Funding Opportunities

Past-year resources for some items are included in this list for informational purposes. Many of these are annual programs, and provide application information on an ongoing basis. Resources links are updated as new information becomes available.

$25,000 Scholarship Program -- Yestermorrow Design/Build School

An anonymous donor has created a $25,000.00 scholarship fund at Warren, Vermont's Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Yestermorrow Design/Build School inspires people to create a better, more sustainable world by providing hands-on education that integrates design and craft as a creative, interactive process.

2006 Competition for P3 Grants

EPA’s 2006 competition for the P3 Phase I Awards will open on November 15, 2005. Up to 50 awards for a maximum of $10,000 each will be made to student teams in the autumn of 2006.

2006 Five Star Grant Recipients

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prepared an online list of its 2006 Five-Star Grant Recipients. Twenty-four states are represented in this list of recipients in a program that provides environmental education and training through projects that restore wetlands and streams.

2008 Comprehensive Planning Grants -- Wisconsin

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has announced comprehensive planning grants for 149 local governments throughout Wisconsin, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin reports. This funding will help communities develop and adopt locally created plans to address long-term needs, promote economic development, and guide future land use decisions.

2008 Green Fund Grant Recipients -- Berkeley

The University of California-Berkeley sponsors the Green Fund Cal sustainability projects, which are funded by the Chancellor's Green Campus Fund.

2009 Assistance for School Food Equipment

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009, provides a one-time appropriation of $100,000,000 for equipment assistance to school food authorities (SFAs) participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

2009 RFP -- Reduction of Nutrient and Sediment Loads Into the Chesapeake Bay

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Chesapeake Bay Program Office, has announced three Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for reduction in nutrient and sediment loads into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed for fiscal year 2009.

2009 Sustainable Vision Grants from NCIIA

Through its Sustainable Vision Grants program, the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) funds transformational education programs where breakthrough technologies are created and commercialized for the benefit of people living in poverty in the U.S. and abroad.

A Guide to Affordable Housing Funding in New Jersey

A Guide to Affordable Housing Funding in New Jersey outlines the affordable housing funding sources available at the Federal, State and Local levels as well as private sources.

A Guide to New Jersey Grants and Loans that Support Sustainability Initiatives

A variety of financial incentives in the form or grants and loans are available to New Jersey communities interested in re-creating their municipality into an environmentally sustainable community. A Guide to State Grants and Loans that Support Sustainability Initiatives organizes these incentives by general program area within the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and by other state agencies.

ACHP Guide to Historic Preservation Funding

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) offers this online guide that outlines the range of historic preservation funding options that are currently available.

Active Living Funding Sources

The Active Living Resource Center (ALRC) Web site provides resources and tools to help you make walking and bicycling part of your community's healthy lifestyle. The funding section of the Web site is designed to help answer all of your funding needs.

Active Living Minnesota

The Active Living Minnesota funding program supports interdisciplinary partnerships to plan for and implement a comprehensive approach to encourage active living among community residents, with a focus on environmental and policy change efforts.

Active Living Research

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced a New Connections funding opportunity the Active Living Research program. The Foundation's New Connections program is designed to expand the diversity of perspectives that inform RWJF programming and introduce new researchers and scholars to the Foundation, while simultaneously helping to analyze data that measures progress towards programming objectives.

Active Living Research -- Call for Proposals (Round 8)

Active Living Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has issued a call for full proposals for research topic grants and full proposals for dissertation grants in Round 8 of their program.

Active Living Research -- Childhood Obesity

Active Living Research is a $12.5-million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that stimulates and supports research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity. Childhood obesity is one topic that Active Living Research has pursued, and to this end issued a call for proposals is to increase our understanding of how environments and policies affect children's physical activity in community and school settings.

Active Living Research 2009 -- Childhood Obesity

Active Living Research supports research to inform policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity among children and adolescents, decreasing their sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity. A special emphasis is placed on research focused on racial/ethnic populations and children living in low-income communities who are at highest risk for obesity. Findings will advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

Adirondack Park Smart Growth Funding

The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), in partnership with the Adirondack Park Agency and the Department of State, is soliciting Adirondack Park Community Smart Growth Grant applications from municipalities located wholly or partially within the Adirondack Park.

Adobe Community Grants

Adobe supports strategic programs and partnerships that help make these communities better, stronger, and more vibrant places to live, work and do business; its focus areas for giving and grants programs are designed to increase Adobe's impact in the community through support of more organizations, and strengthen Adobe's role as a corporate partner by creating deeper, stronger, and richer partnerships.

Affordable Housing and Community Development

Washington Mutual teams up with nonprofit organizations by investing in their efforts to build stronger communities. One program offers grants on affordable housing and community development.

Affordable Housing Development 101

PolicyLink, a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization, works to advance policies to achieve economic and social equity. PolicyLink collaborates with a broad range of partners to implement strategies to ensure that everyone -- including those from low-income communities of color -- can contribute to and benefit from economic growth and prosperity.

Affordable Housing Grantmaking

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation offers on its website guidance for Affordable Housing grantmaking through its Program on Human and Community Development.

Affordable Housing Grantmaking

The MacArthur Foundation announced plans to provide $35 million in new funding for innovative public sector initiatives to preserve and improve the existing stock of privately owned affordable rental homes.

Affordable Housing Grants

WAMU.com, a Washington Mutual, Inc., web site, partners with nonprofit organizations by investing in their efforts to build stronger communities. One program offers grants on affordable housing and community development.

Affordable Rental Housing

Window of Opportunity: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing is a $50 million initiative to preserve and improve affordable rental housing across the United States. The initiative's immediate goal is to help large nonprofit housing organizations purchase and maintain 100,000 units of existing, affordable rental housing that might otherwise deteriorate or become too expensive for low- and moderate-income households.

Agricultural Funding Sources

The Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC) provides a listing of farming and agriculture-related funding opportunity resources on its website. AFSIC specializes in identifying resources about sustainable food systems and practices, in support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) effort to ensure a sustainable future for agriculture and farmers worldwide.

AIA Seattle Scholarship Recipients

Through a commitment initiated by the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable in 1986, AIA Seattle has established two funds to advance professional diversity through support of students from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning: the AIA Seattle Diversity Scholarship, and the Denice Hunt K-12 Internship.

AIA Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) Program

The SDAT is a community assistance program that focuses on the principles of sustainability. SDATs will bring a team of volunteer professionals (such as architects, urban designers, planners, hydrologists, economists, attorneys, and others) to work with community decision-makers and stakeholders to help them develop a vision and framework for a sustainable future.

American Communities Fund

The Fannie Mae American Communities FundSM (ACF®) invests debt or equity in housing developments that support neighborhoods and community revitalization efforts.

Application Guidelines for Safe Routes to School

The National Safe Routes to Schools Partnership (SRTS) provides links to the State Departments of Transportation that have released application guidelines for the federal program.

ARRA Prevention and Wellness Funding: Communities Putting Prevention to Work

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Procurement and Grants Office has published a funding opportunity announcement entitled, ''American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Communities Putting Prevention to Work.'' Approximately $373 million will be available in fiscal year 2009 to fund thirty to forty awards.

Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) Livable Centers Initiative -- Georgia

The Atlanta Regional Commission’s (ARC) Livable Centers Initiative encourages local jurisdictions to plan and implement strategies that link transportation improvements with land use development strategies to create sustainable, livable communities consistent with regional development policies.

Balanced Growth Implementation Project -- Minnesota

1000 Friends of Minnesota is inviting communities to submit applications to their Balanced Growth Implementation Project. If your community has a vision for balanced growth but is stalled at taking the next steps -- or if an outdated ordinance system has saddled the community with restrictions that prevent balanced growth from occurring -- this project is for you.

Baltimore Community Foundation Fund for Neighborhoods -- Baltimore Area of Maryland

The Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF) Fund for Neighborhoods provides funding for neighborhoods, one of nine areas in which BCF focuses its strategic grantmaking. BCF seeks to advance the ideals of a welcoming environment, open access and civic engagement-with all of its privileges and responsibilities-in every area of community life.

Bank of America Community Development

Bank of America has established several programs that support sustainable community regional planning.

Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative -- 2007

Bank of America's Neighborhood Excellence initiative consists of three distinct investing programs in select markets: Neighborhood Builders, Local Heroes, and Student Leaders.

Bay Area Smart Growth Fund -- San Francisco Bay Area, California

The Bay Area Smart Growth Fund I, LLC invests in retail, office, commercial, industrial, multi-family and select single-family housing opportunities that may make a measurable impact on the economic and social revitalization of neighborhoods in the 46 targeted communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Beginning Farmer Funding Sources

The Center for Rural Affairs features a ''Beginning Farmer Financing Programs'' page on its website. This resource includes web and telephone contact information for several programs designed to assist beginnning farmers.

Better Community Awards -- Florida

Each year, 1000 Friends of Florida honors successful efforts to save special places, fight sprawl, and build better communities in this rapidly growing state. The 2007 Better Community Awards will recognize individuals, organizations, public-private partnerships, local governments, and agencies that, through visionary leadership and planning, have brought about positive and lasting change in their community or region or the state.

Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Funding -- Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Departmetn of Transportation (WisDOT) takes an active role in providing financial assistance to create and improve bicycle and pedestrian facilities in Wisconsin. The state's website offers background on both current and historical funding for bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

Bicycle and Pedestrian Funding

Bicycle and pedestrian projects are broadly eligible for funding from almost all the major Federal-aid highway, transit, safety, and other programs. Bicycle projects must be ''principally for transportation, rather than recreation, purposes'' and must be designed and located pursuant to the transportation plans required of States and Metropolitan Planning Organizations. This page lists funding sources for bicycle and pedestrian projects.

Bicycle Friendly Communities Grants

Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), a national retail cooperative providing quality outdoor gear and clothing, has announced a $100,000 grant to the Bikes Belong Foundation to support an innovative series of grant awards to help U.S. cities become more bicycle friendly. The Bikes Belong Foundation, in cooperation with the League of American Bicyclists, will direct the new effort.

Bike/Walk Twin Cities

Bike/Walk Twin Cities, formerly known as the Non-Motorized Transportation Pilot Program, or NTPP, was established in 2005 as part of the six-year federal transportation bill known as SAFETEA-LU. This website provides current information on the project and scheduled events for the Minneaspolis region.

Bikes Belong Coalition Grants -- May 2007

Bikes Belong is the national coalition of bicycle suppliers and retailers working together to put more people on bicycles more often. Through national leadership, grassroots support, and promotion, we work to make bicycling safe, convenient, and fun.

Bikes Belong Coalition Grants -- Overview

The Bikes Belong Coalition is sponsored by members of the U.S. bicycle industry. Its mission is to put more people on bicycles more often. The Bike Belong Grants Program was the first major on-going initiative undertaken by the Bikes Belong Coalition.

Bikes Belong Grants -- Summer 2007

Bikes Belong is the national coalition of bicycle suppliers and retailers working together to put more people on bicycles more often. Through national leadership, grassroots support, and promotion, Bike Belong works to make bicycling safe, convenient, and fun. In summer 2007 Bikes Belong presented six grant awards, totaling $46,935. Investment in these paths, trails, parks, and advocacy initiatives will help create, enhance, and protect great places to ride in communities across the country.

Bikes Belong Grants Program

The Bikes Belong Coalition is sponsored by members of the U.S. bicycle industry. Its mission is to put more people on bicycles more often. The Bike Belong Grants Program was the first major on-going initiative undertaken by the Bikes Belong Coalition.

Biking and Walking Funding

America Bikes outlines on its website how communities can leverage federal funding to improve local roads for bicyclists through the 2005 SAFETEA-LU bill.

Biodiversity Grants -- Living Lands Project

Living Lands is a new Defenders of Wildlife project to increase the capacity of local land trusts to protect, enhance and restore native wildlife habitat and biodiversity. The project will support this work through financial and technical assistance.

Boston Foundation for Architecture Grants -- Massachusetts

The Boston Foundation for Architecture was created by the Boston Society of Architects in 1984 to support public education programs in Massachusetts related to the built environment

Boston Schoolyard Funding -- Boston, Massachusetts

The Boston Schoolyard Initiative (BSI) was formally launched in 1995 as a public/private partnership to help revitalize Boston's schoolyards.

Bright Schools Program -- California

Whether you are building a new school, modernizing an existing one or just wondering how your school can save on energy bills, the Bright Schools Program can help. This California Energy Commission program offers specific services to help you become more energy wise, such as identifying cost-effective energy-efficient systems to meet your needs and providing design and implementation assistance -- at little or no cost to you.

Brownfield Funding -- Michigan

The Clean Michigan Initiative (CMI) is a $675 million bond approved by Michigan voters to improve and protect Michigan's water resources. The major programs are administered by the Departments of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Natural Resources (DNR), and Community Health (MDCH).

Brownfield Grant Awards in Florida

The Florida Brownfields Association (FBA) provides a comprehensive list of brownfields grant awards in the state of Florida.

Brownfield Redevelopment Funding

Through its Project Learning Program (PLP), the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) assists nonprofits, municipalities, and community organizations in tackling brownfield redevelopment projects. Each year, CCLR awards several PLP grants to communities and organizations, providing them with the financial and technical assistance necessary to address brownfield-related issues such as: contamination and remediation, economic feasibility, regulatory facilitation, financing, and community-based decision making. Once awarded funding, grantees often retain outside consultants to assist with community-consensus building, economic feasibility studies, site reuse planning, and site design.

Brownfields 2009-2013 Annual Conference RFP

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting proposals from eligible entities and non-profit organizations for financial assistance to assist non-federal personnel in participating in three national Brownfields conferences to be planned and held over a five-year period, beginning in 2009.

