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$25,000 Scholarship Program -- Yestermorrow Design/Build School
An anonymous donor has created a $25,000.00 scholarship fund at Warren, Vermont's Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Yestermorrow Design/Build School inspires people to create a better, more sustainable world by providing hands-on education that integrates design and craft as a creative, interactive process.
2006 Five Star Restoration Grants
The National Association of Counties, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and the Wildlife Habitat Council, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other sponsors, are pleased to solicit applications for the 2006 Five-Star Restoration Matching Grants Program.
2008 Comprehensive Planning Grants -- Wisconsin
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has announced comprehensive planning grants for 149 local governments throughout Wisconsin, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin reports. This funding will help communities develop and adopt locally created plans to address long-term needs, promote economic development, and guide future land use decisions.
ACHP Guide to Historic Preservation Funding
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) offers this online guide that outlines the range of historic preservation funding options that are currently available.
Active Living by Design Issues Call for Proposals Aimed at Helping Americans Become More Physically Active
Active Living by Design plans to award grants of up to $200,000 each to 25 community partnerships across the country. These partnerships will develop and implement strategies that will make it easier for people to enjoy routine physical activity as part of their daily lives.
Active Living Funding Sources
The Active Living Resource Center (ALRC) Web site provides resources and tools to help you make walking and bicycling part of your community's healthy lifestyle. The funding section of the Web site is designed to help answer all of your funding needs.
Active Living Minnesota
The Active Living Minnesota funding program supports interdisciplinary partnerships to plan for and implement a comprehensive approach to encourage active living among community residents, with a focus on environmental and policy change efforts.
Active Living Research -- Call for Proposals (Round 8)
Active Living Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has issued a call for full proposals for research topic grants and full proposals for dissertation grants in Round 8 of their program.
Active Living Research -- Round 5 -- RWJ Foundation
Round 5 of the Active Living Research Program is underway for funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Active Living Research program focuses on relationships among characteristics of natural and built environments, public and private policies, and personal levels of physical activity. Application deadline for Round 5 submissions is May 25, 2005.
Adirondack Park Smart Growth Funding
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), in partnership with the Adirondack Park Agency and the Department of State, is soliciting Adirondack Park Community Smart Growth Grant applications from municipalities located wholly or partially within the Adirondack Park.
Adobe Community Grants
Adobe supports strategic programs and partnerships that help make these communities better, stronger, and more vibrant places to live, work and do business; its focus areas for giving and grants programs are designed to increase Adobe's impact in the community through support of more organizations, and strengthen Adobe's role as a corporate partner by creating deeper, stronger, and richer partnerships.
Affordable Housing Built Responsibly Grants
Through the Affordable Housing Built Responsibly grant program, The Home Depot Foundation administers millions of dollars in grants each year to nonprofit organizations whose missions align with the Foundation's interests in supporting the production and preservation of affordable, efficient and healthy housing.
The Home Depot Foundation makes grants to 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charities in the United States and to charitable organizations in Canada. Support is given to programs and projects that align with the Foundation's mission and grant criteria.
To better support its mission, The Home Depot Foundation awards most of its grants by directly soliciting proposals from high-performing nonprofit organizations with the demonstrated ability to create strong partnerships, impact multiple communities and leverage grant resources. In order to identify potential future nonprofit partners or respond to unique community revitalization opportunities, a limited amount of unsolicited grant funding is set aside to be awarded through a competitive process.
UPDATE: Community Tree Grants
The Home Depot Foundation has combined its community trees grant program with its Affordable Housing Built Responsibly grant program. The Foundation remains firmly committed to supporting the planting of trees and the development of greenspace in order to provide communities with the many economic, social and environmental benefits of the urban forest. This change in programming structure reflects the foundation’s understanding that it is more effective to support the creation of healthy and sustainable communities through the integration of our focus areas.
Preference is given to proposals that include community engagement that result in the production, preservation, or financing of housing units for low- to moderate-income families. The most promising proposals incorporate a number of “green” building design practices. Also, proposals that clearly demonstrate how tree strategies integrated with affordable housing production/preservation create healthier, more vibrant communities will have a distinct advantage.
For this grant cycle, letters of inquiry are due July 1, 2010. Full project proposals are due September 15, 2010.
Affordable Housing Grants
WAMU.com, a Washington Mutual, Inc., web site, partners with nonprofit organizations by investing in their efforts to build stronger communities. One program offers grants on affordable housing and community development.
Agricultural Funding Sources
The Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC) provides a listing of farming and agriculture-related funding opportunity resources on its website. AFSIC specializes in identifying resources about sustainable food systems and practices, in support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) effort to ensure a sustainable future for agriculture and farmers worldwide.
AIA Seattle Scholarship Recipients
Through a commitment initiated by the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable in 1986, AIA Seattle has established two funds to advance professional diversity through support of students from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning: the AIA Seattle Diversity Scholarship, and the Denice Hunt K-12 Internship.
AIA Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) Program
The SDAT is a community assistance program that focuses on the principles of sustainability. SDATs will bring a team of volunteer professionals (such as architects, urban designers, planners, hydrologists, economists, attorneys, and others) to work with community decision-makers and stakeholders to help them develop a vision and framework for a sustainable future.
Alcan Prize for Sustainability 2006
The Alcan Prize for Sustainability identifies and recognizes not-for-profit, civil society and non-governmental organizations for their contributions to economic, environmental and/or social sustainability.
ARRA Prevention and Wellness Funding: Communities Putting Prevention to Work
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Procurement and Grants Office has published a funding opportunity announcement entitled, ''American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Communities Putting Prevention to Work.'' Approximately $373 million will be available in fiscal year 2009 to fund thirty to forty awards.
Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) Livable Centers Initiative -- Georgia
The Atlanta Regional Commission’s (ARC) Livable Centers Initiative encourages local jurisdictions to plan and implement strategies that link transportation improvements with land use development strategies to create sustainable, livable communities consistent with regional development policies.
Baltimore Community Foundation Fund for Neighborhoods -- Baltimore Area of Maryland
The Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF) Fund for Neighborhoods provides funding for neighborhoods, one of nine areas in which BCF focuses its strategic grantmaking. BCF seeks to advance the ideals of a welcoming environment, open access and civic engagement-with all of its privileges and responsibilities-in every area of community life.
Bank of America Community Development
Bank of America has established several programs that support sustainable community regional planning.
Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative -- 2005
Bank of America's Neighborhood Excellence initiative consists of three distinct investing programs in select markets: Neighborhood Builders, Local Heroes, and Student Leaders.
Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative -- 2006
Bank of America's Neighborhood Excellence initiative consists of three distinct investing programs in select markets: Neighborhood Builders, Local Heroes, and Student Leaders.
Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative -- 2007
Bank of America's Neighborhood Excellence initiative consists of three distinct investing programs in select markets: Neighborhood Builders, Local Heroes, and Student Leaders.
Bay Area Community Foundation
The Bay Area Community Foundation works with individuals, families, businesses and organizations to create permanent endowment funds that help our region meet the challenges of changing times. The Foundation is located in Bay City, Michigan, and serves Bay and Arenac Counties.
The Foundation invests and administers these funds and then uses their earnings to award grants each year to many of the humanitarian, educational and cultural organizations in this remarkable region we call home. The Foundation goes beyond simply making grants that advance charitable activities - we also identify current and emerging issues, stimulate local resources to address those needs and help our region prepare for the future.
For more information,visit the link below.
Bay Area Smart Growth Fund -- San Francisco Bay Area, California
The Bay Area Smart Growth Fund I, LLC invests in retail, office, commercial, industrial, multi-family and select single-family housing opportunities that may make a measurable impact on the economic and social revitalization of neighborhoods in the 46 targeted communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Beginning Farmer Funding Sources
The Center for Rural Affairs features a ''Beginning Farmer Financing Programs'' page on its website. This resource includes web and telephone contact information for several programs designed to assist beginnning farmers.
Better Community Awards -- Florida
Each year, 1000 Friends of Florida honors successful efforts to save special places, fight sprawl, and build better communities in this rapidly growing state. The 2007 Better Community Awards will recognize individuals, organizations, public-private partnerships, local governments, and agencies that, through visionary leadership and planning, have brought about positive and lasting change in their community or region or the state.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Funding
Bicycle and pedestrian projects are broadly eligible for funding from almost all the major Federal-aid highway, transit, safety, and other programs. Bicycle projects must be ''principally for transportation, rather than recreation, purposes'' and must be designed and located pursuant to the transportation plans required of States and Metropolitan Planning Organizations. This page lists funding sources for bicycle and pedestrian projects.
Bikes Belong Coalition Grants -- May 2007
Bikes Belong is the national coalition of bicycle suppliers and retailers working together to put more people on bicycles more often. Through national leadership, grassroots support, and promotion, we work to make bicycling safe, convenient, and fun.
Bikes Belong Coalition Grants -- Overview
The Bikes Belong Coalition is sponsored by members of the U.S. bicycle industry. Its mission is to put more people on bicycles more often. The Bike Belong Grants Program was the first major on-going initiative undertaken by the Bikes Belong Coalition.
