Deadline: January 31, 2025
Award Amount: $50,000 prize for Phase 1; $100,000 for phase 2; Up to $300,000 for Phase 3
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Coalitions
Description: DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is launching the Good Jobs in Clean Energy Prize under the umbrella of the American-Made Challenges Program.6 To inform the scope of the Prize, EERE hosted four workshops focusing on how DOE could help ensure that the momentous investments in clean energy result in high-quality, accessible careers for all populations. The workshops engaged 281 stakeholders from across 31 states, spanning organized labor, community-based organizations, clean energy businesses, trade groups, local government, public agencies, and education and workforce providers. Input from these workshops confirmed the need and support for this Prize.
Through the Good Jobs in Clean Energy Prize, DOE seeks to:
1. Identify and support new and newly focused placed-based coalitions that will help ensure clean energy jobs created in communities are high quality and accessible to target populations.
2. Increase long-term engagement of relevant place-based coalitions serving target populations with clean energy employment opportunities.
3. Further develop place-based strategies consistent with DOE’s job quality and DEIA priorities in clean energy (including implementation of the Justice40 Initiative7) and EERE’s focus on implementing clean energy technologies equitably.
Coalitions must be five-member partnerships, at minimum, consisting of at least one entity from each of the following:
(1) Labor Organization: A single or multiple union local(s), an association of labor unions (e.g., a local or state Building and Construction Trades Council, a local or regional Central Labor Council, or a State Federation of Labor), or a combination of different labor organizations.
(2) Clean energy employer: Any public or private entity that employs workers in a clean energy sector.
(3) Community-based organization: A membership-based, non-governmental organization that represents the target population or a non-governmental organization with a track record of working with and serving the target population.
(4) Public agency: A governmental entity involved in implementing clean energy programs (e.g., a city or county sustainability office or a state energy office), a governmental entity involved in economic and workforce development (e.g., a local or state workforce investment/development board), a governmental entity involved in delivering public assistance programs (e.g., a county or state social service agency that provides financial assistance for food, housing, childcare, etc.).
(5) Education and workforce training provider: A public or private institution or organization that delivers workforce education and training services focused on middle-skill occupations (e.g., community colleges, adult high schools, registered apprenticeship programs, or apprenticeship readiness programs).

Deadline: February 13, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000 to $3,500,000
Match: 1:1 non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: Higher Education Institutions, Businesses, and individuals
Description: The Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) seeks to solve critical organic agriculture issues, priorities, or problems through the integration of research, education, and extension activities. The purpose of this program is to fund projects that will enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market high quality organic agricultural products. Priority concerns include biological, physical, and social sciences, including economics. The OREI is particularly interested in projects that emphasize research, education and outreach that assist farmers and ranchers with whole farm planning by delivering practical research-based information. Projects should plan to deliver applied production information to producers. Fieldwork must be done on certified organic land or on land in transition to organic certification, as appropriate to project goals and objectives.

Deadline: February 13, 2025 in Grants.gov, February 26, 2025 in NEA Applicant Portal
Award Amount: $10,000 to $150,000 depending on eligibility
Match: Yes, 50% or 1:1 non-federal share required
Eligible Entities: Tribal organization/governments, school districts, higher education institutions, non-profits, and states or local government
Description:
The NEA is committed to supporting arts projects for the benefit of all Americans. Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides funding for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector. We welcome applications from first-time and returning applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets.
We fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Media Arts, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts.

Deadline: Concept Papers February 14, 2025 Full Application May, 2 2025
Award Amount: $1,000,000 to $3,000,000
Match: At least 20% for R&D; None for education and outreach projects; Tribes 10% required cost share
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This NOFO is being issued by DOE’s EERE SETO to invest in R&D, technical assistance, and stakeholder engagement activities that improve the compatibility of large-scale solar (LSS) facilities with
wildlife and facilitate the dual use of land for agricultural and solar energy production (agrivoltaics).
Projects selected in this NOFO will a) test strategies that mitigate adverse impacts and/or maximize benefits to wildlife and ecosystems at LSS facilities, b) provide technical assistance and engagement
opportunities that enable stakeholders to improve the compatibility of LSS facilities with wildlife, or c) provide technical assistance and stakeholder engagement opportunities related to agrivoltaics.