Brownfields Assessment Grants -- Connecticut

The Connecticut Office of Brownfield Remediation and Development offers the CT EPA Assessment Program to fully qualify the environmental condition of a site so that remediation and redevelopment can occur.

Brownfields Assessment Grants -- EPA Region 8 (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah)

Region 8 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offers brownfield assessment grants that provide funding to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning and community involvement related to Brownfield sites.

Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grant Guidelines -- U.S. EPA, 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities and non-profit organizations for its competitive 2010 ''Brownfields Grant program: Assessment Grants, Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants, and Cleanup Grants.''

Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants -- U.S. EPA, 2007

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities and non-profit organizations for its competitive Brownfields Grant program: Assessment Grants, Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants, and Cleanup Grants.

Brownfields Assistance -- Illinois

The Illinois Bureau of Land (BOL) is responsible for the protection and restoration of land and groundwater resources in the State of Illinois. The BOL administers a broad variety of solid and hazardous waste management and cleanup programs, including Brownfields Assistance.

Brownfields Cleanup Grants -- EPA Region 8 (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah)

Region 8 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offers brownfield cleanup grants that provide funding to carry out cleanup activities at Brownfields sites.

Brownfields Federal Programs Guide

There are nearly two dozen federal programs that can help communities in one way or another to assess, cleanup and reuse Brownfields. Brownfields Federal Programs Guide examines in alphabetical order the resources available in other departments and agencies which could be applied in Brownfields situations.

Brownfields Funding

The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection website offers a list of funding resources -- both national and statewide -- for brownfields redevelopment. Descriptions for each funding program, and website links for individual programs are provided.

Brownfields Funding -- Indiana

This resource lists funding options for brownfield redevelopment within the state of Indiana.

Brownfields Funding -- Maryland

The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), Site Assessment/State Superfund Division can perform a Phase I and Phase II Site Assessment at selected sites at no cost to the property owner or interested party. MDE, through a grant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has funds to conduct assessments at Brownfields properties throughout the State of Maryland.

Brownfields Funding -- SMARTe

Brownfields funding resources can be found on the Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools (SMARTe) website, a free, web-based decision support system for developing and evaluating future reuse scenarios for potentially contaminated land.

Brownfields Funding -- Updates to U.S. EPA Grant Proposal Guidelines

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released EPA Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup (ARC) Grant Proposal Guidelines: Key Modifications, a two-page document that outlines changes to the EPA's grant guidelines for the 2008-09 grant cycle.

Brownfields Funding Awards -- 2008

Communities in 43 states, two Tribal Nations and two territories will share over $74 million in EPA Brownfields grants in 2008 to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use.

Brownfields Funding California

In 2000, Governor Gray Davis signed into law the ''Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods (CLEAN) Program'' establishing new financial incentives to encourage property owners, developers, community groups and local governments to redevelop abandoned and underutilized urban properties in California. Links on this website provide information on the program.

Brownfields Funding in Washington State

The Washington State Department of Ecology maintains a webpage on grants and financial assistance for cleanup of brownfields in the state.

Brownfields Funding Programs -- Connecticut

The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) offers flexible tools to deal with all brownfield issues, including gap financing, seed capital programs, corporate tax credits and its own environmental liability insurance program.

Brownfields Grants -- Montana

Montana's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) offers a web site dedicated to brownfields grant information. The data is linked to the U.S. EPA's Brownfields grants program.

Brownfields Grants -- Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Department of Commerce has been authorized to provide funding to brownfield projects that promote economic development and have a positive effect on the environment.

Brownfields Grants from CCLR

The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) awards Project Learning Program (PLP) grants that range in size up to $25,000 per project, year-round, on a merit-based schedule.

Brownfields Green Space Grants -- Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has posted notice that it will not not be accepting any applications for its Brownfields Green Space Grants program until after July 1, 2009.

Brownfields Job Training Grants

The U.S. EPA announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities and non-profit organizations to provide environmental job training projects that will facilitate the assessment, remediation, or preparation of brownfield sites. Applicants must propose to serve a community that currently receives, or has received, financial assistance from EPA for brownfields assessment, revolving loan fund or cleanup competitive grants.

Brownfields Land Recycling Program

This City of Phoenix, Arizona, offers a Brownfields Land Recycling Program on its website. The Office of Environmental Programs manages the program, which provides municipal grant funds for infrastructure improvements and development fees on qualified brownfields projects.

Brownfields of Dreams

Detroit Free Press writers Steve Neavling and John Gallagher report on how efforts to reclaim brownfields in the Detroit region are beginning to pay dividends, as once-abandoned land becomes useful to the community.

Brownfields Redevelopment -- Indiana

The Indiana Finance Authority (IFA) offers financial assistance for brownfields redevelopment in the form of site assessment grants, low-interest loans, petroleum remediation grants, and more.

Brownfields Redevelopment -- Massachusetts

MassDevelopment works to strengthen communities, stimulate job creation and create housing starts through financial assistance in the forms of loans and bond financing programs.

Brownfields Redevelopment Fund -- Oregon

The Brownfields Redevelopment Fund is a direct loan and grant program to conduct environmental actions on brownfields. Created by the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1997, the program's primary purpose is to assist private persons and local governments to evaluate, cleanup, and therefore redevelop brownfields.

Brownfields Redevelopment Tax Credits -- Maryland

Maryland properties with environmental concerns are now eligible for tax credits after environmental clean up. Polluted sites often lay dormant, unattractive to development due to clean-up and liability concerns. Federal and state laws have now clarified the legal responsibilities for environmental clean-up, paving the way for opportunities to redevelopment land in prime commercial locations.

Brownfields Tax Incentive

Originally signed into law in 1997, the Brownfields Tax Incentive encourages the cleanup and reuse of brownfields. This program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been extended through December 31, 2009.

Brownfields Tax Incentive -- FAQ (2007)

Originally signed into law in 1997 and extended through December 31, 2007, the Brownfields Tax Incentive encourages the cleanup and reuse of brownfields. This document from the U.S. EPA provides answers to some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) about this federal tax incentive.

Brownfields Tax Incentive Guidelines -- 2007 Edition

Originally signed into law in 1997 and extended through December 31, 2007, the Brownfields Tax Incentive encourages the cleanup and reuse of brownfields. Under the Brownfields Tax Incentive, environmental cleanup costs are fully deductible in the year incurred, rather than capitalized and spread over time. Improvements in 2006 expanded the tax incentive to include petroleum cleanup.

Brownfields Tax Incentive State Contacts

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers a state-by-state listing of Brownfields Tax Incentives on the Brownfields section of its website. Contact information for all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, are included in this resource.

Brownfields Training Grants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment (OBCR) has issued a revised announcement of a funding opportunity for the Brownfields Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program.

Brownfields Training, Research and Technical Assistance Grants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posts on its website Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grant Fact Sheets. These Fact Sheets, viewable as PDF or HTML documents, describe various programs throughout the United States that are receiving funds from the EPA's Technical Assistance Program.

BSA Research Grants

The Boston Society of Architects has initiated a program to promote research in architecture. With a focus on design as research, this program encourages inquiry not only on specific research topics but also on how design itself (the design process and the results of design) constitutes research as well.

Building Communities and Entrepreneurs

The Citigroup Foundation's Building Communities and Entrepreneurs program supports community development corporations, intermediary organizations and community development financial institutions that focus on affordable housing, economic development, welfare-to-work initiatives, community infrastructure improvements, and environmentally sustainable growth to local economies.

Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Grant Winners

The U.S. EPA has announced winners of its Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects. EPA has awarded the Training Grant to the Univeristy of Maine, and the Demonstration Grant to Portland State University.

Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects

The EPA Aging Initiative, located in the Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education, is seeking proposals for a new grant opportunity for Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects.

California Brownfields Funding

California's Proposition 1C, approved by voters in 2006, authorized the sale of bonds to fund existing affordable and support housing programs. In addition, Proposition 1C establishes funds totaling $1.15 billion to promote three types of housing projects that have never before received public support in such a targeted way: 1) infill development 2) transit-oriented development (TOD), and 3) brownfield development.

California Farmland Conservancy Grants

The State of California's Department of Conservation Farmland Conservancy Program provides grants to local governments and qualified nonprofit organizations.

California Farmland Conservancy Program

The California Department of Conservation's Farmland Conservancy Program seeks to encourage the long-term, private stewardship of agricultural lands through the voluntary use of agricultural conservation easements. The CFCP provides grant funding for projects which use and support agricultural conservation easements for protection of agricultural lands.

California Greening Schools Initiative

The California Green Schools Initiative has compiled a list of resources as a starting place for parents, teachers, and school administrators who are interested in finding ways to cover the costs of greening their schools.

Capital Challenge Grant Program

The Kresge Foundation's Capital Challenge Grant Program is designed to support an organization’s immediate capital needs and to build its capacity to raise private support for the future.

Center for Urban and Rural Affairs Funding

The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) is an all-University applied research and technology center at the University of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on significant public policy issues in Minnesota.

Chesapeake Bay Trust Funding -- Maryland

The Chesapeake Bay Trust provides grant funding for on-the-ground Chesapeake Bay restoration projects throughout Maryland, reaching thousands of students, organizations and community leaders each year.

Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini-Grants: Summer 2009 Deadlines

The Chesapeake Bay Trust's Mini Grants program awards up to $5,000 for projects that address one or more of the Trust's grant making priorities. The majority of Mini Grant applications are submitted by schools for field experiences and on-the ground student service projects.

Citibank Center for Community Development Enterprise

The Citibank Center for Community Development Enterprise (CCDE) integrates resources and skills from across CitiGroup's company’s units to help finance community development projects from start to finish.

City of Portland's Green Investment Fund -- Portland, Oregon

The Green Investment Fund (GIF) is a competitive grant program that supports innovative green building projects in Portland.

Clean Ohio Bond Fund

American Farmland Trust (AFT) reports a landslide victory for Clean Ohio Bond Fund, a November 2008 ballot initiative that offers great promise to farmland protection and the environment.

Clean Ohio Fund

The Clean Ohio Fund was established to preserve green space and farmland, improve outdoor recreation, and revitalize blighted neighborhoods by cleaning up and redeveloping polluted properties.

Colorado Brownfields Foundation Due Diligence Grants -- Colorado

The Environmental Due Diligence Pilot Program is seeking communities that are proactively pursuing economic development opportunities. The EDD Program will conduct Phase I Environmental Assessments on a property or multiple properties within selected communities. Alternatively, area-wide assessments could be conducted for a main street, industrial district, business park, or other geographic area.

Colorado Heritage Planning Grants

The Colorado Heritage Planning Grant Program is designed to recognize and reward those communities cooperatively planning to manage growth.

Colorado Heritage Planning Grants -- Colorado

The Colorado Heritage Planning Grant Program is designed to recognize and reward those communities cooperatively planning to manage growth. Eligible recipients include: towns, cities, cities and counties, counties, and Title 32, Article 1 special districts.

Combined Federal and State Tax Incentives -- Michigan

The Michigan Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program provides for the combined use of federal and state credits. To be eligible to combine the credits a project must be eligible to participate in the federal program and must file for and receive the federal credit.

Commonwealth Capital -- Massachusetts

The Commonwealth Capital (CC) policy of the Office for Commonwealth Development (OCD) coordinates Massachusetts capital spending programs that affect development patterns. The state's goal is to invest in projects that are consistent with OCD's Sustainable Development Principles and partner with municipalities seeking to advance the Commonwealth's development and resource protection interests.

Communities Creating Healthy Environments

Communities Creating Healthy Environments is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that aims to prevent childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color. The program will advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015 by supporting diverse, community-based organizations and federally chartered tribal nations in the development and implementation of effective, culturally competent policy initiatives to address childhood obesity at the local level.

Community Action Grants: Washington, DC Region

The Gannett Corporation's Community Action Grants program makes grants to eligible organizations in the communities in which Gannett does business, including the Washington, DC Metro area.

Community Assistance Grant Program

To help communities begin the planning process toward smart growth, northeast Ohio's Smart Growth Education Foundation (SGEF) has established a grant program to provide ''seed'' money to help pay for professional planning help.

Community Development Action Grants -- Massachusetts

The Community Development Action Grant Program (CDAG) provides support for publicly owned or managed projects in areas where private investment will not otherwise occur without the CDAG grant. The goal is to stimulate economic development activities that will attract and leverage private investment, create or retain long-term employment and revitalize distressed areas.

Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund provides small infusions of capital to institutions that serve distressed communities and low-income individuals.

Community Development Financing through Deutsche Bank

Through its role as a financial services provider, Deutsche Bank seeks to create economic opportunities in distressed communities. Although Deutsche Bank has no retail branches within the Americas, the Bank's Community Development Group has developed many innovative and effective strategies for bringing capital to communities in need.

Community Development Funding through Wachovia

The Wachovia Community Development Finance Group specializes in deploying capital that supports affordable housing, economic revitalization, and small business enterprises throughout the East Coast of the United States. Eligible entities are ''for profit'' and ''non-profit'' businesses, real estate developers, and financial intermediaries.

Community Food Projects Grants Program 2010

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) invites applications for the Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program (CFPCGP) for fiscal year (FY) 2010 to support: (1) the development of Community Food Projects with a one-time infusion of federal dollars to make such projects self-sustaining; and (2) Planning Projects to assess the food security needs and plan long-term solutions to help ensure food security in communities. CSREES anticipates that the amount available for support of this program in FY 2010 will be approximately $5,000,000.

