoned for commercial or industrial use. The district may include residences, but property assessed as residential would be exempt from the special taxes levied under this law. Many types of improvements are possible under this program, with the general restriction that they further the corporate purposes of the city. Financing the improvement may be accomplished in a variety of ways.
• Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
  To provide a means to finance local public and private improvements and economic development activities. Under Section 403.19 of the Iowa Code, municipalities and counties (areas outside municipal corporate limits) with urban renewal areas may utilize the tax increment financing (TIF) mechanism. TIF allows communities or counties to borrow money to pay the costs of urban renewal projects such as land acquisition and redevelopment, construction of streets, water, sewer, etc. or providing loans or grants to private parties for economic development. Upon creation of a tax increment district (allowed only within urban renewal areas), the property tax assessment base is frozen. While the same amount of tax revenue collected just prior to the creation of the district is guaranteed to each taxing jurisdiction, the increase in tax revenue resulting in the application of the consolidated property tax levy of all local taxing jurisdictions against the increase in value from new private development is paid into a special city or county fund to pay off the debt incurred to finance the development. Once the tax increment debt is repaid, the taxing jurisdictions will receive their respective shares of the increased tax revenue from the district. In this manner, the city or county and its tax increment/urban renewal projects receive virtually all of the increased property tax revenues produced from new development.
• Urban Renewal
  To enable cities to arrest and reverse decline and deterioration and provide assistance for economic development. Under Chapter 403, Iowa Code, a city may develop a project based on a general city development plan for the rehabilitation, conservation or redevelopment of slums or blighted areas or it may designate any area of the city as an area needing economic development. A city must pass a resolution of necessity, develop a plan and hold a public hearing before approving urban renewal projects. The urban renewal plan must conform to the general development plan of the city. The city may use its condemnation and eminent domain powers to assemble parcels of property needed to carry out a project. To finance an urban renewal project, the city may use portions of its Community Development Block Grant funds, issue bonds payable from the revenue and funds of the project, utilize the tax increment financing (TIF) concept, or a combination of these financing mechanisms. The funds thus raised can be used by the city itself or it can appropriate funds to assist private parties in accomplishing the public purposes of the urban renewal project.
• Community Attraction and Tourism Program
  The program supports vertical infrastructure (construction) projects related to recreation, education, entertainment, and/or cultural activities. It is intended to promote quality of life projects in Iowa.
• Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service/AmeriCorps
  The Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service (ICVS) administers AmeriCorps programs throughout Iowa. AmeriCorps was established in 1993 to engage Americans of all ages and background in community-based service. In exchange for one year of service, AmeriCorps members receive an education award to help finance their college education, vocational training, or to pay back student loans. AmeriCorps programs are locally driven and community based with a mission to, "Get Things Done" through direct service; strengthen communities by uniting individuals and institutions in common efforts; and developing members through service teaching job skills and invaluable experience.
• Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service
  The Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service (ICVS) administers AmeriCorps programs throughout Iowa. AmeriCorps was established in 1993 to engage Americans of all ages and backgrounds in community-based service. In exchange for one year of service, AmeriCorps members receive an education award to help finance their college education, vocational training, or to pay back students loans. AmeriCorps programs are locally driven and community based with a mission to: Get Things Done through direct service; Strengthen Communities by uniting individuals and insititutions in common effeorts; and Developing Members through service teaching job skills and invaluable experience.

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