NMED – Brownfields Program


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon project.
Match: Dependent upon project.
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits.
Description:  A brownfield is a property whose redevelopment is complicated by the presence of contamination or perceived contamination. Examples include old gas stations, vacant motels, former industrial sites or abandoned dumps. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties can restore the environment, reduce health risks, eliminate blight, revitalize downtowns, create jobs, increase local tax bases, and create a sense of community pride.

NMED offers free environmental evaluations of brownfield properties. Services include: Phase I & II environmental site assessments; Environmental investigations (sampling and analysis); Asbestos and lead paint surveys: Clean-up planning: and Remediation cost estimates. NMED also offers the Brownfield Clean-Up Revolving Loan Fund.

Brownfields Program

USDA – On-Farm Labor Housing Loans


Deadline: Until funds are depleted.
Award Amount: Loan maximum is 100 percent of the allowable total development cost.
Eligible Entities: Individual farm owners, family farm partnerships, family farm corporations, and associations of farmers.
Description: It provides affordable financing to develop or rehabilitate affordable rental housing for very-low to moderate income domestic, migrant, and seasonal farm laborers. It also provides funding used to increase the supply of affordable housing for farm labor; and the ability of the farmer to provide affordable, decent, sage and sanitary housing for farm workers.

On Farm

Sky’s The Limit Grants


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $2,500 monthly
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Small Businesses, Nonprofits, Startups
Description: This opportunity awards startup grants of up to $2,500 monthly to entrepreneurs. They also offer additional funding opportunities to registered members, such as one-on-one mentorship, tools and resources, special events, and human support.

Entrepreneur Grants

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Book Grants


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000 to $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a book project.

EHRP BOOK GRANT

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Standard Grants


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $500 to $5,000, depending on project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a news story, narrative feature, investigative report, documentary, nonfiction comic or illustrated work, photo essay, podcast, or radio feature. Small grants are currently distributed that are not intended to cover the entire cost of these projects.

EHRP STANDARD GRANTS

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Personal Essay/Op-Ed Grants


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $750 to $1,500
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a completed or close-to-completed personal essay or op-ed. The grants for personal essays range from $750–$1,500, depending on your experience and the amount of reporting involved. First-time contributors to EHRP typically receive $750.

EHRP's ESSAY/OP-ED

The Audience Innovations Fund – For Filmmakers


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $5,000 to $50,000. Amount applied for should not exceed 50% of the overall marketing budget for the film(s).
Match: 50%
Eligible Entities: Businesses and Nonprofits that can demonstrate previous experience distributing and marketing independent feature films.
Description: The Audience Innovation Fund is a new program that promotes fresh strategies to grow audiences for independent film releases by awarding grants for bold experiments around distribution and marketing, and by providing educational resources for film teams to encourage a renewed focus on audiences. In a challenging time for film, the Fund’s strategy aims to offset the risk of testing new methodologies to strengthen the engagement with thought-provoking films in media culture.

ADE GRANT FUNDING

AHRQ Small Health Services Research Grant Program


Deadline: July 17, 2029
Award Amount: Up to $10,000 for a project period not to exceed 2 years
Eligible Entities: Higher Education Institutions, Nonprofits, Governments, including Tribal, ISDs, Housing Authorities.
Description: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Small Research Grant Program supports different types of health services research projects, including: Pilot and feasibility studies, secondary analysis of existing data, small, self-contained research projects, development of research methodology, and development of new research technology.

SMALL HEALTH SERVICES GRANT

International Women’s Media Foundation


Deadline: Dependent upon grant.
Award Amount: Dependent upon grant.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Dependent upon grant.
Description: The media is not truly free and representative without the equal voice of women and nonbinary people. IWMF seeks to empower women and nonbinary journalists with the training, opportunities, and support to become leaders in the news industry through various forms of grant funding.

IWMF

PositiveNRG Program


Deadline: Ongoing
Eligible Entities: For Profit companies, Nonprofits
Description: The positiveNRG program gives preference to organizations and initiatives that have a meaningful and direct impact on the community, and nonprofit organizations and initiatives that are supported in partnership with the community. PositiveNRG encourages investing in initiatives that strengthen community involvement and inclusiveness.

PositiveNRG