Arizona Economic Resource Center Funding Workshop: Foundations
To help rural and tribal communities and nonprofits know all they can about what funders look for in the grant applications they review and the projects they fund, the Arizona Economic Resource Center is launching a new quarterly webinar series. Hear directly from funders of some of the most popular grants and programs with Resource Center clients and ask them questions during these moderated virtual sessions.
Grant-based investments to Tribes, State and Local Government, and Non-profits in communities and regions suffering from economic distress.
Targets it's funding to attract private capital investment and to create higher- skill, higher wage jobs
Focus on locally- developed, regionally based economic development initiatives that directly contribute to economic growth and emphasize regional competitiveness, innovation and entrepreneurship
CLINTON A. KAASA,
Acting Business & Cooperative Program Director,
USDA, Rural Development
Clint has worked for USDA for over 37 years. Beginning with the USDA, Farmers Home Administration in 1983, Clint worked as an Assistant County Supervisor and County Supervisor in four county offices in Montana involved with the delivery of single family housing and direct and guaranteed farmer program loans until 1993. In October, 1993, he became the Single Family Loan Specialist with responsibility and oversight of Agency single family housing activity in the state of Washington.
Clint transferred to the Business and Cooperative Programs as a Program Specialist in 1999 and was assigned the primary responsibility for the delivery of all business programs in western Washington. In April 2008, he relocated to New Mexico and in May, 2014 he relocated to Arizona in the same capacity.
His goal has always been to expand activity for all business programs across in rural areas, focusing on business development in the areas with the most economic need through the administration of the business loan and grant programs administered by Rural Development.
Clint received an undergraduate degree from Montana State University in Agricultural Business in 1984.