Deadline: February 27, 2025
Award Amount: $25,000 – $200,000
Match: 20% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: (a) State agricultural experiment stations; (b) colleges and universities; (c) university research foundations; (d) other research institutions and organizations; (e) Federal agencies; (f) national laboratories; (g) private organizations or corporations; and, (h) individuals or any group consisting of two or more of the entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (H).
Description: The purpose of this program is to support research, education/teaching, and extension projects that increase participation by women and underrepresented minorities from rural areas in STEM. NIFA intends this program to address educational needs within broadly defined areas of food and agricultural sciences. Applications recommended for funding must highlight and emphasize the development of a competent and qualified workforce in the food and agricultural sciences. WAMS-funded projects improve the economic health and viability of rural communities by developing research and extension initiatives that focus on new and emerging employment opportunities in STEM occupations. Projects that contribute to the economic viability of rural communities are also encouraged.

Deadline: February 26, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000 to $50,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The Recreation and Visitor Services Program provides a wide variety of recreational opportunities that benefit the public and local communities. The program is also responsible for implementing Administration and Department priorities, including projects to improve racial equity, diversity and inclusion; help strengthen the U.S. economy; and reduce impacts to the environment and climate. The program is also prioritizing implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act; the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; the Great American Outdoors Act; the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act; Executive Order (E.O.) 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government; and E.O. 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.In fiscal year 2025, the BLM will support the Department’s priorities by focusing on projects that build healthy communities and economies, advance environmental justice, address the climate crisis, and provide safe and equitable access to outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans. These projects will:Connect with youth, tribes, and underserved communities to foster public lands stewardship.Enhance access to quality outdoor recreation activities while promoting climate resiliency.Identify and remove barriers to outdoor recreation and expand recreation opportunities for all.Provide an enhanced, more sustainable recreational experience by delivering up-to-date and engaging visitor information online and in person.

Deadline: February 26, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000 to $800,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The BLM New Mexico Threatened and Endangered Species Program has an opportunity to work with partner organizations to assist with:Contributing to the above-described Program strategic goals.On-the-ground actions that conserve and recover federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare wildlife and plants.Targeted inventory and monitoring to determine species status and conservation opportunities.Gaining knowledge about federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare species and their habitats including, but not limited to, propagation, genetics, ecology and threats.Providing for proactive protection or management of federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare species and their habitats, consistent with ESA section 7a1.Augmenting federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare species through translocations, seed collections, and/or propagation.Increasing program efficiencies and effectiveness in Endangered Species Act (ESA) section 7a2 consultations and ESA section 7a1 conservation programs.Increasing public knowledge of federally-listed, Bureau sensitive, and rare wildlife and plants on BLM managed lands, including with a targeted focus on communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities.Communications including program outreach, education, and Program website updates.

Deadline: February 26, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000 to $500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The BLM New Mexico Plant Conservation and Restoration Program is especially focused on projects that:protect biodiversity;increase resilience to climate change and help leverage natural climate solutions;contribute to conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by the year 2030;engage communities of color, low income families, and rural and indigenous communities to enhance economic opportunities related to native seed production and restoration;and use the best science and data available to make decisions. Native plants and native plant communities are the true green infrastructure we rely upon to sustain healthy, bio-diverse ecosystems. Without native seed we do not have the ability to restore functional ecosystems after natural disasters and mitigate the effects of climate change.The BLM New Mexico has opportunities to work with partner organizations to do activities such as:Reduce the threats to sage grouse, rare plants, and other sensitive species in high priority habitats by supporting efforts to restore habitat for keystone wildlife and pollinator .Working with growers to develop genetically appropriate native plant material for use in habitat restoration and rehabilitation.Support studies to improve the effectiveness of conservation restoration efforts in areas such as plant ecological, plant genetics, and ecophysiological studies, seed bank persistence, plant propagation and development of agronomic production practices, and trait and/or seed source evaluations as well as seeding treatment and tool development.Support pollinator studies and projects on the importance of native plant communities and pollinators to restoration durability and ecological function. Implement conservation actions for high priority rare plant speciesIncrease understanding of rare plant biology and threats.Monitor, protect, and restore habitat that supports more than 1,800 rare plant species, more than 300 of which are found exclusively on BLM lands.Develop strategies to encourage the use of native plant materials that are genetically appropriate for restoration and reclamation across all BLM associated programs such as Wildlife, Oil & Gas, Minerals, Fuels, Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation, Range, and Renewable Energy;Increase Citizen Science through expanding public education programs on native plants and native plant communities through development of technical guidance, videos, native plant guides and floras, workshops, webinars, and apps.

