EDGE Fund Eligibility
Applicants
Applicants are cities, counties, government authorities and multi-county or multi-jurisdictional development authorities.
Eligible
OneGeorgia recognizes those counties as directly eligible for OneGeorgia assistance that meet the definition of "a county that is located outside the boundaries of a metropolitan area with a population of 50,000 or less and with a poverty rate of 10% or greater."
Conditionally Eligible
Counties with a population of less than 500,000 that share a border with a directly eligible rural county are designated as conditionally eligible.
Conditionally eligible counties are recognized as having the opportunity to be important collaborative partners to adjacent rural counties by maximizing regional strengths and minimizing weaknesses. These collaborative efforts can support mutually beneficial goals for the region and are meant to support a large, regional economic development project when it is most economically feasible for a directly eligible rural county to partner in a regional application with a conditionally eligible county to achieve sustainable and quantifiable positive economic and public benefit.
Not Eligible
Counties with a population greater than 500,000 are not eligible for OneGeorgia funds, but continue to be eligible for other state and federal community and economic development programs. Such programs include Regional Economic Business Assistance (REBA), Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), Local Development Funds (LDF), TEA-21 grants, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and many more.