Community Food Projects Grants through Community Food Security Coalition

The Community Food Projects (CFP) Competitive Grants Program provides the major funding source for community-based food and agriculture projects nationwide.

Community Foundation for the Alleghenies -- Pennsylvania

Through grantmaking activities, the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies serves nonprofits in Bedford, Cambria, Indiana, and Somerset Counties in western Pennsylvania.

Community Garden Grants

Project Orange Thumb is a grant program that provides community garden groups with the tools and materials they need to reach their goals for neighborhood beautification and horticulture education.

Community Innovations Grants

The Boston Foundation announced $19 million in new grant awards to more than 100 nonprofit organizations serving Greater Boston. While the wide range of these grants speaks to the rich complexity of life in the region, each individual funding decision reflects a strategic commitment to increase impact, opportunity and innovation within the organizations that serve area residents.

Community Revitalization Funds

The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) provides grant funds to support local initiatives that promote community stability and quality of life through its Community Revitalization Program (CRP).

Community Revitalization Grants

The Surdna Foundation is accepting applications for its Community Revitalization Grants program to support projects that improve the quality and longevity of communities, such as through development that is walkable, environmentally sustainable, and cost-effective.

Community Revitalization Grants -- Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development sponsors the Community Revitalization Program. This program provides grants for community revitalization and improvement projects which in the judgment of the Department will improve the stability of the community; promote economic development; improve existing and develop new civic, cultural, recreational, industrial and other facilities; assist in business retention, expansion, stimulation and attraction; promote the creation of jobs and employment opportunities; or enhance the health, welfare and quality of life of citizens in the Commonwealth.

Community Toolbox for Children’s Environmental Health

Guided by a board comprised primarily of grassroots leaders, Community Toolbox supports community-based initiatives to protect children from environmental health hazards.

Community Trees Grants

Green Communities now offers Community Trees Grants, in partnership with The Home Depot Foundation, to affordable housing developers to strategically incorporate trees into their site plans. This program focuses on the remarkable economic, social and environmental contributions trees make to communities. The Foundation views trees as an untapped resource that can be used to help cities deal with the pollution of our air and water, cool our city streets, reduce crime, reduce asthma and improve our overall health.

Commuter Choice Tax Incentive

According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), it really does pay to ride transit. Federal law lets workers receive up to $115 a month in employer-paid tax-free transit costs, or take up to $115 a month in tax-sheltered payroll deductions for transit costs.

Connecticut Brownfields Cleanup Grants

The Connecticut Brownfields Redevelopment Authority (CBRA) has developed programs that encourage brownfield redevelopment by reducing costs, eliminating environmental uncertainly, and simplifying the regulatory process.

Connecticut Brownfields Funding

The State of Connecticut Office of Brownfields Remediation (OBRD) website provides a list of financial assistance sources for brownfield redevelopment projects, including sources from the U.S. EPA, the State of Connecticut and other programs that serve specific towns and regions of the state. The OBRD partners with all of them.

Connecticut Brownfields Redevelopment Authority Grants

The Connecticut Brownfields Redevelopment Authority provides assistance for remediation and redevelopment of brownfields anywhere in Connecticut that will generate future incremental municipal property tax revenues.

Connecticut Environmental Assistance Programs

The Connecticut Office of Brownfield Remediation and Development (OBRD) provides a list of State of Connecticut Environmental Assistance Programs on its website.

Connecticut Urban and Industrial Sites Reinvestment Tax Credit Program

The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development offers an Urban and Industrial Sites Reinvestment Tax Credit Program. This economic development tool designed to drive investment to the state's urban centers and other economically distressed communities without depleting valuable state bond dollars.

Conservation Capital: Sources of Public Funding for Land Conservation

Conservation Capital: Sources of Public Funding for Land Conservation is a guide from the Wilderness Society that describes some of the resources available to people and organizations interested in protecting the many values of forestlands, with a special focus on the eastern United States.

Conservation Innovation Grants

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is offering Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies while leveraging the Federal investment in environmental enhancement and protection, in conjunction with agricultural production.

Conservation Tax Incentive -- IRS Clarifications

In early 2007, the Land Trust Alliance submitted questions to the IRS and requested guidance on several questions regarding interpretation of the new law. The Land Trust Alliance has published on its website a detailed and summary document of the responses to these questions.

Conservation Tax Incentive 2008

The 2008 U.S. Farm Bill renews a powerful tax incentive which has helped conserve a million or more acres of farms, ranches and natural areas across the U.S. The incentive had expired January 1, but is now retroactive to the beginning of the year and will last through 2009.

D.C. Historic Preservation Grants

Beginning January 2007, District of Columbia homeowners within specific historic districts will be eligible to receive a grant valued at 35% of applicable D.C. income taxes toward the expenses of rehabilitating their homes.

D.C. Main Streets Program

The DC Main Streets program was created in 2002 to support the establishment and implementation of lasting, comprehensive revitalization initiatives in Washington, D.C.'s traditional neighborhood business districts. DC Main Streets' goal is to support retail investment in the District through the retention and expansion of existing businesses and the recruitment of new businesses.

DC Green Roof Subsidy Program

The Washington, DC District Department of the Environment (DDOE) offers a Green Roof Subsidy Program. This subsidy is now $5.00 per square foot, up to $20,000.00 per project for any eligible green roof project in the District of Columbia.

Development Incentives -- Seattle Department of Planning and Development, Seattle, Washington

The Seattle Department of Planning and Development maintains a Development Incentives section on its website. This feature provides an overview of incentives by project type, as outlined by city Green Building staff, to help you achieve your green building goals.

Education Campaign on Policy Barriers to Redevelopment of Vacant Properties (RFP)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking proposals to educate critical state decision- and policy-makers on policy and practical barriers to the redevelopment of abandoned and other vacant properties. Proposals are due August 27, 2007.

Education Grants

The National Geographic Society Education Foundation (NGSEF) was established in 1988 to celebrate National Geographic’s centennial and as a direct outgrowth of the Society’s charge to ''increase and diffuse geographic knowledge.''

Enabling Source Water Protection

Expressions of interest are being sought from states that can lead the country in developing and showcasing innovative ways to protect drinking water sources through improved coordination among state land use management and water protection programs.

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Funding

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) works with industry and outside agencies through two mechanisms: financial assistance and procurement.

Energy Efficiency and Renewables Grants

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE's) primary funding mechanism for businesses and outside organizations is the grant. The majority EERE financial opportunities are for business, industry, and universities.

Energy for Sustainability

The Energy for Sustainability program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports fundamental research and education in energy production, conversion, and storage and is focused on energy sources that are environmentally friendly and renewable. The program offers various grant opportunities in support of research toward sustainable energy sources.

Energy for Sustainability Funding -- 2008 Program

The Energy for Sustainability program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports fundamental research and education in energy production, conversion, and storage and is focused on energy sources that are environmentally friendly and renewable. Proposals for the 2008 program will be accepted August 15, 2008 to September 15, 2008.

Enhancing Ecosystem Services from Agricultural Lands

''Enhancing Ecosystem Services From Agricultural Lands: Management, Quantification, And Developing Decision Support Tools'' is the title of this funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), as part of its Agricultural and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Competitive Grants Program, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program.

Enterprise Community Loan Fund

A variety of short-term loan products are available through the Enterprise Community Loan Fund -- a certified Community Development Financial Institution -- for predevelopment, acquisition, working capital and other financing needs.

Enterprise Funding Database

Enterprise's Information Resources are lauded by professionals in the community development industry. The Enterprise Funding Database, formerly part of MoneyNet, helps locate public and private funding resources to support your organization and its programs.

Enterprise Receives HUD Funding to Provide Technical Assistance

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) named Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) as one of nine national organizations receiving funding to help local communities purchase, rehabilitate and resell foreclosed properties in especially hard-hit neighborhoods. The $7.1 million grant to Enterprise is part of a $50 million effort that HUD has launched to help state and local governments address the inventory of foreclosed properties, using the department's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).

Enterprise Technical Assistance

Through its local offices, Enterprise provides one-on-one expertise, through its staff or consultants, to help community-based organizations prepare their boards, partners, staff and administration to carry out their work.

Environment Education Grants

The Grants Program sponsored by EPA’s Office of Environmental Education supports environmental education projects that enhance the public’s awareness, knowledge, and skills to help people make informed decisions that affect environmental quality.

Environment Program

The Nathan Cummings Foundation offers the Environment Program, a funding opportunity that seeks to address the root causes of environmental degradation.

Environment Program -- Kresge Foundation

The Kresge Foundation is a national foundation that has been advocating environmental conservation for many years, especially through its Green Building Initiative. In June 2008, the Foundation decided to elevate this interest and expand it into a major, comprehensive program -- the Environment Program -- to cultivate solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, accelerate renewable energy technologies, and support efforts to help society adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Environmental Assistance Grants -- Minnesota

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Environmental Assistance Grant Program is a competitive, two-stage application process to identify and assist projects that will be most beneficial in meeting the Agency's mission of working with Minnesotans to protect, conserve, and improve Minnesota's air, land and water resources.

Environmental Education Funding

The Washington State Environmental Education Initiative offers a section on Environmental Education grants on its website.

Environmental Education Funding

The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) has compiled a resource listing of funding sources for capacity building.

Environmental Financial Tools

The Environmental Finance Program (EFP) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides financial technical assistance to the regulated community and advice and recommendations to the Agency on environmental finance issues, trends, and options. Among the resources offered by the EFP are environmental financial tools: sources of potential funding solutions.

Environmental Grants List

The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) offers an online directory, the National Library for the Environment Yellow Pages, which includes foundations and foundations that providing grants for environmental purposes.

Environmental Justice

The Norman Foundation of New York offers grants for environmental justice and other areas on an annual basis.

Environmental Justice Grants

The New York State DEC Office of Environmental Justice is now accepting grant applications from community organizations for projects that address environmental and related public health issues. Projects must address multiple harms and risks to communities and communicate project results to the community residents.

Environmental Justice Small Grants Awards

Fiscal Year 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of the U.S. EPA's Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (EJSG). Since its inception in 1994, the Program has awarded more than $20 million in funding to 1,130 community-based organizations, and local and tribal organizations working with communities who are facing environmental justice issues.

Environmental Justice Small Grants Program -- 2007 Awards

This report from the U.S. EPA documents the 2007 Awards and Project Descriptions from the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program.

Environmental Justice Small Grants Program -- 2008 Call for Applications

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published an Application Guidance document for its 2008 Environmental Justice Small Grants Program. Deadline for applications is June 30, 2008.

Environmental Restoration Program -- New York

Under the Environmental Restoration Program, the State of New York provides grants to municipalities to reimburse up to 90 percent of on-site eligible costs and 100% of off-site eligible costs for site investigation and remediation activities. Once remediated, the property may then be reused for commercial, industrial, residential or public use.

Environmental Stewardship Grants

Entergy's Environmental Stewardship Program funds innovative activities, programs, or projects that go beyond compliance with environmental laws and regulations in preserving and enhancing the environment.

EnviroTools: State Brownfield Programs

EnviroTools is a website guide to involve your community in the cleanup of a polluted site. To help answer the question: ''How do we clean up this mess?'' EnviroTools has assembled a collection of educational materials on Superfund and Brownfields sites, along with sites cleaned up under state programs. The site also has a section on financing.

EPA Announces Funding for Baltimore Brownfields Assessments

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Baltimore Development Corp. $400,000 in EPA brownfields funding to help assess abandoned industrial properties in Baltimore.

EPA Awards $71 Million to Help Brownfields Bloom into Productivity

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that nearly $71 million will be awarded to communities in 38 states to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Two territories and five tribal nations also will share the $70.7 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grants

The U.S. EPA offers brownfields cleanup grant opportunities that provide funding for a grant recipient to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites.

EPA Brownfields Funding Information

This website from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contains information on Brownfields funding for loans, job training, technical assistance, and other items related to brownfield remediation and management.

EPA CARE Grants 2008 -- Reduce Risks from Toxics

The U.S. EPA announces availability of funds for its Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) Program. Proposals are being sought to meet financial assistance needs for eligible entities through the new CARE program.

EPA Region 3 Brownfields Grants -- EPA Region 3 (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia)

The U.S. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides direct funding for brownfields assessment, cleanup, revolving loans, and environmental job training. To facilitate the leveraging of public resources, EPA’s Brownfields Program collaborates with other EPA programs, other federal partners, and state agencies to identify and make available resources that can be used for brownfields activities. In addition to direct brownfields funding, EPA also provides technical information on brownfields financing matters.

EPA Region 3 Water Quality Grants

The U.S. EPA Region 3 is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants interested in applying for Federal assistance for Water Quality Cooperative Agreements under the Clean Water Act for unique and innovative projects to be conducted within the Region 3 territory: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

EPA Region 6 Brownfields Job Training Grants -- EPA Region 6 (New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana)

This resource lists EPA Region 6 Brownfields Job Training Grants recipients from 1998 through 2007. Region 6 serves Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas and 65 Tribes. For Fiscal Year 2007, the U.S. EPA has selected the City of Camden, Arkansas, for a job training grant. Camden plans to train 30 participants and place at least 24 in environmental jobs. Students will be tracked using a specialized career planning system that will track graduates and provide them with support throughout their lifetime.

EPA Region 6 Brownfields Program -- EPA Region 6 (New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana)

As part of the U.S. EPA's initiative to reuse and revitalize contaminated property, the Brownfields Program provides funds and technical assistance to states, communities and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together to prevent, assess, safely cleanup, and sustainably reuse brownfields. This resource provides information on the U.S. EPA's Brownfields Program, including the Brownfields Revitalization Act, grants, technical tools and resources, as well as information on Brownfields projects across the country.

