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            Environment funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center
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    Environment funding opportunities, with information provided via the Rural Assistance Center
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				<copyright>Copyright 2009 Rural Assistance Center</copyright>
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        http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_topic_details.php?topic=Environment        </link>
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<title>Learn and Serve America Summer of Service FY10</title>
<description>Grants for collaborative efforts to implement community-based service-learning projects during the summer months. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Corporation for National and Community Service: For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2274 </link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:38:45 CST</pubDate>
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<title>2010 State and Tribal Response Programs</title>
<description>Grant program to address the assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of brownfields sites and other sites with actual or perceived contamination. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2271 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:04:20 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2271 </guid>

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<title>Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities</title>
<description>Funding to initiate new research to understand the factors and conditions which result in resiliency in communities and families. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2251 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:38:08 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2251 </guid>

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<title>Brownfields Job Training Grants</title>
<description>Funding to deliver environmental job training. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2250 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:39:06 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2250 </guid>

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<title>Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards</title>
<description>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  -- Nature Hills Nursery </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2090 </link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:38:24 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2090 </guid>

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<title>Healthy Homes Demonstration Program</title>
<description>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  -- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=529 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:34:34 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=529 </guid>

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<title>El Paso Community Foundation Grants</title>
<description>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.  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1065 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:16:34 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1065 </guid>

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<title>William T. Kemper Foundation Grants</title>
<description>Provides grants for health, human services, the arts, and the environment. Geographic coverage:  Missouri, Kansas, and western Illinois  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=982 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:05:06 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=982 </guid>

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<title>The Nathan Cummings Foundation Health Program Grants</title>
<description>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  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=885 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:02:53 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=885 </guid>

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<title>Midwest Assistance Program Loan Fund</title>
<description>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  -- Midwest Assistance Program </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1070 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:17:41 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1070 </guid>

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<title>RCAP Safe Water Fund</title>
<description>A low-interest loan program for small community water and wastewater projects in Ohio. Geographic coverage:  Ohio  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1937 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 16:15:55 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1937 </guid>

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<title>Green Retrofit Program for Multifamily Housing Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
<description>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  -- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2158 </link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 09:07:40 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2158 </guid>

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<title>Wal-Mart Store and Sam's Club Giving Programs</title>
<description>Funding to local nonprofit organizations in four main areas of focus: Education, Workforce Development / Economic Opportunity, Health &amp; Wellness and Environmental Sustainability. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Wal-Mart Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2123 </link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:27:38 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2123 </guid>

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<title>Wal-Mart National Giving Program</title>
<description>Funding to support the replication of a particularly innovative local or regional initiative at other sites around the country. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Wal-Mart Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2122 </link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:26:35 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Wal-Mart State Giving Program</title>
<description>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  -- Wal-Mart Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1991 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:27:07 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1991 </guid>

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