Bikes Belong Grants -- Summer 2007
Bikes Belong is the national coalition of bicycle suppliers and retailers working together to put more people on bicycles more often. Through national leadership, grassroots support, and promotion, Bike Belong works to make bicycling safe, convenient, and fun. In summer 2007 Bikes Belong presented six grant awards, totaling $46,935. Investment in these paths, trails, parks, and advocacy initiatives will help create, enhance, and protect great places to ride in communities across the country.
Biking and Walking Funding
America Bikes outlines on its website how communities can leverage federal funding to improve local roads for bicyclists through the 2005 SAFETEA-LU bill.
Biodiversity Grants -- Living Lands Project
Living Lands is a new Defenders of Wildlife project to increase the capacity of local land trusts to protect, enhance and restore native wildlife habitat and biodiversity. The project will support this work through financial and technical assistance.
Boston Schoolyard Funding -- Boston, Massachusetts
The Boston Schoolyard Initiative (BSI) was formally launched in 1995 as a public/private partnership to help revitalize Boston's schoolyards.
Brownfield Redevelopment Funding
Through its Project Learning Program (PLP), the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) assists nonprofits, municipalities, and community organizations in tackling brownfield redevelopment projects. Each year, CCLR awards several PLP grants to communities and organizations, providing them with the financial and technical assistance necessary to address brownfield-related issues such as: contamination and remediation, economic feasibility, regulatory facilitation, financing, and community-based decision making. Once awarded funding, grantees often retain outside consultants to assist with community-consensus building, economic feasibility studies, site reuse planning, and site design.
Brownfields 2009-2013 Annual Conference RFP
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting proposals from eligible entities and non-profit organizations for financial assistance to assist non-federal personnel in participating in three national Brownfields conferences to be planned and held over a five-year period, beginning in 2009.
Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grant Guidelines -- U.S. EPA, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities and non-profit organizations for its competitive 2010 ''Brownfields Grant program: Assessment Grants, Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants, and Cleanup Grants.''
Brownfields Assistance -- Illinois
The Illinois Bureau of Land (BOL) is responsible for the protection and restoration of land and groundwater resources in the State of Illinois. The BOL administers a broad variety of solid and hazardous waste management and cleanup programs, including Brownfields Assistance.
Brownfields Funding -- Maryland
The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), Site Assessment/State Superfund Division can perform a Phase I and Phase II Site Assessment at selected sites at no cost to the property owner or interested party. MDE, through a grant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has funds to conduct assessments at Brownfields properties throughout the State of Maryland.
Brownfields Funding Awards -- 2008
Communities in 43 states, two Tribal Nations and two territories will share over $74 million in EPA Brownfields grants in 2008 to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use.
Brownfields Funding California
In 2000, Governor Gray Davis signed into law the ''Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods (CLEAN) Program'' establishing new financial incentives to encourage property owners, developers, community groups and local governments to redevelop abandoned and underutilized urban properties in California. Links on this website provide information on the program.
Brownfields Grants from CCLR
The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) awards Project Learning Program (PLP) grants that range in size up to $25,000 per project, year-round, on a merit-based schedule.
Brownfields Land Recycling Program -- Phoenix
The city of Phoenix Brownfields Land Recycling Program is accepting applications for financial and technical assistance for redevelopment projects that meet program requirements. A total of $2 million is available during the next five years to businesses, property owners, developers and nonprofit organizations for redeveloping environmentally contaminated property known as brownfields.
Brownfields of Dreams
Detroit Free Press writers Steve Neavling and John Gallagher report on how efforts to reclaim brownfields in the Detroit region are beginning to pay dividends, as once-abandoned land becomes useful to the community.
Brownfields Redevelopment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking proposals for Smart Growth and Brownfield Redevelopment. Proposals are due by 5:00 pm on August 24, 2004.
Brownfields Redevelopment -- Indiana
The Indiana Finance Authority (IFA) offers financial assistance for brownfields redevelopment in the form of site assessment grants, low-interest loans, petroleum remediation grants, and more.
Brownfields Training Grants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment (OBCR) has issued a revised announcement of a funding opportunity for the Brownfields Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program.
Brownfields Training, Research and Technical Assistance Grants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posts on its website Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grant Fact Sheets. These Fact Sheets, viewable as PDF or HTML documents, describe various programs throughout the United States that are receiving funds from the EPA's Technical Assistance Program.
BSA Research Grants
The Boston Society of Architects has initiated a program to promote research in architecture. With a focus on design as research, this program encourages inquiry not only on specific research topics but also on how design itself (the design process and the results of design) constitutes research as well.
Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Grant Winners
The U.S. EPA has announced winners of its Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects. EPA has awarded the Training Grant to the Univeristy of Maine, and the Demonstration Grant to Portland State University.
Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects
The EPA Aging Initiative, located in the Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education, is seeking proposals for a new grant opportunity for Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects.
California Farmland Conservancy Grants
The State of California's Department of Conservation Farmland Conservancy Program provides grants to local governments and qualified nonprofit organizations.
California Farmland Conservancy Program
The California Department of Conservation's Farmland Conservancy Program seeks to encourage the long-term, private stewardship of agricultural lands through the voluntary use of agricultural conservation easements. The CFCP provides grant funding for projects which use and support agricultural conservation easements for protection of agricultural lands.
California Greening Schools Initiative
The California Green Schools Initiative has compiled a list of resources as a starting place for parents, teachers, and school administrators who are interested in finding ways to cover the costs of greening their schools.
California Land and Water Conservation Fund
The California Department of Parks and Recreation offers this guide to the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) program, administered nationally by the National Park Service, provides funds to federal agencies, the 50 states and 6 territories.
California Sustainable Community Planning Grant Program
On behalf of the Strategic Growth Council, the California Dept. of Conservation is administering a $22.3 million competitive planning grant program for sustainable community plans.
The primary purpose of this grant program is to implement the vision of the Governor and Legislature to foster and support development of sustainable communities. Local governments will need to adopt land use plans and integrated strategies that can transform communities and create long term prosperity. Such communities shall promote equity, strengthen the economy, protect the environment and promote healthy, safe communities.
Under SB 732, approximately $60 million will be awarded to cities, counties, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Joint Powers Authorities (JPAs), Regional Transportation Planning Agencies (RTPAs), and Council of Governments (COGs). The Council anticipates two or three funding cycles.
Funds will be used to encourage sustainable regional and local actions that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, promote water conservation, reduce automobile use and fuel consumption, encourage infill and compact development, protect natural resources and agricultural lands, promote public health, and revitalize urban and community centers. Proposals must help achieve state planning priorities and environmental goals, as well as promote cooperative and scale-appropriate methods and strategies that reflect the interdependence of environmental, economic and community health.
Workshops will be conducted to provide technical assistance in preparing grant applications and vetting project proposals for eligibility and competitiveness.
Applications are due by August 31, 2010.
Center for Urban and Rural Affairs Funding
The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) is an all-University applied research and technology center at the University of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on significant public policy issues in Minnesota.
Chesapeake Bay Grant Programs
The Chesapeake Bay Trust has issued several request for proposals for its 2007-2008 grants cycle. A July 13, 2007 deadline applies for the Stewardship Grants Program, the Environmental Education Grants Program, and the Urban Greening Grant Program.
Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini-Grants: Summer 2009 Deadlines
The Chesapeake Bay Trust's Mini Grants program awards up to $5,000 for projects that address one or more of the Trust's grant making priorities. The majority of Mini Grant applications are submitted by schools for field experiences and on-the ground student service projects.
Clean Ohio Bond Fund
American Farmland Trust (AFT) reports a landslide victory for Clean Ohio Bond Fund, a November 2008 ballot initiative that offers great promise to farmland protection and the environment.
Clean Ohio Fund
The Clean Ohio Fund was established to preserve green space and farmland, improve outdoor recreation, and revitalize blighted neighborhoods by cleaning up and redeveloping polluted properties.
Colorado Brownfields Foundation Due Diligence Grants -- Colorado
The Environmental Due Diligence Pilot Program is seeking communities that are proactively pursuing economic development opportunities. The EDD Program will conduct Phase I Environmental Assessments on a property or multiple properties within selected communities. Alternatively, area-wide assessments could be conducted for a main street, industrial district, business park, or other geographic area.
Colorado Heritage Planning Grants
The Colorado Heritage Planning Grant Program is designed to recognize and reward those communities cooperatively planning to manage growth.
Commonwealth Capital -- Massachusetts
The Commonwealth Capital (CC) policy of the Office for Commonwealth Development (OCD) coordinates Massachusetts capital spending programs that affect development patterns. The state's goal is to invest in projects that are consistent with OCD's Sustainable Development Principles and partner with municipalities seeking to advance the Commonwealth's development and resource protection interests.
Community Action Grants: Washington, DC Region
The Gannett Corporation's Community Action Grants program makes grants to eligible organizations in the communities in which Gannett does business, including the Washington, DC Metro area.
Community Assistance Grant Program
To aid communities to begin the planning process, the Smart Growth Education Foundation has established a grant program to provide seed money to help pay for professional planning help.
