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Department of Agriculture

FY 2023 Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to assist at-risk local communities and Indian Tribes with planning and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Units of local governments representing communities located in an area with a risk of wildfires, Indian Tribes, non-profit organizations including homeowner associations that assist such communities, state forestry agencies (including U.S. territories and interests), and Alaska Native Corporations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Up to $250,000,000

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 31, 2023  

Department of

Agriculture

FY 2023 NOAA Restoring Fish Passage through Barrier Removal Grants Under the BIL and IRA

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this grant is to provide federal financial and technical assistance to fish passage through the removal of dams and other in-stream barriers for native migratory or searun fish. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, local, and Native American and Alaska Native tribal governments, institutions of higher education, non-profits, and commercial (for profit) organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $175 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 16, 2023

Department of

Energy

FY 2023 NETL Energy Storage and Validation Program  

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports innovative long duration energy storage system (ESS) demonstration projects that advance a technology towards commercialization and validate its cost and performance in the field to the energy stakeholder community. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Domestic entities including state governments, local governments, tribal governments, institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, and nonprofits, and federally funded research and development centers and national laboratories 

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $15 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? September 15, 2023 (Concept Papers); December 4, 2023 (Full Applications)

Department of Housing and Urban Development

FY 2023 Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing)

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program empowers communities that are actively taking steps to remove barriers to affordable housing and seeking to increase housing production and lower housing costs for families over the long term. The program aims to provide funding for the identification and removal of barriers to affordable housing production and preservation. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State governments, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, and multijurisdictional entities

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $85 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? TBD

Department of Commerce

FY 2023 Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN)    

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to encourage research on emerging technologies and applications including energy, transportation, robotics, and biomedical devices and systems. Funding will support innovative research in modeling, optimization, learning, adaptation, and control of networked multiagent systems; higher-level decision-making and dynamic resource allocation; and risk management in the presence of uncertainty, subsystem failures, and stochastic disturbances. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State and local governments, tribal governments, institutions of higher education, nonprofit, and non-academic organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Unspecified

WHEN'S IT DUE? Rolling