Fiscal Year 2025 Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Program Wide


Deadline: April 1, 2025 Concept Papers; June 18, 2025 Full Application
Award Amount: Depends on topic area $2 million to $6 million per award
Match: 20% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This NOFO seeks applications to address improved battery technology for both light- and heavy-duty applications, smart charging infrastructure, sustainable farming, workforce development, and demonstration and deployment of these new innovative technologies. The research and development work performed under this program will lead to economic and environmental benefits including extended battery reliability, improved battery packaging, decreased cost of driving, increased vehicle and system efficiency, and a competent workforce serving the transportation sector. Detailed technical descriptions of the specific Topic Areas are provided in the sections that follow.

DOE VTO

BJA Intellectual Property Enforcement Program:Protecting Public Health, Safety,and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy


Deadline: April 3, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 10, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $400,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Law Enforcement Agencies
Description: The purpose for this funding is to support state, local, tribal, and territorial law
enforcement and prosecutors that have an intellectual property (IP) enforcement
task force or plan to create one. The Intellectual Property Enforcement Program (IPEP) assists
these agencies in sharing information and preventing and reducing intellectual property thefts
and related crimes both in their community and adjacent communities. In addition, these task
forces will work with federal law enforcements agencies and their local U.S. Attorney’s Office in
investigating and prosecuting IP crimes and reducing violent crime associated with IP cases.

BJA IP Grants

USDOT Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program


Deadline: April 03, 2025
Award Amount: $200,000 to $750,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, and special districts. Projects are not eligible if they are in a Census Bureau 2020 designated urban area that has a population of more than 150,000 people.
Description: The BIL created the Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program, which makes $10 million available over five years to provide states, local governments, and tribal governments with grants to support project development leading to future applications to DOT credit or grant programs. The grants can support legal, technical, and financial advisors to help advance infrastructure projects. The first notice of funding opportunity includes two fiscal years and makes $3.4 million available to eligible applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. Eligible project sponsors may receive grant funds to select advisors to assist with pre-development-phase activities, including: evaluation opportunities for private financing and project bundling, feasibility studies, project planning, revenue forecasting and funding and financing options analyses, preliminary engineering and design work, environmental review, economic assessments and cost-benefit analyses, public benefits studies, statutory and regulatory framework analyses, value-for-money (VFM) studies, and evaluations of costs to sustain the project.

USDOT RTA Pilot

NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation of Policing Practices


Deadline: April 3, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000,000 available for projects up to 60 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses, Independent school districts
Description: This funding opportunity seeks rigorous, applied evaluative research on: (1) police conduct and police-community interactions; (2) officer safety, health, and wellness; (3) criminal investigations; and (4) alternative traffic enforcement models. NIJ also welcomes investigator-initiated proposals in other policing topics.

NIJ - Policing Practices

NSF Smart and Connected Communities


Deadline: April 04, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $3,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Public and Private Higher Education Institutions and Nonprofits
Description: The purpose of the NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program solicitation is to accelerate the creation of novel intelligent technologies and concepts through high-risk/high-reward research that addresses major challenges and issues faced by communities across the US. A “smart and connected community” is defined as a community that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments and with the functions of civic institutions and organizations. Proposals submitted to the program should be designed to advance one or more of the following community priorities: economic opportunity and growth; safety and security; human and environmental health and wellness; accessibility of critical services and resources; and the overall quality of life for those who live, work, learn, or travel within the community. To meet the goals of the program, researchers should work with community stakeholders to identify and define challenges the community faces, using that interaction and input to generate high-impact, use-inspired, basic research that advances science and engineering.

NSF S&CC

NIJ FY25 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults


Deadline: April 7, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $3,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to fund applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in four topical areas: (1) evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults; (2) research on financial fraud against older adults, including knowledge building around scam prevention messaging; (3) research on formal and informal caregivers who abuse (either financially, physically, sexually, and/or emotionally) or neglect older adults, to inform intervention and prevention program development; and (4) forensic research involving the development of radiographic evidence and bioinformatic approaches relevant to the physical abuse of older adults.

