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Weekly Grants Update - March 13, 2023

By Vanessa Gonzales posted 03-13-2023 04:32 PM

  

The National Special Districts Coalition provides weekly highlights for CSDA Members on newly-opened federal grant opportunities, as curated by The Ferguson Group (TFG). Districts pursuing grants but are uncertain of their options may complete NSDC’s Project Idea Portal for a connection directly to TFG. This week’s selection of new grant opportunities include:

Department of Energy

FY 2023 Energizing Rural Communities Prize

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program incentivizes the development of clean energy projects in rural or remote areas of the country by offering a cash prize pool to kickstart development of clean energy projects. Funding will be provided under two categories. 1: Partner Track, to facilitate new or existing partnerships that enable development of clean energy projects in rural or remote communities and 2: Finance Track, to connect communities to capital for current or future clean energy projects by developing innovative and functional business models. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Private for-profit and nonprofit entities; nonfederal government entities, such as states, counties, tribes, and municipalities; and academic institutions

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $15 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 24, 2023   

Department of Energy

FY 2023 Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Technical Assistance for Local Governments

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program enables organic waste energy and/or resource recovery at the municipal level by leveraging technical expertise and relevant data to address specific and unique issues each municipality encounters with its waste streams. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local governments, tribal governments, airport authorities, and municipal utilities authorities

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Rather than provide monetary awards this program provides technical assistance

WHEN'S IT DUE? April 14, 2023   

Department of Health and Human Services

FY 2023 Mental Health Awareness Training (MHAT) Grants

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program will train individuals, such as school personnel and emergency services personnel, including fire department and law enforcement personnel, veterans, and armed services members and their families to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental disorders and how to safely de-escalate crisis situations involving individuals with a mental illness. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? States and territories, including the District of Columbia, political subdivisions of states including local governments, tribal organizations, and private nonprofit entities

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $4.4 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 1, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services

FY 2023 Overdose Data to Action: Limiting Overdose Through Collaborative Actions in Localities

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports projects that will use data to drive actions that reduce overdose morbidity and mortality in communities quickly, while addressing health disparities, with a primary focus on opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use involving opioids and/or stimulants. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? County governments, city or townships, special district governments, tribes or tribal-serving organizations, local governments or their bona fide agents, territorial governments or their bona fide agents, and institutions of higher education

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $400 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 8, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services

FY 2023 Rural Emergency Medical Services Training Grant 

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to recruit and train emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in rural areas, with a particular focus on addressing substance use disorders (SUD), co-occurring disorders (COD), and substance use and mental disorders. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Rural emergency medical services (EMS)

agencies operated by fire-based and non-fire-based local or

tribal governments and nonprofit EMS agencies

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $10.4 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 1, 2023

Department of Justice

FY 2023 Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides support to law enforcement on how to effectively partner with mental health, substance use disorder, and community service to improve appropriate and effective responses to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities, and to achieve safe outcomes for all individuals in the community. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? City or township governments, county governments, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and state governments, and public and state-controlled institutions of higher education with on-campus police departments

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $5 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? April 25, 2023 (Grants.gov), May 2, 2023 (JustGrants)

Department of Justice

FY 2023 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes of CHP awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of agencies to engage in community policing activities Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $224.5 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 4, 2023 (Grants.gov) May 11, 2023 (JustGrants)

Department of Justice

FY 2023 Community Policing Development: Implementing Crisis Intervention Teams

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides funding to support the implementation of crisis intervention teams, including embedding behavioral or mental health professionals with law enforcement agencies, training for law enforcement officers and embedded behavioral or mental health professionals in crisis intervention response, or a combination of these. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $11.5 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 1, 2023 (Grants.gov) May 8, 2023 (JustGrants)

Department of Justice

FY 2023 Community Policing Development Microgrants

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides funding to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities. Click here  for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $5 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 1, 2023 (Grants.gov) May 8, 2023 (JustGrants)

Department of Justice

FY 2023 Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program seeks to bring justice and reconciliation for the hundreds of unsolved cold case murder victims associated with civil rights violations through the identification, investigation, prosecution, and resolution of these cases. This program also seeks to bring justice and support to families and stakeholders impacted by these murders. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, including prosecutors' offices

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $2.27 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 17, 2023 (Grants.gov), May 24, 2023 (JustGrants)  

Department of Justice

FY 2023 Expanding Access to Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations (SAFE)

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program seeks to establish or expand sexual assault examination programs, including sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) and sexual assault forensic examiner (SAFE) programs that focus on 1) increasing the number and availability of SANEs/SAFEs, 2) expanding access to sexual assault forensic examinations, and 3) improving the quality of post-sexual assault care using a hospital-based or community based approach. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local and state governments, Native American tribal governments/organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and special district governments

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $2 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? April 20, 2023 (Grants.gov) April 27, 2023 (JustGrants)

Department of Justice

FY 2023 Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides funding for communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to assist children and their families who are exposed to violence build resilience and prevent future juvenile violence and delinquency. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local governments, independent school districts, Native American tribes and tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, special district governments, and states

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $6.3 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? May 24, 2023 (Grants.gov), June 7, 2023 (JustGrants) 

Environmental Protection Agency

FY 2023 Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports state, territory, tribal, and local actions to reduce greenhouse gases and associated criteria and toxic air pollution through deployment of new technologies, operational efficiencies, and solutions that will transition America equitably to a low-carbon economy that benefits all Americans. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? States, air pollution control agencies, municipalities, tribes, and groups of one or more of these entities

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $250 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? April 28, 2023 (Notice of Intent), May 31, 2023 (Full Application) 

Department of Justice

FY 2023 National Coastal Resilience Fund  

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The program will make investments in planning, design, and restoration of natural and nature-based solutions to help protect coastal communities from the impacts of storms, floods, and other natural hazards and to improve habitats for fish and wildlife. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Nonprofit 501(c) organizations, state and territorial government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, Tribal governments and organizations, educational institutions, or commercial (for-profit) organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $140 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? April 12,2023 (pre-proposal), June 28, 2023 (full application)

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