The Department of Business and Economic Affairs (BEA) oversees and administers state and federal grants aligned with its mission to help New Hampshire businesses grow and thrive.
Grants managed by BEA are:
Paper and Pulp Manufacturing Industry Stabilization Program – Provides competitive grant funding to boost the financial stability of the state’s pulp and paper manufacturers. (Applications due March 15, 4 pm.)
State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) – BEA’s Office of International Commerce oversees the STEP program, which provides funding and programming to New Hampshire’s small businesses that seek to enter, or expand, their global markets.
Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) – NBRC is a is a federal-state partnership for economic and community development in New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and Maine. BEA administers the program within the state and works with eligible communities and organizations throughout the year.
New Hampshire Joint Promotional Program (JPP) – Provides funding to invest in tourism promotional initiatives developed by groups and organizations encouraging the development of quality out-of-state and in-state promotion projects.
Office of Housing and Infrastructure Development
- InvestNH 2.0 – $10 million in general funds available through grants and loans to support workforce housing projects
- Housing Champion Designation and Grant Program: – Incentivizes municipalities to adopt pro-housing zoning and land use regulations through designation and exclusive grant opportunities. $5 million awarded to date for infrastructure improvements and construction of workforce housing.
Office of Broadband Initatives - This program, was one of the first states to receive approval for its broadband expansion program as part of the American Rescue Plan Act’s (ARPA) Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund. The Office has developed and implemented programs to bring high-speed internet to thousands of underserved and unserved areas of the state.
- Broadband Matching Grants Initiative (BMGI) – This $25 million matching grant program, from the state’s allocation of Capital Projects Fund (CPF), is available to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and municipalities to improve broadband availability across the state.
- Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) – BEA received $196.5 million from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to bring high-speed broadband to the unserved and underserved locations in the state.