FBCI Funding Opportunities

Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program

SUMMARY: This grant is designed to meet the nutritional needs of low-income individuals, and to support local communities and farmers so they can meet the needs of their own communities.

ELIGIBILITY: Private nonprofit entities with experience in community food work concerning small and medium sized farms. Please see details in full announcement.

AWARD: $25,000-$300,000 with a total amount of funding of $5,000,000

DEADLINE: November 19, 2009

FULL ANOUNCEMENT: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pdfs/10_community_food.pdf

USDA
Value-Added Producer Grant Program

SUMMARY: The primary objective of this grant program is to help eligible independent producers of agricultural commodities, agricultural producer groups, farmer and rancher cooperatives, and majority-controlled producer-based business ventures develop strategies to create marketing opportunities and to help develop business plans for viable marketing opportunities.

ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be an independent producer, agriculture producer group, farmer or rancher cooperative, or majority-controlled producer-based business venture.

AWARD: 130 awards for up to $300,000

DEADLINE: November 30, 2009

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/coops/vadg.htm

Technical Assistance and Training Grants

SUMMARY: The objectives of the Technical Assistance and Training Grant Program are to: Identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste disposal problems in rural areas. Assist applicants in preparing applications for water and waste grants made at the State level offices. Improve operation and maintenance of existing water and waste disposal facilities in rural areas.

ELIGIBILITY: See full announcement for details

AWARD: 11 awards, with funding totally $17,000,000

DEADLINE: December 31, 2009

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/tatg.htm

Center for Watershed Protection: Technical Capacity Mini-Grant Program

SUMMARY: The Center for Watershed Protection is currently inviting proposals for its Technical Capacity Mini-Grant program, awarding direct assistance and financial support to a wide range of small watershed organizations. These small watershed organizations play a key role in local watershed management and, collectively, in regional water resource protection and restoration. The goal of the mini-grant program is to strengthen the technical capacity of these watershed organizations in the areas of stormwater and watershed management.

ELIGIBILITY: Any small not-for-profit 501(c)3 watershed group within the United States, and local government and conservation districts can also apply, provided they partner with a watershed group.

AWARD: Up to ten $5,000-15,000 grants

DEADLINE: Applications accepted on a rolling basis until the grant money has been awarded.

Best Buy Electronics Recycling Grant Program

SUMMARY: The Best Buy Recycling Grant Program provides support to help increase the consumer electronics recycling opportunities available in communities across the United States. Priority is given to electronics recycling events, but other types of occasions that include electronics recycling are considered.

ELIGIBILITY: All organizations and groups are welcome to apply, including nonprofit organizations, cities, counties, and public-private partnerships.

AWARD: Grants range from $500 to $1,500

DEADLINE: Ongoing



Build-A-Bear Foundation

SUMMARY: The Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to improving communities and impacting lives through unique philanthropic programs that help children and families, animals and the environment.

AWARD: $1,000-$10,000

DEADLINE: Ongoing



Environmental Support Center

SUMMARY: Applications for training and technical assistance forms to strengthen nonprofit environmental organizations in areas including fundraising, organizational development, and planning.

ELIGIBILITY: Regional, statewide or local nonprofit organizations serving low-income or minority constituencies that have environmental issues as a significant part of the organization's agenda.

DEADLINE: Ongoing



Ohio Department of Natural Resources; Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention Community Development Grant

SUMMARY: Project funding is for the implementation of recycling, and litter collection projects.

ELIGIBILITY: County governments, solid waste districts and municipal corporations (population over 50,000).

AWARD: Grants range from $10,000 to $150,000.

DEADLINE: Applications available in November, due in February of each year.
CONTACT: Chet Chaney: (614) 265-6407



New Approaches to Resource Use Supported Blue Moon Fund

SUMMARY: The blue moon fund seeks to improve the human condition by changing the relationship between human consumption and the natural world. The Rethinking Consumption and Energy initiative is aimed at developing environmentally-friendly, efficient, and economically competitive transportation and energy choices worldwide. The goal of the Balancing Human and Natural Ecosystems is to reduce unsustainable resource pressures and to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem function. The Reenergizing Urban Communities is based on the belief that underpinning vibrant and resilient cities is their capacity to self-organize in ways that maximize the economic, cultural, environmental, and spiritual benefits of urban life.

