Oportunidades de Financiamiento

Challenge America supports projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved groups/communities. The program welcomes applications from applicants that are primarily small organizations, first-time applicants to the NEA, and/or returning Challenge America applicants. Eligible applicants include: nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; units of state or local government; Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes; and applicants that have not been recommended for funding in any of the three most recent Fiscal Years in the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, Our Town, or Research Awards grant programs. Funding in this category is not available for individuals, fiscally sponsored entities, commercial/for-profit enterprises, State Arts Agencies (SAA), or Regional Arts Organizations (RAO).

These grants support general operating cost or specific projects and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization. The Foundation reviews applications twice a year; the deadlines are March 1 and August 1. Grant announcements occur approximately four months after the deadline. Typical grants range from $5,000 - $50,000 and last for one year.

Priorities
Regenerative and Organic Farming: Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety: Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
Climate Justice: Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
Healthy Food Access: Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
Inclusive Outdoor Access: Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution: Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from our air, water, soil, and human-made materials.

Guidelines
Priority is given to applicants that:
Advance our strategic priorities and align with our values
Focus their work primarily in the United States and its organized incorporated territories
Demonstrate strong community ties
Have operating budgets under $3MM
Operate at the grassroots level to implement change at the local, state or national stage

Areas not funded
Capital construction
(construction, demolition, renovation, or renewal of a public building)
Deficit funding
Endowments
Faith-based or religious organizations
Fundraising events (e.g., fun run, challenges, annual gala)
Individuals
Local and state public sector or government agencies
Media projects (such as films, books, radio)
Medical Centers
Product donations
Sponsorships

The Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs Recurring Program (“the Program”)(comprising this initial Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and any subsequent re-openings and related solicitations) is designed to provide direct air capture (DAC) technology and project developers with support at various stages on their commercialization path towards the realization of four regional DAC hubs, building on the momentum and potential of projects selected under the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (“FOA-1”) (DE-FOA0002735), other DOE-supported initiatives, and privately funded activities.

The Program seeks to realize the potential of the diverse DAC technologies that have achieved or are approaching commercial readiness at or above Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 (as defined by DOE G 413.3-4A Technology Readiness Assessment Guide, 2011), while addressing the most critical Commercial Adoption Readiness Level (ARL) obstacles to their adoption and scaling.

The Program will support the DAC industry to achieve the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) goals of four regional 1,000,000 tonns per annum (TPA) hubs by funding three complementary project types: large-scale commercial DAC facilities (“LSCs,” Topic Area 3), mid-scale commercial DAC facilities (“MSCs,” Topic Area 2), and infrastructure access platforms for commercializing new DAC technologies (“IAPs,” Topic Area 1).

The objectives of the Program are to:
• Encourage the development and expansion of four regional DAC hubs by funding the large-scale demonstration facilities that will comprise those hubs
• Provide complementary support for DAC developers’ first commercial demonstration facilities as they advance to large scale, including facilitating access to reliable low carbon energy sources and CO2 storage or utilization

The Program is authorized under the Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs Program (“Regional DAC Hubs”) (42 U.S.C. § 16298d(j)) established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

The following entities are eligible to apply as recipients: (1) institutions of higher education; (2) for-profit organizations; (3) nonprofit organizations; (4) state and local governments; (5) and Indian Tribes. See the Applicant Eligibility Guidance on the Apply for Funding Opportunities page for details.