SGEF will fund up to 40% of an eligible project with the maximum amount not to exceed $4,000 for any single project. However, each project will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and, if a project demonstrates ''extraordinary compliance'' with multiple Smart Growth principles, a higher level of funding could be considered.
One-half of the grant amount will be paid at the outset of the project; the second half will be paid when the project is completed. SGEF generally expects that the project will be completed within 12 months.
This is a unique service of an HBA that is to be part of an HBA organized Smart Growth Education Foundation that actually grants funds to local governments, so that they can implement ''Smart Growth'' zoning. The reality is local governments coming to an HBA Foundation for funding that will foster the goals of both entities.
Community Assistance Grant Program
To help communities begin the planning process toward smart growth, northeast Ohio's Smart Growth Education Foundation (SGEF) has established a grant program to provide ''seed'' money to help pay for professional planning help.
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (the Fund) provides financial assistance awards and technical assistance grants to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that have comprehensive business plans for creating demonstrable community development impact through the deployment of capital within their respective Target Markets for community development purposes.
Community Food Projects Grants Program 2010
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) invites applications for the Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program (CFPCGP) for fiscal year (FY) 2010 to support: (1) the development of Community Food Projects with a one-time infusion of federal dollars to make such projects self-sustaining; and (2) Planning Projects to assess the food security needs and plan long-term solutions to help ensure food security in communities. CSREES anticipates that the amount available for support of this program in FY 2010 will be approximately $5,000,000.
Community Foundation for the Alleghenies -- Pennsylvania
Through grantmaking activities, the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies serves nonprofits in Bedford, Cambria, Indiana, and Somerset Counties in western Pennsylvania.
Community Garden Grants
Project Orange Thumb is a grant program that provides community garden groups with the tools and materials they need to reach their goals for neighborhood beautification and horticulture education.
Community Innovations Grants
The Boston Foundation announced $19 million in new grant awards to more than 100 nonprofit organizations serving Greater Boston. While the wide range of these grants speaks to the rich complexity of life in the region, each individual funding decision reflects a strategic commitment to increase impact, opportunity and innovation within the organizations that serve area residents.
Community Revitalization Funds
The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) provides grant funds to support local initiatives that promote community stability and quality of life through its Community Revitalization Program (CRP).
Community Revitalization Grants
The Surdna Foundation is accepting applications for its Community Revitalization Grants program to support projects that improve the quality and longevity of communities, such as through development that is walkable, environmentally sustainable, and cost-effective.
Community Revitalization Grants -- Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development sponsors the Community Revitalization Program. This program provides grants for community revitalization and improvement projects which in the judgment of the Department will improve the stability of the community; promote economic development; improve existing and develop new civic, cultural, recreational, industrial and other facilities; assist in business retention, expansion, stimulation and attraction; promote the creation of jobs and employment opportunities; or enhance the health, welfare and quality of life of citizens in the Commonwealth.
Community Services Block Grant Program -- Community Economic Development
The Office of Community Services will award Community Economic Development discretionary grant funds for operational projects to Community Development Corporations that are experienced in implementing economic development projects. The purpose of these grants is to create new employment and business development opportunities for low-income individuals. Deadline for applications is May 12, 2006.
Community Trees Grants
Green Communities now offers Community Trees Grants, in partnership with The Home Depot Foundation, to affordable housing developers to strategically incorporate trees into their site plans. This program focuses on the remarkable economic, social and environmental contributions trees make to communities. The Foundation views trees as an untapped resource that can be used to help cities deal with the pollution of our air and water, cool our city streets, reduce crime, reduce asthma and improve our overall health.
Connecticut Brownfields Cleanup Grants
The Connecticut Brownfields Redevelopment Authority (CBRA) has developed programs that encourage brownfield redevelopment by reducing costs, eliminating environmental uncertainly, and simplifying the regulatory process.
Connecticut Environmental Assistance Programs
The Connecticut Office of Brownfield Remediation and Development (OBRD) provides a list of State of Connecticut Environmental Assistance Programs on its website.
Connecticut Urban and Industrial Sites Reinvestment Tax Credit Program
The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development offers an Urban and Industrial Sites Reinvestment Tax Credit Program. This economic development tool designed to drive investment to the state's urban centers and other economically distressed communities without depleting valuable state bond dollars.
Conservation Tax Incentive 2008
The 2008 U.S. Farm Bill renews a powerful tax incentive which has helped conserve a million or more acres of farms, ranches and natural areas across the U.S. The incentive had expired January 1, but is now retroactive to the beginning of the year and will last through 2009.
D.C. Historic Preservation Grants
Beginning January 2007, District of Columbia homeowners within specific historic districts will be eligible to receive a grant valued at 35% of applicable D.C. income taxes toward the expenses of rehabilitating their homes.
Development Incentives -- Seattle Department of Planning and Development, Seattle, Washington
The Seattle Department of Planning and Development maintains a Development Incentives section on its website. This feature provides an overview of incentives by project type, as outlined by city Green Building staff, to help you achieve your green building goals.
Enterprise Receives HUD Funding to Provide Technical Assistance
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) named Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) as one of nine national organizations receiving funding to help local communities purchase, rehabilitate and resell foreclosed properties in especially hard-hit neighborhoods. The $7.1 million grant to Enterprise is part of a $50 million effort that HUD has launched to help state and local governments address the inventory of foreclosed properties, using the department's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).
Enterprise Technical Assistance
Through its local offices, Enterprise provides one-on-one expertise, through its staff or consultants, to help community-based organizations prepare their boards, partners, staff and administration to carry out their work.
Environment Education Grants
The Grants Program sponsored by EPA’s Office of Environmental Education supports environmental education projects that enhance the public’s awareness, knowledge, and skills to help people make informed decisions that affect environmental quality.
Environmental Assistance Grants -- Minnesota
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Environmental Assistance Grant Program is a competitive, two-stage application process to identify and assist projects that will be most beneficial in meeting the Agency's mission of working with Minnesotans to protect, conserve, and improve Minnesota's air, land and water resources.
Environmental Education Funding
The Washington State Environmental Education Initiative offers a section on Environmental Education grants on its website.
Environmental Education Grants
The Grant Program sponsored by EPA’s Office of Environmental Education supports environmental education projects that enhance the public’s awareness, knowledge, and skills to help people make informed decisions that affect environmental quality.
Environmental Financial Tools
The Environmental Finance Program (EFP) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides financial technical assistance to the regulated community and advice and recommendations to the Agency on environmental finance issues, trends, and options. Among the resources offered by the EFP are environmental financial tools: sources of potential funding solutions.
Environmental Justice Grants
The New York State DEC Office of Environmental Justice is now accepting grant applications from community organizations for projects that address environmental and related public health issues. Projects must address multiple harms and risks to communities and communicate project results to the community residents.
Environmental Justice Small Grants Awards
Fiscal Year 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of the U.S. EPA's Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (EJSG). Since its inception in 1994, the Program has awarded more than $20 million in funding to 1,130 community-based organizations, and local and tribal organizations working with communities who are facing environmental justice issues.
Environmental Justice Small Grants Program -- 2008 Call for Applications
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published an Application Guidance document for its 2008 Environmental Justice Small Grants Program. Deadline for applications is June 30, 2008.
Environmental Justice Small Grants Program -- Fall 2006
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) provides financial assistance for local community-based organizations through the Environmental Justice Small Grants (EJSG) Program. Established in 1994, the purpose of this program is to provide financial assistance that will support and empower community-based organizations that are working on local solutions to local environmental and/or public health problems.
Environmental Restoration Program -- New York
Under the Environmental Restoration Program, the State of New York provides grants to municipalities to reimburse up to 90 percent of on-site eligible costs and 100% of off-site eligible costs for site investigation and remediation activities. Once remediated, the property may then be reused for commercial, industrial, residential or public use.
EnviroTools: State Brownfield Programs
EnviroTools is a website guide to involve your community in the cleanup of a polluted site. To help answer the question: ''How do we clean up this mess?'' EnviroTools has assembled a collection of educational materials on Superfund and Brownfields sites, along with sites cleaned up under state programs. The site also has a section on financing.
EPA Accepting Nominations for Watershed Protection Initiative
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting nominations for President Bush's Watershed Protection
Initiative. Governors and Tribal leaders are invited to submit
nominations for projects that would help promote and advance successes
in up to 20 watersheds.
EPA Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund
The Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grants provide funding for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving loan fund and to provide subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites. Through these grants, EPA seeks to strengthen the marketplace and encourage stakeholders to leverage the resources needed to clean up and redevelop brownfields. When loans are repaid, the loan amount is returned into the fund and re-lent to other borrowers, providing an ongoing source of capital within a community.
EPA CARE Grants 2008 -- Reduce Risks from Toxics
The U.S. EPA announces availability of funds for its Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) Program. Proposals are being sought to meet financial assistance needs for eligible entities through the new CARE program.
EPA Region 4 Environmental Priorities
EPA Region 4 is soliciting proposals for projects for Fiscal Year 2006 to address regional and state strategic priorities that meet national Regional Geographic Initiative (RGI) and Environmental Priorities Program (EPP) funding criteria.
