ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

SIDC works to provide communities with project development, grant writing, administrative, and technical service so that the communities can complete, receive, and administer grants.
Southern Indiana Development Commission (SIDC) is accredited by the Economic Development
Administration (EDA) to provide economic development services to the region. SIDC has worked in this
capacity for nearly 40 years with EDA.

EDA has a variety of programs that may be utilized by communities.

Public Works Program

This program empowers distressed communities in economic decline to revitalize, expand, and upgrade their physical infrastructure to attract new industry, encourage business expansion, diversify local economies, and generate or retain long-term, private sector jobs and investment.

Economic Adjustment Program

This program assists state and local interests design and implement strategies to adjust or bring about change to an economy. The program focuses on areas that have experienced or are under threat of serious structural damage to the underlying economic base.

Research and Technical Assistance Program

This program aims to: develop a comprehensive base of information
about economic development issues; disseminate information to local, state, and national economic
development practitioners; and measure the performance of economic development programs.

Partnership Planning Program

This program provides support for the formulation and implementation of local economic development programs as well as strategies designed to create and retain permanent jobs and increase income for the unemployed and underemployed in areas of economic
distress. Grants are intended to enhance economic development planning capability, support the
formulation of development policies, and assist in building local institutional capacity.

Technical Assistance Program

This program helps fill the knowledge and information gaps that may prevent leaders in the public and nonprofit sectors in distressed areas from making optimal decisions on local economic development issues.

Make it in America Challenge

The Make it in America Challenge seeks to encourage foreign and domestic businesses to build and/or expand their operations in the United States. Up to 15 awards will be made to accelerate job creation by encouraging re-shoring of productive activity by U.S. firms, fostering increased foreign direct investment, encouraging U.S. companies to keep or expand their businesses—and jobs—here at home, and training local workers to meet the needs of those businesses.

Questions / Need Additional Info?

Contact Michelle Carrico