Opportunities for Funding
The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for Rural and Tribal Assistance (RTA) Pilot Program grants. A total of $27 million is available to award for planning and design phase activities for developing transportation projects in rural or tribal communities. Grants will support hiring staff or expert firms to provide technical, legal, or financial assistance to advance transportation projects that would be reasonably expected to be eligible for select Department of Transportation discretionary grant or credit programs. There is no local match required to participate in this program.
Grants are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to eligible applicants with an eligible project who meet the merit criteria described in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. The application form to apply for Program funding will be available beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET on March 4, 2025 on the Program's webpage: https://www.transportation.gov/buildamerica/RuralandTribalGrants. This is the only place where applications can be submitted and will be accepted. Do not submit applications through grants.gov. A pdf (one each for Single Project and Multi-Community grants) of the application questions is included in the NOFO package available under the "Related Documents" tab of this grants.gov page and is also available on the Program's webpage link above.
Two types of grants will be awarded: Single Project grants and Multi-Community grants, which will fund projects in, at minimum, three separate communities submitted under a single application.
Single Project grants: $10 million available to award
Min. award amount: $200,000
Max. award amount: $750,000
Multi-Community grants: $17 million available to award
Min. award amount: $500,000
Max. award amount: $2.25 million
$10 million of Program funding is set aside for tribal governments.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early, given the first-come, first-served award process. The application portal will close at 4:59 p.m. ET on April 3, 2025; however, award funding may be committed before this date.
** The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58, also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law or BIL) is a generational investment in the nation’s transportation system. Section 21205 of Division B of the BIL (Rural and Tribal Infrastructure Advancement) creates a pilot program to provide grants to fund financial, technical, and legal assistance to states and rural and tribal communities.
Grantmaking is a vital part of how the Vilcek Foundation pursues our mission: to recognize and celebrate immigrant contributions to the arts and sciences, and to foster appreciation for the arts and sciences.
The Vilcek Foundation invites applications for grants to support nonprofit organizations that work with immigrant artists and communities, and that promote diversity in the arts, sciences, education, and humanities. A portion of the foundation’s grants are identified and initiated directly by the Vilcek Foundation.
Eligibility
Review the following requirements to determine if your organization is eligible to apply. Organizations must:
Be nonprofit organizations operating under U.S. IRS Section 501(c)(3);
Be based in the United States or within the U.S. territories;
Provide the following documents:
W-9 with a valid EIN
IRS 501(c)(3) letter of certification
A recent Form 990, Form 990-PF, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-N
Budget
The Vilcek Foundation does not give grants to organizations working with fiscal sponsors.
Grant applications are accepted year-round. The current open call cycle for grant applications extends until June 30, 2025. The Vilcek Foundation will notify applicants of their application status after June 30, 2025.
If you have questions regarding the Vilcek Foundation’s grantmaking, please contact grants@vilcek.org.
Impact and Focus
The Vilcek Foundation’s grants empower nonprofits to expand their reach, engage diverse audiences, and advance their missions. The foundation is committed to working with organizations that exemplify best practices in their field and demonstrate dedication to the communities they serve.
Applications accepted year-round.
Funding minimum or maximum is not mentioned in grant guidelines; past grantees have been awarded from $600 - $100,000.
The goal of this funding opportunity is to improve the outcomes of large-scale solar (LSS) development for ecosystems, wildlife, and communities by soliciting projects that will a) test strategies that mitigate adverse impacts and/or maximize benefits to wildlife and ecosystems, b) provide technical assistance and stakeholder engagement opportunities to facilitate strategies that improve the compatibility of LSS facilities with wildlife, or c) provide technical assistance and conduct outreach to facilitate the adoption of agrivoltaics.
Mandatory concept paper is due February 14, 2025. Full applications due May 2, 2025.
Applications this year must be submitted through the website Unified Grant Management for Viticulture and Enology (UGMVE) linked above. This is the same web-based grant platform used by the program until two years ago, which also hosts several other grape research grant programs. Returning applicants who have used the UGMVE website in the past can log in with their past information. Applicants who have not used this website before will need to create an account. Note that account information associated with the AmpliFund system that was used the past two years has not been transferred to the UGMVE website.
