Grant Opportunities

DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program

The purpose of the DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program is to fund public-private partnerships to develop, strengthen, and scale promising and evidence-based training models in H-1B industries and occupations critical to meeting the goals of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and to maximize the impact of these investments. Applicants must choose one of the following tracks for this grant program: 1) Development Track: Developing and Implementing Local/Regional Worker-Centered Sector Strategy Programs; or 2) Scaling Track: Scaling Effective Worker-Centered Sector Strategy Programs. The goal of the Development Track is to use promising training models to invest in and establish local/regional partnerships that will implement sector-based training programs across one or multiple infrastructure-related sectors. This track will support equitable participation and growth of worker-centered sector-based training programs, particularly those serving rural and smaller communities and historically marginalized, underrepresented, and underserved populations. The goal of the Scaling Track is to scale an existing training model to the statewide or national level, that has shown demonstrated success in one infrastructure-related sector. This track will invest in statewide and national partnerships that will set the stage to enable support and growth in evidence-based worker-centered sector strategies. Both tracks require public-private partnerships to develop workforce training programs which incorporate the following core principles into their grant project design to ensure equitable access to quality jobs: 1) strategies for ensuring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; 2) career pathways that lead to middle- to high-skilled employment; and 3) worker-centered sector strategies. To embed strong worker voice into these grant projects, applicants should engage workers during the initial grant proposal development phase to ensure that worker needs and priorities and job quality are incorporated into the project design. 

Awards: 25 anticipated; $500,000-$5,000,000 
Deadline April 23, 2023

Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program Department of Justice

Summary: Office of Justice Programs is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to fund cross-system collaboration programs that improve or enhance public safety and public health responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders who come in contact with law enforcement. BJA provides grant funding to help entities prepare, create, or expand comprehensive plans and then implement these collaborative projects to target preliminarily qualified individuals. BJA will only accept applications that demonstrate the proposed project will be administered jointly by an agency with responsibility for criminal or juvenile justice activities and a mental health agency. 

Eligible applicants: Special district governments; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); State governments; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; County governments; City or township governments.

Awards and amounts:  Up to $550,000 

Deadline: April 24, 2023

BJA FY 23 Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program

OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. With this solicitation, BJA seeks applicants to implement crisis response and intervention training. This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting law enforcement partnerships with mental health, substance use disorder, and community service agencies to improve appropriate and effective responses to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities and to achieve safe outcomes for all individuals in the community. 

Eligible applicants: County governments; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); State governments; City or township governments; Others: Public and state controlled institutions of higher education with on-campus police departments 

Awards and Amounts: 4 awards in each category, 8 total. Maximum award of $250,000 
Deadline: April 25, 2023
 

Low- or No-Emission Vehicle Program 

Summary: The Federal Transit Administration announces the availability of approximately $1.22 billion in competitive grants under the Low or No Emission Grant Program (Low-No Program) for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities. 

Eligible applicants: Eligible applicants include designated recipients, states (including territories and Washington D.C.), local governmental authorities, and Indian Tribes; city or township governments; state governments; county governments; Native American tribal governments (federally recognized).

Awards and amounts: 100 anticipated; no single grant recipient will be awarded more than 10 percent of the amount made available; estimated total program funding: $1,221,350,117.

Deadline: April 13, 2023
 

Buses and Bus Facilities Program 

Summary: The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of approximately $469 million in competitive grants under the Buses and Bus Facilities Program is to assist in the financing of buses and bus facilities capital projects, including replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing or leasing buses or related equipment, and rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing or leasing bus-related facilities. 

Eligible applicants: City or township governments; Native American tribal governments (federally recognized); county governments; state governments; others: Eligible applicants for the Buses and Bus Facilities Program include designated recipients that allocate funds to fixed route bus operators, states (including territories and Washington D.C.) or local governmental entities that operate fixed route bus service, and Indian tribes. Eligible subrecipients include all otherwise eligible applicants and also private nonprofit organizations engaged in public transportation. Except for projects proposed by Indian tribes, all proposals for projects in rural (non-urbanized) areas must be submitted by a State, either individually or as a part of a statewide application. 

Awards and Amounts: 50 anticipated; up to $46,944,542.

Deadline: April 13, 2023
 

Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program 

Summary: EPA is issuing this solicitation to request applications for projects supporting community-based nonprofit organizations (CBOs) in their efforts to collaborate and partner with other stakeholders (e.g., local businesses and industry, local government, medical service providers, academia, etc.) to develop solutions that will significantly address environmental and/or public health issue(s) in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms and risks. These projects will help transform disadvantaged and underserved communities into healthy, thriving communities capable of addressing the environmental and public health challenges they have historically faced, as well as current and future challenges.

Eligible applicants: Community-based nonprofits; or a partnership of community-based nonprofits 

Awards and Amounts. 83 cooperative agreements. The total estimated funding expected for all awards under this solicitation is approximately $30,000,000, broken down as follows:

• • $25,000,000 for CBOs proposing projects for up to $500,000 each. Approximately 50 awards for up $500,000 each are anticipated under this track.
• • $5,000,000 for qualifying small CBOs with five or fewer full-time employees proposing projects for up to $150,000 each.