Deadline: February 28, 2025
Award Amount: $400,000 to $800,000 per year up to 5 years
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal governments and organizations, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The purpose of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship (AMF) program is to expand the number of fellows at accredited AMF and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (APF) programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who practice in medically underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorder and substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services. The fellowship must include training in prevention and treatment services in medically underserved, community-based settings, including in rural areas, that do not have access or have limited access to SUD treatment. The program includes training for both addiction medicine and/or addiction psychiatry fellows. Its goal is to increase the number of physicians who are board-certified specialists in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry who will serve in medically underserved community-based settings, including in rural areas, once trained. The program supports training to:
• Increase the number of fellows trained to practice addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry in rural and other medically underserved community-based settings.
• Establish partnerships with clinical rotation sites in rural or other underserved areas, that focus on the integration of primary care with mental health and SUD prevention and treatment services.
• Increase fellows’ knowledge and ability to assist their patients with referrals to navigate the legal and social systems related to patients’ clinical or care needs.
• Increase awareness of the specialty and reduce provider stigma to increase the number of physicians interested in pursuing careers in addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry through the provision of clinical rotations that expose medical residents to practice in these specialties and through education and consultation.

Deadline: March 06, 2025
Award Amount: $200,000 to $325,000
Match: 1:1 non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses, and Individuals
Description: The purpose of the Crop Protection and Pest Management program is to address high priority issues related to pests and their management using IPM approaches at the state, regional and national levels. The CPPM program supports projects that will ensure food security and respond effectively to other major societal pest management challenges with comprehensive IPM approaches that are economically viable, ecologically prudent, and safe for human health. The CPPM program addresses IPM challenges for emerging issues and existing priority pest concerns that can be addressed more effectively with new and emerging technologies. The outcomes of the CPPM program are effective, affordable, and environmentally sound IPM practices and strategies needed to maintain agricultural productivity and healthy communities. ​

Deadline: March 06, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $5,000 to $1,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Higher Education Entities which are land grant institutions or minority serving
Description: The overall goal of the Organic Transitions Program (ORG) is to support the development and implementation of research, extension and higher education programs to improve the competitiveness of organic livestock and crop producers, as well as those who are adopting organic practices. NIFA administers the ORG program by determining priorities in U.S. agriculture through Agency stakeholder input processes in consultation with the NAREEEAB. ORG will continue to prioritize environmental services provided by organic farming systems in the area of soil conservation, pollinator health, and climate change mitigation, including greenhouse gases (GHG), as well as the development of educational tools for Cooperative Extension personnel and other agricultural professionals who advise producers on organic practices, and development of cultural practices and other allowable alternatives to substances recommended for removal from the National Organic Program’s National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances. It is expected that all projects will integrate research, education and extension activities, as appropriate to project goals, although some projects may be weighted more heavily than others in one or more of these areas. However, all proposals should have activities and impact in research and at least one of the other areas: education and extension.

Deadline: March 10, 2025
Award Amount: $100,000 to $250,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, school districts, nonprofits, Businesses
Description: The primary goal of the UAIP projects is to support the development of urban agriculture and innovative production. The UAIP grants being made available for application under this NFO support planning and implementation activities. Planning activities will initiate, develop, or support the efforts of farmers, gardeners, citizens, government officials, schools, members of tribal communities, and other stakeholders in areas where access to fresh foods are limited or unavailable. Implementation activities will accelerate existing and emerging models of urban and/or innovative agricultural practices that serve multiple farmers or gardeners. Innovation may include new and emerging, as well as indigenous or non-traditional agricultural practices.

Deadline: March 11, 2025
Award Amount: $30,000 – $750,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Description: Projects supported by the Higher Education Challenge Grants Program will: (1) address a state, regional, national, or international educational need; (2) involve a creative or non-traditional approach toward addressing that need that can serve as a model to others; (3) encourage and facilitate better working relationships in the university science and education community, as well as between universities and the private sector, to enhance program quality and supplement available resources; and (4) result in benefits that will likely transcend the project duration and USDA support.

