Opportunities for Funding
Overview
The Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) Competitive Grant Program supports high impact projects that promote collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes, leverage public and private resources, and advance priorities identified in a State Forest Action Plan or other restoration strategy.
The objective is to focus competitive LSR funds on activities that address priority areas, challenges and opportunities facing western lands. Funding for the LSR Competitive Process is made possible through the USDA Forest Service.
WFLC is charged with delivering the LSR competitive grant process in the West. Our LSR grants team reviews, scores, and makes recommendations on project proposals from western states and Pacific Island territories, which are passed along to the WFLC membership for approval. Proposed projects recommended for funding are then sent to the Forest Service.
General Information
All proposals must be submitted online at www.forestrygrants.org. Passwords are provided to each Western State and Pacific Island Forester.
States will sometimes have a pre-proposal process that may have an earlier due date and details. We encourage you to contact the state point of contact for more information.
Past proposal submissions, scores, and comments are posted at www.forestrygrants.org. For archived applications from 2010-2014, click here.
Priority Projects
Priority will be given to project proposals that include any of the following bulleted
prioritization factors. Please see the scoring rubric at the end of this document to see the
specific sections in which one or more of these priority factors should be detailed to receive
priority points.
➢ Promote cross-boundary collaboration:
○ By their proximity to other land ownerships; or
○ By their inclusion of a combination of land ownerships, including tribal,
State and local government, and private lands (such as, but not limited to,
multiple private landowners; private and state landowners; state and
federal landowners; state and local government; or state and Tribal
landowners).
➢ Coordinate with or are in proximity to other complementary landscape-scale
projects on NFS lands or lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior
or a state that are carried out:
○ Under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (16 U.S.C. 7303).
○ In landscape areas designated for insect and disease treatments under section 602
of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591a).
○ Under the Good Neighbor Authority (16 U.S.C. 2113a).
○ Under the stewardship end result contracting and agreement authority (16 U.S.C.
6591c).
➢ Coordinate with or are in proximity to other complementary landscape-scale projects on
State land.
➢ Coordinate with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) programs
and appropriate state-level programs.
➢ Leverage funding from multiple entities.
➢ The term disadvantaged communities is used in Executive Order 14008, Tackling
the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. The Interim Implementation Guidance for
the Justice40 Initiative, released by OMB in July 2021, provides definitions on
community and disadvantaged. Projects must include a description of the benefiting
community or recipient and how the project benefits or engages underserved
communities or people.
Note that there is a separate Tribal process here: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/355888
Multi-organization applications have maximum funding request of $300,000 per applicant.
The SeedMoney Challenge is a group crowdfunding competition open to any public food garden project located anywhere in the world. Participating projects include youth gardens, community gardens, community farms and food bank gardens. Participants keep 100% of what they raise and compete for challenge grants of $100 to $1000. The more funds a project raises, the larger the grant it qualifies to receive.
We offer four types of grants. By entering the SeedMoney Challenge, a project will automatically be considered for any and all grants for which it qualifies based on its performance in the competition or its geographic location.
We support frontline organizers, action and movements in their work to DEFEND.
Indigenous Peoples, communities and Nations, and protect our land, air, water, and natural resources.
Community Action Fund (CAF) grants support direct actions and organizing efforts that are often urgent and time sensitive. CAF prioritizes frontline, grassroots and community-based efforts that defend Indigenous peoples rights, communities and nations, including responses to climate disasters.
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program is designed to assist states, local governments, and Tribes in implementing strategies to reduce energy use, to reduce fossil fuel emissions, and to improve energy efficiency.
Please fill out this form to sign up for Office Hours. DOE will then extend invitations to applicants to attend specific Office Hour sessions. Due to high demand, we will not be able to include all interested parties in each session
These are non-competitive funds. You can check your state's allotment here and your local government's allotment here.
