Community Connect Broadband Grants - USDA Rural Development. Grants to provide broadband service to residents of remote, rural communities. Deadline: June 18, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Rural Housing Preservation Grants - USDA Utilities Programs. Grant funds to assist very low- and low-income homeowners in repairing and rehabilitating their homes in rural areas. In addition, the HPG program assists rental property owners and cooperative housing complexes in repairing and rehabilitating their units if they agree to make such units available to low- and very low-income persons. Deadline: June 25, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Healthy Food Financing Initiative - Administration for Children and Families. Supports projects that increase access to healthy, affordable food in communities that currently lack these options. Link to more information.
Community Economic Development (CED) Projects - Administration on Children and Families. Funding for projects designed to address the economic needs of low-income individuals and families through the creation of employment and business opportunities. Deadline: June 5, 2012. Link to more information.
Intermediary Lending Pilot (ILP) Program - Small Business Administration. Provides long-term loans to eligible non-profit intermediary lenders to finance their lending to small businesses. Deadline: May 25, 2012. Link to More Information.
Projects of National Significance: Community of Practice for Supporting Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - Administration for Children & Families. Funds will be awarded to build capacity across and within states through State consortia, to create and share policies, practices and systems that support competitive, integrated employment outcomes to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Deadline: July 10, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
BioSense 2.0: Building State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Surveillance Capacity to Enhance Regional and National All-Hazards Public Health Situation Awareness. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose of the program is to assist state, local, tribal and territorial health authorities to implement public health situation awareness and syndromic surveillance utilizing BioSense 2.0. Specifically this includes: • Promoting timely exchange of electronic health-related information between providers and public health authorities • Facilitating timely information sharing among state, local, tribal, territorial and federal public health partners and • Promoting improvement of the science, analytic and workforce practice for public health surveillance at the state, local, tribal, and territorial levels. Deadline: June 26, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Affordable Care Act - Grants for School-based Health Center Capital (SBHCC) Program. Health Resources & Services Administration. Deadline: June 26, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Implementation Cooperative Agreements for Expansion of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Deadline: June 19, 2012. Link to Full Announcemnet.
SunShot Incubator Program - Department of Energy. SunShot drives American innovation through advanced research and development, strengthening domestic manufacturing and cutting-edge technology. For start-up businesses. Deadline: May 29, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Transitional Living Program and Maternity Group Homes - Administration for Children and Families. Deadline: July 10, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) - U.S. Department of Justice. Community Policing Development (CPD) funds are used to advance the practice of community policing in law enforcement agencies through training and technical assistance, the development of innovative community policing strategies, applied research, guidebooks, and best practices that are national in scope. Deadline: May 21, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Colorado Creative Industries - Colorado Creates grants for cultural non-profit cultural organizations and communities produce and present arts and cultural activities, bringing jobs an enhancing quality of life. Deadline: June 21st. Complete details can be found here:http://www.coloradocreativeindustries.org/
Institute of Museum and Library Services - Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums Grants. Deadline: June 15, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
National Endowment for the Humanities - Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants. Grants aim to help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants also support educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices. Deadline: June 28, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
U.S. Dept. of Labor - Employment and Training Administration - YouthBuild Grants. Grants to organizations to oversee the provision of education, occupational skills training, and employment services to disadvantaged youth in their communities while performing meaningful work and service to their communities.Deadline: May 8, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Health Resources & Services Administration - Rural Health System Analysis and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement Grants. The purpose of the RHSATA Cooperative Agreement Program is to inform policy makers and rural health care providers about how changes in the health care delivery system may affect them, and to provide technical assistance to rural providers in identifying potential new approaches to health care delivery in their communities. Deadline: June 1, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
National Science Foundation - The Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program seeks to advance research at the frontiers of STEM learning and education, and to provide the foundational knowledge necessary to improve STEM learning and education in current and emerging learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from before school through to graduate school and beyond into the workforce. Deadline: July 17, 2012. Link to Full Announcement.
Department of Health & Human Services - SHIFT Award: Small Businesses Helping Investigators to Fuel the Translation of Scientific Discoveries. Deadline: January 7, 2013. Link to Full Announcement.
USDA - Rural Business Cooperative Service - Funding Availability for the Rural Energy for America Program. Deadline for guaranteed loans - 6/29/12. Link to NOFA in Federal Register.
National Institute of Justice - Research on Policing to Improve Criminal Investigative Processes and Promote Police Integrity in Law Enforcement Agencies - Deadline: 4/25/12. Link to Full Announcement.
State Funding Opportunities:
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment - Waste Tire Program Grants. The Colorado General Assembly passed legislation in 2010 (HB 10-1018), 25-17-202.6, C.R.S., concerning tire recycling and re-use programs. The purpose of this program is to encourage the beneficial reuse and recycling of Colorado waste tires. The legislation authorizes funds be made available to counties, municipalities, special districts (including school districts), and state agencies, as a financial incentive to purchase products containing recycled or reused Colorado waste tires on a reimbursement basis. Deadline: May 30, 2012. Link to CDPHE Website with more details.
Colorado Private Activity Bond Program - Department of Local Affairs. These bonds can be issued for specific purposes including encouraging private investment in housing, higher education, jobs, solid and hazardous waste treatment, and water and sewer facilities. Deadline: June 1, 2012 (deadline is the 1st of each month. Link to More Information.
Colorado Creative Industries - Office of Economic Development & International Trade. Provide critical financial support that helps nonprofit cultural organizations and communities produce and present arts and cultural activities, bringing jobs to their communities and enhancing the quality of lifeDeadline: June 21, 2012. Link to more information.
The Wells Fargo Foundation- priorities inlcude arts and culture, education, economic development, health care and human services. Deadline: July 1, 2012.
Youth Service America and State Farm - Good Neighbor Student Achievement Grants. State FarmTM is proud to team up with YSA (Youth Service America) to offer grants of up to $1,000 for programs enhancing student achievement through service-learning in K-12 public schools in all fifty US states, Deadline: May 31, 2012.
Colorado Health Foundation- Healthy Living, Health Coverage, and Health Care. Deadline: June 15 and October 15, 2012.