The BLM Headquarters Wildlife Program advances the Department of the Interior's priorities to address the climate crisis, restore balance on public lands and waters, advance environmental justice, and invest in a clean energy future. Specific BLM Headquarters Wildlife Program priorities include:protect wildlife habitat, migration, habitat connectivity that supports biodiversity;increase resilience to climate change and help leverage natural climate solutions;contribute to conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by the year 2030;support State agencies to meet State wildlife population objectives;engage communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities to enhance economic opportunities related to wildlife; anduse the best science and data available to make decisions. The BLM Headquarters Wildlife Program works with partner organizations to meet the goals above on national or regional scale through: Activities that maintain or restore habitats for upland game, waterfowl, big game, pollinators, sensitives species, and watchable wildlife species. Conserving priority wildlife habitat (vegetation communities, water resources, or connectivity) or reducing threats to habitat or species.Monitoring and inventorying wildlife populations and habitats to provide complete, current, and accurate information on the distribution, abundance, and habitat of wildlife that depend on BLM managed public lands.Assessing wildlife habitat and measuring related resource management goals and objectives.Enhancing the understanding of opportunities to conserve wildlife populations that depend on BLM managed lands.Improving how BLM uses and integrates coordinated wildlife monitoring data such as Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) and North American Bat Monitoring Program (NaBat). Doing new research on success in meeting the objectives of wildlife habitat and land use plans at the ecosystem and watershed level.Performing education projects (including citizen science and student-based science) to facilitate wildlife stewardship and conservation for species that depend on BLM managed lands.Increasing public awareness of wildlife resources, conservation challenges and successes on BLM managed lands, including with a targeted focus on communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities.

The Secretary of the Interior (“Secretary”), through the Division of Energy and Mineral Development (DEMD), Office of Trust Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), is soliciting grant proposals from Federally recognized tribal entities to build Tribal capacity for energy resource regulation and management.The Tribal Energy Development Capacity (TEDC) grant program seeks to develop the Tribal management, organizational and technical capacity needed to maximize the economic impact of energy resource development on Federally recognized tribal land. TEDC grants equip Federally recognized tribal entities to regulate and manage their energy resources through development of organizational and business structures and legal and regulatory infrastructure.Examples of projects TEDC grants may fund include establishment of Tribal business charters under Federal, state, or Tribal law with a focus on energy resource development; adoption and/or implementation of a secured transactions code; feasibility studies on forming a Tribal utility authority; and development of Tribal energy regulations.

The Rangeland Management program conducts inventories, assessments and evaluations of soil and vegetation conditions and land health. Monitoring data is collected and analyzed to ensure progress toward meeting land health standards. Funded projects under this program will focus on high priority work effecting the program nationally by crossing state boundaries, such as, activities that support maintaining or achieving land health and productivity, increasing carbon sequestration, and creating resilient landscapes to benefit current and future generations. These activities could include, but are not limited to, such things as: Facilitating the conservation and restoration of rangelands to combat climate change. Soils mapping and development of ecological site descriptions. Engagement of community members and other stakeholders, through mentoring, training, and educational programs.

The Recycling Partnership has grant funding available to support the development and expansion of residential drop-off recycling programs, especially for projects investing in infrastructure and/or equipment that are expected to result in substantial increases in the amount of recycling tonnage collected and/or to the number of households with access to recycling. This Request For Proposals (RFP) offers applicants the opportunity to apply for grant funding to support investments that grow drop-off recycling in areas that are geographically located within the territories of the United States of America. When assessing projects seeking grant assistance, the highest priorities for funding will be given to projects that establish new access to recycling services, connect with regional material recovery facilities, institute hub-and-spoke model collection systems, and/or that invest in recycling drop-off systems as a precursor to the implementation of curbside recycling services. Priority will also be given to projects that implement best management practices such as the use of drop-off sites with controlled or supervised access including the use of site attendants, sites that adopt collection practices proven to increase participation such as material consolidation (commingling), and projects that employ the most effective and efficient collection strategies available within an applicant’s region. Projects seeking funding should also demonstrate how the project connects with or builds upon the existing recycling markets in the region.

Examples of fundable Residential Drop-off Recycling Grant projects are as follows:
- Construction of a new, staffed drop-off center that provides access to recycling services for a geographic region or community that is either without access to recycling or that is otherwise underserved,
- The adoption of compacting roll-off systems for the collection of recyclables to enhance
transportation efficiency and increase tonnage recovered,
- Improvements at a transfer station and/or related equipment that enables hub-and-spoke
recycling collection and transportation.