Equitable Development Funding
FOCUS is a regional incentive-based development and conservation strategy for the San Francisco, California Bay Area. FOCUS unites the efforts of four regional agencies -- ABAG, MTC, the Air District, and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) -- into a single program that encourages future growth in areas near transit and within the communities that surround the San Francisco Bay.
Fannie Mae Foundation Grants -- 2005
The Fannie Mae Foundation awards grants to nonprofit organizations that create affordable homeownership and housing opportunities in cities, towns, and rural areas across the United States. These organizations are recognized for building healthy, vibrant communities.
The Foundation awards most of its grants by soliciting proposals from organizations with the demonstrated ability to create strong partnerships with the Foundation. A limited amount of grant funding to be awarded through a competitive process is also available. The next application deadline will be in early 2005, and more information will be available on the Foundation's website by December 31, 2004.
For more information please visit the resource link below.
Farmers Market Promotion Program Grants -- 2009
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for competitive grants targeted to helping increase consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities. This is the fourth year of the grant program, the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP), which was authorized by the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 and amended by the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (the Farm Bill).
Farmland and Open Space Funding -- Michigan
The Michigan Department of Agriculture uses five methods for preserving farmland and open space in its Farmland and Open Space Preservation Program.
Federal Funds for the National Historic Preservation Program
The Advisory Council for Historic Preservation (ACHP) publishes on its website an overview of Federal Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grants-in-aid for State, tribal, and local government programs.
Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits
The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program is one of the Federal government’s most successful and cost-effective community revitalization programs. The Preservation Tax Incentives reward private investment in rehabilitating historic properties such as offices, rental housing, and retail stores.
Financial Incentives for Building Green Affordable Housing in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) has produced a two-page chart that provides information on funding resources for building green affordable housing.
Financial Resources for California Brownfields
Financial Resources for California Brownfields is a 2008 publication from the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) that provides an overview of the available financial mechanisms for funding brownfield redevelopment in California and describes several new and innovative programs.
Financial Resources for California Brownfields -- California
Financial Resources for California Brownfields is a packet that provides an overview of the available financial mechanisms for funding brownfield redevelopment in California and describes several new and innovative programs.
Financing Greenways
The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the University of Maryland features a web resource that includes trail-building cost estimates from several Virginia communities as well as techniques to help partner with community members, raise funds, and seek grants for greenway programs.
Five Connecticut Brownfields Projects Funded
Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has announced five brownfield sites across the state will receive a total of $2.25 million to assist in redevelopment efforts under a pilot program proposed by Governor Rell and funded through the state Bond Commission.
Ford Foundation Grantmaking
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Featured areas in their Asset Building and Community Development grants program are Economic Development and Community and Resource Development.
Frontera Farmer Foundation Grants -- 2009
The Frontera Farmer Foundation is committed to promoting small, sustainable Midwestern farms serving the Chicago area, by providing them with capital development grants. Small local farms, which often struggle financially, are more likely to promote biodiversity by planting a wide range of produce and operate using organic practices. By their artisanal approach to agriculture, the freshness of their product and the variety of their offerings, these farmers insure the highest quality food while they add immeasurably to the fabric of their local rural community.
Funding Resources for Farmers Markets
The Farmers' Market Project promotes awareness among farmers' market managers of the increasing attention farmers' markets are receiving from private foundations, national-level non-governmental organizations, and new and existing opportunities for assistance from federal agricultural programs. The Project website includes a funding resources page, which provides information on financial assistance for local markets.
Funding Sources -- Trails and Greenways
National Trails Training Partnership has added a list of funding sources for trails and greenways proponents to the resources and archives section of its website.
Grants Available for Community Forestry Projects
Preproposals for Community Forestry Projects grants are due by December
10, 2002. More information on the program that will award grants in the
categories of Promotion of Livable Communities through Urban and
Community Forestry, Creative and Innovative Urban and Community Forestry Research
and Technology Development is available at http://www.treelink.org/nucfac
Grants for Educators -- S.F. Bay Region
The Watershed Project is the sponsor of the Teacher Action Grants (TAG) program, which has distributed almost $380,000 to San Francisco Bay Area educators who have taken Kids in Creeks, Kids in Gardens, and Watching Our Watersheds workshops. By providing seed money in amounts up to $2,000 to cover direct expenses for classroom-based environmental studies, gardening, and restoration projects, Teacher Action Grants have educated and involved tens of thousands of students in local watershed-based projects, and increased awareness about natural resources in Alameda and Contra Costa counties for thousands of residents.
Great American Main Street Awards -- 2009
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced winners of its 2009 Great American Main Street Awards (GAMSA). In 2009, the five GAMSA winners range from a colorful mid-Atlantic beach town with year-round appeal, to a Baltimore neighborhood with a seafaring past and a bright future, to California wine country's best-kept secret.
Green and Healthy Homes
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requests proposals for the Green and Healthy Homes and Technical Studies Program. Through this RFP, HUD seeks to improve knowledge of the effects residential green construction has on both indoor environmental quality and occupant health, with a particular focus on children and other sensitive populations. It is expected that benefits would be most likely observed for respiratory health outcomes and reductions in irritation-related symptoms.
Some $2.4 million expected to be available, up to 7 awards anticipated.
Responses are due November 17, 2009.
Green Building Initiative
The Kresge Foundation advances environmental conservation by awarding planning grants for sustainable design through its Green Building Initiative. The Foundation focuses its efforts on the renovation and historic preservation of existing structures, as well as new green construction.
Green Building Research Grants
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced recipients of its 2008 Green Building Research Fund grants. The Green Building Research Fund was created to spur research that will advance sustainable building practices and encourage market transformation.
Green Communities Developer Incentives
Green Communities is designed to help developers, investors, and builders make the transition to a greener future for affordable housing. Led by Enterprise, The Enterprise Social Investment Corporation and the Natural Resources Defense Council, Green Communities provides a package of financial incentives and other resources to affordable housing developers across the country.
Green Schools Funding -- City of San Jose
The City of San Jose, California, maintains a web page on Funding for Green Schools on the Environmental Services pages of its website.
Green Space Funding -- Atlanta, Georgia
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation aims to help develop a system of ''Great Parks'' in Atlanta, tied to the larger vision of how public space connects the entire community. By providing support, the Foundation wants to help create parks and ensure that they are high quality, well-maintained and protected. Most of all, they must be accessible and available to all the citizens.
GreenWorks Grants: Fall 2009
GreenWorks! grants engage educators and their students with their local community in ''learning-by-doing'' environmental projects. Student leadership, service-learning, and community participation are the cornerstones to GreenWorks! projects. These grassroots action projects enable schools and youth organizations across the country to make a positive impact on their communities. Applications are now open for Fall 2009.
GSA Regional Studies Grants: Envisioning the Future of the Federal Workplace
In order to promote a guiding vision for the future of federal work in the Washington region, the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Public Building Service will award competitive grants in the range of $50,000 to $500,000 for coordination, planning, and research efforts that explore fundamental questions related to the form, location, and design of federal offices over the next 10 to 50 years in the National Capital Region. The maximum aggregate value of the grants is $500,000.
Healthy Communities Grant Program
The Healthy Communities Grant Program integrates nine EPA New England programs – Assistance & Pollution Prevention: Schools Sector, Asthma, Children’s Environmental Health, Community Air Toxics, Pesticides, Smart Growth, Tools for Schools, Toxics, and the Urban Environmental Program working in partnership to best identify competitive projects that will achieve measurable environmental and human health improvements in communities across New England. The Healthy Communities Grant Program is EPA New England’s main grant program to work directly with communities to reduce environmental risks to protect and improve human health and the quality of life. The Healthy Communities Grant Program will achieve this through identifying and funding projects that:
Target resources to benefit communities at risk (environmental justice areas of potential concern, places with high risk from toxic air pollution, urban areas) and sensitive populations (e.g. children, elderly, others at increased risk).
Assess, understand, and reduce environmental and human health risks.
Increase collaboration through community-based projects.
Build institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environment and human health problems.
Achieve measurable environment and human health benefits.
Healthy Community Grant Program
The Healthy Community Grant is a competitive program funded by Ward Edwards to encourage creative solutions for existing environmental problems, plant seeds for innovation in stewardship, and recognize tangible efforts that lead to long-term sustainable benefits. Ward Edwards will invest up to $10,000 in projects that promote or improve environmental sustainability in coastal South Carolina and Georgia.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Call for Proposals -- 2009
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) whose primary goal is to implement healthy eating and active living policy- and environmental-change initiatives that can support healthier communities for children and families across the United States. Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities places special emphasis on reaching children who are at highest risk for obesity on the basis of race/ethnicity, income and/or geographic location.
Heart and Soul Community Planning -- 2008 Request for Proposals
The Orton Family Foundation has issued a call for proposals for the 2008 Heart and Soul Community Planning award, open to communities in select New England and Rocky Mountain states. This is a partnership opportunity for four communities to receive funding and technical assistance on major community visioning and planning projects.
Heritage Preservation Fund Grants
The National Park Service offers grants through their Historic Preservation Fund (HPF). Since 1968, over $1 billion in grant funds has been awarded to 59 States, territories, Indian Tribes, local governments, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
High Performance Building Grant -- Virginia
The James River Green Building Council (JRGBC), a Chapter of the US Green Building Council, will be awarding a $10,000 grant to promote the inclusion of green features to schools and affordable housing projects in Central Virginia.
