Pennsylvania First - Loan
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View & apply on Grants.gov →Despite the name, Pennsylvania First is a loan program, not a grant — it funds investment and job-creation projects for businesses, municipalities, authorities, and other legal entities across the …
- Deadline
- Dec 31, 2035
- Posted
- Jan 1, 2024
- Award amount
- Amount not specified
- Focus areas
- Community & economic development
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In plain English
Despite the name, Pennsylvania First is a loan program, not a grant — it funds investment and job-creation projects for businesses, municipalities, authorities, and other legal entities across the Commonwealth. Eligibility is broad, spanning corporations, partnerships, LLCs, nonprofits, and various local government bodies. No award/loan amount is specified, and financing here must be repaid rather than being free funding.
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Who can apply
Municipality; Public Agency; Other Legal Entity — Businesses; Corporations; Partnerships; Sole proprietorships; Limited liability companies; Other forprofit entities; Not-for-profit entities; Municipalities; Boroughs; Townships; Towns; Cities; Home rule municipalities; Municipal Authorities; Redevelopment Authorities; Industrial Development Authorities; Corporations; Local Development Districts
About this grant
The Pennsylvania First Program was established as a comprehensive funding tool to facilitate increased investment and job creation in the commonwealth and to enable the commonwealth to compete more effectively in the global economy. Grants under this program are processed under the authority of Section 3 of the Act of May 10, 1939 (P.L. 111, No. 51), known as the Commerce Law, which authorizes the Department of Community and Economic Development to undertake ways and means of promoting and encouraging the prosperous development of Pennsylvania business, industry and commerce, of expanding markets and promoting and developing new markets for Pennsylvania products, to encourage the location and development of new business, industry and commerce within the Commonwealth, to aid in restoring employment in communities affected by unemployment, and to assist persons, firms, associations, political subdivisions, corporations, cooperative associations and other organizations in the execution of its duties and functions under the Act.
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