DOT: Safe Streets and Roads for All Funding Opportunity
Department of Transportation
Funds for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 SS4A grant program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to support planning and demonstration activities, as well as projects and strategies to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets involving all roadway users, including pedestrians; bicyclists; public transportation, personal conveyance, and micromobility users; motorists; and commercial vehicle operators.
Eligibility:
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Independent school districts
- County governments
How to Apply: Click Here.
Deadline to Apply: Planning and Demonstration Grant applicants have three deadlines:
- Thursday, April 4, 2024, 5:00 PM (EDT)
- Thursday, May 16, 2024, 5:00 PM (EDT)
- Thursday, August 29, 2024, 5:00 PM (EDT)
EPA: Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program
Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant program (Community Change Grants), created by the Inflation Reduction Act, offers an unprecedented $2 billion in grants under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The Community Change Grants will fund community-driven projects that address climate challenges and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful implementation. This historic level of support will enable communities and their partners to overcome longstanding environmental challenges and implement meaningful solutions to meet community needs now and for generations to come. There will be two tracks of funding under this opportunity. Track I will fund approximately 150 large, transformational community-driven investment grants of $10 million - $20 million. Track II will fund approximately 20 meaningful engagement grants of $1 million - $3 million. Grants cannot exceed 3-years in duration.
Eligibility:
- A partnership between two community-based nonprofit organizations (CBOs)
- A partnership between a CBO and one of the following: a federally recognized Tribe, a local government, or an institution of higher education.
How to Apply: Click Here.
Deadline to Apply: Thursday, November 21, 2024
FEMA: Assistance to Firefighters Grants
Federal Emergency Management Agency
The primary goal of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) is to meet the firefighting and emergency response needs of fire departments and non-affiliated emergency medical service organizations. Since 2001, AFG has helped firefighters and other first responders obtain critically needed equipment, protective gear, emergency vehicles, training and other resources necessary for protecting the public and emergency personnel from fire and related hazards.
Eligibility:
- Fire Departments
- Nonaffiliated EMS organizations
- State Fire Training Academies
- Non-federal airport and/or port authority fire or EMS organizations
How to Apply: Click Here.
Deadline to Apply: Friday, March 8, 2024
NEA: Challenge America, FY2025
National Endowment for the Arts
Challenge America offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to groups/communities with rich and dynamic artistic and cultural contributions to share that are underserved. The program features an abbreviated application, a standardized $10,000 grant amount, and a robust structure of technical assistance to facilitate entry to NEA funding opportunities.
Eligibility:
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
How to Apply: Click Here.
Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, April 30, 2024
NEA: Research Grants in the Arts, FY2025
National Endowment for the Arts
Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. The NEA welcomes research proposals that address priority topics and possible questions as outlined in the agency’s FY 2022-2026 research agenda. The four research areas are:
- The art’s impact on health, education, and the economy
- The art’s role in community transformation and healing
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the arts
- The evolving ecosystem of the arts in the U.S.
Proposals to the Research Grants in the Arts program should align with at least one of the aforementioned topics, and, if possible, address research questions identical or similar to the related sample questions in the NEA’s research agenda for FY 2022-2026.
Eligibility:
- Private institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Independent school districts
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
How to Apply: Click Here.
Deadline to Apply: Monday, March 25, 2024