Historic Preservation Funding
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a partner in the Smart Growth Network, maintains a page on its website focusing on Nonprofit Organization and Public Agency Funding for nonprofit organizations and federal, state, or local government agencies.
Historic Preservation Funding Grants -- Missouri
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorizes a program of federal matching grants, known as the Historic Preservation Fund, to assist the various states in carrying out historic preservation activities. The program is sponsored by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and in Missouri is administered through the State Historic Preservation Office of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
Historic Preservation Revolving Funds
A preservation revolving fund is a pool of capital created and reserved for historic preservation, with the condition that the money will be returned to the fund to be reused for similar activities. It can be an effective tool to address blighted neighborhoods or run-down properties in your community, revitalize a historic district or commercial area, or demonstrate the economic and social benefits of historic preservation
Historic Preservation Tax Credits -- North Carolina
This resource outlines Preservation Tax Credits offered by North Carolina for historic properties located in the state.
Home Depot Building Healthy Communities Grant Program
The Home Depot is accepting proposals from registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, public schools or tax-exempt public service agencies in the U.S. who are using the power of volunteers to improve the physical health of their community. This program supports community improvement projects that include, but are not limited to: improving energy efficiency and sustainability; landscaping and planting native trees; community facility improvements; and the development and/or improvement of green spaces.
Grants are made in the form of The Home Depot gift cards for the purchase or tools or materials.
Only grants submitted through the online application process will be considered for funding. All unsolicited donation requests received via mail, phone or e-mail will be referred to this online grant program. Responses are due December 15, 2009.
Hope VI Main Street Grants
Main Street area revitalization efforts seek to rejuvenate older, downtown business districts while retaining the area's traditional and Historic character. The purpose of the HOPE VI Main Street Program is to provide assistance to smaller communities in the development of affordable housing that is undertaken in connection with a Main Street revitalization effort. Obsolete commercial offices or buildings can be reconfigured into rent producing affordable housing.
Hudson River Valley Greenway Grants -- New York
The Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council provides community planning grants and technical assistance through the ''Greenway Communities Grant Program'' to help communities develop a vision for their future and tools to achieve it by balancing economic development and resource protection objectives.
Illinois Greening Main Street Grants 2006
Illinois' Lt. Governor Pat Quinn Genoa announced the inaugural round of Greening Main Street grants. These six unique projects will strengthen the economies of local communities while improving the health of their environments.
Illinois Schoolyard Habitat Action Grants
Hundreds of Illinois students have the opportunity to work on improving natural habitats outside of the classroom while supporting their studies through grant funding from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources' (IDNR) Division of Education Schoolyard Habitat Action Grant program. In 2008, eighteen organizations received nearly $8,800 in funds to support prairie plots, butterfly gardens, rain gardens, stormwater wetlands and bird sanctuaries that students will develop and use for natural resources research.
Indiana Brownfields Funding
The Indiana Brownfields Program works in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other Indiana agencies to assist communities in making productive use of their brownfield properties. The program mission is to encourage and assist investment in the redevelopment of brownfield properties by helping communities via educational, financial, technical and legal assistance to identify and mitigate environmental barriers that impede local economic growth.
Innovative Community Planning Assistance Project
1000 Friends of Minnesota has been awarded a two-year, $1.5 million grant from the McKnight Foundation to implement a new project -- yet to be named -- to deliver direct planning and implementation assistance to 10 growing communities. The project will kick off in March 2008, when interested communities will be invited to submit a proposal to participate in the six-year process.
Innovative Solutions for Alaska’s Future -- Alaska
The Alaska Conservation Foundation's Conservation for the Majority Grant Docket: Innovative Solutions for Alaska’s Future was created to fund projects that will foster among the majority of Alaskans respectful, open discourse and action towards an Alaska where integration of economic development, environmental stewardship, and the well-being of all Alaskans is assured -- not just for today, but for generations to come.
Interpreting America's Historic Places -- Consultation Grants
Interpreting America's Historic Places -- Planning Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is accepting applications for their grant program, ''Interpreting America's Historic Places.''
Investment in America's National Parks
From the Statue of Liberty and Independence Hall to Yellowstone and Death Valley, the National Park Service will undertake more than 750 projects at parks across the country to create jobs, restore and protect our nation's parks, and preserve our history and heritage for future generations, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced in April 2009.
Iowa Housing Fund
Substandard and unaffordable housing supply is a national problem needing long-term solutions. Through the HOME and CDBG programs, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides financial assistance to state and local governments to implement housing strategies. The State of Iowa has elected to combine a portion of its CDBG funds with its HOME funds in a unique approach to funding housing activities.
James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards Nominations 2008
Nominations are being accepted for the 2008 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards. The Leadership Awards recognize Californians who are advancing innovative and effective solutions to significant issues for the state's future. Individuals working within any sector -- nonprofit, public or private -- and within any field -- such as education, health, housing, economic development or the environment -- are eligible.
KaBoom Grants
One of the biggest challenges facing any community-built playground project is fundraising. That is why KaBOOM! offers communities occasional grant opportunities to begin or complete playspace projects.
Kaiser Permanente Community Fund
The Kaiser Permanente Community Fund (KPCF) at Northwest Health Foundation was established in late 2004 to advance the health of the communities served by Kaiser Permanente Northwest.
Kodak American Greenways Awards Program -- 2008
The Kodak American Greenways Awards Program, a partnership project of the Eastman Kodak Company, The Conservation Fund, and the National Geographic Society, provides small grants to stimulate the planning and design of greenways in communities throughout America.
Land Trust Alliance Grants
The Land Trust Alliance promotes voluntary private land conservation and strengthens the land trust movement by providing the leadership, information skills, and resources land trusts need to conserve land for the benefit of communities and natural systems.
Landscaping Water Efficiency Grants -- Santa Monica
To ensure a sustainable future, the City of Santa Monica is offering an incentive for making a change toward a brighter future. Competitive grant awards for landscaping water efficiency provide funding up to $20,000 for California-friendly landscape projects in Santa Monica. Application deadline for the January-June 2007 grant cycle is March 29, 2007.
LISC 2008 Sustainable Communities Investments
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) invested $826MM in equity, loans and grants during 2008 to revitalize disinvested neighborhoods as part of its Building Sustainable Communities work.
LISC Awarded Funding for Neighborhood Stabilization
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) $3.6 million to provide technical assistance to help improve the effectiveness of neighborhood stabilization programs. The funding is part of HUD's $50 million effort to help state and local governments address the inventory of foreclosed properties assisted under the Department's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).
LISC Grants
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) provides technical and financial resources to help community development organizations become strong and stable neighborhood institutions characterized by effective and responsible fiscal management and capable of carrying out a range of community revitalization activities. Through its local program offices, LISC provides grant funding to assist organizations develop affordable housing, commercial and retail space, and community facilities, as well as other community development activities.
LISC Wins Funding from AmeriCorps
The Corporation for National and Community Service has awarded the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) nearly $2.1 million in grants to support 248 LISC AmeriCorps members as they help revitalize disadvantaged communities across the country.
Livability Innovation Fund Grants -- New Mexico
The Local Government Division (LGD) of the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) is the sponsor of this Livability Innovation Fund grant program for enhancing -- through planning and design -- the livability of New Mexico communities.
Livable Centers Initiative
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is now accepting applications for the 2005 Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) studies. The LCI Program is open for funding to government jurisdictions and non-profit organizations in the 18-county Atlanta Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) boundaries (includes all of 13 counties and portions of 5 additional counties).
Livable Communities Grant Program -- Minnesota
The Livable Communities Act (LCA, or Act), established in 1995, has three fund accounts in the Twin Cities region that enable local communities to carry out their development plans. The Act is expected to leverage billions of dollars in private and public investment while providing jobs and business growth.
Living Shorelines Grants
The Chesapeake Bay Trust, in conjunction with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Restoration Center (NOAA), The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment, and its new partner, the Maryland Department of the Environment, is soliciting proposals to create and promote living shorelines in the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C portions of the Chesapeake Bay. This grant initiative is designed to reverse the trend of shoreline hardening by encouraging the creation of living shoreline restoration projects and by enhancing public awareness about the benefits of living shorelines.
Lyndhurst Foundation -- Chattanooga, Tennessee Area
The Lyndhurst Foundation focuses on the enrichment and enhancement of the social, natural, and built environment in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the surrounding southeastern region. Lyndhurst Foundation grants are distributed primarily at the foundation's initiative.
Make It Your Own Awards™
Do you want to make a difference in your community? The Case Foundation is looking for inspired individuals and passionate teams who are connecting people to discuss what matters, find smart solutions, and take action. Grants up to $35,000 will be awarded to help make it happen.
Maryland Historical Trust
The Maryland Historical Trust helps identify, study, evaluate, preserve, protect, and interpret the state's significant prehistoric and historic districts, sites, structures, cultural landscapes, heritage areas, cultural objects, and artifacts, as well as less tangible human and community traditions.
