Grants Update Week of March 1, 2024 |
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This is your weekly grant opportunities update from The National Special Districts Coalition. Special districts are either eligible to apply directly, or able to partner with a qualifying entity to apply for any of the grants listed. |
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Department of Agriculture |
| FY 2024 Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides financial and technical assistance to help local communities relieve imminent threats to life and property caused by floods, fires, windstorms, and other natural occurrences that impair a watershed. Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Entities with a legal interest in, or responsibility for, the areas threatened by the watershed emergency, including states, state agencies, and legal subdivisions of a state government, local units of government, including cities, counties, towns, general, flood and water control districts, soil and water conservation districts, Native American tribes, and Tribal organizations TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Unspecified WHEN'S IT DUE? Rolling |
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Department of Agriculture |
| FY 2024 Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program develops, coordinates, and expands direct producer-to-consumer markets to help increase access to and availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural products. Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Agricultural businesses and cooperatives, producer networks and associations, community-supported agriculture networks and associations, food councils, local governments, nonprofit corporations, public benefit corporations and economic development corporations, regional farmers’ market authorities; and tribal governments TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $10.5 million WHEN'S IT DUE? May 14, 2024 |
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Department of Agriculture |
| FY 2024 Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program funds projects that develop, coordinate, and expand local and regional food business enterprises that engage as intermediaries in indirect producer to consumer marketing to help increase access to and availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural products. Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Agricultural businesses and cooperatives, producer networks and associations, community-supported agriculture networks and associations, food councils, local governments, nonprofit corporations, public benefit corporations and economic development corporations, regional farmers’ market authorities; and tribal governments TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $10.5 million WHEN'S IT DUE? May 14, 2024 |
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| FY 2024 1033 Program WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to provide federal, tribal, state, and local law enforcement agencies with excess property from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Federal, tribal, state, and local law enforcement agencies TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Rather than providing monetary awards, this program provides successful applicants with access to excess property from the U.S. Department of Defense WHEN'S IT DUE? Rolling |
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| FY 2024 Local Government Energy Program: Communities Sparking Investment in Transformative Energy WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support programs and projects at the local level that reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, save customers money, create local jobs, improve air quality, combat climate change, and focus benefits on disadvantaged communities.Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local governments and tribal governments that represent disadvantaged communities, energy communities, or small- and medium sized jurisdictions TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $18 million WHEN'S IT DUE? May 31, 2024 |
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| FY 2024 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Joint Office of Energy and Transportation: Clean Bus Planning Awards (CBPA) WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program will reduce barriers to zero-emission bus deployment and prepare fleets for electrification by providing school and transit bus fleets with free technical assistance to develop comprehensive and customized fleet electrification transition plans. Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State and local governments, nonprofit school transportation associations, tribes, operators of private school bus fleets, and direct or designated recipients of other Federal Transit Administration grants TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Rather than provide monetary awards this program connects applicants with technical experts. WHEN'S IT DUE? Rolling |
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| FY 2024 Enhancing Investigation and Prosecution of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (EIP) Initiative WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to promote, and evaluate, effective policing and prosecution responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, territorial, county, local, and/or tribal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices that investigate and prosecute crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $5 million WHEN'S IT DUE? April 30, 2024 (Grants.gov); May 2, 2024 (JustGrants) |
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| FY 2024 Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response (ICJR) Program WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to encourage partnerships among state, local and tribal governments, courts, victim service providers, coalitions, and rape crisis centers to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law, and to seek safety and autonomy for victims. Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? States, Indian tribal governments, state and local courts including juvenile courts, local governments, state, tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions that partner with a state, Indian tribal government, or unit of local government, and victim service providers that partner with a state, Indian tribal government, or unit of local government TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $23 million WHEN'S IT DUE? April 30, 2024 (Grants.gov), May 2, 2024 (JustGrants) |
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| FY 2024 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program (Part A): State and Local Governments WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to establish and expand cross-system approaches to reduce the risk of crisis and improve reentry and recovery outcomes for people reentering the community from correctional facilities with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders. Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State and local governments TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $8.25 million WHEN'S IT DUE? April 25, 2024 (Grants.gov), April 30, 2024 (JustGrants) |
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| FY 2024 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Implementation Program WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to improve the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness services for law enforcement officers through the implementation of peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, and other promising practices for wellness programs. Click here for more information. WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $9.8 million WHEN'S IT DUE? April 23, 2024 (Grants.gov), April 30, 2024 (JustGrants) |
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