USDA Rural Development recently posted information available funding: Fiscal Year 2007 Distance Learning & Telemedicine .

Here are the quick notes:

• $15 million is available
• Minimum grant: $50,000
• Maximum grant: $500,000
• Deadline is June 11, 2007.

The announcement was made in the Federal Register:

… Distance learning and telemedicine loans and grants are specifically designed to provide access to education, training and health care resources for people in rural America. The Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Program provides financial assistance to encourage and improve telemedicine services and distance learning services in rural areas through the use of telecommunications, computer networks, and related advanced technologies by students, teachers, medical professionals, and rural residents.

Grants, which are awarded through a competitive process, may be used to fund telecommunications-enabled information, audio and video equipment and related advanced technologies which extend educational and medical applications into rural locations. Grants are made for projects where the benefit is primarily delivered to end users that are not at the same location as the source of the education or health care service…

Learn more at the Grants.Gov web site.