ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Midwest Climate Summit early bird registration is open. April 30 – May 2, 2025 in Madison. Members of the MCC receive two free summit tickets. If you are interested in being a member, check out our Membership page or reach out to us midwestclimatecollaborative@wustl.edu!
- Educator Community of Practice working group is meeting one more time this month! Working group RSVP form; See here for more info!
- The free MCC/SIUE Grant Processes Overview 1-Day Workshop we had scheduled on December 13th in Des Moines, IA has been postponed to late January. Details forthcoming as soon as we’ve confirmed a location and the date! Check our Grant Training webpage for any updates!
- MCC/SIUE Free Grant Development Module Cohort #1 is now full, but folks can still register for Cohort #2 starting in June 2025 or be put on a waitlist for Cohort #1 if someone needs to drop out before it starts.
- Webinar from World Resources Institute, December 10 @ 1 pm ET: Integrating Elective Pay Tax Credits into Government Procurement and RFPs ; This webinar will cover how tax-exempt entities can fully integrate elective pay into their existing procurement and bidding processes.
- Next week’s FFF! We’re excited to have special guest Amy Turner, Director of the Cities Climate Law Initiative at the Sabin Center joining us to share more about what’s next for implementation of the IRA following the election, what to expect, what’s still up in the air, and how we can best prepare. If you have any specific questions, let us know in the chat or on the FFF LI page and we can send along to Amy in advance!
- Slides from the most recent Sabin Center webinar.
AWARDS
- EPA Community Change Grants
- Grants and not cooperative agreements coming
- Next week more announcements coming
- If you are selected for CCG and want support getting your award signed (and safer) head to this link: https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/tcgm-resources/
- The DOE has announced five Phase 2 winners in the Buildings Upgrade Prize (Buildings UP) and one is from the Midwest! Congratulations to J40 Pathways to Efficiency-From Interest to Action, Ecolibrium3 (great peer resources from Lily), Duluth, Minnesota (Phase 2 winners receive $400k and Technical Assistance for their project)
- MEEA is the Regional Navigator to this prize, we can connect you to the building decarb winners if you want. ccoughlin@mwalliance.org
- ICYMI: Congrats to previous Phase 1 Midwest winners below!
- A Lakota Utility, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Rosebud, South Dakota
- Cream City Climate Challenge, Slipstream, Madison, Wisconsin
- Energy Navigators, Climate + Energy Project, Hutchinson, Kansas
- Green Power to the People, Imani Green Panthers, Chicago, Illinois
- Libraries Inspiring Building for Health, Metropolitan Energy Center, Kansas City, Missouri
- Ohio’s First African American Net Zero Neighborhood, IMPACT Community Action, Columbus, Ohio
- The City of Evanston Green Homes Pilot Program, Evanston Development Cooperative, Evanston, Illinois
- The Hope Vision: Sustainable Community Builders, Hope Village Revitalization, Detroit, Michigan
- Twin Cities Home Energy: Bridging the Gap, Community Power, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- DOE Community Energy Innovation Prize winners: Projects ranged from engaging and mentoring university students to help deploy clean energy in their communities, to workforce development initiatives, community education, and technology deployment related to clean energy and manufacturing.
- Clean Energy Ecosystem Track
- $10,000 and $310,000 awards for clean energy ecosystem and manufacturing ecosystem tracks
- East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) and Cooperative Energy Futures (CEF) (Minneapolis, Minnesota) awarded $160,000
- Convivencia Hispana Energy Navigator (St. James, Minnesota) awarded $100,000
- RESCo Innovation Team (RIT) (Rosebud, South Dakota) awarded $100,000
- Manufacturing Ecosystem Track
- CEIP Warren (Warren, Ohio) awarded $110,000
- Clean Tech Innovation Network (Chicago, Illinois) awarded $60,000
- IMPACTT (Evansville, Indiana) awarded $10,000
- Clean Energy Ecosystem Track
Open & Upcoming Grants/Funding Opportunities
- Thriving Communities Grantmakers Award
- EPA Grantmakers Region 5 is FINALLY OPEN! (Serving, IL, IN, MI, MN OH, WI and 36 Tribal Nations)
- Minneapolis Foundation, alongside their outreach partners, is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, December 10th, at 12pm CT / 1pm ET. You can register here!
- EPA Grantmaker Region 8 IS OPEN!
- Region 7 – To be released early 2025?!
- EPA Grantmakers Region 5 is FINALLY OPEN! (Serving, IL, IN, MI, MN OH, WI and 36 Tribal Nations)
- DOE Community Energy connectors – $6 million for regional organizations across the country to provide place-based technical assistance and capacity building support. DOE will establish a network of 5-10 regional organizations, led by an administrator, to execute proposed activities over a 3-year period. Eligible organizations may apply as a team or as a single organization, although teams are strongly encouraged. DOE is seeking applications from organizations with expertise and demonstrated experience:
- Working with states, local governments, Tribes, and/or territories in their region around clean energy and economic development challenges, opportunities, and goals
- Administering and facilitating in-person and virtual clean energy trainings, conferences, and networking events
- Training and teaching technical information to government practitioners with varying abilities and limited capacity
- Creating easy to understand materials, resources, and presentations
- Objective strategy session on Dec. 18 at 3 pm ET
- Informational office hours session on January 14, 2025, at 3pm ET to learn more about eligibility requirements and the application process.
- Applications due Jan. 31