EPA Smart Growth: Grants 2003

EPA's Development, Community and Environment Division is seeking initial proposals for work on a variety of smart growth issues.

EPA Wetland Grants -- 2007

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for projects that support and build state/tribal/local government wetland programs. Proposals must be received by EPA by August 10, 2007.

EPA’s Five Star Restoration Grant Program

The Five Star Restoration Program brings together students, conservation corps, other youth groups, citizen groups, corporations, landowners and government agencies to provide environmental education and training through projects that restore wetlands and streams.

EPA’s P3 Award Competition

The P3 Award program is a national student design competition for sustainability focusing on people, prosperity, and the planet. The program is a partnership between the public and private sectors to progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the natural systems of the planet, and providing a higher quality of life for its people. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its affiliates offer the P3 Award competition to respond to the technical needs of the developed and developing world in moving towards the goal of sustainability.

EPA’s Pollution Prevention Grant

EPA created the P2 grant program under the authority of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. The grant program provides matching funds to state and tribal programs to support P2 activities across all environmental media and to develop state programs. EPA believes state-based environmental programs have the best opportunity to promote P2 because states have closer, more direct contact with industry and are more aware of local needs.

EPA's Brownfields Job Training Grants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers job training grants to teach environmental-cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near Brownfields sites. Grants go to non-profit organizations, educational institutions, community colleges, tribes, and state and local governments.

Equitable Development Funding

FOCUS is a regional incentive-based development and conservation strategy for the San Francisco, California Bay Area. FOCUS unites the efforts of four regional agencies -- ABAG, MTC, the Air District, and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) -- into a single program that encourages future growth in areas near transit and within the communities that surround the San Francisco Bay.

Fall 2008 EPA Greater Research Opportunities

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) program, is offering Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) undergraduate fellowships for bachelor level students in environmental fields of study.

Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program

The Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program (FRPP) provides matching funds to help purchase development rights to keep productive farm and ranchland in agricultural uses.

Farmers Market Promotion Program Grants -- 2009

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for competitive grants targeted to helping increase consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities. This is the fourth year of the grant program, the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP), which was authorized by the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 and amended by the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (the Farm Bill).

Farmland and Open Space Funding -- Michigan

The Michigan Department of Agriculture uses five methods for preserving farmland and open space in its Farmland and Open Space Preservation Program.

Federal Funding for Conservation

The Trust for Public Land (TPL) website offers a summary page featuring federal funding resources for conservation.

Federal Funding for Watershed Protection

The Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection Web site is a searchable database of financial assistance sources (grants, loans, cost-sharing) available to fund a variety of watershed protection projects.

Federal Funds for the National Historic Preservation Program

The Advisory Council for Historic Preservation (ACHP) publishes on its website an overview of Federal Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grants-in-aid for State, tribal, and local government programs.

Federal Grants Portal

Grants.gov is the electronic storefront for Federal grants. Details on grants for housing, environment, transportation, natural resources, and more are available.

Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits

The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program is one of the Federal government’s most successful and cost-effective community revitalization programs. The Preservation Tax Incentives reward private investment in rehabilitating historic properties such as offices, rental housing, and retail stores.

Federal Incentives for Renewable Energy

Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) currently tracks a select number of federal incentives that promote renewable energy. The incentives provided on this site are financial incentives primarily for residents and businesses.

Financial Incentives for Building Green Affordable Housing in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) has produced a two-page chart that provides information on funding resources for building green affordable housing.

Financial Resources for California Brownfields

Financial Resources for California Brownfields is a 2008 publication from the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) that provides an overview of the available financial mechanisms for funding brownfield redevelopment in California and describes several new and innovative programs.

Financial Resources for California Brownfields -- California

Financial Resources for California Brownfields is a packet that provides an overview of the available financial mechanisms for funding brownfield redevelopment in California and describes several new and innovative programs.

Financing Greenways

The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the University of Maryland features a web resource that includes trail-building cost estimates from several Virginia communities as well as techniques to help partner with community members, raise funds, and seek grants for greenway programs.

Financing Stormwater Management in EPA Region 3

The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) offers a toolbox on its website that highlights the most relevant resources for financing stormwater management in EPA Region 3: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Five Connecticut Brownfields Projects Funded

Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has announced five brownfield sites across the state will receive a total of $2.25 million to assist in redevelopment efforts under a pilot program proposed by Governor Rell and funded through the state Bond Commission.

Florida Brownfields Funding

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection offers this list of state Brownfields Funding projects supported by state and federal EPA Pilots and Programs.

Florida Brownfields Grants

The Florida Brownfields Association (FBA) has announced that five Florida communities have received new U.S. EPA Brownfields Grants: Treasure Coast RPC, City of Clearwater, City of Homestead, City of Miami, and City of Tampa.

Florida Brownfields Redevelopment

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection maintains a website for the Florida Brownfields Redevelopment Program. Covered topics include Targeted Brownfield Assessment, Petroleum Storage Systems, Solid and Hazardous Waste, Waste Cleanup, and Publications and Reports.

Ford Foundation Grantmaking

The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Featured areas in their Asset Building and Community Development grants program are Economic Development and Community and Resource Development.

Frontera Farmer Foundation Grants -- 2009

The Frontera Farmer Foundation is committed to promoting small, sustainable Midwestern farms serving the Chicago area, by providing them with capital development grants. Small local farms, which often struggle financially, are more likely to promote biodiversity by planting a wide range of produce and operate using organic practices. By their artisanal approach to agriculture, the freshness of their product and the variety of their offerings, these farmers insure the highest quality food while they add immeasurably to the fabric of their local rural community.

FTA Grant Programs

A major way FTA helps communities support public transportation is by issuing grants to eligible recipients for planning, vehicle purchases, facility construction, operations, and other purposes.

Funders and Stimulus

The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities has produced a summary information sheet of examples of how philanthropy is working with nonprofit leaders and state government to influence how economic recovery dollars are expended.

Funding Resources for Farmers Markets

The Farmers' Market Project promotes awareness among farmers' market managers of the increasing attention farmers' markets are receiving from private foundations, national-level non-governmental organizations, and new and existing opportunities for assistance from federal agricultural programs. The Project website includes a funding resources page, which provides information on financial assistance for local markets.

Funding Search Database

The Red Lodge Clearinghouse Funding Search resource is a searchable database of funding sources. Search options include by State, Interest, Type, or Funder, with subcategories for most options.

Funding Sources -- Bike and Pedestrian

New York Bikes! -- the official website of the New York Bicycling Coalition (NYBC) -- provides a list of funding sources for bicycle- and pedestrian-related projects.

Funding Sources -- Trails and Greenways

National Trails Training Partnership has added a list of funding sources for trails and greenways proponents to the resources and archives section of its website.

Grants for Cities

Grants for Cities, one of several specialized Grant Indexes available from Technology Grant and Resource News, provides grant information for U.S. cities and rural and urban municipalities.

Grants for Educators -- S.F. Bay Region

The Watershed Project is the sponsor of the Teacher Action Grants (TAG) program, which has distributed almost $380,000 to San Francisco Bay Area educators who have taken Kids in Creeks, Kids in Gardens, and Watching Our Watersheds workshops. By providing seed money in amounts up to $2,000 to cover direct expenses for classroom-based environmental studies, gardening, and restoration projects, Teacher Action Grants have educated and involved tens of thousands of students in local watershed-based projects, and increased awareness about natural resources in Alameda and Contra Costa counties for thousands of residents.

Grants/Loans Listing

NextStep offers a Grant and Loan program listing that includes dozens of grant and loan programs focused on sustainability.

Great American Main Street Awards -- 2009

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced winners of its 2009 Great American Main Street Awards (GAMSA). In 2009, the five GAMSA winners range from a colorful mid-Atlantic beach town with year-round appeal, to a Baltimore neighborhood with a seafaring past and a bright future, to California wine country's best-kept secret.

Green Acres Program -- NJ

This resource includes application documents, guidelines, and details for the New Jersey Green Acres Programs which aims to create a system of interconnected open spaces in New Jersey.

Green Building Funders Directory

The Green Building Funders Directory, from the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, was produced in conjunction with ''It's So Easy Funding Green: The First National Conference for Funders on Green Building and Green Neighborhoods,'' held in Cleveland in October 2005.

Green Building Funding

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains a webpage that lists funding resources for green building initiatives. EPA provides the links on this page to help users find a variety of funding sources including grants, tax-credits, loans, or others.

Green Building Funding

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains this web page on green building funding opportunities.

Green Building Funding

Numerous sources of funding for green building are available at the national, state and local levels for homeowners, industry, government organizations and nonprofits. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides this webpage with links to help you find a variety of funding sources including grants, tax-credits, loans, or others.

Green Building Grants

This resource from the Santa Monica Green Building Program promotes LEED™ certified buildings and Innovative Green Building Technologies.

Green Building Grants -- Illinois

The Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation invests in clean energy development and land preservation efforts, working with communities and citizens to improve environmental quality in Illinois.

Green Building Incentives -- California

California's Sustainable Schools website, produced by the Division of the State Architect (DSA), offers a diverse collection of sustainable building resources. The site is geared toward those interested and involved in designing, developing, and constructing high performance schools, such as school administrators and board officials, developers, architects, planners, researchers, teachers, parents, and others.

Green Building Initiative

The Kresge Foundation advances environmental conservation by awarding planning grants for sustainable design through its Green Building Initiative. The Foundation focuses its efforts on the renovation and historic preservation of existing structures, as well as new green construction.

Green Building Research Grants

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced recipients of its 2008 Green Building Research Fund grants. The Green Building Research Fund was created to spur research that will advance sustainable building practices and encourage market transformation.

Green Building Tax Credits

The Apollo Alliance offers a summary of green building tax credit programs and how they have been implemented in state governments. This discussion includes model language for a good general Green Building tax credit bill, and includes a copy of the State of New Jersey's legislation allowing for additional tax credits for developments that adhere to other smart growth principles, such as redeveloping brownfields, locating near public transit, and limiting land use for parking.

Green Building/Healthy Homes

The Housing Assistance Council helps local organizations build affordable homes in rural America by providing below-market financing, technical assistance, research, training and information services. HAC's programs focus on local solutions, empowerment of the poor, reduced dependency, and self-help strategies.

Green Communities Charrette Grants

Green Communities offers grants for up to $5,000 to assist housing developers with integrating green building systems in their developments and engage in a serious discussion of green design possibilities, Enterprise will award planning grants to affordable housing developers to coordinate green charrettes.

Green Communities Developer Incentives

Green Communities is designed to help developers, investors, and builders make the transition to a greener future for affordable housing. Led by Enterprise, The Enterprise Social Investment Corporation and the Natural Resources Defense Council, Green Communities provides a package of financial incentives and other resources to affordable housing developers across the country.

Green Communities Grants

Green Communities is a five-year, $555 million initiative to build more than 8,500 environmentally healthy homes for low-income families.

Green Communities Grants -- 2008

Enterprise and Green Communities are accepting planning and construction grants in the Green Communities Grants program. Up to $50,000 per project is now available.

Green Communities Loans

As part of The Green Communities Initiative, the Enterprise Community Loan Fund offers several lending products to support the development of affordable rental and homeownership housing that adheres to Green Communities Criteria.

Green Communities Offset Fund

Enterprise Community Partners has launched the Green Communities Offset Fund, an innovative new program that provides carbon offsets to create green homes for low-income families.

Green Connection Loan Fund

The Bay Area Local Initiative Support Corporation's (LISC's) Green Connection Loan Fund is designed to assist nonprofit housing organizations with financing affordable developments that integrate green building and energy efficiency into their projects.

Green Jobs Funding from U.S. Department of Labor

The U.S. Department of Labor announced $500 million for 5 grant solicitations to train workers for green jobs in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries.

Green Planning and Construction Grants

Enterprise and Green Communities offer planning and construction grants of up to $50,000 to cover planning and construction expenses associated with green construction items such as more efficient HVAC systems, green materials and energy efficient appliances. Grant funds are awarded on a competitive basis twice a year.

Green Retrofit Funding for Multifamily Housing

$250 million in loans and grants for energy and green retrofits in the multifamily assisted housing stock are the basis of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of Affordable Housing Preservation (OAHP) Green Retrofit Funding for Multifamily Housing program.

Green Schools Funding -- City of San Jose

The City of San Jose, California, maintains a web page on Funding for Green Schools on the Environmental Services pages of its website.

Green Schools Grants -- Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) manage the Green Schools Initiative, a funding program that helps communities conserve energy and use clean energy technologies to power school projects approved for construction by the MSBA.

Green Space Funding -- Atlanta, Georgia

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation aims to help develop a system of ''Great Parks'' in Atlanta, tied to the larger vision of how public space connects the entire community. By providing support, the Foundation wants to help create parks and ensure that they are high quality, well-maintained and protected. Most of all, they must be accessible and available to all the citizens.

Greenways Funding -- Federal and State

On the Pennsylvania Greenways Clearinghouse website you can view funding opportunities from federal and local sources, as well as Pennsylvania-related funding resources.

GreenWorks Grants: Fall 2009

GreenWorks! grants engage educators and their students with their local community in ''learning-by-doing'' environmental projects. Student leadership, service-learning, and community participation are the cornerstones to GreenWorks! projects. These grassroots action projects enable schools and youth organizations across the country to make a positive impact on their communities. Applications are now open for Fall 2009.

