July 24, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities
As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, The Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program PACE helps make clean, affordable, and reliable energy accessible to the people of rural America. PACE will forgive up to 60 percent of loans for renewable energy projects that use wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, or biomass, as well as for renewable energy storage projects. The PACE program is available to eligible applicants that generate electricity for resale to residents in both rural and nonrural areas. However, at least 50 percent of the population served by the proposed renewable energy project must live in communities with populations of 20,000 or fewer.
The Ocean-Based Climate Resilience Accelerators funding opportunity seeks to fund develop business accelerators that provide specific programming and opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs aligned with identified marine-based climate resilience theme areas: ocean renewable energy; coastal and ocean carbon sequestration monitoring and accounting; Hazard Mitigation and Coastal Resilience; and ecosystems services, including change detection, change analysis, and change adaptation/mitigation. The accelerators will support entrepreneurs and startups with training, resources, mentorship, and funding to bring ocean-based climate resilience solutions to market. This funding opportunity announcement addresses Phase One of what will be implemented as a two-phase process. In Phase One, NOAA seeks proposals from qualified accelerator entities that define an approach for scoping, planning, and designing climate resilience accelerator activities according to the requirements defined in this announcement.
The National Park Service’s (NPS) African American Civil Rights Grant Program (AACR) will document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights from transatlantic slave trade forward. The Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) will fund a broad range of history projects including survey and planning, research and documentation, interpretation and education, and collections conservation.
Under the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), Preservation Grants will fund a broad range of preservation projects for historic sites including architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation to structures.
