and explore EPA’s anticipated MAC funding for FY26
RESOURCES FOR REVITALIZATION
AUGUST 2025
FY 2026 Brownfields Job Training Grant Applications are open!
Applications are due September 26th, 2025. Read more on Grants.gov
As your Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) provider, CCLR offers free technical assistance to help you through the process. This includes grant application review!
Schedule a technical assistance call, and send in your BFJT application to Claire Weston at claire.weston@cclr.org to be connected with a grant reviewer!
EPA anticipates issuing FY 2026 Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup Grant Competitions solicitations in fall 2025
Estimates indicate 183 awards ranging from $500,000 to $4,000,000!
The application submission deadline will be approximately 60 calendar days after the solicitations are published - but it’s never too early to prepare! FY26 is the anticipated final year for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding and CCLR is here to help you take advantage of the opportunity. Read more about EPA’s anticipated funding amounts.
Last year, CCLR assisted 91% of the EPA Brownfields Grant selectees in Regions 9 and 10, securing $30.9 million in funding. Schedule a technical assistance call with CCLR to make a game plan and polish your application.
JOIN CCLR FOR TWO WEBINARS IN AUGUST!
From Brownfield to Bright Future: Telling Your Success Story
A brownfield reuse project’s progress can hinge on who knows, and is telling, your success story. Join CCLR and NJIT for a webinar to help you share your brownfield successes to maintain project momentum, boost project support, and ensure future funding opportunities.
Built By Us: How Nonprofits Can Lead the Charge in Local Development
How much time and leverage have we given away trying to attract or win over outside developers? What if the power to revitalize your community has been in your hands all along? In this empowering and practical session, learn how nonprofit organizations, community coalitions, and grassroots leaders can take the reins on redevelopment – building spaces that reflect local values, retain local wealth, and strengthen long-term economic resilience.
Success Story
Transit-Oriented, High Density Brownfield Redevelopment: Honolulu’s Vision for a Sustainable Future
The City and County of Honolulu have embarked on one of the most ambitious brownfield reuse projects in the nation - redeveloping 18-acres in the Iwilei neighborhood around the new Skyline light rail station. CCLR assisted Honolulu with this planning, convening multiple agencies at workshops to identify barriers and creative solutions to address this complex and exciting brownfield redevelopment project. Watch the full video to learn more!
Thank you to our gracious hosts in Region 10!
CCLR employees Emily Good, Lauren Ghazikhanian and Anna Maria Camardo spent a week in Region 10 visiting EPA Grantees and brownfield sites across Washington and Oregon! Region 10 communities are doing phenomenal work assessing, remediating and reusing brownfields for beneficial reuse, we are grateful for the opportunity to see reuse in action.
We are grateful for the support of US Bank, which awarded CCLR a $50,000 grant to support our work transforming communities through land reuse and brownfield redevelopment.
EVENTS
Center for Community Progress: 2025 National Land Bank Network Summit
Featuring voices from urban, rural, and suburban communities, the Summit is a unique chance to connect with community development peers, share best practices, and explore strategies to renew vacant properties.
As the state’s economic development agency, Business Oregon partners with federal, state, tribal, and local agencies to provide planning, construction, and maintenance funding for vital infrastructure. This unique educational event will connect property owners, developers, community leaders, regulators, financiers, and service providers to share the latest knowledge and best practices, develop business concepts, and foster partnerships.
FUNDING & ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
EPA’s 2025 Brownfields Federal Programs Guide
The entry for each federal agency or organization describes its mission and its connection to brownfields, and lists the programs that provide technical or financial assistance relevant to brownfields. Descriptions of eligibility requirements, and uses/applications are included. Read the guide.
Applications are now open for the Nonprofit Land Reuse Learning Cohort! Apply by 8/14!
This is a FREE six-month program designed to help nonprofits and community orgs effectively lead brownfield site reuse projects – with a strong focus on community-centered engagement. Apply now.
Through this Disaster NOFO, EDA will award investments in regions experiencing severe economic distress or other economic harm resulting from hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, and other natural disasters occurring in calendar years 2023 and 2024.
ICMA and Sustainable Strategies DC (S2) announce free, rapid technical assistance for individual local governments with pre-identified EMO priorities and/or project ideas. Includes review of background materials, two virtual meetings, and receipt of a customized resource roadmap designed for your initiative(s) and geographic location. Read more.
