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Federal funding opportunities
Dep't:
Agriculture
Agency:
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Program:
REAP - Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements
Summary:
Rural Development is announcing the acceptance of applications under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) for Fiscal Year 2012 for financial assistance as follows: grants, guaranteed loans, and combined grants and guaranteed loans for the development and construction of renewable energy systems and for energy efficiency improvement projects; grants for conducting energy audits; grants for conducting renewable energy development assistance; and grants for conducting renewable energy system feasibility studies. The Notice also announces the availability of $25.4 million of Fiscal Year 2012 budget authority to fund these REAP activities, which will support at least $12.5 million in grant program level and up to approximately $48.5 million in guaranteed loan program level. The Rural Energy for America Program will provide funds to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to install renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements. The Rural Energy for America Program is designed to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses reduce energy costs and consumption and help meet the nations critical energy needs. The grants are awarded on a competitive basis.
Eligibility:
Agricultural producers and rural small businesses. All agricultural producers, including farmers and ranchers, who gain 50% or more of their gross income from the agricultural operations are eligible. Small businesses that are located in a rural area can also apply. Rural electric cooperatives may also be eligible to apply.
Deadline:
29 June 2012
URL:
Dep't:
Army
Agency:
Army Corps of Engineers
Program:
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)
Summary:
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) seeks proposals under authority of the National Defense Education Act (1959) and under the Pre-Engineering Program (PEP) to stimulate young pupils in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Eligibility:
Institutions of higher education, Nonprofits, For-profit organizations, Small businesses
Deadline:
15 March 2012
URL:
Dep't:
Health and Human Services
Agency:
Administration for Children and Families
Program:
Ethnic Community Self Help Program
Summary:
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) invites ethnic community based organizations as well as ethnic organizations that are faith-based to submit competitive grant applications for funding of the Ethnic Community Self-Help Program to provide services to newly arrived refugees. The objective of this program is to strengthen organized ethnic communities comprised and representative of refugee populations to ensure ongoing support and services to refugees within five years after initial resettlement. The populations targeted for services and benefits in the application must represent refugee communities which have arrived in the U.S. within the last five years (no earlier than 2005). Applicants should view these resources as a temporary augmentation of funds to meet emerging organizational and other needs of the arriving populations and should plan to move toward non-ORR funding sources beyond the project period.
Eligibility:
Eligibility is limited to non-profit organizations who serve refugees, and are ethnically-based community organizations or faith based, ethnic organizations. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
Deadline:
13 March 2013
URL:
Dep't:
Homeland Security
Agency:
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Program:
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response
Summary:
SAFER grants provide financial assistance to help fire departments increase frontline firefighters, rehire firefighters that have been laid off, retain firefighters facing imminent layoffs, or filling of positions that were vacated through attrition. SAFER offers grants to support activities in two categories: 1. Hiring of Firefighters 2. Recruitment and Retention of Volunteer Firefighters.
Eligibility:
Governments and fire departments
Deadline:
24 February 2012
URL:
State & local funding opportunities
State:
AZ
Dep't:
N/A
Agency:
Arizona State Forestry Division
Program:
Community Challenge. Invasive Plants. Rural Fire Assistance. Volunteer Fire Assistance
Summary:
* The WESTERN WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE GRANT Program focuses on hazard fuels reduction, information and education, and community and homeowner action. Fire departments, local governments and non-profit organizations qualify. * The WILDLAND FIRE HAZARDOUS FUELS grants focus on hazard fuel reduction and community protection. Priority projects are adjacent to National Forest lands and emphasize protection of identified communities at risk of wildland fire. Fire departments, local governments, and non-profit organizations qualify. * The VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM focuses on fire management and prevention activities such as training, equipping, and organizing rural fire departments. Rural communities with a population of 10,000 or less qualify.
Deadline:
9 March 2012
URL:
State:
CA
Dep't:
Fish and Game
Agency:
N/A
Program:
Fisheries Restoration Grant 2012
Summary:
DFG is soliciting proposals for projects that restore, enhance, or protect anadromous salmonid habitat in the coastal watersheds of California or projects that lead to restoration, enhancement, or protection of anadromous salmonid habitat.
Deadline:
30 March 2012
URL:
State:
FL
Dep't:
N/A
Agency:
Workforce Florida
Program:
ITN: Occupational Training Program Governance Study
Summary:
The purpose of this Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) is to elicit responses from professional organizations interested in contracting with Workforce Florida, Inc. (WFI) to provide professional advisory and technical assistance services to review and analyze the history and usage Florida’s Targeted Occupations List (TOL) processes and to provide the Workforce Florida, Inc. (WFI) Board with legislative and workforce policy recommendations for improvement.
Deadline:
20 February 2012
URL:
State:
HI
Dep't:
Business, Economic Development, and Tourism
Agency:
Energy
Program:
Electric Vehicle (EV) Rebate Program
Summary:
Subject to availability of funding, rebates may be claimed by Hawaii residents, businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit entities following the initial purchase in Hawaii of new, commercially available electric vehicles for use in Hawaii and for the purchase and installation in Hawaii of commercially available Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE, also known as electric vehicle charging equipment or units). Only commercially available technologies are eligible for the rebate. Electric vehicle rebates will be up to 20% of the vehicle purchase price, up to a maximum of $4500 per vehicle. It is anticipated that the rebate program will continue until September 30, 2011, or until rebate program funds are exhausted, unless the program period or amounts are modified.