Maryland Restoration Grants
The Chesapeake Bay Trust provides grant funding for on-the-ground Chesapeake Bay restoration projects throughout Maryland, reaching thousands of students, organizations and community leaders each year. Since its inception in 1985, the Trust has awarded more than $20 million in grants, funding thousands of projects that have made a measurable impact on improving the Bay's health and restoring Maryland’s most treasured natural resource.
Massachusetts Funding for Smart Growth
The Smart Growth Technical Assistance Grant Program, offered by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA), provides grants of up to $30,000 per community to implement smart growth zoning changes and undertake other activities that will improve local and regional sustainable development practices.
Massachusetts Historic Landscape Preservation Grants
The Department of Conservation and Recreation's Historic Landscape Preservation Initiative sponsors special initiatives and offers technical assistance and training to support the preservation of historically significant landscapes throughout the Commonwealth.
Million Solar Roofs Grants
DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released the solicitation for the Million Solar Roofs Initiative (MSRI) Small Grant Program for State and Local MSR Partnerships. Awards under this announcement will be grants with a term of no more than three years.
Minnesota Environmental Loans
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Environmental Assistance Loan Program awards up to a maximum loan of $100,000 at zero percent interest. Program guidelines call for loan funds to be matched by a minimum dollar-for-dollar match (1:1) by loans from a participating financial institution. An administrative fee is assessed to each loan to cover administrative and service costs.
Morris K. Udall Undergraduate Scholarship Awards
The Morris K. Udall Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship Awards provide annual funding for students who have committed to careers in the environment, Native American Health Care, or tribal public policy.
NACCHO's Foundation Funding Guide
The National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) offers an online Foundation Funding Guide, a resource for consolidated, customized private funding opportunities. You can select from 18 funding-related topics and specify the state in which you intend to apply, and the Funding Guide will provide a list of foundations that match your criteria. Deadlines, contact information, grant limitations, and award amounts are summarized and easy to search.
NAR Diversity Initiative Grants -- 2009
Local and state associations can apply for financial support for programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in our increasingly diverse communities. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) offers two opportunities to apply for grants in 2009.
NAR Smart Growth Action Grants -- 2009
To increase the effectiveness of state and local REALTOR® association efforts in creating livable communities, the National Association of Realtors' (NAR's) Smart Growth Action Grant program is available to support your efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.
NAR Smart Growth Action Grants -- 2010
To increase the effectiveness of state and local REALTOR® association efforts in creating livable communities, NAR’s Smart Growth Action Grant program is available to support your efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.
The rational for REALTOR® involvement in local land use issues is compelling: the healthier the community, the more attractive it will be to homebuyers. However, land use issues often require long-term efforts on the behalf of advocates. NAR’s Smart Growth Action Grants are intended to help your association and members initiate and sustain an active role in bringing smart growth development principles to your community.
Education and coalition building are hallmarks of successful smart growth efforts. The grants can be used to further activities to develop a community vision through a community planning workshop or joining a coalition that is working toward a similar community vision. Additionally, grant funds may be used to support green building activities, such as working with state or local officials to develop green building/energy efficiency policies for your community.
Applications are due April 2, 2010.
NAR Smart Growth Grants -- Spring 2008
To increase the effectiveness of local association efforts in creating livable communities, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has established a grant program to assist your efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.
National 4-H Council Community Tree Planting Grants
The National 4-H Council offers grants at the community, county, and state level for young people and adults to take action on issues critical to their lives, their families, and their communities. Grant recipients are expected to take the lead in the design of the project, the proposal writing process, implementation, and evaluation of funded projects.
National Association of Realtors® Smart Growth Grants
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) Action Grant program can assist your efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.
National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants
Coastal wetlands are valuable resources. They protect against flooding, help maintain water quality, and provide habitat for wildlife. Coastal environments are important economically, generating billions of dollars annually through such industries as commercial fishing and tourism. The National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program provides States with a means of protecting and restoring these valuable resources.
National Geographic Society Conservation Trust Grants
Conservation Trust Grants from the National Geographic Society support conservation activities around the world as they fit within the mission of the National Geographic Society. The trust will fund projects that contribute significantly to the preservation and sustainable use of the Earth's biological, cultural, and historical resources.
National Historic Trust School RFP
To help localities site their schools in a way that not only achieves their educational objectives, but also anchors the local neighborhood, supports better public health, creates a cleaner environment, spurs economic development, and offers additional amenities to the community, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has launched a new policy program, ''Helping Johnny Walk to School,'' through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and with generous funding from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
National Organic Program Assistance
The National Organic Program, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, develops, implements, and administers national production, handling, and labeling standards for organic agricultural products.
National Preservation Endowment
The National Preservation Endowment provides financial assistance to support the work of preservationists across the country. Whether it's an emergency grant to protect a threatened landmark or a lead investment to leverage rehabilitation tax credits in a historic district, the National Preservation Endowment makes it possible for the National Trust to nurture the work of preservation across America -- one unique challenge at a time.
National Preservation Endowment Financial Assistance Programs Brochure
The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides financial assistance to support the work of preservationists from across the country. This brochure describes several of the programs offers by the National Trust.
National Trails Fund
National Trails Fund grants help give local organizations the resources they need to secure access, volunteers, tools and materials to protect America’s cherished public trails.
National Trust Financial Center
The National Trust, through its financial assistance programs, demonstrates that preserving our heritage improves the quality of life in American communities. The National Trust's grant and loan programs have assisted thousands of innovative preservation projects that protect the continuity, diversity, and beauty of our communities.
National Trust Small Deal Fund (SDF)
The National Trust Small Deal Fund provides a unique service within the historic tax credit industry by investing in very small historic tax credit projects generating as much as $650,000 in tax credit equity (about $3.5 million in total development costs) or as little as $200,000 in tax credit equity (about $1.2 million in total development costs).
National Vacant and Abandoned Properties Grant Program -- 2006
ESRI, the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, along with the National Vacant Properties Campaign (NVPC) and Magellan, has announced the National Vacant and Abandoned Properties Grant Program. The program consists of an offering of hardware, software, and training totaling $50,000 to 10 state or local government agencies.
National Vacant Properties Technical Assistance
To ensure that municipalities don't struggle alone in solving the problems associated with vacant and abandoned properties, the National Vacant Properties Campaign engages its partners, practitioners, and national experts in a range of training and technical assistance services.
Nature in Neighborhoods Restoration and Enhancement Grants
Metro Portland (Oregon) is now accepting grant applications for projects that connect citizens to their watershed through hands-on restoration activities and environmental education.
New England Grassroots Environment Fund
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is a small grants program designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It provides grants of up to $2,500 to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.
New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- 2007 Programs
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Fund provides grants to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.
New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- 2008 Boston Grants Initiative Applications
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Fund provides grants to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.
New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- 2008 Small Grants Program Applications
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Fund provides grants to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.
New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- 2009 Boston Grants Initiative Applications
The purpose of the New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) Boston Grants Initiative is to increase engagement and citizen participation on environmental health, environmental justice and greenspace issues in greater Boston. The Initiative is designed to help increase the number of citizens involved in concrete actions that improve the quality of the environment and public health.
New England Small Grants
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Fund uses networking, skills-building, and grantmaking to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.
New Jersey Historic Trust Funding Programs
The New Jersey Historic Trust was created to preserve New Jersey's historic resources across the state for the benefit of future generations. The trust pursues this goal through education, stewardship and financial investment programs that save our heritage and strengthen our communities.
New Jersey Smart Future Grants Awarded
The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has announced that it will award more than $1.3 million in Smart Future Grants to 23 municipalities and organizations in New Jersey.
New York Land Conservation Grants -- 2007
The Land Trust Alliance (LTA), in partnership with New York’s land trust community and the State of New York, developed an initiative to secure annual appropriations from the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) to build land trust capacity and accelerate the pace of strategic land conservation across the state.
New York Main Street Funding
Founded in 2004, New York Main Street was created to provide funding for Main Street and downtown revitalization efforts, help coordinate and guide efforts among State agencies, and to serve as a resource to communities looking for financial and technical assistance to revitalize their Main Street.
New York Parks and Trails Funding
Parks & Trails New York's Capacity Building Grants program for park and trail groups provides grants of up to $3,000 to strengthen not-for-profit organizations that are working to build and protect parks and trails in communities across the state.
New York Quality Communities Grants Winners
A total of $3 million will be awarded to fifty-one projects, including the drafting of neighborhood plans, comprehensive plans, agricultural protection plans, transportation plans, economic development plans, new zoning laws, and more under the New York Quality Communities Grants Program of 2006.
New York State Smart Growth Grants
The New York State Smart Growth website offers a comprehensive list of grant opportunities for New York State.
NJ Smart Growth Grants & Awards
The New Jersey Office of Smart Growth offers a website that lists grant information for communities in the Garden State.
Notice of funding availability, open space and preservation initiatives, and award notifications are among the items listed on this online resource.
For more information please visit the resource link below.