NIJ - Older Adults

BOR WaterSMART Large-Scale Water Recycling Projects


Deadline: April 07, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $132.75 million will be allocated in the third and final application submittal (See NOFO Sec. B.1) period. Federal Funding Amount is based on maximum 25 percent of the total cost of planning, design, and construction completed after the date of Reclamation’s feasibility study review findings within three years of the application’s submittal period deadline.
Match: A non-Federal cost-share of 75 percent or more of total project costs is required.
Eligible Entities: States, Indian Tribes, municipalities, irrigation districts, water districts, wastewater districts; and any state, regional, or other organization with water or power delivery authority. All applicants must be located in the Western United States; specifically: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Description: As part of the implementation of the new Large-Scale Water Recycling Program, Reclamation has identified four stages of project development: planning; 30% design; 100% design; and construction. As each project proposed for funding progresses through those stages, Reclamation will work with the project sponsor to gather and review updated information to ensure that the project meets all statutory and programmatic requirements. Prior to an award of Federal funding for any project selected under this funding opportunity, Reclamation must determine that the applicant’s Feasibility Study meets Reclamation requirements, and that the cost-estimating and design information for the project are sufficient as appropriate for the stage of development of the project. This program structure is intended to acknowledge that project sponsors may have information sufficient to meet Feasibility Study requirements prior to completing project design, and that more detailed information can be provided to Reclamation as design work progresses and cost estimates are refined.

BOR Large Scale Recycling

BJA Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based


Deadline: April 7, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 14, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Category 1: Up to $2,000,000; Category 2: Up to $2,000,000; Category 3: Up to $4,000,000; Category 4: Up to $4,000,000 for 48 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Businesses
Description: With this funding opportunity, the Office of Justice Programs seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime through comprehensive, evidence-informed violence intervention programs focused on those at highest risk. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence using community violence intervention strategies based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders. BJA is administering the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI), working in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office for Victims of Crime.

CVIPI

HRSA Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program


Deadline: April 10, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $750,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments & Higher Education Entities
Description: The purpose of the Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program is to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). These residency programs must achieve accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Newly created rural residency programs will increase the number of future physicians training in rural areas, and ultimately the number of physicians practicing in rural areas with the goal of addressing the physician workforce shortages in rural communities. The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties that will be sustainable long-term through viable and stable funding mechanisms, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private funding sources. Qualifying medical specialties are family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs: •Are accredited physician residency programs. •Train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) [1] for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency. •Focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities. The purpose of the RRPD Program is to fund the development of new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties. For this funding opportunity, we consider “new” programs to include both programs seeking accreditation for the first time and existing programs that apply for a permanent complement increase to train additional residents at new rural training site(s) as part of an RTP. To be responsive to the program purpose and be considered for funding, you must propose a new rural residency program in a qualifying medical specialty. For this funding opportunity, we do not consider the following to be new programs: •Programs that have received accreditation or a permanent complement increase for their proposed rural residency program before the application due date. •Programs seeking to increase resident full-time equivalents at an existing RTP site without adding a new rural training site.

Rural Residency

BJA Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program


Deadline: April 10, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $550,000 for 36 months
Match: 20% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, and Higher Education Institutions
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations between law enforcement and behavioral health agencies to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people who qualify with behavioral health needs. The goal is to implement deflection and diversion programs at first contact, such as crisis response and intervention teams, co-responders and other collaborative model approaches. The program focuses on improving safety and well-being for people with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Eligible entities can prepare, create, or expand collaborative projects.

BJA Connect & Protect

HRSA – Rural Communities Opioid Response Program


Deadline: April 14, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $3,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, School Districts
Description: The purpose of RCORP-Pathways is to create innovative new youth-focused behavioral health care support programs, while also offering behavioral health care career pathway opportunities in rural communities. Award recipients will establish and work within a network of organizations to engage youth in developing and implementing behavioral health care support programming. Through these efforts, RCORP-Pathways will improve behavioral health care in rural areas. Goal 1: Pathway Establish pathway programs to introduce youth to behavioral health careers and facilitate admittance into formalized training programs. Goal 2: Engagement Engage youth to develop and implement peer-driven behavioral health programming in rural communities. Goal 3: Sustainability Develop innovative, multi-sectoral approaches to ensure the continued availability of RCORP-Pathways supported activities in the target rural service area.