Deadline: March 11, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $3,000,000 per project for a project that can be completed within 3 years. Total project costs shall not exceed $6,000,000. Up to $5,000,000 in Federal funds may be awarded to a watershed group for projects to be complete within five years.
Match: Non-Federal cost-share of 25 percent or more of total project costs.
Eligible Entities: Category A: States; Indian tribes; irrigation districts; water districts; state, regional, or local authorities, whose members include one or more organizations with water or power delivery authority; and other organizations with water or power delivery authority. All Category A applicants must be located in one of the following States or Territories: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, or Puerto Rico. Category B: Non-profit with Category A partner. Category C: Non-profit without a Category A partner.
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to provide funding to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. This provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety. Many of DOJ’s existing tribal government-specific programs are included in and available through this single coordinated funding opportunity.

Deadline: March 11, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $400,000 per agreement for a project that can be completed within 2 years.
Match: A non-Federal cost-share of 25 or 50 percent depending on the type of project.
Eligible Entities: Category A: States, Indian Tribes, irrigation districts, water districts, and other organizations with water or power delivery authority. Category B: Universities, nonprofit research institutions, federally funded research and development centers, and non-profit entities (including 501[c][3] organizations) that are acting in partnership with and with the agreement of an entity described in Category A.
Description: The objective of this NOFO is to invite eligible non-Federal entities to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on applied science projects (Project) to improve access to and use of hydrologic data, develop and improve water management tools, improve modeling and forecasting capabilities. Results from these projects will be used by water managers to increase water supply reliability, provide flexibility in water operations, improve water management, and support nature-based solutions. Project results must be readily applicable by managers—resulting in tools and information that can be used to support: water supply reliability, water delivery management, water marketing activities, drought management activities, conjunctive use of ground and surface water, water rights administration, ability to meet endangered species requirements, watershed health, conservation and efficiency, support for nature-based solutions and other water management objectives.In general, under this NOFO, Reclamation will provide funding for applied science projects to develop or improve hydrologic information, water management tools, modeling and forecasting capabilities, and improve nature-based solution decisions. Results from these Projects will be used by water managers to increase water supply reliability, provide flexibility in water operations, and improve water management.Proposed projects will be reviewed by the Program Office to determine whether the project type is eligible for evaluation.

Deadline: March 17, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $75,000 per year for up to five years
Match: Yes, 200% or 1:2 match is required
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The program goal is to support community-based projects to improve access to one or more of the following in underserved communities:
• Children’s behavioral health screening and referrals.
• Children’s immunizations.
• Adolescents’ well-visits.
The program objectives to be accomplished during the period of performance include:
• Implement an evidence-informed or evidence-based preventive clinical or public health community-based project with at least one measurable outcome that aligns with your selected child health topic.
• Build or strengthen at least three partnerships with maternal and child health (MCH) programs, including one partnership with a HRSA Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant recipient.
• Engage people with lived experience in the advisory board and project activities.
• Develop a sustainability plan to support MCH population health improvements that includes at least three community partnerships and at least one funding strategy.

Deadline: March 18, 2025
Award Amount: $555,000 per year for 4 years
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, and Nonprofits
Description: The purpose of the Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) program is to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses). The program uses comprehensive, evidence-based strategies to provide more inclusive and culturally aligned nursing education environments that will support students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Program goals include:
• Increase the number of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, including ethnic and racial minorities underrepresented among registered nurses, who are enrolled in nursing degree programs, using evidence-based strategies such as holistic admissions as a best practice.
• Increase the number of nursing students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are retained and graduate from nursing degree programs.
• Increase the number of nursing students from disadvantaged backgrounds who receive academic and social support for educational success in nursing degree programs.

Deadline: March 20, 2025
Award Amount: $85,000 – $138,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: 1862 Land-grant Institutions including New Mexico State University
Description: Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification (YFSEC) Program supports national efforts to deliver timely, pertinent and appropriate farm safety education to youth seeking employment or already employed in agricultural production. YFSEC focuses on identifying and developing educational resources to mitigate agricultural hazards to young workers, regardless of their knowledge, experience, ability, ethnicity or culture.

Deadline: March 21, 2025
Award Amount: $50,000 to $1,200,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Hispanic Serving Institutions
Description: This competitive grants program is intended to promote and strengthen the ability of Hispanic-Serving Institutions to carry out higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences. Programs aim to attract outstanding students and produce graduates capable of enhancing the Nation’s food and agricultural scientific and professional work force.