This grant program summary is provided to help potential applicants gain a quick understanding of this grant program and its broad requirements. Specific program parameters and requirements are explained again in greater detail throughout the body of the RFP document, and applicants should carefully read this entire document prior to submitting a proposal.

Eligibility: Grant funding is available to support publicly sponsored curbside recycling programs. The applicant must be a local government, solid waste authority, or federally recognized tribe. Funding is only available to communities seeking to implement cart-based curbside recycling programs. Grant funding is not available to replace existing carts, to support the purchase of carts for waste or organics collection, or to support the collection of recyclables from businesses, schools, or institutions. The grant program offers funding to support the purchase of recycling carts and to implement recycling education and outreach efforts. Grants are not available for education and outreach alone.

Cart and Collection Frequency Requirements: In order to qualify for grant funding, a community must be seeking to purchase carts that are at least 60+ gallons in volume and must collect curbside recyclables on a weekly or every-other-week basis. If planning to collect every-other-week, then a community must be seeking to purchase carts that are at least 90+ gallons in volume. Carts purchased with Recycling Partnership grant funding must contain a minimum of five percent (5%) residential post-consumer plastic content and should be embedded with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag.

Education and Outreach Assistance: The Recycling Partnership has developed a tested and proven approach to supporting education and outreach in communities that are implementing cart-based recycling. Grantees must agree to use select elements of The Partnership’s campaign materials and must also partner with The Partnership to deploy an outreach campaign during the months prior to the rollout of carts. Required education and outreach activities include a direct-to-resident information card informing citizens about the availability/impending distribution of recycling carts, a kit of information delivered with the cart, and the use of oops tags or other anti-contamination strategies to reinforce correct recycling behavior after carts have been delivered. Grant funding at the level of $1 per household is provided to support the implementation of these items.

As a mission-driven non-profit organization, The Recycling Partnership mobilizes people, data, and solutions across the value chain to reduce waste and our impact on the environment while also unlocking economic benefits. We work on the ground with thousands of communities to transform underperforming recycling programs; we partner with companies to achieve packaging circularity, increase access to recycled materials, and meet sustainability commitments; and we work with government to develop policy solutions
to address the systemic needs of the U.S. residential recycling system and advance a circular economy.

For more information our organization, visit: www.recyclingpartnership.org.

Introduction
The purpose of the Multifamily Recycling Grant Program is to implement or expand access to recycling services at multifamily properties across the United States through the provision of financial, educational, and technical assistance. This Request for Proposals (RFP) offers local governments, recycling haulers, and multifamily property owners/managers the opportunity to apply for grant funding to support the acquisition of recycling equipment, infrastructure, or outreach at apartment complexes. The Partnership
seeks to expand equitable access to recycling service, increase recycling tonnage, and improve the quality of recycled commodities at multifamily properties.

A NARCH Planning Grant supports Tribal entities who do not currently have a NARCH award to conduct preparatory work for the development of a competitive NARCH application. An applicant organization may partner with other eligible AI/AN Tribal entities as well as additional non-AI/AN organizations. When in partnership with non-AI/AN organizations, 75% or more of requested funds must be allocated to the eligible AI/AN Tribal entities. See Section III. Eligibility Information for details.

The NARCH Planning Grant application should include:

A plan to formulate overall goals for a future NARCH application, including, but not limited to:
Assessment of administrative capacity needs to support a future NARCH award, and
Determining the types of allowable components (Research Project, Pilot Project Program, Career Enhancement Projects, or Research Infrastructure Enhancement Projects) that will be appropriate for a future NARCH application.
Activities to lay the groundwork for potential components of the future NARCH application and strategies to address needs, including but not limited to: defining research questions; assessing research workforce and infrastructure needs for required and optional components.
Efforts to identify collaborators, consultants, and advisors to strengthen the application, if necessary.
All activities to be supported in the NARCH Planning Grant must contribute coherently and synergistically to the goal of developing a competitive NARCH application.

The recipient organization(s) is expected to submit a NARCH S06 application within one year of the end date of the NARCH Planning Grant award. A NARCH Planning Grant is not renewable.