Thinking about applying for a NY Forward Award? Learn More!

New York State Department of State sent this bulletin at 08/09/2023 09:38 AM EDT

Thinking about applying for a NY Forward Award this year?

Check out the Department of State's NY Forward Capacity-Building Webinar series! The webinars will provide an overview of the fundamentals of downtown revitalization and walk you through the steps required to renew and restore your downtowns. The webinars will help communities that are ready to apply for NY Forward, as well as those just interested in kick-starting the strategic planning and revitalization processes.

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Application Deadlines

Intent to Apply Forms (optional but strongly encouraged) are due August 18th and are available here.

Final applications are due September 29^th at 4pm.

About NY Forward

Governor Hochul announced the creation of the NY Forward program to invigorate and enliven downtowns in New York’s smaller and rural communities—the type of downtowns found in villages, hamlets and other small, neighborhood-scale municipal centers. NY Forward builds on the success of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) by adopting the same “Plan-then-Act” strategy as the DRI.

For Round 2, NY Forward will again invest $100 million. Each of the State’s ten Regional Economic Development Councils (REDCs) will have the option of recommending two communities for $4.5 million NY Forward awards, or three communities one of which will receive $4.5 million and two will be awarded $2.25 million.

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