Request for Proposals (RFP) Released December 1, 2024
Proposals Due January 31, 2025
Award Notifications Approximately May 15, 2025
Start Date for Grants July 1, 2025
The Pierce's Disease and Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board (PD/GWSS Board) provides funding support to research and outreach projects focused on protecting vineyards, preventing the spread of pests and diseases, and delivering practical and sustainable solutions. The PD/GWSS Board accepts proposals for research and outreach projects on the following serious pests and diseases of winegrapes:
Pierce’s disease and its vectors, especially the glassy-winged sharpshooter
Brown marmorated stink bug
Grapevine fanleaf disease
Grapevine leafroll disease
Grapevine red blotch disease
Mealybug pests of winegrapes
Spotted lanternfly
The PD/GWSS Board’s Research and Outreach Program is funded by a special assessment paid by the California winegrape industry. Prior awards have ranged from $4,300 per year to $383,000 per year, with projects ranging from one to three years in duration.
Any individual or group with expertise in winegrape pest and disease research and/or outreach and has affiliation with a non-profit institution is eligible and encouraged to submit proposals. Funding preference will be given to projects deemed likely to lead to practical solutions to winegrape pest and disease problems in California. Multi-disciplinary team projects are encouraged. For more information about the program, see PD/GWSS Board’s Research & Outreach at Work for You. For questions about this grant program, contact pdresearch@cdfa.ca.gov.
Prior awards have ranged from $4,300 per year to $383,000 per year, with projects ranging from one to three years in duration.
Challenge America supports projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved groups/communities. The program welcomes applications from applicants that are primarily small organizations, first-time applicants to the NEA, and/or returning Challenge America applicants. Eligible applicants include: nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; units of state or local government; Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes; and applicants that have not been recommended for funding in any of the three most recent Fiscal Years in the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, Our Town, or Research Awards grant programs. Funding in this category is not available for individuals, fiscally sponsored entities, commercial/for-profit enterprises, State Arts Agencies (SAA), or Regional Arts Organizations (RAO).
Applicants may request $10,000. Sources may include both cash and in-kind.
1:1 Cost-share/match required.
These grants support general operating cost or specific projects and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization. The Foundation reviews applications twice a year; the deadlines are March 1 and August 1. Grant announcements occur approximately four months after the deadline. Typical grants range from $5,000 - $50,000 and last for one year.
Priorities
Regenerative and Organic Farming: Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety: Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
Climate Justice: Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
Healthy Food Access: Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
Inclusive Outdoor Access: Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution: Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from our air, water, soil, and human-made materials.
Guidelines
Priority is given to applicants that:
Advance our strategic priorities and align with our values
Focus their work primarily in the United States and its organized incorporated territories
Demonstrate strong community ties
Have operating budgets under $3MM
Operate at the grassroots level to implement change at the local, state or national stage
Areas not funded
Capital construction
(construction, demolition, renovation, or renewal of a public building)
Deficit funding
Endowments
Faith-based or religious organizations
Fundraising events (e.g., fun run, challenges, annual gala)
Individuals
Local and state public sector or government agencies
Media projects (such as films, books, radio)
Medical Centers
Product donations
Sponsorships
Funding deadlines occur twice yearly: March 1 and August 1.
Organization priorities:
Regenerative and Organic Farming
Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety
Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
Climate Justice
Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
Healthy Food Access
Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
Inclusive Outdoor Access
Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution
Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from our air, water, soil, and human-made materials.
The Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs Recurring Program (“the Program”)(comprising this initial Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and any subsequent re-openings and related solicitations) is designed to provide direct air capture (DAC) technology and project developers with support at various stages on their commercialization path towards the realization of four regional DAC hubs, building on the momentum and potential of projects selected under the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (“FOA-1”) (DE-FOA0002735), other DOE-supported initiatives, and privately funded activities.
The Program seeks to realize the potential of the diverse DAC technologies that have achieved or are approaching commercial readiness at or above Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 (as defined by DOE G 413.3-4A Technology Readiness Assessment Guide, 2011), while addressing the most critical Commercial Adoption Readiness Level (ARL) obstacles to their adoption and scaling.
The Program will support the DAC industry to achieve the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) goals of four regional 1,000,000 tonns per annum (TPA) hubs by funding three complementary project types: large-scale commercial DAC facilities (“LSCs,” Topic Area 3), mid-scale commercial DAC facilities (“MSCs,” Topic Area 2), and infrastructure access platforms for commercializing new DAC technologies (“IAPs,” Topic Area 1).
