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MBDA Rural Business Center Program

Status

Closed for now

The Rural Business Center Program is authorised by the Minority Business Development Act of 2021 (15 U.S.C. 9551). MBDA has not published a successor notice; watch mbda.gov and Grants.gov.

Closed
Amount
Not published

Cooperative agreements to establish Rural Business Centers providing technical assistance, capacity building and entrepreneurial development to rural minority business enterprises. About 50 awards expected; no cost share required.

Funder

U.S. Minority Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — Funding opportunity MBDA-OBC-2025-1002158 was archived on 5 March 2025.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Eligibility limited to minority-serving institutions or consortiums led by such institutions as defined under 15 U.S.C. 9551(5); individual applicants are ineligible.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · UEI and SAM.gov registration, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/a162613c-be4b-4e22-9ba2-9f404ba075cb

"technical assistance, capacity building, and entrepreneurial development services to rural Minority Business Enterprises (RMBEs)"

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: simpler.grants.gov

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