HRSA RCORP

WaterSMART Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Projects


Deadline: April 15, 2025
Award Amount: Task A: $500,000–$2,000,000 per project
Task B: $3,000,000–$10,000,000 per project
Match: A non-Federal cost-share of at least 35 percent is required
Eligible Entities: Category A: States, Tribes, irrigation districts, or water districts; State, regional, or local authorities, the members of which include one or more organizations with water or power delivery authority; Agencies established under State law for the joint exercise of powers; Other entities or organizations that own a dam that is eligible for upgrade, modification, or removal. Category B: Nonprofit conservation organizations that are acting in partnership with, and with the agreement of an entity described in Category A, with respect to a project that includes land or infrastructure owned by the Category A entity.
Description: The objective of this NOFO is to invite eligible applicants (Section C.1. Eligible Applicants) to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on the study, design, and construction of Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Projects that are collaboratively developed, have widespread regional benefits, and are for the purpose of improving of the health of fisheries, wildlife, and aquatic habitat through restoration and improved fish passage. As used here, “aquatic ecosystem” refers to freshwater and brackish water habitats such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, wetlands, swamps, and estuaries and the adjacent floodplains, riparian corridors, deltas, and shallow aquifers that interact with surface water.

BOR Aquatic Ecosystems

FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)


Deadline: April 18, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $2,000,000 for 36 months
Match: 25% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: States or Tribal Governments
Description: The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program makes federal funds available to states, U.S. territories, federally recognized tribal governments , and local governments for hazard mitigation activities. It does so recognizing the growing hazards associated with climate change , and the need for natural hazard risk mitigation activities that promote climate adaptation and resilience with respect to those hazards. These include both acute extreme weather events and chronic stressors which have been observed and are expected to increase in intensity and frequency in the future. 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.
Awards made under this funding opportunity are funded, in whole or in part, by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The BIL is a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure, which will grow a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable economy by enhancing U.S. competitiveness. The BIL appropriates billions of dollars to FEMA to promote resilient infrastructure, respond to the impacts of climate change, and equip our nation with the resources to combat its most pressing threats. In doing so, FEMA encourages investmen of these funds toward projects that are implemented using Good Jobs Principles to expand the availability of good, family-sustaining jobs with the free and fair opportunity to join a union for all Americans. FEMA recommends applicants design projects that are aligned with The Good Jobs Prinicples, a description of the elements of a Good Job that has informed the investment of billions of dollars through the Biden-Harris Administration’s Invest in America Agenda.
FEMA will provide financial assistance to eligible BRIC applicants for the following activities:
• Capability and Capacity-Building activities – activities that enhance the knowledge, skills, and expertise of the current workforce to expand or improve the administration of mitigation assistance. This includes activities in the following sub-categories: building codes, partnerships, project scoping, hazard mitigation planning and planning-related activities, and other activities;
• Hazard Mitigation Projects – cost-effective mitigation projects designed to increase resilience and public safety; reduce injuries and loss of life; and reduce damage and destruction to property, critical services, facilities, and infrastructure (including natural systems) from a multitude of natural hazards, including drought, wildfire, earthquakes, extreme heat, and the effects of climate change; and
• Management Costs – financial assistance to reimburse the recipient and subrecipient for eligible and reasonable indirect costs, direct administrative costs, and other administrative expenses associated with a specific mitigation measure or project.

