Community Progress Fund - Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

These grants help local organizations in North Carolina’s 78 rural counties move an idea, issue, project or organization forward, with the goal of improving their community.  Grants are meant to help groups build on existing momentum to take their work to the next level. The criteria for this grant program are intentionally broad to be responsive to communities’ diverse needs.

Applications due January 30, 2025. 

Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program (EJ TCGM)

The purpose of this program is to make awards to community-based organizations and other eligible partners to support the planning, assessment and development of community-based projects to cultivate healthy environments. Projects funded under this program should directly benefit and empower communities to address local priorities.  

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. To assist applicants in planning, we encourage you to select a target date to submit your application. All applications received by these dates will be reviewed and considered for the next round of funding decisions. Target Dates to Submit for Funding: January 31, 2025; April 30, 2025; July 31, 2025; October 31, 2025 (Last date for 2-year projects); January 31, 2026; April 30, 2026; July 31, 2026; October 31, 2026 (Last date for 1-year projects); January 31, 2027; April 30, 2027 (Last date for 6-month projects)

Notice of Funding Opportunity

UPLIFT Climate and Environmental Community Action Grant (EPA)

The UPLIFT Grant will support the development of a community of practice that will bring together IHEs, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), CBOs, philanthropy, the private sector, and government entities to learn from one another about the climate and environmental justice challenges that disadvantaged communities face, identify solutions, develop partnerships, and engage with government (at the local, state, and/or federal levels) through a variety of public processes such as advisory councils, rulemaking processes, grant opportunities, to ensure that their vital voices are a part of and help to inform decisions that impact disadvantaged communities.

Additionally, the UPLIFT Grant will support the development of a subaward program that will support community-driven projects in disadvantaged communities that address climate challenges and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful and collaborative implementation. 

Partnership of Community Based Nonprofit and an Institution of Higher Education are eligible to apply.

Closing February 25, 2025 

National Sea Grant Law Center 2025 Coastal Resilience Program Competition

The National Sea Grant Law Center (Law Center) is accepting applications from eligible applicants to conduct research on the effectiveness of laws and policies related to a wide range of coastal resilience issues including sea level rise, flooding, amplified storm surge, increased frequency and intensity of storms, land use, or other environmental factors, and whether those policies are achieving desired policy changes. The 2025 Coastal Resilience Program grants have a recommended two-year project period and funding level of $150,000, and the Law Center anticipates selecting up to two projects for funding. 

Letters of Intent due March 5, 2025.

Full proposals due May 7, 2025.

Fiscal Year 2024 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) (FEMA)

Fact Sheet 

The BRIC program’s guiding principles include supporting communities through capability and capacity-building; encouraging and enabling innovation, including multi-hazard resilience or nature-based solutions including the use of native plants; promoting partnerships; enabling large, systems-based projects; maintaining flexibility; and providing consistency. Through these efforts communities are able to better understand disaster risk and vulnerabilities, conduct community-driven resilience, hazard mitigation planning, and design transformational projects and programs.

BRIC has made $112 million available for the State or Territory Allocation with a $2 million allocation per applicant.

Application deadline: April 18, 2025

Fiscal Year 2024 Flood Mitigation Assistance (FEMA)

Fact Sheet 

The Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant program makes federal funds available to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and within NFIP-participating communities. It does so with a recognition of the growing flood hazards associated with climate change, and of the need for flood hazard risk mitigation activities that promote climate adaptation, equity, and resilience with respect to flooding.

FEMA will distribute up to $600 million in Flood Mitigation Assistance funding in FY 2024

Closing April 18, 2025

Coastal Habitat Restoration and Resilience Grants for Tribes and Underserved Communities | NOAA Fisheries

$20 million in funding is available for projects that will advance the coastal habitat restoration and climate resilience priorities of tribes and underserved communities under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Through this funding, NOAA will help support community-driven habitat restoration and build the capacity of tribes and underserved communities to more fully participate in restoration activities. 

Award amounts range from $75,000 to $2 million for the entire award.

Closing May 12, 2025

Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Funding Opportunity

Climate Smart Humanities Organizations offers federal matching funds for comprehensive organizational assessments for humanities organizations (such as museums, libraries, archives, historic sites, and colleges and universities) that lead to strategic climate action and adaptation plans. Individual organizations can apply for themselves or lead a consortium of organizations collaborating on strategic climate smart planning. Awards in this program are made with federal matching funds and require fundraising of third-party, non-federal gifts at a ratio of one to one.

Maximum Award Amount: $300,000

Optional draft due August 8, 2025

Deadline: September 17, 2025

National Sea Grant Law Center 2024-2027 Program Development Funds

The National Sea Grant Law Center (Law Center) is accepting proposals for small-scale research projects that seek to address timely or pressing legal questions related to ocean, coastal, or Great Lakes law. This funding is intended to support emerging research needs or innovative pilot research projects that may eventually develop into larger, full scale research projects. They are also intended to help a Sea Grant program build legal capacity by generating legal research findings that can be incorporated into extension, education, and communication programming. Requests for Program Development (PD) funds are limited to a maximum request of $10,000 and a one-year project period. 

LOIs for one-year projects will be accepted on a rolling basis through August 1, 2026.

Full proposals for one-year projects will be accepted on a rolling basis through October 1, 2026.

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