Deadline: March 21, 2025, accepted on a rolling basis beginning January 21, 2025
Award Amount: $25,000 to $500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Community-based organizations, non-profits, and foundations
Description: OBAE will award the funds to New Mexico entities to implement digital inclusion activities. Eligible activities under this grant may include digital skills activities, digital navigator activities, device distribution activities, technical support, and capacity-building. To receive a PINON Grant, subgrantees must engage individuals from one or more of eight covered populations identified in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021.
These include: Incarcerated individuals, Households with incomes below 150% of the poverty line, Seniors, Veterans, Individuals with disabilities, Individuals facing language barriers, Members of racial and ethnic minority groups, Residents who live in rural areas

Deadline: March 27, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 3, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Category 1: $2,000,000; Category 2: $1,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Independent School Districts, Public charter schools, private K-12 schools
Description: This funding opportunity aims to support school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence. The goal is to equip K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence.

Deadline: March 27, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 3, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $833,000 for 36 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to enhance corrections and community supervision systems and community-based providers’ capacity to address the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support needs of people during incarceration and upon reentry. The goals of this program are to support the implementation or expansion of evidence-based and trauma-informed SUD treatment programming, as well as to promote the implementation of deflection as part of the treatment and recovery safety net, which helps persons in treatment stay in treatment, and prevents further and unnecessary contact with the criminal justice system.

Deadline:  March 31, 2025 or until funds are fully allocated
Award Amount:  not to exceed $15,000 per internship
Eligible Entities:  ​An “agricultural business” means a business of a food or agricultural nature, including agricultural production or processing. Primary areas of focus for these internships include: agribusiness; agronomy; crop production; farm and ranch management; food safety; fruit and vegetable production; maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment; marketing and sales; and natural resources and conservation.
Description:  NMDA’s AWD Program offers incentives to the state’s agricultural businesses to hire interns. The AWD Program is intended to provide hands-on educational opportunities for students aspiring to careers in agriculture, as well as young or beginning farmers and ranchers.  Internships can begin after July 1, 2024 and must be completed by May 31, 2025.

Deadline: March 31, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000 per finalist and $50,000 Grant Prize
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, and County Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits,
Description: The Access to Justice Prize is a prize competition to promote innovative solutions to address the access to justice crisis. The 2025 Prize will focus on solutions that impact rural communities. In line with this purpose, the Access to Justice Prize invites community-based and non-profit organizations; academic institutions; and local, state, tribal and territorial governments—including courts, public defender offices, and prosecutorial agencies—to submit proposals for an innovative idea to expand access to justice. The Access to Justice Prize competition has a one-year prize cycle, from January to December, with two judging rounds. At the first round, a number of finalists will be selected and awarded a finalist prize of $5,000. The finalists will further develop their submission during a six-month Refinement Phase and will then compete in a final round judging competition—the Access to Justice Prize Showcase—for the grand prize of $50,000. Judging criteria for the finalist selection phase of the challenge are as follows:
Engagement: Does the submission reflect engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, including communities or organizations that represent people likely to be impacted by the proposal, or demonstrate a plan to ensure such engagement?
Innovation: Does the submission reflect a creative, new proposed idea for a solution to pressing barriers to equal access to justice that has not been done within the applicant’s jurisdiction, even if it has been done in other jurisdictions?
Implementation, Feasibility, and Sustainability: Does the submission include an implementation plan? Does the submission reflect data and/or analysis of potential barriers and strategic efforts to mitigate those barriers?  Does the submission address how the solution will be sustained?
Clear Goal and Measures for Success: Does the submission include a clear goal or outcome sought to expand access to justice for rural communities? Would the proposed impact be significant and long-term? Does the submission establish methods to determine impact or success both in the short-term and long-term?  How will implementation processes and outcomes be documented?

Deadline: April 3, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 10, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $550,000 for 36 months
Match: 20% non-federal cost share required for Y1 & 2; 40% for Y3
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). The goal is to improve safety and well-being for adults with MHDs (including people with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder) or MHSUDs who come into contact with the criminal justice system.

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.

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.

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.

Deadline: April 10, 2025 in Grants.gov; April 17, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000 for 36 months
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Housing Authorities, Businesses
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to support new and innovative strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes. The Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to accomplish this by promoting collaborations with the field to identify, define, and respond to emerging or chronic crime problems or justice system challenges.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.