BRIC

OVW Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes Program


Deadline: April 18, 2025
Award Amount: $250,000 to $700,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments
Description: The Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes Program (Cybercrimes Enforcement Program) supports efforts by States, Indian Tribes, and units of local government to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals with a focus on adult and young adult cybercrime victims. Cybercrimes against individuals are defined as criminal offenses that involve the use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, cause fear to, or intimidate an individual, or without consent distribute intimate images of an adult, except that use of a computer need not be an element of the offense. (See 34 U.S.C. § 30107(a)(2)). Cybercrimes against individuals do not include the use of a computer to cause harm to a commercial entity, government agency or nonnatural person. Note: The term computer includes a computer network and an interactive electronic device.

OVW Cybercrimes

HRSA Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program (Rural MOMS)


Deadline: April 22, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $1,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses, School districts
Description: The purpose of the Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (Rural MOMS) program is to support collaborative improvement and innovation networks to improve access to and delivery of maternity and obstetrics care in rural areas.

HRSA MOMS

DOE Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize


Deadline: January 21, 2025
Award Amount: Phase 1: Up to 18 winners are selected with up to six winners in each category. Winning teams each receive $100,000 in cash and are eligible to compete in Phase 2. Phase 2: Up to nine winners are selected with up to three winners per category. Winning teams each receive $200,000 in cash and are eligible to compete in Phase 3. Phase 3: Winning teams each receive $400,000 in cash. Winners of Phase 3 may have the opportunity to enter into a cooperative agreement with IEDO for continued development of their technology and may be required to work with IEDO to generate a validation report for the Industrial Technology Validation program.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize is a $4.8 million challenge sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO). The prize seeks cost-effective energy storage concepts for industrial facilities that enhance energy efficiency and are applicable across industrial sectors. This prize supports the acceleration of market adoption for cost-effective thermal energy storage technologies that can be charged by thermal or electrical sources, and provide heating, cooling, and/or power to industrial facilities To accommodate a variety of industrial sectors, the prize invites submissions of thermal energy storage solutions across a range of temperatures of industrial relevance. Competitors may submit up to one application to each of the following three categories: Industrial cooling energy storage, High temperature (>300°C) industrial energy storage, Industrial thermal storage for hybrid cooling, heating, and power. These storage solutions facilitate time shifting of either electric or thermal energy demand to enable on-site or near-site clean energy to fully meet the heat or power demands of industrial processes. This not only saves time and money, but also gives manufacturers greater control over the availability and integration of energy into their operations.

Industrial Energy Storage

Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program


Deadline: Phase 1: May 1, 2025, Phase 2: September 1, 2025, Phase 3: December 31, 2025
Award Amount: $150,000 – $3,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Dine College, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Navajo Technical University
Description: This program was designed to assist 1994 Land-grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges) in building institutional research capacity through applied projects that address student educational needs and meet community, reservation or regional challenges. Awards are to be made on the basis of a competitive review process. Collaboration with 1862 or 1890 Land-grant Institutions, the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a Non-Land-grant College of Agriculture (NLGCA), or at least one forestry school funded under the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program is a requirement. Eligible institutions may propose projects in any discipline of the food, agricultural or natural resource sciences.

USDA Tribal Colleges

NHPRC Archival Projects


Deadline: May 7, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $150,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, and Nonprofits.
Description: The NHPRC seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. We welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. The Commission encourages projects focused on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history. Collections that center the voices and document the history of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are especially welcome. Projects may preserve and process historical records to:
– Digitize historical records collections and make them freely available online
– Arrange or re-house and describe collections
– Convert existing description for online access
– Create new online Finding Aids to collections

Archival Projects

NHPRC Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions


Deadline: May 7, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $125,000 for one year
Match: None required
Eligible Entities: Tribal organization/governments, Non-profits, higher education institutions, states and
local governments
Description: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish online editions of historical records. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio. Projects may focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, such as law (including the social and political history of the law), politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. Projects that center the voices and document the history of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are especially welcome.

NHPRC

NEA Challenge America


Deadline: May 13, 2025, Grants.gov April, 24, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000
Match: Yes, 50% or 1:1 non-federal required
Eligible Entities: Tribal communities, nonprofits, states and local governments
Description: Challenge America offers support for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved groups/communities. The term “underserved,” as defined by the NEA’s legislation and agency policy, refers to those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited relative to geography, ethnicity, economic status, or disability. This program welcomes applications from applicants that are primarily small organizations, first-time applicants to the NEA, returning Challenge America applicants, or applicants that have not been recently recommended for funding in one of our other grant programs (see Eligibility below). Project activities may include, but are not limited to: arts programming; audience and community engagement, including educational activities; marketing and promotional activities; and organizational planning.

