{"id":14842,"date":"2019-10-04T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=14842"},"modified":"2019-10-03T22:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T03:23:35","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-lee-commissioner-bob-rolfe-award-threestar-grants-to-fifty-nine-tennessee-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2019\/10\/04\/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-commissioner-bob-rolfe-award-threestar-grants-to-fifty-nine-tennessee-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Commissioner Bob Rolfe Award ThreeStar Grants to Fifty-Nine Tennessee Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TennesseeNashville, TN <\/strong>– Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced Thursday, October 2nd, 2019, the 59 counties that will receive ThreeStar grants.<\/p>\n

In total, TNECD is awarding $2.4 million in funding to Tennessee communities through this round of the ThreeStar grant program.<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee<\/p><\/div>\n

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The grants will be used for a variety of local community development initiatives, including education, workforce development, health, entrepreneurship and economic development programs, among others that are prioritized by the communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese 59 ThreeStar grants will help counties all across Tennessee invest in vital community development initiatives,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI\u2019m eager to see these programs strengthen the quality of life, access to workforce training programs, and economic opportunities for our residents in rural Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ThreeStar grant program has a proven track record of success, and I\u2019m pleased to announce this year\u2019s grant recipients,\u201d Rolfe said. \u201cTNECD is proud to assist communities that are committed to improving their workforce readiness and quality of life with these types of innovative local programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

ThreeStar promotes economic and community prosperity through collaboration to positively impact every Tennessean. For the third time in the past four years, all 95 Tennessee counties gained ThreeStar certification.<\/p>\n

To be eligible for ThreeStar grants, each county must meet all ThreeStar certification requirements, develop an asset-based strategic plan and design a program to implement a goal from its strategic plan. The 59 counties were selected out of 78 applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cTNECD is committed to helping communities in areas that they prioritize on a local level,\u201d Jody Sliger, TNECD\u2019s Community Development Director, said. \u201cWe are proud to partner with these 59 communities and support a wide range of community development programs all across our state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The grants have been awarded to the following counties:<\/h3>\n

Anderson: $20,000
\nBedford: 30,000
\nBenton: $50,000
\nBledsoe: $50,000
\n[320right]Carroll: $50,000
\nCarter: $50,000
\nChester: $10,000
\nClaiborne: $50,000
\nClay: $50,000
\nCocke: $25,000
\nCrockett: $50,000
\nCumberland: $50,000
\nDecatur: $50,000
\nDeKalb: $50,000
\nDickson: $50,000
\nFentress: $5,000
\nGiles: $50,000
\nGreene: $10,000
\nGrundy: $50,000
\nHardeman: $25,000
\nHardin: $50,000
\nHenderson: $50,000
\nHenry: $50,000
\nHickman: $40,000
\nHumphreys: $50,000
\nJackson: $50,000
\nJohnson: $50,000
\nLauderdale: $50,000
\nLewis: $20,000
\nLincoln: $24,000
\nLoudon: $37,500
\nMarion: $25,000
\nMarshall: $50,000
\nMcMinn: $50,000
\nMcNairy: $50,000
\nMontgomery: $25,000
\nMorgan: $50,000
\nObion: $40,000
\nOverton: $50,000
\nPerry: $50,000
\nPickett: $50,000
\nPolk: $35,000
\n[320right]Rhea: $50,000
\nRoane: $50,000
\nRobertson: $18,500
\nScott: $50,000
\nSequatchie: $32,878
\nSevier: $50,000
\nSmith: $50,000
\nStewart: $50,000
\nSumner: $50,000
\nTipton: $50,000
\nUnicoi: $50,000
\nUnion: $50,000
\nWarren: $40,000
\nWashington: $27,500
\nWayne: $50,000
\nWhite: $50,000
\nWilson: $40,250<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced Thursday, October 2nd, 2019, the 59 counties that will receive ThreeStar grants. In total, TNECD is awarding $2.4 million in funding to Tennessee communities through this round of the ThreeStar grant program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[12333,11967,3856,198,199,8327,12497,1900,284,3248,200,261,1862,3350,12496,10642],"class_list":["post-14842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-bill-lee","tag-bob-rolfe","tag-dickson-county","tag-henry-county","tag-humphreys-county","tag-jackson-county","tag-jody-sliger","tag-montgomery-county","tag-nashville-tn","tag-robertson-county","tag-stewart-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-economic-and-community-development","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-threestar-grants","tag-tnecd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14843,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions\/14843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}