This Notice of Funding Opportunity solicits applications for the Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program (“Competitive Grant Program” or “Program”), the third of three digital equity programs authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, Division F, Title III, Public Law 117-58, 135 Stat. 429, 1209 (November 15, 2021) (“Infrastructure Act,” also known as the “Digital Equity Act” or “DE Act”). The Competitive Grant Program will make funds available to a wide range of entities to address barriers to digital equity faced by Covered Populations as defined by 47 U.S.C. §1721(8). The Competitive Grant Program will support efforts to achieve digital equity, promote digital inclusion activities, and spur greater adoption and meaningful use of broadband among the Covered Populations. Specifically, the Digital Equity Act authorizes funds to be used for the development and implementation of digital inclusion activities that benefit the Covered Populations; programs that facilitate the adoption of broadband by Covered Populations to provide educational and employment opportunities; training programs that cover basic, advanced, and applied skills; workforce development programs; access to equipment, instrumentation, networking capability, hardware and software, or digital network technology for broadband services at low or no cost; and the construction or operation of public access computing centers for Covered Populations.
Awards will focus on addressing the needs of the Covered Populations not met by the Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program and will strive for a diverse pool of recipients. To ensure funds are directed to the most effective programs with the greatest reach, and to minimize administrative overhead, NTIA encourages proposals that demonstrate a broad partnership of entities with the ability to administer significant resources and address the varied concerns of the Covered Populations.
Anticipate awards between $5,000,00 and $12,000,000; entities requesting more or less must provide justification. 10% match required. Territories are not eligible under this award; however, there is a separate funding mechanism.
The Community Challenge Grant Program focuses on activities to encourage and promote citizen involvement in supporting long-term and sustainable urban and community forestry programs at the local level. Local and tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and public educational institutions qualify.
Community Challenge Grants are intended for promoting and enhancing the quality of Arizona’s urban and community forests. The program aims to fund projects that might not otherwise be funded through existing budgets, and research project funding is intended as “seed-grants” because of the limited funding available. All proposed projects should be designed to improve the long-term health and care of the urban forest, or initiate new urban forestry projects in Arizona communities.
In evaluating grant proposals, consideration will be given to projects that:
- Improve understanding of the benefits of protecting, maintaining, and preserving tree cover.
- Promote volunteerism, multi-cultural awareness, and involvement of nonprofit organizations, agencies, and the private sector in implementing urban and community forestry programs.
- Increase the number of communities assisted through technology transfer, training, and education in tree care or urban natural resource management.
- Increase the number of partnerships and cooperators in urban and community forestry activities through technical, financial, and in-kind support.
- Increase the number of communities given technical, financial, or other forms of urban and community forestry assistance (i.e. tree inventories, tree board establishment, ordinance development, management plans, or infrastructure).
- Enhance the technical skills of individuals involved in the planning, developing, and maintaining urban and community forestry programs.
- Expand existing research intended to improve understanding of southwestern (a) tree growth and maintenance, tree physiology and morphology, and species adaptations; and (b) the role of urban trees in conserving energy and mitigating the urban heat island.
All projects selected for funding should be completed within one year and a final project presentation is required at the annual Community Forestry Grantee Showcase that is held every fall.
Request for Proposals (RFP)
SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Department of the Interior (Secretary), through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Office of Trust Services, Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR) solicits funding proposals from Federally recognized Tribes and authorized Tribal organizations (including Tribal consortia) to support Tribal climate resilience. This program will provide $120 million in funding in FY24 to support Tribal climate resiliency. Since 2020, TCR has funded 568 Tribal projects totaling $194.3M – peaking in FY23 at $120.8M (150 awards). FY24 marks the final year of increased available funding made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. Funds will be awarded on a competitive basis. Evaluations of project proposals will be based on the ranking criteria specified below.
The funding will support Tribes and authorized Tribal organizations as they prepare for and address climate change impacts on Tribal Treaty and Trust resources, economies, regenerative agriculture and food sovereignty, conservation practices, infrastructure, and human health and safety. Funding will be prioritized for projects that address imminent climate-related threats to human health and safety (including relocation, managed retreat, and protect-in-place efforts) and Tribal capacity to address such threats. Funds may also support projects addressing (but not limited to) environmental justice and equity, sustainability, sovereignty (e.g., energy, food), infrastructure, vulnerable economies, natural and cultural resources, agriculture, conservation, habitat restoration or improvements. These awards are critical to transforming America for the better, creating good-paying jobs, building and strengthening economies and infrastructure, and ensuring safety and security for local communities and Tribes.
There are three categories of funding with respective funding maximums of $250,000, $4,000,000, and $150,000/year for three years
The FAST Act established the NSFLTP Program. Under Section § 1123(a) of the FAST Act, the purpose of the NSFLTP Program is to provide funding to construct, reconstruct, or rehabilitate nationally significant Federal Lands and Tribal transportation projects.