Deadline:
31 March 2012
URL:
State:
NY
Dep't:
Health
Agency:
N/A
Program:
Establishment of New or Expansion of Existing Certified Home Health Agencies in New York State
Summary:
This request for applications (RFA) is to seek proposals from eligible applicants to establish new certified home health agencies (CHHAs) or expand existing CHHAs in New York State (NYS) either by geographic service area or by population served in the case of special needs, special pilot CHHAs and long term home health care programs. The Medicaid and Medicare programs are undergoing ambitious and forward-looking reforms. These reforms include new models of care and payment that emphasize care coordination, prevention, and performance. All applicants are advised that to become a CHHA one must meet the Federal Conditions for Participation (COPs) in Medicare/Medicaid as a home health agency and as such are advised to be familiar with these conditions to insure they have the ability both organizationally and financially to meet such terms prior to submitting an application. The eligible applicant must be a public, nonprofit or proprietary entity or subdivision of such an entity or organization.
Deadline:
9 March 2012
URL:
Foundation funding opportunities
Funder:
American Optometric Association
Program:
Healthy Eyes, Healthy People State Association Grant
Summary:
The program provides grants of up to $5,000 for innovative community outreach projects addressing the vision-related objectives of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Service’s Healthy People 2010 public health agenda. The grant program is open to any AOA member optometrist who wishes to establish or continue an eye or vision public outreach program conducted in conjunction with an entity outside organized optometry. All grant applications must be filed through state optometric associations – all of which now have HEHP consultants to facilitate the process.
Deadline:
9 March 2012
URL:
Funder:
Ashoka Changemakers
Program:
Innovations for Health: Solutions That Cross Borders
Summary:
Ashoka Changemakers and the Robert Wood Johnson are seeking applicants for the Innovations for Health competition to promote healthcare solutions that help work toward a more accessible, cost-effective, consumer-engaged, and outcome-driven system of health services. The competition's organizers seek initiatives that have demonstrated impact, and are particularly interested in those that have the potential to help vulnerable and underserved populations in other countries. Three awards of $10,000 are available. Entries received by the early deadline of December 12, 2011 will also be eligible to win one of two $500 awards and one of two private consulting sessions with industry experts. Eligible applicants must exhibit innovation, social impact, and sustainability in their entries.
Deadline:
13 February 2012
URL:
Funder:
California American Water
Program:
2012 Environmental Grant Program
Summary:
The company will award several grants for a combined total of $10,000 to innovative community-based environmental projects that improve, restore or protect watersheds and drinking water supplies within the state. A wide variety of conservation projects are eligible for funding, such as watershed cleanups, educational programs, biodiversity projects, waterway restoration projects, wellhead protection initiatives and hazardous waste collection efforts. Grant information and application forms can be found online at californiaamwater.com.
Region:
Within one or more of California American Water's service areas in California
Deadline:
9 March 2012
URL:
Funder:
Creative Capital Foundation
Program:
Artist Grants: Film/Video and Visual Arts, Emerging Fields, Performing Arts and Literature. Workshop Subsidy Grants
Summary:
Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative work in the performing and visual arts, film/video, innovative literature, and emerging fields. We get behind projects of great scope and ambition that may initially have challenges attracting funding from other sources. We are committed to working in long-term partnership with the artists we support, making a multi-year financial commitment and providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with financial support. Since our founding, Creative Capital has committed more than $14 million in funding and services to 324 projects representing 411 artists.
Deadline:
1 March 2012
URL:
Funder:
KaBOOM!
Program:
Let’s Play Playground Construction Grants
Summary:
Dr Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM! offer $15,000 Let's Play Playground Construction Grants to qualifying organizations using the KaBOOM! community-build model. Grantees will plan their project, and share best practices and challenges through the KaBOOM! website. Award can only be used towards the purchase of playground equipment from a KaBOOM! Preferred Vendor. Scope of playground project must include a total equipment purchase of a minimum of $24,000 and a maximum of $40,000.
Deadline:
16 March 2012
URL:
Funder:
National Audubon Society
Program:
2011 TogetherGreen Fellowship
Summary:
The TogetherGreen Fellowship program invests in high-potential environmentalists, providing them with the tools, resources, visibility and a peer network to help them lead the conservation actions needed to shape a greener, healthier future. Each year 40 promising and proven leaders (half from within Audubon and half from outside groups) receive a $10,000 grant, assistance launching a conservation action project, and all-expenses paid specialized training. Applicants must have at least six years of experience in conservation, environmental education, policy, or environmental issues, as demonstrated through current and past work experience, academic studies related to conservation, and/or volunteer work; and have a current affiliation (full- or part-time employment or equivalent volunteer commitment) with a conservation organization, business, university, community-based organization, or other professional organization whose goals and practices make a positive contribution to conservation.
Deadline:
5 March 2012
URL:
Funder:
National Book Foundation
Program:
Innovations in Reading Prize
Summary:
Each year, the National Book Foundation awards a number of prizes of up to $2,500 each to individuals and institutions—or partnerships between the two—that have developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading.
Deadline:
21 February 2012
Contact:
212.685.0261
URL:
News & information
Verizon Foundation awards $80,000 in Alabama
The Verizon Foundation announced earlier today at a press conference that it has awarded $80,000 in grant funding to eight non-profit organizations across Alabama. Seven grants totaling $60,000 will go to support programs across the state that address domestic and dating violence issues among teens and young adults as the culmination of a 2011 RFP by the Foundation. The Foundation also today presented an additional $20,000 to the One Place Family Justice Center in Montgomery. Read more...
Rotary Club of Madison announces 2012 grant cycle
The Rotary Club of Madison will be accepting grant applications for the 2012 Charitable Distribution Program from qualifying non-profit organizations. Applications must be received by the March 1, deadline. The overall focus of the Club’s charitable distribution and granting activities is to provide financial support to Madison-area organizations serving the public through humanitarian efforts, education, health-resource services to seniors and children, and arts-related activities. Non-profit organizations in the Madison area are invited to apply for a grant if they meet application criteria which can be found on our website madisonrotarynj.org. Read more...
