ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Plan to submit Community Change grants by August 1. (Technical Assistance is available through August 16, technically).
GRANTS & FUNDING SOURCES
- Urban and Community Forestry Grants – Arbor Day regranting funds from USDA Urban and Community Forestry (UCF) grants – for Tribes and community-based nonprofits serving disadvantage communities (DACs)- grant writing assistance available:
- Click here for more info
- $100,000 to $1,000,000 over a 3-year period (total of $4.3 million to be granted to CBOs and $8 million to Tribes)
- No cost-share
- 2 tracks – custom projects and projects using their Implementation Template
- Google form applications
- August 12, 2024
- Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles grant program: due July 25 at 11:59 pm et
- Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Low-Income Communities Bonus (LICB)
- Low-Income Community Bonus: DOE has opened applications for the LICB. If you’re a tax-exempt entity that expects to complete a solar or wind project smaller than 5 MW in the next ~4 years, this is for you. While the application deadline was June 27th, DOE will accept applications on a rolling basis if you apply after this date. Click here for more info.
RESOURCES
- Clean Energy Tax Navigator and Project finance Hub:
- Lawyers for Good Government and Atlas Public Policy have released a Project Finance Hub.
- Watch the webinar here: Navigator + Hub Launch Webinar — Lawyers for Good Government
- Community Change Grants Technical Assistance
- Environmental Protection Network –
- Resources on grant award negotiations (because winning one isn’t the end!): https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/tcgm-resources/
- Track 1 guide: Track I Process Guide: https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/community-change-grants-track-1/
- Track 2 Guide: https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/change-grants-track-ii/
- EPN’s step by step guides to community change applications: https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/change-grants-application-process/
- Environmental Protection Network –
- Edyna / CCTA Technical Assistance intake : https://communitychangeta.org/request-technical-assistance
Events
- Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition Equity Summit – free on zoom, July 31 – August 1, 2024 – learn more and register here
- EPA’s region 5 roadshow:
- August 15 in Milwaukee regarding Inflation Reduction Act opportunities and resources. Space is limited – so register early!
- Space is limited!
- Indiana Climate Leadership Summit:
- Sept. 6 at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, IN – learn more here and register
- Climate Change and Small Cities Conference:
- October 24 – 26 in Winona, MN
- Learn more here
- Wisconsin: Sustain Dane 2024 Summit – November 8, 2024 in Madison
- Wisconsin 2024 Climate Fast Forward: November 14 – 15 in Rothschild, WI