GSA Regional Studies Grants: Envisioning the Future of the Federal Workplace

In order to promote a guiding vision for the future of federal work in the Washington region, the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Public Building Service will award competitive grants in the range of $50,000 to $500,000 for coordination, planning, and research efforts that explore fundamental questions related to the form, location, and design of federal offices over the next 10 to 50 years in the National Capital Region. The maximum aggregate value of the grants is $500,000.

Gulf Coast Ecological and Community Health Fund

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have exposed the human and ecological costs of racial discrimination and unsustainable development. The rebuilding of New Orleans and Gulf Coast communities that have been damaged by these hurricanes is an historic opportunity for philanthropic organizations to participate in the Gulf Coast Ecological Health & Community Renewal Fund (the ''Fund'').

Healthy Communities Grant Program

EPA Region 1 is accepting proposals for the Healthy Communities Grant Program. Projects must benefit communities at risk (environmental justice areas of potential concern, places with high risk from toxic air pollution, urban areas) and sensitive populations (e.g. children, older adults, others at increased risk).

Healthy Community Grant Program

The Healthy Community Grant is a competitive program funded by Ward Edwards to encourage creative solutions for existing environmental problems, plant seeds for innovation in stewardship, and recognize tangible efforts that lead to long-term sustainable benefits. Ward Edwards will invest up to $10,000 in projects that promote or improve environmental sustainability in coastal South Carolina and Georgia.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Call for Proposals -- 2009

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) whose primary goal is to implement healthy eating and active living policy- and environmental-change initiatives that can support healthier communities for children and families across the United States. Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities places special emphasis on reaching children who are at highest risk for obesity on the basis of race/ethnicity, income and/or geographic location.

Heart and Soul Community Planning -- 2008 Request for Proposals

The Orton Family Foundation has issued a call for proposals for the 2008 Heart and Soul Community Planning award, open to communities in select New England and Rocky Mountain states. This is a partnership opportunity for four communities to receive funding and technical assistance on major community visioning and planning projects.

Heritage Preservation Fund Grants

The National Park Service offers grants through their Historic Preservation Fund (HPF). Since 1968, over $1 billion in grant funds has been awarded to 59 States, territories, Indian Tribes, local governments, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

High Performance Building Grant -- Virginia

The James River Green Building Council (JRGBC), a Chapter of the US Green Building Council, will be awarding a $10,000 grant to promote the inclusion of green features to schools and affordable housing projects in Central Virginia.

High Performance Building Grants -- Colorado

Rebuild Colorado, a program of the Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation, offers assistance to state agencies and higher education institutions to help design new buildings that will save year after year on utility costs, yet that are more comfortable, better lit, and affordable to build.

Historic Preservation -- Disaster Response

Disasters, natural and otherwise, can be devastating to historic properties. The American Council on Historic Preservation website includes a list of federal disaster relief programs that focus on providing financial assistance for structural rehabilitation after a disaster, or proactive efforts to reduce or prevent future potential damage.

Historic Preservation Funding

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a partner in the Smart Growth Network, maintains a page on its website focusing on Nonprofit Organization and Public Agency Funding for nonprofit organizations and federal, state, or local government agencies.

Historic Preservation Funding Grants -- Missouri

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorizes a program of federal matching grants, known as the Historic Preservation Fund, to assist the various states in carrying out historic preservation activities. The program is sponsored by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and in Missouri is administered through the State Historic Preservation Office of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Historic Preservation Revolving Funds

A preservation revolving fund is a pool of capital created and reserved for historic preservation, with the condition that the money will be returned to the fund to be reused for similar activities. It can be an effective tool to address blighted neighborhoods or run-down properties in your community, revitalize a historic district or commercial area, or demonstrate the economic and social benefits of historic preservation

Historic Preservation Tax Credits -- North Carolina

This resource outlines Preservation Tax Credits offered by North Carolina for historic properties located in the state.

Hope VI Main Street Grants

Main Street area revitalization efforts seek to rejuvenate older, downtown business districts while retaining the area's traditional and Historic character. The purpose of the HOPE VI Main Street Program is to provide assistance to smaller communities in the development of affordable housing that is undertaken in connection with a Main Street revitalization effort. Obsolete commercial offices or buildings can be reconfigured into rent producing affordable housing.

HUD Brownfields Funding -- 2007

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announces availability of funds for the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) for fiscal year 2007. These funds are designed to help strengthen security of loan guarantees.

Hudson River Valley Greenway Grants -- New York

The Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council provides community planning grants and technical assistance through the ''Greenway Communities Grant Program'' to help communities develop a vision for their future and tools to achieve it by balancing economic development and resource protection objectives.

Illinois Greening Main Street Grants 2006

Illinois' Lt. Governor Pat Quinn Genoa announced the inaugural round of Greening Main Street grants. These six unique projects will strengthen the economies of local communities while improving the health of their environments.

Illinois Schoolyard Habitat Action Grants

Hundreds of Illinois students have the opportunity to work on improving natural habitats outside of the classroom while supporting their studies through grant funding from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources' (IDNR) Division of Education Schoolyard Habitat Action Grant program. In 2008, eighteen organizations received nearly $8,800 in funds to support prairie plots, butterfly gardens, rain gardens, stormwater wetlands and bird sanctuaries that students will develop and use for natural resources research.

Indiana Brownfields Funding

The Indiana Brownfields Program works in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other Indiana agencies to assist communities in making productive use of their brownfield properties. The program mission is to encourage and assist investment in the redevelopment of brownfield properties by helping communities via educational, financial, technical and legal assistance to identify and mitigate environmental barriers that impede local economic growth.

Indiana Brownfields Funding

The Indiana Department of Commerce (IDOC) offers a brownfields redevelopment program funded through federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBG).

Innovative Community Planning Assistance Project

1000 Friends of Minnesota has been awarded a two-year, $1.5 million grant from the McKnight Foundation to implement a new project -- yet to be named -- to deliver direct planning and implementation assistance to 10 growing communities. The project will kick off in March 2008, when interested communities will be invited to submit a proposal to participate in the six-year process.

Innovative Solutions for Alaska’s Future -- Alaska

The Alaska Conservation Foundation's Conservation for the Majority Grant Docket: Innovative Solutions for Alaska’s Future was created to fund projects that will foster among the majority of Alaskans respectful, open discourse and action towards an Alaska where integration of economic development, environmental stewardship, and the well-being of all Alaskans is assured -- not just for today, but for generations to come.

Investment in America's National Parks

From the Statue of Liberty and Independence Hall to Yellowstone and Death Valley, the National Park Service will undertake more than 750 projects at parks across the country to create jobs, restore and protect our nation's parks, and preserve our history and heritage for future generations, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced in April 2009.

Iowa Housing Fund

Substandard and unaffordable housing supply is a national problem needing long-term solutions. Through the HOME and CDBG programs, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides financial assistance to state and local governments to implement housing strategies. The State of Iowa has elected to combine a portion of its CDBG funds with its HOME funds in a unique approach to funding housing activities.

Iowa's Infrastructure Investment Initiative

Iowa Governor Chet Culver today announced a $750 million plan to create jobs, strengthen the state's economy, and rebuild several critical areas of the state's infrastructure.

James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards Nominations 2008

Nominations are being accepted for the 2008 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards. The Leadership Awards recognize Californians who are advancing innovative and effective solutions to significant issues for the state's future. Individuals working within any sector -- nonprofit, public or private -- and within any field -- such as education, health, housing, economic development or the environment -- are eligible.

KaBoom Grants

One of the biggest challenges facing any community-built playground project is fundraising. That is why KaBOOM! offers communities occasional grant opportunities to begin or complete playspace projects.

Kaiser Permanente Community Fund

The Kaiser Permanente Community Fund (KPCF) at Northwest Health Foundation was established in late 2004 to advance the health of the communities served by Kaiser Permanente Northwest.

Kansas Green Schools Grants

Kansas Green Schools Grants are intended to encourage schools to develop creative, innovative, effective environmental projects to improve the environment; make schools a healthier place to learn, play, and work; and save money through reduced use of resources.

Kodak American Greenways Awards Program -- 2008

The Kodak American Greenways Awards Program, a partnership project of the Eastman Kodak Company, The Conservation Fund, and the National Geographic Society, provides small grants to stimulate the planning and design of greenways in communities throughout America.

Land Trust Alliance Grants

The Land Trust Alliance promotes voluntary private land conservation and strengthens the land trust movement by providing the leadership, information skills, and resources land trusts need to conserve land for the benefit of communities and natural systems.

Laura Jane Musser Fund Initiative to Promote Collaborative Process in Environmental Decision Making

The Laura Jane Musser Fund proposes to assist public or not-for-profit entities to initiate or implement projects in rural areas to undertake consensus-based activities in environmental stewardship or dispute resolution.

Leadership for a Changing World

Leadership for a Changing World recognizes, strengthens and supports leaders and highlights the importance of community leadership in improving people’s lives. The program seeks to confirm that resourceful leaders are bringing about positive change in virtually every community.

LISC 2008 Sustainable Communities Investments

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) invested $826MM in equity, loans and grants during 2008 to revitalize disinvested neighborhoods as part of its Building Sustainable Communities work.

LISC Awarded Funding for Neighborhood Stabilization

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) $3.6 million to provide technical assistance to help improve the effectiveness of neighborhood stabilization programs. The funding is part of HUD's $50 million effort to help state and local governments address the inventory of foreclosed properties assisted under the Department's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).

LISC Grants

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) provides technical and financial resources to help community development organizations become strong and stable neighborhood institutions characterized by effective and responsible fiscal management and capable of carrying out a range of community revitalization activities. Through its local program offices, LISC provides grant funding to assist organizations develop affordable housing, commercial and retail space, and community facilities, as well as other community development activities.

LISC Wins Funding from AmeriCorps

The Corporation for National and Community Service has awarded the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) nearly $2.1 million in grants to support 248 LISC AmeriCorps members as they help revitalize disadvantaged communities across the country.

Livable Communities Grant Program -- Minnesota

The Livable Communities Act (LCA, or Act), established in 1995, has three fund accounts in the Twin Cities region that enable local communities to carry out their development plans. The Act is expected to leverage billions of dollars in private and public investment while providing jobs and business growth.

Live Green Teacher Grants

The LIVE GREEN Teacher Grant program, a Discovery Education program presented by General Motors, challenges middle school teachers to develop innovative ideas for furthering environmental and energy sustainability. Teachers will identify an issue or problem, create a plan to address it, and integrate the topic into classroom teaching.

Living Shorelines Grants

The Chesapeake Bay Trust, in conjunction with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Restoration Center (NOAA), The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment, and its new partner, the Maryland Department of the Environment, is soliciting proposals to create and promote living shorelines in the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C portions of the Chesapeake Bay. This grant initiative is designed to reverse the trend of shoreline hardening by encouraging the creation of living shoreline restoration projects and by enhancing public awareness about the benefits of living shorelines.

Local Government Commission Funding Opportunities

The Local Government Commission (LGC) maintains a webpage on resources for energy-related financing, incentives, and education programs.

Local Innovation Fund

The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) established The Local Innovation Fund to support creative initiatives that benefit and provide connections between the local watershed, economy, and community.

Low Income Housing Tax Credits

2006 marked the 20th anniversary of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), a federal program that accounts for nearly 90 percent of all affordable rental housing created in the U.S. today. The LIHTC program has been instrumental in meeting the country's critical affordable housing shortage by stimulating the production or rehabilitation of nearly 2 million affordable rental homes.

Low-Income Housing Funding Information

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provide grants to low-income property owners and eligible mortgagors to provide cooperative housing for persons of low to moderate-income.

Lyndhurst Foundation -- Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

The Lyndhurst Foundation focuses on the enrichment and enhancement of the social, natural, and built environment in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the surrounding southeastern region. Lyndhurst Foundation grants are distributed primarily at the foundation's initiative.

Make It Your Own Awards™

Do you want to make a difference in your community? The Case Foundation is looking for inspired individuals and passionate teams who are connecting people to discuss what matters, find smart solutions, and take action. Grants up to $35,000 will be awarded to help make it happen.

Maryland Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund

The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) created this publication as a guide to its Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund.

Maryland Green Building Tax Credit

The State of Maryland offers a Green Building Tax Credit worth up to 8% of the total cost of the building. Buildings must be located in a priority funding area and be at least 20,000 square feet.

Maryland Historical Trust

The Maryland Historical Trust helps identify, study, evaluate, preserve, protect, and interpret the state's significant prehistoric and historic districts, sites, structures, cultural landscapes, heritage areas, cultural objects, and artifacts, as well as less tangible human and community traditions.

Maryland Restoration Grants

The Chesapeake Bay Trust provides grant funding for on-the-ground Chesapeake Bay restoration projects throughout Maryland, reaching thousands of students, organizations and community leaders each year. Since its inception in 1985, the Trust has awarded more than $20 million in grants, funding thousands of projects that have made a measurable impact on improving the Bay's health and restoring Maryland’s most treasured natural resource.

Maryland Smart Sites

Despite the enormous scope of the State of Maryland's Smart Growth program, developers often are not aware of all of the assistance available to them. The Maryland Smart Sites database was designed to centralize this information for targeted properties.

Massachusetts Commonwealth Capital Funding Awards

Commonwealth Capital explicitly endorses planning and zoning measures that are in accord with Administration policy and encourages municipalities to implement them by linking state spending programs to municipal land use practices.

Massachusetts Conservation Grants

The Massachusetts Division of Conservation Services (DCS) helps communities, nonprofits and private landowners protect open space and provide quality outdoor recreation experiences through accesss to financial support, planning tools and technical assistance.

Massachusetts Funding for Smart Growth

The Smart Growth Technical Assistance Grant Program, offered by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA), provides grants of up to $30,000 per community to implement smart growth zoning changes and undertake other activities that will improve local and regional sustainable development practices.

