Leech Lake Reservation Business Committee, Minnesota
This $1.7 million grant with an additional $790,000 applicant-provided match will create seven new public computer centers and upgrading ten existing facilities on three Indian reservations in Minnesota. The centers will be located at Boys and Girls Clubs within tribally operated community centers, providing public access to all residents. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, but it will help drive economic development in the community that will create jobs for years to come.

Contact Network, Inc, Mississippi
This $20.7 million grant with an additional $5.2 million applicant-provided match will deploy more than 600 miles of fiber optic middle mile broadband infrastructure in underserved areas of 16 counties in southern and central Mississippi. Contact Network estimates that this project will create nearly 100 jobs upfront and help drive economic development in the community that creates jobs for years to come. Approximately 737,000 people stand to benefit from this grant, along with 1,400 businesses and 43 community institutions, like hospitals and schools.

Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporatio, Missouri
Approximately 3,200 people, 47 businesses and 12 community institutions stand to benefit from the $11 million Grand River Mutual Fiber-to-the- Home Broadband Deployment Project in Lathrop, Missouri and its surrounding areas via a fiber-to-the-home network. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, it will also help drive economic development near Lathrop, Missouri that will create jobs for years to come.

Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company, Missouri
Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company's will receive $7.2 million to construct a FTTP network enabling greater than 20 Mbps broadband access. This network stands to benefit over 2,500 people near Green City, Missouri. Additionally, 49 businesses and 20 community institutions stand to benefit. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, but it will help drive economic development in the community that will create jobs for years to come.

Project Telephone Company, Montana
Project Telephone Company will receive $15.5 million to provide FTTP broadband to all locations within the Crow Reservation. Project Telephone estimates it will create more than 150 jobs upfront and help drive economic development in the community that creates jobs for years to come. Almost 4,000 people on the Crow Reservation stand to benefit from the Fiber to the Premise installation. Almost 200 businesses and 26 community institutions, including the headquarters of the Crow Tribe in Crow Agency, stand to benefit from broadband services.

Project Telephone Company, Montana
Over 4,500 people, 493 businesses and 26 community institutions including tribal, state, and federal entities stand to benefit from the $3.9 million Scott St/Pryor Mile Broadband Connectivity Project that connects the Crow Indian Reservation communities of Pryor, Saint Xavier, and Fort Smith to existing fiber transport networks in Lockwood, Montana. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, but it will help drive economic development in the community that will create jobs for years to come.

Montana State Library, Montana
This $1.8 million grant to Montana State Library will provide more broadband computer access at faster speeds at 42 local libraries in 29 counties across the state within reach of 86 percent of Montana's population.