ELIGIBILITY: Support is provided to nonprofit organizations in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the United States that have developed innovative, holistic approaches to improving human quality of life in harmony with the natural world.

DEADLINE: Online letters of inquiry for these three initiatives are accepted throughout the year.



The Turner Foundation

SUMMARY: The Turner Foundation is committed to preventing damage to the natural systems – water, air and land – on which all life depends. The foundation makes grants in the areas of environment and population and focuses on four main components: safeguarding habitat, growing the environmental movement, creating solutions for sustainable living and health planet/health communities.

DEADLINE: No set deadline, the Foundation will annually select priority areas within the above program areas.

National Forest Foundation: Community Assistance Program

SUMMARY: The National Forest Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization established by Congress to support the USDA Forest Service in its management of the nation's forests and grasslands. The Foundation's Community Assistance Program promotes the creation of locally-based collaborative forest partnerships that seek to build environmental and community sustainability.

ELIGIBILITY: Groups or nonprofits

AWARD: $5,000-$15,000

DEADLINE: Rolling basis

Singing for Change (SFC) Charitable Foundation

SUMMARY: Areas of interest: Children and Families; The Environment; Disenfranchised groups.

ELIGIBILITY: Nonprofits under IRS tax code 501c(3) or other organizations that have a sponsoring agency with this status.

AWARD: Range from $500-$10,000

DEADLINE: Proposals are by invitation only. If you think your project fits the foundation’s guidelines submit a one-page letter of interest describing your organization and project.

Supplemental Appropriations Disaster Relief Opportunity

SUMMARY: This grant is designed to bolster regions that are suffering economic distress after experiencing severe flooding, severe mid-west tornados, or other forms of natural disaster.

ELIGIBILITY: Non-profits with or without 501(c)(3) status, public or private institutions of higher learning

AWARD: See full announcement

DEADLINE: Applications are accepted on a continuing basis and processed as received.

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.eda.gov/InvestmentsGrants/FFON.xml

7th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of the P3 Award Program, is seeking applications proposing to research, develop, and design solutions to real world challenges involving the overall sustainability of human society. The P3 competition highlights the use of scientific principles in creating innovative projects focused on sustainability. The P3 Awards program was developed to foster progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the planet, and improved quality of life for its people-- people, prosperity, and the planet – the three pillars of sustainability. The EPA offers the P3 competition in order to respond to the technical needs of the world while moving towards the goal of sustainability.

ELIGIBILITY: Public nonprofit institutions/organizations (limited to degree-granting public institutions of higher education) and private nonprofit institutions/organizations (limited to degree-granting private institutions of higher education) located in the U.S. are eligible to apply.

AWARD: 40 awards for a total of $850,000

DEADLINE: January 4, 2010

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2010/2010_p3.html#Synopsis

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM

SUMMARY: Historically, the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (EJSG) is designed to provide funding for eligible applicants working on, or planning to work on, a project that addresses a local environmental and public health issue within an affected community. The EJSG Program is a multi-statute program designed to help communities understand and address their exposure to multiple environmental harms and risks

ELIGIBILITY: Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3),and others

AWARD: 40 Awards, from $25,000-$1,000,000

DEADLINE: January 08, 2010

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/ej/grants/rfa-small-grant-2010.pdf 

USDA
Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities

SUMMARY: Communities and their residents in the United States experience droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions as well as accidents at facilities that handle dangerous materials such as explosive chemicals. These phenomena will continue, but their consequences need not be disastrous if communities and people reduce their vulnerabilities and increase their resilience. There is much research on vulnerability and resilience in urban communities, but much less about how rural communities and their residents are responding to natural and man-made hazards. The long term goal of this program is to advance basic research in engineering and in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences on enhancing disaster resilience in rural communities.

ELIGIBILITY: Colleges and universities, federal agencies, private organizations or corporations, individuals who are U.S. citizens, state agricultural experiment stations and others

AWARD:See application

DEADLINE: January 20, 2010

FULL ANOUNCEMENT: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pdfs/10_disaster.pdf

AmeriCorps State and National Grants - FY 2010

SUMMARY: This grant is designed to fund programs that meet unmet needs in American communities. The categories for these needs include Education, Clean Energy/Environment, Healthy Futures ,Veterans Opportunity

ELIGIBILITY: Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status, public or private institutions of higher learning

AWARD: See Full Announcement

DEADLINE: Jan 26, 2010  

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.nationalservice.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=74