Massachusetts Grant and Loan Programs

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA), its four departments, several offices and divisions offer a wealth of programs to support community efforts to protect, enhance, and preserve the vital environmental resources of the Commonwealth while supporting growth, economic vitality, and a high quality of life for its citizens. Its publication, Grant and Loan Programs of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, outlines funding opportunities for a variety of projects.

Massachusetts Historic Landscape Preservation Grants

The Department of Conservation and Recreation's Historic Landscape Preservation Initiative sponsors special initiatives and offers technical assistance and training to support the preservation of historically significant landscapes throughout the Commonwealth.

Massachusetts Land and Water Conservation Fund

The Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF, P.L.88-578) provides up to 50% of the total project cost for the acquisition, development and renovation of park, recreation or conservation areas. Municipalities, special districts and state agencies are eligible to apply.

Match Programs with Funders

The StEPP Foundation (Strategic Environmental Project Pipeline) has funding available for energy, energy efficiency or pollution prevention projects around the country. Help increase the number of environmental projects taking place in your community by applying today.

Metro Greenways Planning Grants

Metro Greenways planning grants from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) were created to support implementation agencies in carrying out comprehensive natural resource inventories and local greenway plans in order to create a regional network of protected, restored, and connected lands.

Midwest Assistance Program Loan Fund -- Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming

The Midwest Assistance Program is providing low-cost, short and intermediate term loans for community water and wastewater projects through its Community Revolving Loan Fund.

Minnesota Brownfields Assistance

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) offers technical and financial assistance to parties involved with brownfield sites. The MPCA can also issue liability assurance letters through its VIC and Petroleum Brownfields (formerly VPIC) programs.

Minnesota Environmental Assistance Grants -- 2009

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has officially announced the opening of the Fiscal Year 2009 Environmental Assistance Grant Round for application. The Minnesota Legislature established this environmental assistance grant program to provide financial assistance in the development of environmentally sustainable practices in Minnesota through voluntary partnerships and goal-oriented, economically driven approaches to pollution prevention and resource conservation.

Minnesota Grants

The Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA) is a nonregulatory agency that works to improve the state's environment through partnerships, technology transfer, technical assistance, education, research, and matching grants.

Minnesota Green Infrastructure Grant -- 2008

Is your community struggling with how and where to grow while at the same time wanting to be proactive and conserve those natural habitats you all love? The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources's Metro Greenways Program is designed to assist local governments with Green Infrastructure, a way of planning for and implementing conservation and development projects that adopts a ''bigger picture,'' systemic and proactive approach.

NACCHO's Foundation Funding Guide

The National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) offers an online Foundation Funding Guide, a resource for consolidated, customized private funding opportunities. You can select from 18 funding-related topics and specify the state in which you intend to apply, and the Funding Guide will provide a list of foundations that match your criteria. Deadlines, contact information, grant limitations, and award amounts are summarized and easy to search.

NAR Diversity Initiative Grants -- 2009

Local and state associations can apply for financial support for programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in our increasingly diverse communities. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) offers two opportunities to apply for grants in 2009.

NAR Smart Growth Action Grants -- 2009

To increase the effectiveness of state and local REALTOR® association efforts in creating livable communities, the National Association of Realtors' (NAR's) Smart Growth Action Grant program is available to support your efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.

NAR Smart Growth Grants -- Spring 2008

To increase the effectiveness of local association efforts in creating livable communities, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has established a grant program to assist your efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.

National Association of Realtors® Smart Growth Grants

The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) Action Grant program can assist your efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.

National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants

The National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program provides States with a means of protecting and restoring these valuable resources. Projects can include purchasing easements and/or fee title acquisitions.

National Geographic Society Conservation Trust Grants

Conservation Trust Grants from the National Geographic Society support conservation activities around the world as they fit within the mission of the National Geographic Society. The trust will fund projects that contribute significantly to the preservation and sustainable use of the Earth's biological, cultural, and historical resources.

National Historic Trust School RFP

To help localities site their schools in a way that not only achieves their educational objectives, but also anchors the local neighborhood, supports better public health, creates a cleaner environment, spurs economic development, and offers additional amenities to the community, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has launched a new policy program, ''Helping Johnny Walk to School,'' through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and with generous funding from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund.

National Integrated Water Quality Program

The goal of the National Integrated Water Quality Program (NIWQP) is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of our nation's surface water and groundwater resources through research, education, and extension activities. Projects funded through this program will work to solve water resource problems by advancing and disseminating the knowledge base available to agricultural, rural, and urbanizing communities.

National Organic Program Assistance

The National Organic Program, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, develops, implements, and administers national production, handling, and labeling standards for organic agricultural products.

National Preservation Endowment

The National Preservation Endowment provides financial assistance to support the work of preservationists across the country. Whether it's an emergency grant to protect a threatened landmark or a lead investment to leverage rehabilitation tax credits in a historic district, the National Preservation Endowment makes it possible for the National Trust to nurture the work of preservation across America -- one unique challenge at a time.

National Preservation Endowment Financial Assistance Programs Brochure

The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides financial assistance to support the work of preservationists from across the country. This brochure describes several of the programs offers by the National Trust.

National Trust Financial Center

The National Trust, through its financial assistance programs, demonstrates that preserving our heritage improves the quality of life in American communities. The National Trust's grant and loan programs have assisted thousands of innovative preservation projects that protect the continuity, diversity, and beauty of our communities.

National Trust Small Deal Fund (SDF)

The National Trust Small Deal Fund provides a unique service within the historic tax credit industry by investing in very small historic tax credit projects generating as much as $650,000 in tax credit equity (about $3.5 million in total development costs) or as little as $200,000 in tax credit equity (about $1.2 million in total development costs).

National Vacant Properties Technical Assistance

To ensure that municipalities don't struggle alone in solving the problems associated with vacant and abandoned properties, the National Vacant Properties Campaign engages its partners, practitioners, and national experts in a range of training and technical assistance services.

Natural Capital Investment Fund

The Conservation Fund's Natural Capital Investment Fund (NCIF) provides debt and equity financing to small and emerging natural resource-based businesses that will advance sustainable economic development throughout North Carolina, Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and West Virginia. NCIF's business clients are predominately located in economically distressed rural communities and are unable to access capital from traditional sources.

Natural Capital Investment Fund -- West Virginia

The Natural Capital Investment Fund (NCIF) is a nonprofit certified Community Development Financial Institution that provides financing for natural resource-based businesses that will advance sustainable economic development throughout West Virginia.

Nature in Neighborhoods Restoration and Enhancement Grants

Metro Portland (Oregon) is now accepting grant applications for projects that connect citizens to their watershed through hands-on restoration activities and environmental education.

Nevada Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund

The Nevada Brownfields Program operates a $2 million dollar revolving loan fund intended to help property owners or developers cover the costs associated with the cleanup of sites with environmental contamination.

Nevada Brownfields Funding Application

The State of Nevada's Division of Environmental Protection currently operates a $2 million dollar revolving loan fund intended to help property owners or developers cover the costs associated with the cleanup of sites with environmental contamination, or brownfields.

New England Brownfields Funding

The U.S. EPA has produced a set of tables that track yearly distribution of dollar amounts to states for Brownfields Programs in the New England states.

New England Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund

The U.S. EPA's Region 1 Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (BCRLF) web site -- serving Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont & Tribal Nations -- contains dozens of documents designed to help with brownfield remediation in the New England region.

New England EPA Brownfields Funding

This website provides information on financial assistance available from the U.S. EPA Brownfields Program for Region 1, serving the New England region, including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and nine Tribal Nations.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is a small grants program designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It provides grants of up to $2,500 to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- 2007 Programs

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Fund provides grants to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- 2008 Boston Grants Initiative Applications

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Fund provides grants to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- 2008 Small Grants Program Applications

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Fund provides grants to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- 2009 Boston Grants Initiative Applications

The purpose of the New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) Boston Grants Initiative is to increase engagement and citizen participation on environmental health, environmental justice and greenspace issues in greater Boston. The Initiative is designed to help increase the number of citizens involved in concrete actions that improve the quality of the environment and public health.

New England Small Grants

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Fund uses networking, skills-building, and grantmaking to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.

New Jersey Historic Trust Funding Programs

The New Jersey Historic Trust was created to preserve New Jersey's historic resources across the state for the benefit of future generations. The trust pursues this goal through education, stewardship and financial investment programs that save our heritage and strengthen our communities.

New Jersey Predevelopment Loan and Acquisition for Nonprofits (NJPLAN)

The New Jersey Predevelopment Loan and Acquisition for Nonprofits (NJPLAN) is a designated fund within TRF that provides low-cost, early-stage funding to nonprofit housing developers.

New Jersey Smart Future Grants Awarded

The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has announced that it will award more than $1.3 million in Smart Future Grants to 23 municipalities and organizations in New Jersey.

New Jersey Smart Growth Planning and Program Resources:Technical and Financial Assistance

This document contains a variety of grant, loan and technical assistance programs that are relevant to planning and infrastructure support in New Jersey.

New Jersey Smart Growth Programs

Looking for information on Smart Growth Programs in the Garden State? PSE&G's website provides a list of some of the programs available in New Jersey that are designed to promote redevelopment and assist in closing the financial gaps and minimizing disincentives associated with redevelopment projects.

New Jersey Transit Improvements

Looking for information on transit improvements in the Garden State? This database of funding and technical assistance opportunities for municipalities trying to create and implement smart transportation and land use plans is the place to start.

New York Brownfield Opportunity Program

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program provides municipalities and community-based organizations with assistance to complete area-wide approaches to brownfields redevelopment planning.

New York Grant Opportunities -- Coastal Resources

The Division of Coastal Resources at New York State's Department of State works in partnership with community groups, non-profit organizations, state and federal agencies, and local governments to make communities better places to live, work and visit. The Coastal Resources Online website includes funding opportunities for community revitalization.

New York Land Conservation Grants -- 2007

The Land Trust Alliance (LTA), in partnership with New York’s land trust community and the State of New York, developed an initiative to secure annual appropriations from the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) to build land trust capacity and accelerate the pace of strategic land conservation across the state.

New York Main Street Funding

Founded in 2004, New York Main Street was created to provide funding for Main Street and downtown revitalization efforts, help coordinate and guide efforts among State agencies, and to serve as a resource to communities looking for financial and technical assistance to revitalize their Main Street.

New York Parks and Trails Funding

Parks & Trails New York's Capacity Building Grants program for park and trail groups provides grants of up to $3,000 to strengthen not-for-profit organizations that are working to build and protect parks and trails in communities across the state.

New York Quality Communities Grants Winners

A total of $3 million will be awarded to fifty-one projects, including the drafting of neighborhood plans, comprehensive plans, agricultural protection plans, transportation plans, economic development plans, new zoning laws, and more under the New York Quality Communities Grants Program of 2006.

New York State Smart Growth Grants

The New York State Smart Growth website offers a comprehensive list of grant opportunities for New York State.

NJ Smart Growth Grants & Awards

The New Jersey Office of Smart Growth offers a website that lists grant information for communities in the Garden State.

Notice of funding availability, open space and preservation initiatives, and award notifications are among the items listed on this online resource.

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NOAA Funding Opportunities

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center lists grant and cooperative agreement awards through its website.

Non-Profit Organization and Public Agency Funding for Historic Preservation

The National Trust for Historic Preservation maintains a resource page on its website with resources to help non-profit organizations with preservation projects. The National Trust's Historic Building Information Sheet can help you get started, along with publications from Preservation Books, including Quest for Funds Revisited: A Fundraising Starter Kit and Successful Fundraising Activities for Preservation Organizations.

Norcross Loan Fund for Land Protection

In an effort to facilitate the land conservation work of grassroots organizations across the country, The Norcross Wildlife Foundation is offering a rare source of financial support, a No-Interest Loan Fund for Land Protection.

North Carolina Rural Brownfields Opportunities

The Brownfields Program of the North Carolina Division of Waste Management includes a focus on rural areas. Many of the state's rural industries have taken hard economic hits over that last few decades, making rural areas ripe for brownfields redevelopment. Currently, about a third of the Brownfields Program's projects are in small towns and rural areas across the state.

North Central Region SARE Grant Program

The USDA's North Central Region (NCR) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has awarded more than $30 million worth of competitive grants to farmers and ranchers, researchers, educators, public and private institutions, nonprofit groups, and others exploring sustainable agriculture in 12 states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grants

The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program provides grants and information to improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life. The Northeast Region is made up of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.

NYC Venture Philanthropy Fund

The New York City Venture Philanthropy Fund (NYC-VPF) is a giving circle of individuals living in New York City who support local social entrepreneurs. The group's mission is to supply collective capital, technical skills and access to professional networks in support of emerging, entrepreneurial projects focused on tackling persistent social and economic problems in New York City.

Ohio Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund

The Ohio Department of Development manages a Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that is capitalized by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA. This fund offers below-market rate loans to assist with the remediation of a brownfield property to return it to a productive economic use in the community.

Ohio Brownfields Redevelopment Funds

The Clean Ohio Assistance Fund (COAF) is a $10 million annual appropriation dedicated to brownfield redevelopment in eligible areas.

Ohio Green Communities Funding

Ohio Green Communities is a collaboration of the Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (OCCH), Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) and the Ohio Department of Development's Office of Energy Efficiency and Enterprise with support from National City Community Development Corporation. The collaborative finances affordable homes in Ohio that promote health, conserve energy and natural resources, and provide easy access to jobs, schools and services.

Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit

The Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit (OHPTC) program provides a tax credit for the rehabilitation expenses to owners of historically significant buildings.

Open Space Institute Conservation Loan Fund

The Conservation Loan Program provides short-term, low-interest bridge loans to non-profit, conservation organizations working to permanently protect open space.

Open Space Institute Loan Fund

The Open Space Institute has created a revolving loan fund to help efforts to protection threatened landscapes in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, including parts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.

Open Space, Parks and Farmland Protection Funding -- NJ

Acting New Jersey Governor Richard J. Codey emphasized his commitment to preserving open space and protecting natural resources by signing 12 bills dedicating nearly $353 million to open space acquisitions, farmland preservation and park development projects throughout the state.

Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Grants

The Pedestrian and Bicycle Grant Program is a competitive grant program that provides approximately $5 million dollars every two years to Oregon cities, counties and ODOT regional and district offices for design and construction of pedestrian and bicycle facilities. Applications for the 2010—2011 Grant Cycle must be postmarked by July 25, 2008.

Pacific Northwest Environmental Grants

Social Venture Partners (SVP) of Seattle, Washington, provides grants to promote a healthy future for all life in the Pacific Northwest by fostering environmental stewardship that is ecologically based and economically sound.

PARC Grants -- Massachusetts

In a November 2008 announcement from Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles, the city of Salem was awarded $500,000 to renovate and revitalize Furlong Park. The multi-faceted shoreline park is among 20 local projects across Massachusetts receiving nearly $7.4 million in FY 2009 Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities (PARC) grants. Funding for PARC grants comes from the Energy and Environment Bond Bill signed by Governor Patrick in August.

Park Funding by State

The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) offers state park funding Fact Sheets on its website.

Patagonia Environmental Grants

Patagonia, a California-based outdoors clothing and sporting accessories company, supports small, grassroots activist environmental organizations nationally and internationally. The company's grants particularly seek to help local groups working to protect local habitat.

Pedestrian and Bicycling Funding

The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center's (PBIC's) funding sources page provides guidance to planners, engineers, private citizens, advocates, educators, police enforcement and the health community for help in funding pedestrian and bicycle trail projects.

Pennsylvania -- Industrial Sites Reuse Program

The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) offers grants and low-interest loan financing to perform environmental site assessment and remediation work at former industrial sites.

Pennsylvania Green Building Fund

The Green Building Fund was created by the CL Fund to assist building owners and developers with the implementation of green building practices. The Fund provides a source of flexible financing to qualified developers who plan to integrate green design into either new construction or rehabilitation projects.

Physical Education Grants

The Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) to initiate, expand, or enhance physical education programs, including afterschool programs, for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Pittsburgh Green Building Funding

The Pittsburgh Green Building Fund was created by the CL Fund to assist building owners and developers with the implementation of green building practices.

Planet Connect Grant Program

Planet Connect is a new online network for High School students to learn about the environment plus green college and career options. Program organizers are looking for creative ideas to fix an environmental problem at your school or in your community.

Plant a Tree in DC Rebate

Because trees provide extraordinary environmental and community benefits, Casey Trees and the District Department of the Environment (DDOE) have teamed up to offer a rebate of up to $50 to individuals who plant a tree on private property in Washington, D.C.

PPS Farmers Market Grants

Twelve farmers markets across the United States will grow and diversify their operations, while broadening the social, cultural, and economic impacts on the communities they serve. They are the recipients of 12 grants, totaling $211,000, which were awarded by Project for Public Spaces (PPS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities worldwide. PPS received 262 proposals from 46 states in this new, highly competitive and sought-after grant initiative.

Preservation Funding -- New York

The Landmark Society of Western New York offers a funding chart on their website listing historic preservation resources and organizations that fund specific projects.

Preservation Funding -- Vermont

The Vermont Heritage Network (VHN) offers a comprehensive list of state and national resources for funding preservation activities.

Preservation Maryland Heritage Fund

The Preservation Maryland Heritage Fund provides direct assistance for the protection of endangered cultural resources and promotes innovative demonstration projects that can be successfully replicated to meet Maryland's historic preservation needs.

Preserving Historic Schools -- Ohio

The Ohio Historical Society offers this website with ideas to help your community plan for the long-term preservation of historic school buildings, for continued school use or adapted for new uses.

Priority Development Fund -- Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development and MassHousing announced a $3 million program from the MassHousing Priority Development Fund (PDF) to assist communities in the early stages of housing development.

Project Learning Tree School Grants -- 2008

Applications are now open for Fall 2008 Project Learning Tree school grants. Since 1992, Project Learning Tree has distributed approximately $565,000 to fund over 810 environmental projects in communities across the country. Elementary, middle, high school and college students are planting trees, designing native plant gardens, restoring streams and riparian habitats, constructing hiking trails, starting composting projects, and investigating alternative sources of energy, among other projects.

Project Orange Thumb Community Garden Grant -- 2009

Project Orange Thumb is a grant program that provides community garden groups with the tools and materials they need to reach their goals for neighborhood beautification and horticulture education.

Protecting the Health of Older Americans Grants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded nineteen organizations a total of $492,180 in EPA Aging Initiative grants to better understand how to reduce the environmental health hazards associated with older persons.

Purchase of Agricultural Easements Sources of Funding

This fact sheet from the American Farmland Trust's Farmland Information Center provides an overview of funding sources for purchase of agricultural conservation easement (PACE) programs, and identifies some issues to address when deciding how to pay for easements.

Raise the Funds Action Toolkit

The Campus INpower (CIP) Raise the Funds Action Toolkit is a free, downloadable action guide to help college students across the country design and create large campus funds. It offers seven unique models for creating funds, ranging from the tens of thousands to several million dollars each.

RCP: Market Barriers to the Sustainable Development of Brownfields

The Northeast-Midwest Institute is seeking a qualified consultant or contractor to support the ''Market Barriers to Sustainable Development of Brownfields'' Project. The project involves supporting and drawing conclusions from two sustainable development conferences.

Recovery Fund Investments by State

Do you want to know what Recovery Act funds are now at work in your state? Federal agencies are beginning to report their weekly state-by-state distributions of the money. By using the Recovery.gov Investments by State map resource, you'll be able to track the funds coming into your state.

Recreational Trails Fund -- California

California State Parks offers the Recreational Trails Program (RTP), providing funds annually for recreational trails and trails-related projects.

Recreational Trails Program

The U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, offers a Recreational Trails Program Fact Sheet on its website.

Reducing GHG Emissions Through Energy Efficiency in Homes and Buildings

EPA's Climate Protection Partnerships Division seeks proposals from eligible entities to advance national, regional, state, and local energy efficiency programming by using market-based approaches to program design and delivery by fostering information exchange on policies that support these approaches. Proposals must demonstrate the potential to create a sustainable change in the market for energy efficient products, services, and best practices.

Eligible Entities: Proposals will be accepted from states; local governments; territories; Indian tribes; possessions of the United States, including the District of Columbia; international organizations; public and private universities and colleges; hospitals; laboratories; and other public or private non-profit institutions.

Applications are due September 2, 2010.

For more information, view the RFP at the link below.

Regional Prosperity Initiative Grants -- Michigan

To strengthen the voice of regions in Michigan, People and Land (PAL) has launched its Regional Prosperity Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to foster multi-sector and multi-jurisdictional collaboration at the regional level as a means for advancing economic, social, and environmental progress in Michigan.

Rehabilitation Tax Credits

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has assembled an online resource focusing on rehabilitation tax credits. Available through the Advocacy section of the National Trust's website, this resource covers tax credits at both the federal and state levels.

Resource Conservation Funds

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 is soliciting proposals to fund projects that address solid waste reduction, recycling, and management, priority chemical reduction, and waste tires management and recycling issues at the local, State, regional and/or national levels.

Resources for Protecting Your Community

The National Trust for Historic Preservation (the National Trust) empowers people with information and financial assistance so they can revitalize the residential and business districts in their own communities. The National Trust offers many different resources to help you protect and preserve your community through its website.

Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program

The Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program (RTCA, or Rivers & Trails), provides technical assistance to locally led natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation projects. The project applicant may be a state or local agency, tribe, non-profit organization, or citizens' group. Federal agencies, including the National Park Service, may apply only in collaboration with a non-federal partner. RTCA does not provide financial assistance to support project implementation.

Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program

The U.S. National Parks Service's Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program (RTCA) offers funding for projects that protect important natural resources or enhance outdoor recreation opportunities.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) sustainable development grantmaking supports environmental stewardship that is ecologically based, economically sound, socially just, culturally appropriate, and consistent with intergenerational equity. The Fund encourages government, business, and civil society to work collaboratively on environmental conservation and to make it an integral part of all development planning and activity.

Rose Fellowship

The Enterprise Foundation offers the Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship, designed to promote architectural and community design in low-income neighborhoods. The focus is on improving the quality of life through design that promotes human interaction.

RTC's Trails Funding Guide

The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s (RTC's) Trails and Greenways Funding Guide is a searchable database containing information about a variety of federal, state and private funding sources for trails and greenways.

Safe Routes to School Authorizations

The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) guarantees funding for highways, highway safety, and public transportation totaling $244.1 billion. It's the largest surface transportation investment in U.S. Included in this program is a new core Highway Safety Improvement Program that is structured and funded to make significant progress in reducing highway fatalities, including safe routes to schools for children. This resource summarizes SAFETEA-LU provisions concerning the Safe Routes to School Program.

Safe Routes to School Funding

Safe Routes to School Funding, from the Active Living Resource Center Web site, provides guidance in securing funds for safe routes to school.

Safe Routes to School Funding

The Active Living Resource Center has prepared a web page describing options for Safe Routes To School Funding (SRTS).

Safe Routes to School Funding -- Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania's first Federal Safe Routes to School (FSRTS) application cycle officially opens May 5, 2008. For the opening 2008 round, $12,649,000 is available for infrastructure improvements. Additional funding rounds will be conducted in future years, but the timeline and amount available are dependent upon several factors, including the reauthorization of the FSRTS program in the next Federal Transportation Bill.

Sample Brownfields Funding Mechanisms

The U.S. EPA has numerous Brownfields resources on their website. This resource contains information on Sample Brownfields Funding Mechanisms, to be used in the redevelopment of brownfields.

San Diego Smart Growth Funding Programs

The San Diego, California chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) produced this PowerPoint presentation outlining TransNet Smart Growth Funding Programs.

San Francisco Green Communities Funding

The Mayor's Office of Housing (MOH), the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) and Enterprise have joined forces to invest at least $100 million worth of incentives to build 600 new homes in San Francisco that promote health, conserve energy and natural resources, and provide easy access to jobs, schools and services.

San Jose Go Green Mini-Grants

The goal of the San José Go Green Mini-grants Program is to promote environmental stewardship in the current student generation. Mini-grants are intended to foster school-wide and in- classroom recycling and other environmental actions and environmental education.

SARE Funding Opportunities

SARE is a competitive grants program providing grants to researchers, agricultural educators, farmers and ranchers, and students in the United States.

School Funding: Facilities and Cleanup

Home improvement retailer Lowe's will donate $5 million to public schools and public school parent teacher groups -- at more than 1,000 different public schools per school year through the Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant program.

School Garden Grants

The California School Garden Network acts as a central organization to distribute school garden resources and support throughout the state. The Network's Grants and Fundraising page provide a comprehensive list of funding resources geared toward classrooms and adolescent and school health programs.

Schoolyard Greening Funding: St. Louis

The Missouri Botanical Garden has partnered with the South Side Day Nursery (SSDN) in St. Louis to establish a tailored schoolyard gardening program.

Schoolyard Habitat Grants

The Chesapeake Bay Trust sponsors a Mini Grants program with awards of up to $5,000 for projects that address one or more of the Trust's grant making priorities. The majority of Mini Grant applications are submitted by schools for field experiences and on-the ground student service projects. However, organizations and agencies may also submit grants for small projects and public awareness initiatives.

Schoolyards to Playgrounds Funding: New York City

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe cut the ribbon on the new playground at P.S. 205 on June 12, 2009, as part of the Mayor's PlaNYC initiative to ensure that all New Yorkers live within a ten minute walk of a park or playground.

Securing Green Retrofit Stimulus Funds

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued application and eligibility guidance for its ''Green Retrofit Program for Multifamily Housing'' on May 13, 2009. The $250 million loan and grant program is funded by the economic stimulus bill enacted in February (P.L. 111-5), and is limited to properties receiving HUD project-based assistance.

Senior Transportation Demonstration Grants

The National Center on Senior Transportation (NCST) is soliciting proposals from aging/human service agencies, tribal organizations, faith-based organizations, units of state and local government, public and private transportation providers, and other entities interested in developing and implementing innovative approaches to increasing senior transportation options and improving older adult mobility.

Service Grants Program

Through Service Grants, Taproot Foundation works to provide high-potential nonprofit organizations with the tools and services necessary to maximize the impact of their critical work in the community.

Silicon Valley Neighborhood Grants -- California

Silicon Valley Community Foundation is focused on innovative solutions that solve problems and improve the quality of life throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. As a new foundation, the organization will take time to examine the needs across the region and evaluate the best practices of its parent foundations before launching a new, regional grantmaking strategy in mid-2007.

Site Assistance and Brownfield Revitalization Program -- Ohio

The Site Assessment & Brownfield Revitalization Program (SABR), a program of the Ohio EPA's Division of Emergency and Remedial Response, serves as the contact for brownfields or contaminated sites not yet in any cleanup program.

Small Farm Funding Resources

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Rural Information Center offers a Small Farm Funding Resources guide that contains information about issues to consider before starting a farming operation, with links to full-text guides on how to start a farm business and develop business and marketing plans.