See more details under Section II.C. (Small Community-based Nonprofit Set Aside Track). Approximately 33 awards for up to $150,000 each are anticipated under this track. 

Deadline: April 10, 2023
 

Initiation of a Mental Health Family Navigator Model to Promote Early Access, Engagement and Coordination of Needed Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents

Initiation of a Mental Health Family Navigator Model to Promote Early Access, Engagement and Coordination of Needed Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents (R01 Clinical Trial Required) 

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research applications to develop and test the effectiveness and implementation of family navigator models designed to promote early access, engagement and coordination of mental health treatment and services for children and adolescents who are experiencing early symptoms of mental health problems. For the purposes of this FOA, NIMH defines a family navigator model as a health care professional or paraprofessional whose role is to deploy a set of strategies designed to rapidly engage youth and families in needed treatment and services, work closely with the family and other involved treatment and service providers to optimize care and monitor the trajectory of mental health symptoms and outcomes over time. Applicants are encouraged to develop and test the navigator models ability to promote early access, engagement and coordination of mental health treatment and services for children and adolescents as soon as symptoms are detected. Of interest are navigator models that coordinate needed care strategies, determine the personalized match to the level of needed service amount, frequency and intensity, and harness novel technologies to track and monitor the trajectory of clinical, functional and behavioral progress toward achieving intended services outcomes. 

Deadline: Open through July 2024

Kansas Fights Addiction (KFA) Grant Review Board RFPs

Summary: The KFA Grant Review Board released their first of two request for proposals (RFP). The KFA grant program is funded by the Kansas Office of the Attorney General opioid settlement recoveries intended to support substance use disorder services in Kansas. The priority areas and associated strategies within both RFPs were established by the Kansas Prescription Drug and Opioid Advisory Committee’s (KPDOAC) 2023-2027 state strategic plan. These priority areas were split into two RFPs. 

The KFA Board has made $3 million available in the first funding opportunity, which will prioritize strategies within the priority areas of treatment, recovery, harm reduction, and linkages to care. 
 
The second RFP will be released on May 8, and it will prioritize the areas of prevention, providers and health systems, and public safety which includes law enforcement, corrections, and first responders. The board has made $2,000,000 available for the second RFP. 
 
Eligibility: Eligibility is limited to nonprofit organizations and units of state and local governments, that provide services in Kansas for the purpose of preventing, reducing, treating, or otherwise abating or remediating substance abuse or addiction. 

Awards and amounts: Eligible organizations may apply for up to $200,000 through the RFP.

Deadline: Organizations interested in applying for this first RFP, must submit a confirmation of intent to apply by 5 p.m. March 30, 2023, and the deadline to apply is 5 p.m. April 28, 2023.
 
The RFP, as well as additional information on deadlines and submissions, frequently asked questions, the grant application and review process, eligible organizations, and allowable strategies can be found on the KFA page on the Sunflower Foundation website. Sunflower Foundation serves as the administrator for the KFA grant program.

DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program

Summary: The purpose of the Department of Labor Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Grant Program is to fund public-private partnerships to train a skilled workforce critical to meeting workforce needs that support infrastructure in the advanced manufacturing, information technology and professional, technical, and scientific services sectors, with a focus on renewable energy, transportation, and broadband. Applicants must choose one of the following tracks for this grant program: 1) Development Track: Developing and Implementing Local/Regional Worker-Centered Sector Strategy Programs; or 2) Scaling Track: Scaling Effective Worker-Centered Sector Strategy Programs. The goal of the Development Track is to use promising training models to invest in and establish local/regional partnerships that will implement sector-based training programs across one or multiple infrastructure-related sectors. This track will support equitable participation and growth of worker-centered sector-based training programs, particularly those serving rural and smaller communities and historically marginalized, underrepresented, and underserved populations.

The goal of the Scaling Track is to scale an existing training model to the statewide or national level, that has shown demonstrated success in one infrastructure-related sector. This track will invest in statewide and national partnerships that will set the stage to enable support and growth in evidence-based worker-centered sector strategies. Both tracks require public-private partnerships to develop workforce training programs which incorporate the following core principles into their grant project design to ensure equitable access to quality jobs: 1) strategies for ensuring diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility; 2) career pathways that lead to middle- to high-skilled employment; and 3) worker-centered sector strategies. To embed strong worker voice into these grant projects, applicants should engage workers during the initial grant proposal development phase to ensure that worker needs and priorities and job quality are incorporated into the project design.

Eligibility: Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education; nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

Awards and amounts: Awards will range from $500,000 to $5,000,000.

Estimated deadline: April 23, 2023
 

Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program - Update and Reissue

The purpose of the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction (LHR) grant program is to maximize the number of children under the age of six protected from lead poisoning by assisting states, cities, counties/parishes, Native American Tribes or other units of local government in undertaking comprehensive programs to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately-owned rental or owner-occupied housing populations. In addition, there is Healthy Homes Supplemental funding available that is intended to enhance the lead-based paint hazard control activities by comprehensively identifying and addressing other housing hazards that affect occupant health. 

