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Funding & Technical Assistance
NWCCOG Regional Grants Navigator
NWCCOG has a Regional Grants Navigator on staff to assist with identifying appropriate grant opportunities, reviewing grants prior to submission, or helping to gather letters of support. Feel free to reach out to him for assistance: Jonathan Godes, NWCCOG Regional Grants Navigator - jgodes@nwccog.org.
Federal Opportunities
EPA Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grant
Deadline: Nov. 14 | Details here. Grants offered by the Brownfields Program may be used to address sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum), and petroleum.
Save America's Treasures Program
Deadline: Dec. 12 | Details here. The Save America’s Treasures program from the Historic Preservation Fund provides grants for preservation or conservation work on nationally significant properties and collections through two types of grants: preservation and collection grants. Work to historic districts, buildings, sites, structures, and objects will be funded through preservation grants, and collection grants support conservation work on nationally significant collections, including artifacts, museum collections, documents, sculptures, and other works of art.
National Endowment for the Arts: Big Read Grant Program
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2025 | Details here. NEA Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, is a national program that offers matching grants of up to $20,000 to support community-wide reading programs in the United States.
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant Program
Deadline: Jan. 13, 2025. The Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Discretionary Grant program funds projects that will improve safety; environmental sustainability; quality of life; mobility and community connectivity; economic competitiveness and opportunity including tourism; state of good repair; partnership and collaboration; and innovation.
National Maternal and Child Health Leadership Program
Deadline: Jan. 3, 2025 | Details here. The purpose of the Partnership for National Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Leadership program is to support organizations in building the capacity of MCH programs, Healthy Start programs, and maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs to achieve the long-term goal to improve national MCH health outcomes and reduce associated disparities by better serving specific populations and awardees.
PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program
Deadline: Feb. 24, 2025 | Details here. The Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Discretionary Grant Program, a competitive grant program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help make surface transportation more resilient to natural hazards, including climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters.
U.S. Department of Energy Clean Energy in Rural Areas Grants
NOFA anticipated release date Fall 2024 | Details here. Funding to spur innovative, community-focused clean energy solutions in rural and remote areas across the United States. Overseen by the Energy Improvements in Rural and Remote Areas (ERA) program, the anticipated funding plans to support energy technologies that provide clean, resilient, reliable, affordable power, while also aiming to increase local economic development.
Community Change Grants
Deadline: November 21 | Details here. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This funding is for environmental and climate justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate justice challenges. These place-based investments will be focused on community-driven initiatives to be responsive to community and stakeholder input.
Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas Funding
NOFA to be released soon | Details here. U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) for up to $400 million to spur innovative, community-focused clean energy solutions in rural and remote areas across the United States. The anticipated funding plans to support energy technologies that provide clean, resilient, reliable, affordable power, while also aiming to increase local economic development.
State Opportunities
Energy & Minteral Impact Assistance Fund (EIAF)
Next Deadline: Dec. 2 | Details here. Eligible entities to receive grants and loans include municipalities, counties, school districts, special districts and other political subdivisions and state agencies. Funding to promote sustainable community development, increase livability and resilience of communities through strategic investments in asset-building activities.
Peace Officers Behavioral Health Support and Community Partnerships grant program
Deadline: Nov. 13 | Details here. Funding for for law enforcement agencies, peace officer organizations, and public safety agencies that employ peace officers for behavioral health programs such as co-responder community responses, counseling services for peace officers and their immediate family members; training and education programs for peace officers family members on job-related mental trauma; and peer support programs for peace officers. Behavioral health or community-based social services providers are eligible to apply in partnerships with law enforcement or public safety agencies that employ peace officers for the purposes of co-responder community responses and community-based alternative responses.
Technical Assistance for Establishing Employee Ownership Structure
Applications online here. This is apartnership between Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade to will assist rural businesses by covering 50 to 100 percent of the cost of technical assistance for converting to an employee-owned structure. As more baby boomers retire, many rural businesses struggling to find suitable buyers are at risk of closing. Less than 20 percent of businesses put on the market are sold and only 15 percent are passed on to family members. Companies must be located in designated rural counties and agree to sell at least 20 percent of their business to three or more employees to qualify for the funding.
Colorado Grid Resilience Grant Programs
Details here. The U.S. Department of Energy Grid Deployment Office has formally awarded the Colorado Energy Office and Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) electric grid resilience formula funding totaling $25.6 million to date. This federal funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will support three grant programs and one study focused on preventing outages and enhancing the resilience of the energy grid.
Other Opportunities
El Pomar Foundation
Deadline: Rolling | The El Pomar Foundation seeks to enhance and promote the current and future well-being of the people of Colorado. Through a competitive grants process, the Foundation provides support to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and government entities that serve Colorado across a broad spectrum of focus areas, including arts and culture, civic and community, education, health, and human services. Grants are provided for general operating support, programs, and capital projects.
Resources
2024 Strong Communities Annual Report
The 2024 Strong Communities Annual Report aims to demonstrate the impact of the Strong Communities Grant program. This program helps communities align policies and regulations to focus on locating affordable housing in infill locations near jobs, transit, and everyday services; ensuring new neighborhoods have housing of all types, sizes, and price points and are connected by multimodal transportation options to the rest of the community. The 31 local governments who have received Strong Communities grants report that they have cumulatively adopted 297 land use best practices prior to receiving their grants.
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