Funding by Topic: Environment

Summaries of funding programs are provided by RAC for your convenience. Please contact the funder directly for the most complete and current information. You can also browse a list of inactive funding programs.

National Funding Programs

2010 State and Tribal Response Programs
Grant program to address the assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of brownfields sites and other sites with actual or perceived contamination.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Jan 31, 2010
    Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Brownfields Job Training Grants
Funding to deliver environmental job training.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities
Funding to initiate new research to understand the factors and conditions which result in resiliency in communities and families.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Jan 20, 2010
    Sponsor: USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

Green Retrofit Program for Multifamily Housing Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Grants for eligible property owners to make energy and green retrofit investments in the property, to ensure the maintenance and preservation of the property, the continued operation and maintenance of energy efficiency technologies.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Healthy Homes Demonstration Program
Develops, demonstrates, and promotes cost-effective, preventive measures to correct multiple safety and health hazards in the home environment that produce serious diseases and injuries in children of low income.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Nov 24, 2009
    Sponsor: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Learn and Serve America Summer of Service FY10
Grants for collaborative efforts to implement community-based service-learning projects during the summer months.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Dec 10, 2009
    Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service: For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations

Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards
Grants to community groups who are committed to improving their local environment by planting trees, bushes and shrubs to make their communities a better place to live.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Apr 1, 2010
    Sponsor: Nature Hills Nursery

The Nathan Cummings Foundation Health Program Grants
Provides grants to improve health and well-being. Programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Wal-Mart National Giving Program
Funding to support the replication of a particularly innovative local or regional initiative at other sites around the country.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation

Wal-Mart State Giving Program
The Wal-Mart Foundation will award grants at the state and regional level to support unmet needs that are not directly addressed by any of their current programs.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation

Wal-Mart Store and Sam's Club Giving Programs
Funding to local nonprofit organizations in four main areas of focus: Education, Workforce Development / Economic Opportunity, Health & Wellness and Environmental Sustainability.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation

State and Regional Funding Programs

El Paso Community Foundation Grants
Grant priorities are Health and Disabilities, Human Services (basic human needs) and Public Benefit.
    Geographic Coverage: West Texas, southern New Mexico and northern Chihuahua, Mexico.
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Midwest Assistance Program Loan Fund
Provides low-cost, short and intermediate term loans for community water and wastewater projects through its Community Revolving Loan Fund.
    Geographic Coverage: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Midwest Assistance Program

RCAP Safe Water Fund
A low-interest loan program for small community water and wastewater projects in Ohio.
    Geographic Coverage: Ohio
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

William T. Kemper Foundation Grants
Provides grants for health, human services, the arts, and the environment.
    Geographic Coverage: Missouri, Kansas, and western Illinois
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

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