The objectives of the Program are to:
• Encourage the development and expansion of four regional DAC hubs by funding the large-scale demonstration facilities that will comprise those hubs
• Provide complementary support for DAC developers’ first commercial demonstration facilities as they advance to large scale, including facilitating access to reliable low carbon energy sources and CO2 storage or utilization
The Program is authorized under the Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs Program (“Regional DAC Hubs”) (42 U.S.C. § 16298d(j)) established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The following entities are eligible to apply as recipients: (1) institutions of higher education; (2) for-profit organizations; (3) nonprofit organizations; (4) state and local governments; (5) and Indian Tribes. See the Applicant Eligibility Guidance on the Apply for Funding Opportunities page for details.
Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0003442
Concept Paper due: January 31, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
Pre-Application Submission due: January 31, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
Application due: July 31, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
Expected total available funding: up to $1,800,000,000, beginning in FY 2026
Expected number and type of awards:
Topic Area 1: 1 – 3 cooperative agreements or awards through the Department of Energy’s Other Transaction (OT) authority, each up to $250M Federal share
Topic Area 2: 4 – 8 cooperative agreements, each up to $50M Federal share
Topic Area 3: 2 – 6 cooperative agreements, each up to $600M Federal Share
Expected dollar amount of individual awards: Up to $600,000,000 (depending on Topic Area).
Expected award project period: The maximum expected project period of performance is 10 years; the scope of the proposed project would determine the specific project period
of performance within the maximum project period.
The cost share must be at least 50% of the total project costs for demonstration projects or a commercial application activity.
The BLM Headquarters Wildlife Program advances the Department of the Interior's priorities to address the climate crisis, restore balance on public lands and waters, advance environmental justice, and invest in a clean energy future. Specific BLM Headquarters Wildlife Program priorities include:protect wildlife habitat, migration, habitat connectivity that supports biodiversity;increase resilience to climate change and help leverage natural climate solutions;contribute to conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by the year 2030;support State agencies to meet State wildlife population objectives;engage communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities to enhance economic opportunities related to wildlife; anduse the best science and data available to make decisions. The BLM Headquarters Wildlife Program works with partner organizations to meet the goals above on national or regional scale through: Activities that maintain or restore habitats for upland game, waterfowl, big game, pollinators, sensitives species, and watchable wildlife species. Conserving priority wildlife habitat (vegetation communities, water resources, or connectivity) or reducing threats to habitat or species.Monitoring and inventorying wildlife populations and habitats to provide complete, current, and accurate information on the distribution, abundance, and habitat of wildlife that depend on BLM managed public lands.Assessing wildlife habitat and measuring related resource management goals and objectives.Enhancing the understanding of opportunities to conserve wildlife populations that depend on BLM managed lands.Improving how BLM uses and integrates coordinated wildlife monitoring data such as Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) and North American Bat Monitoring Program (NaBat). Doing new research on success in meeting the objectives of wildlife habitat and land use plans at the ecosystem and watershed level.Performing education projects (including citizen science and student-based science) to facilitate wildlife stewardship and conservation for species that depend on BLM managed lands.Increasing public awareness of wildlife resources, conservation challenges and successes on BLM managed lands, including with a targeted focus on communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities.
The Secretary of the Interior (“Secretary”), through the Division of Energy and Mineral Development (DEMD), Office of Trust Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), is soliciting grant proposals from Federally recognized tribal entities to build Tribal capacity for energy resource regulation and management.The Tribal Energy Development Capacity (TEDC) grant program seeks to develop the Tribal management, organizational and technical capacity needed to maximize the economic impact of energy resource development on Federally recognized tribal land. TEDC grants equip Federally recognized tribal entities to regulate and manage their energy resources through development of organizational and business structures and legal and regulatory infrastructure.Examples of projects TEDC grants may fund include establishment of Tribal business charters under Federal, state, or Tribal law with a focus on energy resource development; adoption and/or implementation of a secured transactions code; feasibility studies on forming a Tribal utility authority; and development of Tribal energy regulations.
The Rangeland Management program conducts inventories, assessments and evaluations of soil and vegetation conditions and land health. Monitoring data is collected and analyzed to ensure progress toward meeting land health standards. Funded projects under this program will focus on high priority work effecting the program nationally by crossing state boundaries, such as, activities that support maintaining or achieving land health and productivity, increasing carbon sequestration, and creating resilient landscapes to benefit current and future generations. These activities could include, but are not limited to, such things as: Facilitating the conservation and restoration of rangelands to combat climate change. Soils mapping and development of ecological site descriptions. Engagement of community members and other stakeholders, through mentoring, training, and educational programs.