Challenge America

BOR WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program


Deadline: May 20, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $300,000 per applicant
Match: None
Eligible Entities: New Watershed Groups Applicants eligible to receive an award as a New Watershed Group include states, Indian Tribes, local and special districts (e.g., irrigation, water districts, water conservation districts), local governmental entities, interstate organizations, and non-profit organizations. To be eligible, applicants must also (1) be sponsoring the development of a New Watershed Group, (2) significantly affect or be affected by the quality or quantity of water in a watershed, and (3) be capable of promoting the sustainable use of water resources. Existing Watershed Groups Applicants eligible to receive an award as an Existing Watershed Group include states, Indian Tribes, local and special districts (e.g., irrigation, water districts, water conservation districts), local governmental entities, interstate organizations, and non-profit organizations.
Description: The objective of this NOFO is to invite states, Indian Tribes, irrigation districts, water districts, local governmental entities, non-profit organizations, Existing Watershed Groups, and local and special districts (e.g., irrigation and water districts, conservation districts, natural resource districts) to submit proposals for Phase I activities to develop a watershed group, complete watershed restoration planning activities, and design watershed management projects.

BOR Watershed Management

NPS Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program (ORLP)


Deadline: June 1, 2025
Award Amount: $300,000 to $15,000,000
Match: Yes, 50% or 1:1 non-federal share required
Eligible Entities: States, tribal governments, and local governments
Description: The objective of the ORLP Program is to improve parks, recreational opportunities, and conservation areas in urban underserved communities, consistent with the requirements of the LWCF Act. To meet this objective a proposed project must be located within a community that is determined to be underserved, or located within a community having a population of 25,000 or more in the 2020 Census.

ORLP

HUD Continuum of Care Competition and Renewal or Replacement of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Grants


Deadline: August 29, 2025
Award Amount: Depends on Project Type
Match: 25% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses, Faith-based organizations
Description: The goal of the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) is to support the development and implementation of a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness and sharing that experience with and mobilizing communities around the country toward the same end. The population to be served by the demonstration program is youth ages 24 and younger who are experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth.

HUD COC Builds

DOE SBIR/STTR Grants


Deadline: LOI January 14, 2025 Full Application February 26, 2025
Award Amount: Varies
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses
Description: The Federal SBIR STTR Programs were reauthorized on September 30, 2022, when the SBIR/STTR Extension Act of 2022 became law. This Act extends the SBIR STTR Programs through to September 30, 2025.

DOE SBIR/STTR

2024 HerRise MicroGrants


Deadline: Apply by 11:59pm on the last day of the month to be eligible for that month
Award Amount: $1,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: 51% women owned, registered in the US, and less than $1 million in gross revenue
Description: The HerRise MicroGrant, providing $1,000 each month, is available to under-resourced women, including women of color entrepreneurs, across a variety of industries. The HerRise MicroGrant offers financial support to innovative women who struggle to secure funding for their community-impacting small businesses. Small business grants are useful for financing a particular small business need. Past recipients used their growth grants for computers, equipment, marketing materials, software purchase, website creation and more.

HerRise

Etsy Emergency Relief Fund at CERF+


Deadline: Rolling Basis
Award Amount: $2,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: All Etsy sellers are eligible for a grant if they have experienced a federally declared natural disaster within the past year, have been an active seller on Etsy for at least one year, and their accounts with Etsy are in good standing.
Description: Etsy is committed to helping its creative entrepreneurs recover when disasters disrupt their businesses. They’ve partnered with CERF+, a nonprofit organization focused on helping artists prepare for and recover from emergencies and disasters, to create a disaster relief fund just for Etsy sellers. Each quarter, they work with CERF+ to award grants to a select number of eligible sellers. Any Etsy seller who has experienced a federally declared disaster within the past year may apply for a grant as long as they’ve been active on Etsy for at least one year and their accounts with Etsy are in good standing. Grants of $2,000 are available to sellers when they apply.