Smart Future Planning Grant Awards

The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) offers this website listing Smart future Planning Grant Awards.

Smart Growth Action Grants -- NAR

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has established a grant program to assist efforts that implement programs and activities positioning REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.

Smart Growth Action Grants Recipients

The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) established the Smart Growth Action Grants Program to assist efforts to implement programs and activities that position REALTORS® as leaders in improving their communities by advancing smart growth.

Smart Growth Financing -- New Jersey

To encourage development in urban areas, the New Jersey Environmental Financing Program (EIFP) offers a special low-rate loan for qualifying Smart Growth projects.

Smart Growth Network Web Site Request for Proposals

The Development, Community, and Environment Division in U.S. EPA's Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation is soliciting proposals for a funding opportunity entitled Smart Growth Network Website. Under this solicitation, U.S. EPA intends to fund the development and ongoing maintenance of a website for the Smart Growth Network (SGN). Deadline for proposals is January 12, 2009.

Solar America Cities 2008

Through the Solar America Cities 2008 Funding Opportunity Announcement, the U.S. Deparment of Energy (DOE) will provide funding as well as tailored Technical Assistance to the recipient cities to support their efforts in developing a comprehensive, systemic, city-wide approach to solar technology that facilitates mainstream adoption and provides a model for other cities. Under this Solar America Cities 2008 effort, DOE is looking for cities to commit to achieving a sustainable solar infrastructure, not simply a year or two of experimental solar projects.

Solar America Initiative

The Solar America Initiative is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) effort to make solar energy cost-competitive with conventional forms of electricity by 2015. The strategy pursues complementary activities in research and development (R&D) and in market transformation. The goals are to reduce costs through R&D and to eliminate market barriers through deployment.

State Farm Community Services Grants

State Farm® focuses its service grants to communities in three areas: Safe Neighbors (safety), Strong Neighborhoods (community development), and Education Excellence (education).

State Funding Profiles -- By State

The Conservation Finance Program of the Trust for Public Land gathers information on state funding for parks and open space conservation.

State Policy Options for Funding Transportation

From the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices comes State Policy Options for Funding Transportation (NGA Center), a new issue brief that examines the transportation finance challenges faced by states and outlines tools available to address them.

Strategic Agricultural Initiative Program Grants

American Farmland Trust's Center for Agriculture in the Environment manages the Strategic Agricultural Initiative Program for U.S. EPA Region 5 and EPA Region 10. These are small grant programs that help growers implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Grant Program -- Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) will award up to $150,000 for the 2009 Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Grant Program. Competitive grants for up to $25,000 are awarded to individuals or groups for on-farm sustainable agriculture research or demonstration projects in Minnesota.

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grants -- Western Region

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grants (SARE grants) are used to increase knowledge about sustainable agricultural practices and to help farmers and ranchers adopt those practices. The Western SARE program administers grants in several categories that help it achieve those aims. Each grant operates on an annual cycle and is selected through a competitive process.

Sustainable Building Grants Contacts -- California

The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) provides funding opportunities to State and Local Government agencies that are interested in promoting the concept of sustainable building.

Sustainable Energy Fund -- Berks County, Pennsylvania

First Energy established the Metropolitan Edison Company Sustainable Energy Fund (Met Ed Region) within Berks County Community Foundation in 2000 with an initial contribution of $5,700,000.

Sustainable Forests and Communities Initiative

This program ''supports programs of national and international significance that promote the welfare of human and natural resources.

Sustainable Schools: Financing and Incentives -- California

California's Division of the State Architect (DSA) has produced a Sustainable Schools website that offers a diverse collection of sustainable building resources including the numerous benefits, guidelines, programs, case studies, relevant publications, funding options/incentives, and more.

Sustainable Skylines Initiative -- 2009

The U.S. EPA has issued notice of availability of funds and is soliciting applications from eligible entities to compete for financial assistance through the Sustainable Skylines Initiative (SSI).

Sustainable Vision Grants

The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) is accepting proposals for the second round of Sustainable Vision (SV) grants. SV grants support the creation of U.S. and international initiatives that define replicable models for effective and sustainable technology entrepreneurship through innovative collaborations between U.S. universities and colleges and partners in the private, NGO and government sectors.

Targeted Brownfields Assessments

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) program is designed to help states, tribes, and municipalities -- especially those without EPA Brownfields Assessment Pilots/Grants -- minimize the uncertainties of contamination often associated with brownfields.

Technical Assistance from the National Vacant Properties Campaign

To ensure that municipalities don't struggle alone in solving the problems associated with vacant and abandoned properties, the National Vacant Properties Campaign engages its partners, practitioners, and national experts in a range of training and technical assistance services.

Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities -- U.S. EPA, 2007

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities and non-profit organizations to provide technical assistance to communities facing brownfield cleanup and redevelopment challenges.

Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism

The Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism help dedicated professional journalists acquire knowledge to cover the environment more effectively and enrich the public's understanding of this crucial subject.

The Laura Jane Musser Fund -- Environmental Initiative 2007

The Laura Jane Musser Fund is accepting applications for its 2007 Environmental Initiative Award program, which supports building a community-based approach to solving environmental problems and encouraging environmental stewardship.

The National Forum on Children and Nature

The National Forum on Children and Nature, an initiative chaired by Governors Schweitzer of Montana, Rendell of Pennsylvania, Rell of Connecticut, and Sanford of South Carolina, was launched in June 2007 in will invest several million dollars in projects with on-the-ground tangible results that address the issue of children's isolation from nature.

The Schumann Fund for New Jersey -- New Jersey

The Schumann Fund for NJ encourages informed discussion of important policy issues facing the State of New Jersey, particularly in the areas of school reform and educational innovation, environmental planning and protection, and effective delivery of educational and social services to families with young children.

Tom’s of Maine Community Grants Program

Tom's of Maine has established a Giving for Goodness Program, through which they donate 10% of their our pretax profits each year to charitable organizations. They offer three types of grants: Core Mission Grants, Leadership Grants, and Project Grants.

Tourism Cares for Tomorrow

Tourism Cares for Tomorrow distributes charitable grants to worthy nonprofit organizations worldwide. Grants are typically range from $5,000 to $20,000 and will be considered for either capital improvements or appropriate programs.

Trail Funding

The American Hiking Society provides online guidance for acquiring funds to create and maintain trails. Grants and foundations, as well as public funding opportunities, are reviewed and summaries of various funding programs are provided.

Trails -- Federal Funding Programs

American Trails is pursuing a national infrastructure of trails and greenways that serves a full range of activities. Through education, partnerships, and timely information resources, American Trails promotes the creation, conservation and broad enjoyment of quality trails and greenways that offer places of solace, health, fitness, recreation and transportation for all Americans.

Trails and Greenways Funding List

Funding trails and greenways takes a bit of ingenuity and a lot of research. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy provides the first step with explanations of the various programs that can be used to help fund trails and greenways.

Transportation Funding by State

Want to find out how much your state received for Safe Routes to Schools or Transportation Enhancements through SAFETEA-LU? The America Bikes website has put together a chart that details, by state, amounts for these and other transportation programs.

U.S. Bancorp

U.S. Bancorp contributes to the strength and vitality of communities through the Foundation charitable contributions program, which seeks to build strong partnerships and lasting value in communities.

U.S. DOE State Energy Program

The State Energy Program (SEP) provides funding to states to design and carry out their own energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.

U.S. EPA Brownfields Assessment Grants RFP -- 2009

The U.S. EPA has released Fiscal Year 2009 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants, and is accepting proposals through November 14, 2008. Assessment grants provide funding for developing inventories of brownfields, prioritizing sites, conducting community involvement activities, and conducting site assessments and cleanup planning related to brownfield sites.

U.S. EPA Global Climate Change Program

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Global Change Research Program is seeking applications proposing research to better understand the interactions of climate change, air pollution regulatory programs, greenhouse gas mitigation policies, and efforts to adapt to a changing climate, and how these interactions affect air quality. The solicitation can be found at:

U.S. EPA Grants -- Conferences, Workshops, and Meetings

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is issuing a Broad Agency Announcement soliciting applications from eligible applicants for the planning, arranging, administering and/or conducting of conferences, workshops, and/or meetings that focus on research to protect human health and safeguard the environment.

ULI Community Action Grants

The Urban Land Institute and the Urban Land Institute Foundation present the Community Action Grants program, which seeks to encourage entrepreneurial projects at the state, regional and local levels to build community consensus for action and change.

ULI Community Action Grants -- 2008

The Urban Land Institute and the Urban Land Institute Foundation present the Community Action Grants program, which seeks to encourage entrepreneurial projects at the state, regional and local levels to build community consensus for action and change. ULI is making up to $300,000 available annually to District Councils and ULI members to seed these projects.

ULI Community Action Grants Award Winners

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Urban Land Institute Foundation have announced recipients for Round 2 of the 2009 Community Action Grants program, which seeks to encourage entrepreneurial projects at the state, regional and local levels to build community consensus for action and change.

Urban and Community Forest Funding

The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council runs the Challenge Cost-Share Grant Program to fund urban and community forestry projects that have a national or widespread impact and application. All funds must be matched at least equally with non-Federal source funds.

Urban Greening Grant Program -- 2008

The Chesapeake Bay Trust, in cooperation with the Abell Foundation, the USDA Forest Service, and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service Division, announces the 2008 Urban Greening Initiative Grant Program. The program is designed to help Maryland communities implement ''greening'' plans that increase forest canopy, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality, and enhance the quality of life in urban areas.

USDA ARRA Watershed Funding -- 2009

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA will provide nearly $42.3 million in additional funding to 14 states to improve water quality, increase water supply, decrease soil erosion, and improve fish and wildlife habitat while creating jobs in rural communities as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

USDA Cooperative Extension Grants

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) maintains a webpage on grant opportunties.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Innovation Grants

Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) is a voluntary program intended to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies while leveraging Federal investment in environmental enhancement and protection, in conjunction with agricultural production.

USDA Rural Development Funding

The USDA Rural Development website features a funding page that includes details on their financial programs.

USDA’s Farmers Markets Promotion Program

Approximately $1 million is allocated for Fiscal Year 2007 for the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP). The grants, authorized by the FMPP, are targeted to help improve and expand domestic farmers markets, roadside stands, community-supported agriculture programs and other direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities.

USEPA Watershed Funding Programs

EPA Watershed Funding Programs, a subpage of the U.S. EPA's Watershed Funding home page, provides an overview of initiatives that provide financial help for watershed preservation and education projects.

Vermont Farmland Conservation -- Vermont

Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (VHCB) makes loans and grants to nonprofit organizations, municipalities and state agencies for the acquisition of land and for the purchase of conservation easements.

Virginia Environmental Endowment Grant Program

The Virginia Environmental Endowment makes grants to nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organizations and institutions and to governmental agencies, encouraging requests for specific projects that promise measurable results in the improvement of the environment.

Virginia Land Conservation

The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Office of Land Conservation website was established to help citizens and organizations protect land. The DCR's stated goal is to be Virginia's premier statewide, central contact, repository and clearinghouse for land conservation interests in Virginia.

Virginia Mini-Grant Program

The Virginia Environmental Endowment (VEE) offers the Virginia Mini-Grant Program, which supports community-based efforts to strengthen environmental education and to promote stewardship of Virginia's waterways. Funds received through this program are intended to be one-time, start-up grants, and preference is given to modest local projects.

Water Quality Funding (EPA)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers numerous programs that support watershed management to improve water quality. EPA has developed a website that specifically lists development practices as a positive mechanism to preserve or enhance water quality.

Watershed Funding

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created this web resource to provide tools, databases, and information about sources of funding to practitioners and funders that serve to protect watersheds.

Wells Fargo Housing Foundation

The Wells Fargo Housing Foundation states its mission is to provide resources to nonprofit organizations and to Wells Fargo team members to meet the homeownership need of low- to moderate-income people. To accomplish this mission, the Foundation partners with established local and national nonprofit housing organizations that have demonstrated the ability to create homeownership opportunities for low- to moderate-income families. The Foundation also supports nonprofit housing organizations that help low- to moderate-income homeowners make necessary repairs and upgrades.

Wetlands Financial Assistance

States and Tribes play a critical role in the protection and management of our Nation's wetlands. Most States and many Tribes have increased their roles in wetlands protection and management by adopting any of a number of wetlands programs or tools. The U.S. EPA lists financial resource assistance opportunities on its website.

Wild Action Grant Program

The Florida WILD Action Grant Program is a habitat improvement program that provides small cash awards to Florida public and private schools that are serious about implementing, maintaining and using a schoolyard habitat as an outdoor classroom. The purpose of the program is to encourage schools to create or enhance habitat that will benefit Florida's wildlife and that will be used on a regular basis for instruction to teach students about wildlife and conservation of natural resources as part of the school's regular curriculum.

Wisconsin Brownfields Grants

The State of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources includes on its website funding information for cleaning up and redeveloping brownfields.

Wisconsin Smart Growth Grants -- 2007

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has announced grants totaling more than $2 million to help communities develop and adopt locally created plans to address long-term needs, promote economic development, and guide future land use decisions. In the March 27, 2007 announcement, Governor Doyle awarded the 2007 Comprehensive Planning, or ''Smart Growth,'' grants to 12 applicants that cover 145 counties, cities, villages, and towns with a cumulative population of over 350,000 people.

Wisconsin Urban Infill Development Funds -- Wisconsin

The Dane County (Wisconsin) Better Urban Infill Development (BUILD) program provides grant funding on an annual basis to local municipalities to plan infill developments and great neighborhoods.

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