Funding Opportunities
Through WaterSMART, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) leverages Federal and non-Federal funding to work cooperatively with States, Tribes, and local entities as they plan for and implement actions to increase water supply sustainability through investments in existing infrastructure and attention to local water conflicts. WaterSMART provides support for priorities identified in Presidential Executive Order 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (E.O. 14008) and aligned with other priorities, such as those identified in Presidential Executive Order 13985: Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government (E.O. 13985). The WaterSMART Small-Scale Water Efficiency Projects also support the goals of the Interagency Drought Relief Working Group established in March 2021 and the National Drought Resiliency Partnership. These grants will advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s Justice40 Initiative. Established by E.O. 14008, the Justice40 Initiative has it made it a goal that 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities. Federal agencies are using the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool to help identify disadvantaged communities. The objective of this NOFO is to invite States, Indian Tribes, irrigation districts, water districts, and other organizations with water or power delivery authority to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on small-scale on-the-ground projects that seek to conserve, better manage, or otherwise make more efficient use of water supplies. Proposed projects that are supported by an existing water management and conservation plan, System Optimization Review, or other planning effort led by the applicant are prioritized. This prioritization will help ensure that projects funded under this NOFO are well thought out, have public support, and have been identified as the best way to address water management concerns. Reclamation has simplified the evaluation criteria and streamlined the application process for this category of WaterSMART Grants to ensure that the process works for smaller entities. Simplified evaluation criteria are intended to provide each applicant with an opportunity to succinctly explain how the proposed project would meet a defined need identified through a prior planning effort.
Full-time Investees are nonprofits in our focus areas selected by our committee to receive a multiyear investment, capacity building tools, and Partnership expertise for 3-5 years to increase their organizational capacity and amplify their impact.
The Summer Youth Program Fund is an independent grantmaking program founded and managed by local funders who support, or are interested in supporting, agencies that provide summer programming for Maricopa County youth. The purpose of the SYPF is to supplement existing programs in order to enrich, enhance and expand summer offerings for children and youth.
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; feasibility studies on emergency response during heat and cold waves; and development of Tribal energy regulations pursuant to the Helping Expedite And Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership Act of 2012(HEARTH Act) 25 U.S.C. § 415.
The Community Organizing Grants Program is an umbrella for PDF’s annual grantmaking docket which consists of three grant programs: the Seeding the Movement Fund (formerly the “Board Docket”, Western Mass Transformation Fund (formerly the Pioneer Valley Community Advised Fund, and The Braiding New Worlds Fund. Any organization that fits PDF’s guidelines is eligible to apply for a grant. PDF currently only funds organizations in the United States, Haiti and Mexico through the Community Organizing Grants docket.
Each year PDF receives hundreds of proposals from grassroots community organizations seeking funding. Through a careful review and interview process, PDF selects those organizations that will have a significant impact in their geographic and social justice focus area, or are working on issues that are not yet recognized by progressive funders.
What We Fund:
- Organizing to Shift Power
- Working to Build a Movement
- Dismantling Oppression
- Creating New Structures
ACF will fund organizations in service to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community through four categories: capacity building, scientific research in the area of deafness and hearing loss, project support, and feasibility planning for capital projects.
Young people will have to live with the impacts of the climate crisis. Because of this, they have both the will and the moral authority to lead on this issue.
We work to support youth climate activists in various ways. We offer material support for actions, which can include funding for consultants, transportation, and equipment. We also support educational and media initiatives, as well as creative projects.
Climate activist and author Naomi Klein has argued that “no is not enough”; we need an affirmative vision of how political and economic life can work for everyone, including non-humans and future generations.
We offer support for projects that help us envision a path to a better future. These may include works of literature, visual and performance art, design (broadly-construed), and more.
Mitigation alone is no longer enough; we will need to draw carbon out of the atmosphere. One of the best ways to do this is by transforming agriculture. Regenerative farming practices draw carbon back into the soil and out of the atmosphere, with the added benefit of providing better livelihoods for more people than centralized industrial agriculture.
Big Agriculture, which relies on mono crops, tilling, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers, accounts for approximately 9% of GHG emissions. We must begin subsidizing farming practices that help, rather than hurt, ordinary people and the environment.
The voices of Indigenous peoples, both youth and elders, have long been marginalized by a colonial capitalist project grounded in an ideology of white supremacy, which has led us to the brink of climate catastrophe and the sixth great extinction.
Indigenous peoples have been fighting back against this genocidal and ecocidal system for centuries, preserving more sustainable ways of living. We support their ongoing fight for a livable future where all our relations are respected.