Nevada City firm helps Illinois get $4 million transportation grant

A Nevada City company announced today that it helped secure a $4 million grant for the Illinois Department of Transportation.

  Shawn Garvey, the CEO of The Grant Farm, said his firm wrote the grant request for the federal stimulus money that will be used to purchase 31 buses for the Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program, which serves senior and disabled riders in Illinois.

  “The Grant Farm – in partnership with the Transit Resource Center – commends the Illinois Department of Transportation for its visionary leadership in developing a pilot program that simultaneously improves the economy and the environment,” Garvey said in a press release Tuesday.

  According to the press release, the grant is one of the largest to be awarded by the Federal Transit Administration under the TIGGER (Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas & Energy Reduction) Program.

   The Transit Resource Center, a national transportation consulting firm, asked The Grant Farm to write the grant, which it did in less than 10 days, according to the press release.

 The Grant Farm is a member of Sierra Commons, a collaborative workspace on the third floor of the new Stone House Hospitality Suite in Nevada City.

  It specializes in identifying public funding partnerships and implementing public fund campaigns that seek state and federal loans, grants and credits for renewable energy.

  For more information, visit www.thegrantfarm.com.