Esty Grant

The Audience Innovations Fund – For Filmmakers


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: You can apply for a grant amount from $5,000 to $50,000. The amount you apply for should not exceed 50% of the overall marketing budget for the film or films.
Match: 50%
Eligible Entities: Be a for-profit or nonprofit  organization or entity that can demonstrate previous experience distributing and marketing independent feature films. We do not accept applications from individuals, or individual film LLCs at this time.
Description: We are a new program that promotes fresh strategies to grow audiences for independent film releases. We do this through awarding grants for bold experiments around distribution and marketing, and by providing educational resources for film teams to encourage a renewed focus on audiences. We will also release case studies and data publicly so that the field as a whole can learn from the successes and failures of our grantees. Our long term goals are simply larger audiences for independent cinema as well as audiences that are more representative of the U.S. population. In a challenging time for our field, our strategy is to offset the risk of testing new methodologies to strengthen the engagement with thought-provoking films in our culture. We are currently focused on U.S. theatrical and non-theatrical releases. One recent example is the theatrical “pay-it-forward” model used by Angel Studios which allowed viewers to purchase a ticket for others as a gift to see the film free in theaters. The model was aimed at expanding accessibility to audience members who could not afford a ticket.  This technique has now been launched in a new form by Gathr which added a feature to provide the purchaser with transparent real-time data as to when and how that ticket is being used.  This innovation is a particularly successful example in demonstrating how one experiment can be used as a model to benefit other releases and therefore has the potential to strengthen the entire distribution ecosystem.

ADS

International Women’s Media Foundation


Deadline: Various
Award Amount: Undisclosed
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Depends on program
Description: The media is not truly free and representative without the equal voice of women and nonbinary people. Through our programs and grants we empower women and nonbinary journalists with the training, opportunities, and support to become leaders in the news industry. We unleash the potential of women journalists as champions of press freedom to transform the global news media.

IWMF

DOE Solar Workforce Technical Assistance Program


Deadline: TBD
Award Amount: TBD
Match: TBD
Eligible Entities: Community-based organizations, community colleges, and other training providers
Description: ConnectWerx, a Partnership Intermediary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in collaboration with the Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) will establish a Solar Workforce Technical Assistance Program to support effective workforce training programs for careers in solar energy. The program will facilitate partnership building and peer-to-peer learning opportunities and provide training resources, technical assistance, and funding to encourage the identification and adoption of best practices for solar training programs. With funding of around $8,000,000, DOE expects to make 1-3 larger award(s) to national non-profit organizations with expertise in solar workforce development to establish the program, and subsequently to make multiple smaller awards to community-based organizations, community colleges, and other training providers to participate in the program.

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USDOT SBIR Grants


The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is a highly competitive award system that provides qualified domestic small businesses with opportunities to pursue research on and develop innovative solutions to our nation’s transportation challenges.

USDOT SBIR

DOD SBIR/STTR Grants


SBIR and STTR grant funding opportunities offer small business entrepreneurs a chance to obtain non-dilutive funding for early-stage research and development. Applications are accepted throughout the year.

DOD SBIR/STTR

NIH SBIR/STTR Grants


SBIR and STTR grant funding opportunities offer small business entrepreneurs a chance to obtain non-dilutive funding for early-stage research and development. Applications are accepted three times a year.

NIH SBIR/STTR

NASA SBIR/STTR


The NASA Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program is part of America’s Seed Fund, the nation’s largest source of early-stage non-dilutive funding for innovative technologies. Through this program, entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses with less than 500 employees can receive funding and non-monetary support to build, mature, and commercialize their technologies, advancing NASA missions and helping solve important problems facing our country. Whether your destination is the Moon, Mars, or the marketplace, the NASA SBIR/STTR program wants to help get you there!

NASA SBIR/STTR