Eligible applicants: State governments; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); City or township governments; Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification); County governments; Special district governments; Only cities, counties/parishes, and other units of local government, and certain States and Native American Tribes (those that have an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency- (EPA) authorized lead abatement certification program on the submission deadline) are eligible applicants. 

Awards and Amounts: 90. Award floor $1,000,000 to $8,000,000 

Deadline May 2, 2023
 

Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program

The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI Program) is a new competitive grant program created by President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to strategically deploy publicly accessible electric vehicle charging and alternative fueling infrastructure in the places people live and work, urban and rural areas alike, in addition to along designated Alternative Fuel Corridors (AFCs). CFI Program investments will make modern and sustainable infrastructure accessible to all drivers of electric, hydrogen, propane, and natural gas vehicles. This program provides two funding categories of grants: (1) Community Charging and Fueling Grants (Community Program); and (2) Alternative Fuel Corridor Grants (Corridor Program). The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $2.5 billion over five years for this program. This first round of funding makes $700 million from Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023 funding available to strategically deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and other fueling infrastructure projects in urban and rural communities in publicly accessible locations, including downtown areas and local neighborhoods, particularly in underserved and disadvantaged communities. 

Digital Humanities Advancement Grant

Summary: The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grant which supports challenging, innovative and experimental digital projects at any stage. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will also provide funds through this grant to encourage innovative collaboration between libraries, archive and humanities professionals, and the public to preserve and enhance digital access to collections and services.

Awards and amounts: Funds are awarded by level: Level includes: $50,000 of funding; Level II provides $100,000; and Level III provides $350,000 with an additional $50,000 in matching funds. Applicants are required to provide a budget justification and a detailed work plan.

Deadline: 

• Optional draft due April 17, 2023
• Deadline: June 15, 2023

Community Development Block Grant Program

The Missouri Department of Economic Development has announced funding availability for the state CDBG Program. The purpose is to close the funding gap to help communities with long-term recovery of public infrastructure and facilities damaged by a presidentially declared disaster event. Funds cannot be used in lieu of other available federal funding resources; however, it can be used for FEMA Public Assistance projects. Eligible applicants are cities or counties that are not involved in the HUD’s CDBG Entitlement program and have received a presidentially declared disaster.  For more information, please contact Sam Komo or call 573-751-3600.

FEMA Public Assistance for COVID-19

Missouri and Kansas have both declared COVID-19 Major Disaster Declarations. Federal assistance is available through the Public Assistance (PA) Grant Program to state and local governments to aid in COVID-19 recovery. 

Community Facilities Loan and Grant Program

The USDA is offering funding for rural communities to improve infrastructure and provide essential facilities like public schools, courthouses and hospitals. Funding for the improvements is offered through low-interest direct loans, grants or a combination of both. Public organizations, community-based nonprofits, and federally-recognized tribes are encouraged to apply.

Water and Waste Disposal Program

The USDA Rural Development program is offering funding for rural areas with populations of 10,000 or less in the form of loans and grants. Funds can be used for sanitary sewage disposal, clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary solid waste disposal, and stormwater drainage to households and businesses. Most state and local government organizations, private nonprofits, and federally-recognized tribes are encouraged to apply. Application dates are ongoing.

Missouri Mainstreet Connection Grants

Missouri Main Street Connection is offering three matching grant programs that will fund up to 75 percent of applicant costs. The available grants include the Affiliate, People Energizing Places and Strategic Teams Engaging Places grants. The purpose of these grant programs is to facilitate the revitalization of downtown areas in Missouri communities. More information is available online. The application deadline is ongoing.

Community Facilities Loan & Grant Program

USDA Rural Development offers funding to support rural communities to make infrastructure improvements and provide essential facilities like schools, libraries, courthouses, public safety buildings, hospitals and daycare centers. A loan guarantee program is also available. The application deadline is ongoing.

MARC Solid Waste Management District Mini-Grants

The Mid-America Regional Council Solid Waste Management District (MARC SWMD) is offering small grants of up to $2,999 for waste reduction, reuse, or recycling projects. Projects must be located within Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray counties in Missouri. Application dates are ongoing.

Walmart Community Foundation’s Community Grant Program

The Walmart Foundation Community Grant Program offers up to $5,000 for local governments and nonprofit organizations to help create impact in communities. Grants can be awarded to organizations working in one of the following areas: hunger relief and healthy eating, health and human service, quality of life, education, community and economic development, diversity and inclusion, public safety, and environmental sustainability. Application dates ongoing.

EDA: Planning and Local Technical Assistance Programs

Through its Planning and Local Technical Assistance programs, the U.S. Economic Development Administration works with recipients to create development plans and studies. The Planning program supports organizations with investments designed to guide the creation of high-quality jobs in economically distressed regions. The Local Technical Assistance program strengthens the capacity of organizations to undertake projects that contribute to effective economic development programs. Applications are accepted on a continuing basis. More information is available online.