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EDA's Washington, D.C. office awards grant to University of Maryland Baltimore County

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The EDA's Washington, D.C. office awarded an Opportunity Zone grant to the University of Maryland Baltimore County on Sept. 16, 2020 with a total project amount of $1,323,540 from the US Economic Development Administration.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration offered the following description of this project:

"This EDA investment funds the Maryland New Venture Fellowship for Cybersecurity, to provide a scaffold upon which cybersecurity companies can be built across the Maryland region by creating synergistic teams of graduate student "Fellows", entrepreneurial mentors, and faculty from Maryland universities. These teams will translate technologies developed to secure information systems, utilities, infrastructure and supply chains."

According to the Internal Revenue Service, opportunity zones were added to the tax code under The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The bill has come under some criticism for creating another big tax break for the ultra-wealthy.

The EDA is a federal government agency that focuses exclusively on economic development.The agency solicits applications for funding in order to support construction, non-construction planning, technical assistance, and revolving loan fund projects under the agency's Public Works and the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) programs. Grants made under these programs are designed to advance economic development in distressed communities.

Other grants awarded out of the EDA's Washington, D.C. office in 2020
Grantee NameTotal Project FundingGrant Award Date
BioSTL$3,337,602Sept. 16
Delaware Innovation Space$2,976,166Sept. 16
Roanoke - The Blacksburg Innovation Network$2,079,184Sept. 16
University System of New Hampshire$1,196,436Sept. 16
Trustees Of Indiana University$952,574Sept. 14
Pennsylvania Economy League$600,000Sept. 16
RI Bio$595,000Sept. 16
Casper Area Economic Development Alliance$352,700Sept. 16

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