Non-Profit Organization and Public Agency Funding for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation maintains a resource page on its website with resources to help non-profit organizations with preservation projects. The National Trust's Historic Building Information Sheet can help you get started, along with publications from Preservation Books, including Quest for Funds Revisited: A Fundraising Starter Kit and Successful Fundraising Activities for Preservation Organizations.
Ohio Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund
The Ohio Department of Development manages a Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that is capitalized by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA. This fund offers below-market rate loans to assist with the remediation of a brownfield property to return it to a productive economic use in the community.
Ohio Brownfields Redevelopment Funds
The Clean Ohio Assistance Fund (COAF) is a $10 million annual appropriation dedicated to brownfield redevelopment in eligible areas.
Ohio Green Communities Funding
Ohio Green Communities is a collaboration of the Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (OCCH), Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) and the Ohio Department of Development's Office of Energy Efficiency and Enterprise with support from National City Community Development Corporation. The collaborative finances affordable homes in Ohio that promote health, conserve energy and natural resources, and provide easy access to jobs, schools and services.
Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit
The Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit (OHPTC) program provides a tax credit for the rehabilitation expenses to owners of historically significant buildings.
Pacific Northwest Environmental Grants
Social Venture Partners (SVP) of Seattle, Washington, provides grants to promote a healthy future for all life in the Pacific Northwest by fostering environmental stewardship that is ecologically based and economically sound.
PARC Grants -- Massachusetts
In a November 2008 announcement from Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles, the city of Salem was awarded $500,000 to renovate and revitalize Furlong Park. The multi-faceted shoreline park is among 20 local projects across Massachusetts receiving nearly $7.4 million in FY 2009 Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities (PARC) grants. Funding for PARC grants comes from the Energy and Environment Bond Bill signed by Governor Patrick in August.
Pedestrian and Bicycling Funding
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center's (PBIC's) funding sources page provides guidance to planners, engineers, private citizens, advocates, educators, police enforcement and the health community for help in funding pedestrian and bicycle trail projects.
Pennsylvania Green Building Fund
The Green Building Fund was created by the CL Fund to assist building owners and developers with the implementation of green building practices. The Fund provides a source of flexible financing to qualified developers who plan to integrate green design into either new construction or rehabilitation projects.
Pioneer Grants -- 2005
The Pioneer Grants program, offered by the Chesapeake Bay Trust, is designed to encourage and promote innovative ideas, creative partnerships, and cutting-edge projects that advance the Bay restoration.
Planet Connect Grant Program
Planet Connect is a new online network for High School students to learn about the environment plus green college and career options. Program organizers are looking for creative ideas to fix an environmental problem at your school or in your community.
Plant a Tree in DC Rebate
Because trees provide extraordinary environmental and community benefits, Casey Trees and the District Department of the Environment (DDOE) have teamed up to offer a rebate of up to $50 to individuals who plant a tree on private property in Washington, D.C.
PPS Farmers Market Grants
Twelve farmers markets across the United States will grow and diversify their operations, while broadening the social, cultural, and economic impacts on the communities they serve. They are the recipients of 12 grants, totaling $211,000, which were awarded by Project for Public Spaces (PPS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities worldwide. PPS received 262 proposals from 46 states in this new, highly competitive and sought-after grant initiative.
Preservation Funding -- New York
The Landmark Society of Western New York offers a funding chart on their website listing historic preservation resources and organizations that fund specific projects.
Preservation Funding -- Vermont
The Vermont Heritage Network (VHN) offers a comprehensive list of state and national resources for funding preservation activities.
Preservation Maryland Heritage Fund
The Preservation Maryland Heritage Fund provides direct assistance for the protection of endangered cultural resources and promotes innovative demonstration projects that can be successfully replicated to meet Maryland's historic preservation needs.
Project Learning Tree School Grants -- 2008
Applications are now open for Fall 2008 Project Learning Tree school grants. Since 1992, Project Learning Tree has distributed approximately $565,000 to fund over 810 environmental projects in communities across the country. Elementary, middle, high school and college students are planting trees, designing native plant gardens, restoring streams and riparian habitats, constructing hiking trails, starting composting projects, and investigating alternative sources of energy, among other projects.
Project Orange Thumb Community Garden Grant -- 2009
Project Orange Thumb is a grant program that provides community garden groups with the tools and materials they need to reach their goals for neighborhood beautification and horticulture education.
Purchase of Agricultural Easements Sources of Funding
This fact sheet from the American Farmland Trust's Farmland Information Center provides an overview of funding sources for purchase of agricultural conservation easement (PACE) programs, and identifies some issues to address when deciding how to pay for easements.
Recreational Trails Fund -- California
California State Parks offers the Recreational Trails Program (RTP), providing funds annually for recreational trails and trails-related projects.
Regional Prosperity Initiative Grants -- Michigan
To strengthen the voice of regions in Michigan, People and Land (PAL) has launched its Regional Prosperity Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to foster multi-sector and multi-jurisdictional collaboration at the regional level as a means for advancing economic, social, and environmental progress in Michigan.
Rehabilitation Tax Credits
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has assembled an online resource focusing on rehabilitation tax credits. Available through the Advocacy section of the National Trust's website, this resource covers tax credits at both the federal and state levels.
Request for Information: HUD Sustainable Communities Planning Grant
On April 8, 2010, HUD published a notification requesting entities interested in applying for the Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Program to notify HUD of their intent to submit an application. HUD requests that interested organizations call the HUD NOFA Information Center as soon as possible. The NOFA Information Center will ask for your organization name and address, contact name, email, and telephone number. Notification of intent to apply is not a requirement for application, but it helps HUD determine staffing requirements for review and evaluation of applicants. Interested entities are encouraged to begin the grants.gov registration process now as the full five-step process can take two to four weeks to complete.
Applications are expected to be due about June 5, 2010. Eligible applicants will be determined at a later date.
Details about grants.gov registration and how to submit notification of intent are available at the link below.
Resource Conservation Funds 2006
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 is soliciting proposals to fund projects that address solid waste reduction, recycling, and management, priority chemical reduction, and waste tires management and recycling issues at the local, State, regional and/or national levels. Funds will be awarded for carrying out projects that serve the following states: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and/or the lands in Indian Country belonging to the 27 federally recognized tribes which fall under EPA Region 8’s geographic area.
Resources for Protecting Your Community
The National Trust for Historic Preservation (the National Trust) empowers people with information and financial assistance so they can revitalize the residential and business districts in their own communities. The National Trust offers many different resources to help you protect and preserve your community through its website.
Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program
The U.S. National Parks Service's Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program (RTCA) offers funding for projects that protect important natural resources or enhance outdoor recreation opportunities.
Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program
The Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program (RTCA, or Rivers & Trails), provides technical assistance to locally led natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation projects. The project applicant may be a state or local agency, tribe, non-profit organization, or citizens' group. Federal agencies, including the National Park Service, may apply only in collaboration with a non-federal partner. RTCA does not provide financial assistance to support project implementation.
Rose Fellowship
The Enterprise Foundation offers the Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship, designed to promote architectural and community design in low-income neighborhoods. The focus is on improving the quality of life through design that promotes human interaction.
RTC's Trails Funding Guide
The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s (RTC's) Trails and Greenways Funding Guide is a searchable database containing information about a variety of federal, state and private funding sources for trails and greenways.
Safe Routes to School Authorizations
The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) guarantees funding for highways, highway safety, and public transportation totaling $244.1 billion. It's the largest surface transportation investment in U.S. Included in this program is a new core Highway Safety Improvement Program that is structured and funded to make significant progress in reducing highway fatalities, including safe routes to schools for children. This resource summarizes SAFETEA-LU provisions concerning the Safe Routes to School Program.
Safe Routes to School Funding
The Active Living Resource Center has prepared a web page describing options for Safe Routes To School Funding (SRTS).
Safe Routes to School Funding -- California
California's Safe Routes to School program, initiated in 1999, will continue to provide funding for projects through January 1, 2008.
Safe Routes to School Funding -- Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's first Federal Safe Routes to School (FSRTS) application cycle officially opens May 5, 2008. For the opening 2008 round, $12,649,000 is available for infrastructure improvements. Additional funding rounds will be conducted in future years, but the timeline and amount available are dependent upon several factors, including the reauthorization of the FSRTS program in the next Federal Transportation Bill.
Sample Brownfields Funding Mechanisms
The U.S. EPA has numerous Brownfields resources on their website. This resource contains information on Sample Brownfields Funding Mechanisms, to be used in the redevelopment of brownfields.
San Diego Smart Growth Funding Programs
The San Diego, California chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) produced this PowerPoint presentation outlining TransNet Smart Growth Funding Programs.
San Francisco Green Communities Funding
The Mayor's Office of Housing (MOH), the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) and Enterprise have joined forces to invest at least $100 million worth of incentives to build 600 new homes in San Francisco that promote health, conserve energy and natural resources, and provide easy access to jobs, schools and services.
San Jose Go Green Mini-Grants
The goal of the San José Go Green Mini-grants Program is to promote environmental stewardship in the current student generation. Mini-grants are intended to foster school-wide and in- classroom recycling and other environmental actions and environmental education.
School Funding: Facilities and Cleanup
Home improvement retailer Lowe's will donate $5 million to public schools and public school parent teacher groups -- at more than 1,000 different public schools per school year through the Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant program.
