May 24, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is announcing the potential availability of funding for the purpose of leveraging Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) resources to encourage collaboration with partners in providing strategic conservation delivery assistance and/or provide tools or data that enhance the ability of the agency to support conservation activities.
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage and promote conservation planning and conservation practice demonstrations in urban, suburban, and other small-scale type agricultural operations. Emphasis will be placed on projects that establish new community gardens or enhance and expand existing community agriculture projects. Proposals should seek to provide conservation learning experiences to urban, suburban, and Tribal communities; address concerns regarding food deserts; advance Tribal food sovereignty; and achieve positive and measurable natural resources conservation outcomes.
The Tech Hubs Program will support the modernization of United States manufacturing and improve commercialization and domestic production of innovative research. The Phase 1 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will fund Strategy Development Grants and will Designate certain regions as Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs). In a future Phase 2 NOFO, Designated Tech Hubs will compete for funding for Implementation projects to help propel the region into a self-sustaining, globally competitive Tech Hub. Only those that are Designated as Technology Hubs in Phase 1 will be permitted to apply to Phase 2. Only consortiums are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity. Each consortium must include Institutions of higher education; State, territorial, local, or Tribal governments; Industry or firms in relevant technology, innovation, or manufacturing sectors; Economic development organizations; and Labor or workforce training organizations.
The Ride and Drive Electric funding opportunity will seek to advance the mission and vision of the Joint Office by addressing discrete challenges to a convenient, affordable, reliable, secure, and equitable EV charging network by enhancing institutional capacity, encouraging holistic approaches, fostering inclusive and equitable outcomes, and ensuring a world-class customer experience.
The Rural or Remote Areas (ERA) program will provide financial investment, technical assistance, and other resources to advance clean energy demonstrations and energy solutions that benefit rural and remote communities. ERA aims to fund clean energy projects that deliver measurable benefits to energy customers in rural or remote areas by funding replicable energy projects that lower energy costs, improve energy access and resilience, and/or reduce environmental harm; support new rural or remote energy system models using climate-resilient technologies, business structures that promote economic resilience, new financing mechanisms, and/or new community engagement practices; and build clean energy knowledge, capacity, and self-reliance in rural America.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of funds to develop multi-sector action plans that address the social determinants of health (SDOH) by accelerating action in state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions and communities that lead to improved chronic health conditions among Americans experiencing health disparities and inequality.
The purpose of the Healthy Start Enhanced (HSE) program is to improve health outcomes before, during, and after pregnancy and reduce the well-documented racial/ethnic differences in rates of infant death and adverse perinatal outcomes. HSE is intended to support projects in diverse communities and populations (e.g., rural, urban, non-Hispanic Black, American Indian/Alaskan Native [AI/AN]) experiencing the greatest disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes. HSE has two focus areas: 1) providing direct and enabling services (e.g., screening and referrals, case management and care coordination, health, and parenting education, and linkage to clinical care to enrolled HSE participants; and 2) convening Community Consortia comprised of diverse multi-sector partners that advise and inform HSE activities and develop and implement plans to improve perinatal outcomes within the selected project area.
The Office of Minority Health (OMH) intends to fund projects under the Healthy Families Community-Based Perinatal Health Initiative (COPHI) to develop innovative models for integrating community-based maternal support services (COMSS) into perinatal systems of care. OMH expects grant award recipients’ innovative models will improve pregnant and post-partum people’s health outcomes and reduce racial and ethnic disparities.
The FY 2023 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) provides funding to close known capability gaps, encourages innovative regional solutions to issues related to catastrophic incidents and builds on existing regional preparedness efforts. The purpose of the RCPGP is to build regional capacity to manage catastrophic incidents by improving and expanding collaboration for catastrophic incident preparedness.
The Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP), authorized and funded by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, provides owners of HUD-assisted Multifamily housing with funding to reduce carbon emissions, improve utility efficiency, incorporate renewable energy sources, and make properties more resilient to climate hazards. Under GRRP, the Elements cohort provides gap funding for eligible HUD-assisted multifamily properties in the midst of a recapitalization transaction that includes utility efficiency, renewable energy, carbon emission reduction, and/or climate resilience measures. Examples of eligible Elements investments include, but are not limited to, the installation of electric HVAC heat pumps, Energy Star windows, fire-resistant roofs, and clean energy generation systems.
Under The Green and Resilient Retrofit Program, Leading Edge awards provide funding for ambitious retrofit activities to achieve an advanced green certification. Best for HUD-assisted multifamily properties in the planning stages of a recapitalization effort, Leading Edge awards complement the existing financing strategy, allowing projects to reach the highest standards of utility efficiency and climate resilience.
Under The Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP), Comprehensive awards provide funding to properties with the highest need for climate resilience and utility efficiency upgrades, regardless of prior development or environmental retrofit experience.
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications from state, local, campus, and tribal law enforcement to enhance training via the utilization of fully immersive virtual reality-based technology. The training should improve responses to individuals in crisis and improve the de-escalation skills of participants. A plan for how the proposed technology will be integrated into the applicant agency’s existing training should be developed.
The purpose of this demonstration program is to support transformative efforts to improve job quality and availability of good jobs, particularly for the benefit of historically marginalized populations and communities that have experienced barriers to employment in good jobs. The primary focus of these demonstration grants is expanding job quality in the care, climate resiliency and clean energy transition, and hospitality sectors. These demonstration grants will support industry-led, worker-centered sector strategies built through labor-management partnerships aimed at improving job quality in key sectors.
The Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization (NGDISM) grant’s eligible entities are municipality- or community-owned utilities, not including for-profit entities, needing assistance in repairing, rehabilitating, or replacing high-risk, leak-prone natural gas distribution infrastructure, or in acquiring equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities and avoid economic losses.
The National Archives seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections.
Through project-based funding, the Grants for Arts program supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.
National Endowment for the Humanities Public Humanities Projects applications due August 9, 2023
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), and at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation).
This program supports fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances knowledge and practice about diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible STEM and STEM education workplaces and postsecondary training environments for persons with disabilities. Local school districts are eligible to submit proposals. Proposals should focus on one or more of the following three research themes:
- Studying barriers and solutions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in STEM and STEM education workplaces and training settings for persons with disabilities;
- Applying intersectional social identity perspectives to investigate characteristics and conditions of STEM and STEM education workplaces and training environments that limit and/or improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for persons with disabilities; and
- Conducting use-inspired and solution-oriented translational research about diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible STEM and STEM Education workplaces and training settings for persons with disabilities
