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11/22/24 – Free Grant Training Offerings from MCC & SUIE!

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Free Grant Training Offerings from MCC & SUIE!

Midwest Climate Collaborative and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is providing free Grant Training Workshops (virtual and in-person) Check out more details here (for what you’ll learn and when they are taking place!)

We are thrilled to have Diane Cox and Connie Frey-Spurlock from SIUE who have been instrumental in making this project possible. They both are grant experts and are leading several of the free grant training offerings along with other talented professionals at SIUE!

See here for the informational slides Diane presented on our call today.

Q&A:

Q: Can you explain a bit more about how entities will be selected to participate in the modules? Is it first come first served? Other registration steps to be selected?

A: Due to limited capacity, we can only accept 15 participants for this training program. It is essentially first come, first serve. That said, while we encourage applications from all interested individuals, we will prioritize participants from Midwest states and Environmental Justice (EJ) communities.

Q: Can more than one person from the same organization participate?

A: Seats are limited in number so it’ll be limited to one per org, unless there’s room.

Q: If I’m interested in more than one opportunity, is there a recommended order in which to take them?

A: If you’re doing both the Grant Development and the Grant Management modules, you’ll want to do grant development before grant management!

Registration is open for the online Grant Development Modules and the upcoming Grant Ready Workshop taking place December 13th in Des Moines, IA:

AWARDS

  • Department of Energy (DOE) announced its next round of award recipients through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program. The EECBG Program will distribute more than $17.7 million to 61 local and territorial governments to improve energy efficiency, reduce climate pollution, and lower overall energy use. Funded by BIL, and managed by the Department’s Office of State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP), the EECBG Program is designed to fund a wide range of energy efficiency and decarbonization projects. Midwest awards include:
    • Detroit, Michigan ($582,030) 
    • Indianapolis, Indiana ($787,040) 
    • Milwaukee, Wisconsin ($522,370)
    • Charter Township of Orion, Michigan ($76,233)
    • Mentor, Ohio ($76,760)
    • Rochester, Minnesota  ($172,870)
    • Mishawaka, Indiana  ($115,070)
    • Sheboygan, Wisconsin ($76,730)
  • (HUD) announced the final round of its Green and Resilient Retrofit Program which is designed to provide crucial climate resilience and energy efficiency renovations for affordable housing units. Grants and surplus loans for the Midwest:
    • Illinois: $1.46M (three projects)
    • Michigan: $727,747 (one project)
    • Missouri: $750,000 (one project)
    • Ohio: $1.38M (two projects) 
    • Wisconsin: $490,220 (one project)
  • USDA announced additional investments through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) this week. All 12 Midwest States received funding. 

Open & Upcoming Grants/Funding Opportunities

Resources

  • The State Climate Policy Dashboard from Climate XChange provides information on 62 climate policies across all 50 states.
  • The World Resources Institute is hosting a webinar on December 10 at 1 pm ET called “Integrating Elective Pay Tax Credits into Government Procurement and RFPs.” This webinar will cover how tax-exempt entities can fully integrate elective pay (aka direct pay) into their existing procurement and bidding processes. Register here.
  • An Energy Future Grant awardee webinar held earlier this week noted that the following folks are good financial contacts for us in the Midwest: 1. Dave Wright (Groundswell), 2. Ray Daffner (Green Bank for Rural America).
  • Check out the Community Energy Innovation Summit Dec 4-5 in Chicago!