Grants under the NSFLTP Program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to projects of national significance for construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of transportation facilities within, adjacent to, or providing access to Federal or Tribal Lands.
The purpose of this NOFO is to solicit applications for each Fiscal Year 2024 through 2026 for the NSFLTP Programs and will result in the distribution of up to $165 million. The actual amount available to be awarded under this NOFO will be subject to the availability of funds. The NSFLTP Program was authorized by Section 1123 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. 114-94), as amended by Section 11127 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) (Pub. L. 117- 58). Funds made available for NSFLTP Program grants are to be awarded on a competitive basis
to construct, reconstruct, or rehabilitate nationally significant Federal Lands and Tribal transportation projects. FAST Act § 1123(a). This NOFO describes the application requirements, selection and evaluation criteria, applicable program and Federal requirements, and available technical assistance during the grant solicitation period.
Eligible Project Types: Construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of a single continuous project on a Federal Lands transportation facility, a Federal Lands access transportation facility, or a Tribal transportation facility, for which activities required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are complete and which has an estimated total project cost equal to or exceeding $12,500,000.
DOT Administration Priorities
The DOT seeks to fund projects that advance the DOT priorities of safety, equity, climate and sustainability, and workforce development, job quality, and wealth creation as described in the USDOT Strategic Plan, Research, Development and Technology Strategic Plan, USDOT Strategic Plan FY 2022-2026, and in executive orders (E.O.). These DOT Priorities will be considered in the application review process as provided in Section E of this NOFO, which outlines the Merit Criteria and describes the process for selecting projects that further these goals. Section F.3 of this NOFO describes progress and performance reporting requirements for selected projects, including the relationship between that reporting and the program’s selection criteria, and the Administration’s Priorities and Departmental Strategic Plan goals, as appropriate.
Note that project costs must total at least $12.5 million as the result of preliminary engineering.
This NOFO announces three application periods with three different application deadlines:
• FY 2024 Deadline: October 16, 2024, 11:59 p.m. EST
• FY 2025 Deadline: August 1, 2025, 11:59 p.m. EST
• FY 2026 Deadline: August 1, 2026, 11:59 p.m. EST
About the Small Grants Program:
WDA Small Grants are intended to support non-research activities ≤$5,000. Grants are awarded for projects that have defined and measurable goals that support the WDA mission; “The mission of the Wildlife Disease Association is to promote healthy wildlife and ecosystems, biodiversity conservation, and environmentally sustainable solutions to One Health challenges”
Examples include: publication of manuals, production of educational materials, translation of information sources, public outreach, geographic section recruitment drives, or development of newsletters apps or other media.
Must be a member of WDA. Opportunity to open each year; funds must be sent to a non-personal bank account (i.e. an organization's or nonprofit's bank account).
President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), a historic $27 billion investment to combat the climate crisis by mobilizing financing and private capital for greenhouse gas- and air pollution-reducing projects in communities across the country. As part of this program, EPA is launching a $7 billion Solar for All competition — designed to spur the deployment of residential distributed solar energy to lower energy bills for millions of Americans and catalyze transformation in markets serving low-income and disadvantaged communities. Solar for All will tackle the financial and non-financial barriers that limit the ability of low-income and disadvantaged communities across the country to benefit from the rapid growth in distributed solar capacity, thus advancing the Biden-Harris Administration’s climate and environmental justice goals.
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for the $7 billion Solar for All competition. This competition will award up to 60 grants to states, territories, Tribal governments, municipalities, and eligible nonprofit recipients to expand the number of low-income and disadvantaged communities primed for distributed solar investment—enabling millions of low-income households to access affordable, resilient, and clean solar energy. Grantees will use funds to expand existing low-income solar programs or design and deploy new Solar for All programs nationwide. EPA will not fund individual projects under this competition.
EPA’s $7 billion Solar for All competition will help deliver on the climate and environmental justice goals of the United States. To achieve these goals, Solar for All grantees will provide subsidies and other financial assistance to residential rooftop and residential-serving community solar projects in and benefiting low-income and disadvantaged communities in addition to project-deployment technical assistance such as workforce development, community outreach, and other project-deployment support (e.g., interconnection technical assistance, siting and permitting support) to help overcome barriers to solar deployment.