School Garden Grants
The California School Garden Network acts as a central organization to distribute school garden resources and support throughout the state. The Network's Grants and Fundraising page provide a comprehensive list of funding resources geared toward classrooms and adolescent and school health programs.
Schoolyard Greening Funding: St. Louis
The Missouri Botanical Garden has partnered with the South Side Day Nursery (SSDN) in St. Louis to establish a tailored schoolyard gardening program.
Schoolyards to Playgrounds Funding: New York City
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe cut the ribbon on the new playground at P.S. 205 on June 12, 2009, as part of the Mayor's PlaNYC initiative to ensure that all New Yorkers live within a ten minute walk of a park or playground.
Securing Green Retrofit Stimulus Funds
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued application and eligibility guidance for its ''Green Retrofit Program for Multifamily Housing'' on May 13, 2009. The $250 million loan and grant program is funded by the economic stimulus bill enacted in February (P.L. 111-5), and is limited to properties receiving HUD project-based assistance.
Silicon Valley Neighborhood Grants -- California
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is focused on innovative solutions that solve problems and improve the quality of life throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. As a new foundation, the organization will take time to examine the needs across the region and evaluate the best practices of its parent foundations before launching a new, regional grantmaking strategy in mid-2007.
Smart Future Grants: New Jersey
New Jersey's Smart Future Planning Grant program will provide $2,295,000 in FY2006 to municipalities, counties and non-profit agencies to help plan for the future -- a future that balances development and redevelopment with the preservation of open space and environmental resources.
Smart Growth Action Grants -- NAR
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has established a grant program to assist efforts that implement programs and activities positioning REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.
Smart Growth Action Grants Recipients
The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) established the Smart Growth Action Grants Program to assist efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.
State Farm Community Services Grants
State Farm® focuses its service grants to communities in three areas: Safe Neighbors (safety), Strong Neighborhoods (community development), and Education Excellence (education).
State Funding Profiles -- By State
The Conservation Finance Program of the Trust for Public Land gathers information on state funding for parks and open space conservation.
Sustainable Building Grants Contacts -- California
The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) provides funding opportunities to State and Local Government agencies that are interested in promoting the concept of sustainable building.
Sustainable Forestry and Biodiversity 2003 Request for Proposals
The National Commission for Science on Sustainable Forestry (NCSSF)
is soliciting Letters of Intent (due January 31, 2003) for their competitive
awards process.
Sustainable Schools: Financing and Incentives -- California
California's Division of the State Architect (DSA) has produced a Sustainable Schools website that offers a diverse collection of sustainable building resources including the numerous benefits, guidelines, programs, case studies, relevant publications, funding options/incentives, and more.
Sustainable Skylines Initiative -- 2009
The U.S. EPA has issued notice of availability of funds and is soliciting applications from eligible entities to compete for financial assistance through the Sustainable Skylines Initiative (SSI).
Sustainable Vision Grants
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) is accepting proposals for the second round of Sustainable Vision (SV) grants. SV grants support the creation of U.S. and international initiatives that define replicable models for effective and sustainable technology entrepreneurship through innovative collaborations between U.S. universities and colleges and partners in the private, NGO and government sectors.
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Issues Requests for Proposals
Concerns about sprawl, traffic congestion, and loss of open space have
risen to the top of community concerns. In response, universities and
colleges are beginning to use their abilities to address growth issues
and provide innovative solutions for communities.
The Green Initiative Fund
The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) is a grant-making fund for sustainability projects on UC Berkeley's campus. TGIF originated at UC Santa Barbara and now has spread to six of the ten UC campuses. About $250,000 per year is available for grants. All students, faculty, and staff are eligible to submit project proposals. Projects will be selected for funding by an annually appointed Grant Making Committee consisting of students, faculty, and staff, in which students have the majority vote.
TGIF has opened the 2010 grant cycle and is now accepting submissions of project abstracts. The requirements for applying for a 2010 grant now require the submission of an abstract to be approved by the committee prior to submitting a full grant application.
The first deadline for project abstracts is January 19, 2010. Final deadline for ALL project abstracts is February 15, 2010.
The Laura Jane Musser Fund -- Environmental Initiative 2007
The Laura Jane Musser Fund is accepting applications for its 2007 Environmental Initiative Award program, which supports building a community-based approach to solving environmental problems and encouraging environmental stewardship.
The Schumann Fund for New Jersey -- New Jersey
The Schumann Fund for NJ encourages informed discussion of important policy issues facing the State of New Jersey, particularly in the areas of school reform and educational innovation, environmental planning and protection, and effective delivery of educational and social services to families with young children.
Tom’s of Maine Community Grants Program
Tom's of Maine has established a Giving for Goodness Program, through which they donate 10% of their our pretax profits each year to charitable organizations. They offer three types of grants: Core Mission Grants, Leadership Grants, and Project Grants.
Tourism Cares for Tomorrow
Tourism Cares for Tomorrow distributes charitable grants to worthy nonprofit organizations worldwide. Grants are typically range from $5,000 to $20,000 and will be considered for either capital improvements or appropriate programs.
Trails -- Federal Funding Programs
American Trails is pursuing a national infrastructure of trails and greenways that serves a full range of activities. Through education, partnerships, and timely information resources, American Trails promotes the creation, conservation and broad enjoyment of quality trails and greenways that offer places of solace, health, fitness, recreation and transportation for all Americans.
Trails and Greenways Funding List
Funding trails and greenways takes a bit of ingenuity and a lot of research. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy provides the first step with explanations of the various programs that can be used to help fund trails and greenways.
Transportation Funding by State
Want to find out how much your state received for Safe Routes to Schools or Transportation Enhancements through SAFETEA-LU? The America Bikes website has put together a chart that details, by state, amounts for these and other transportation programs.
Tribal Nonpoint Source Management Grants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requests proposals from Indian Tribes and Intertribal Consortia for Nonpoint Source (NPS) Management Grants. This program supports the development and/or implementation of watershed-based plans and other on-the-ground projects that will result in significant steps towards solving NPS impairments on a watershed-wide basis.
NPS pollution is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground. As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away natural and human-made pollutants, finally depositing them into lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters, and underground sources of drinking water. Some of these pollutants include: Bacteria and nutrients from livestock, pet wastes, and faulty septic systems; excess fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides from agricultural lands and residential areas; oil, grease, and toxic chemicals from urban runoff and energy production.
Some $4 million is expected to be available, with up to 30 awards anticipated.
Responses are due December 18, 2009.
ULI Community Action Grants -- 2008
The Urban Land Institute and the Urban Land Institute Foundation present the Community Action Grants program, which seeks to encourage entrepreneurial projects at the state, regional and local levels to build community consensus for action and change. ULI is making up to $300,000 available annually to District Councils and ULI members to seed these projects.
ULI Community Action Grants Award Winners
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Urban Land Institute Foundation have announced recipients for Round 2 of the 2009 Community Action Grants program, which seeks to encourage entrepreneurial projects at the state, regional and local levels to build community consensus for action and change.
Urban and Community Forest Funding
The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council runs the Challenge Cost-Share Grant Program to fund urban and community forestry projects that have a national or widespread impact and application. All funds must be matched at least equally with non-Federal source funds.
Urban Parks and Healthy Communities
California's Urban Parks and Healthy Communities Resources Bond has approximately $23,337,500 available in funds for the upcoming grant peroid. Application filing deadline is November 5, 2004.
Urban Sustainability Grants
Mountain Equipment Coop has announced the availability of Urban Sustainability Grants. These grants will support local environmental groups in each Mountain Equipment Coop store community and range from $500 to $5,000.
Submitted projects should address a local urban sustainability issue, such as waste, energy, consumption, or transportation.
To apply, complete the online application. Applications are accepted at any time. Deadlines vary depending on store location. Contact your store's Sustainability Coordinator for details.
USDA’s Farmers Markets Promotion Program
Approximately $1 million is allocated for Fiscal Year 2007 for the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP). The grants, authorized by the FMPP, are targeted to help improve and expand domestic farmers markets, roadside stands, community-supported agriculture programs and other direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities.
Vacant Properties RFP
The National Vacant Properties Campaign is requesting proposals for communities to receive technical assistance on improving vacant properties. Four to six selected communities will receive significant technical assistance from an experienced team of policy, legal, planning, and development professionals.
Wisconsin Brownfields Grants
The State of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources includes on its website funding information for cleaning up and redeveloping brownfields.
Wisconsin Smart Growth Grants -- 2007
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has announced grants totaling more than $2 million to help communities develop and adopt locally created plans to address long-term needs, promote economic development, and guide future land use decisions. In the March 27, 2007 announcement, Governor Doyle awarded the 2007 Comprehensive Planning, or ''Smart Growth,'' grants to 12 applicants that cover 145 counties, cities, villages, and towns with a cumulative population of over 350,000 people.
Wisconsin Urban Infill Development Funds -- Wisconsin
The Dane County (Wisconsin) Better Urban Infill Development (BUILD) program provides grant funding on an annual basis to local municipalities to plan infill developments and great neighborhoods.
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