The Southwest Border Regional Commission (SBRC)

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Programs and Initiatives and Area of Focus

Grant Program

Investing in Underserved Communities and Assisting the Most Distressed Communities First.

Eliminating

Eliminating Barriers to Economic Development, Building Local Capacity, and Providing Technical Assistance.

Leveraging

Leveraging Commission Funds, Forming Partnerships, Reducing Costs, and Completing Projects.

Alignment

Alignment with Administration Goals.

The Counties of the Southwest Border Regional Commission

The SBRC has identified seeks co-investment opportunities with local, state, and federal partners.
The SBRC seeks to facilitate project development and completion by partnering with communities which have planned investments but require additional funding for project completion. The SBRC will review these opportunities to leverage its funds and finalize projects through multi agency investments. 

SBRC Designations

The SBRC is required to assess its region’s economic and demographic distress level annually and to classify counties’ distress levels. The map depicts the economic status of the SBRC’s counties using the Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) national index-based economic classification system.

3-Step Value Discipline

#1

Transitional Counties

The counties that are economically distressed and underdeveloped or have recently suffered high rates of poverty, unemployment, and outmigration

#3

Attainment Counties

Attainment Counties The countries are not designated as distressed or transitional counties. Counties ranking in the top 25% if the national counties.

#2

Distressed Countries

The countries are the most severely and persistently economically distressed and underdeveloped and have high rates of poverty unemployment and outmigration.

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