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Federal Funding Opportunities

Grants.Gov - grants.gov

Web site allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. It is a single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - www.gsa.gov/cfda

This web site is a government-wide compendium of federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the federal government.

Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection, 2nd Edition - www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/wacademy/fund.html

The EPA Office of Water has developed this Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection, 2nd ed. to inform watershed partners of federal monies that might be available to fund a variety of watershed protection projects. It contains a one-page fact sheet for each of 69 funding sources indicating the types of projects funded and eligibility requirements.

Endangered and Threatened Species Grants - endangered.fws.gov/grants/index.html

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers grants to states, territories and private landowners to promote conservation of threatened and endangered species.

Five-Star Restoration Grant Program - www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/restore/5star/

The Five-Star Restoration Grant Program brings together citizen groups, corporations, Youth Conservation Corps, students, landowners, and government agencies to undertake projects that restore streambanks and wetlands. The program provides challenge grants, technical support, and peer information exchange to enable community-based restoration projects.

Hardship Grants Program for Rural Communities - www.epa.gov/owm/mab/smcomm/index.htm

Many rural communities lack the resources to afford the full cost of Clean Water State Revolving Fund loans to improve their outdated or failing wastewater treatment services. The Hardship Grants Program is designed to complement the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program, which allows states to make loans to communities and individuals for high-priority water quality projects. States are given a high degree of flexibility in how they manage the new Hardship Grants Program and are responsible for selecting the projects.

Clean Water Act Section 319(h) funds - www.epa.gov/owow/nps/319hfunds.html

Provided only to designated state and tribal agencies to implement their approved nonpoint source management programs. State and tribal nonpoint source programs include a variety of components, including technical assistance, financial assistance, education, training, technology transfer, demonstration projects, and regulatory programs.

Brownfields Funding - www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/mmatters.htm

A guide to funding mechanisms to to help redevelop brownfields.

Rural Community Assistance Program - www.rcap.org/

RCAP is a national network of nonprofit organizations that works to improve water and waste disposal facilities for rural communities, particularly low-income communities. Through the Office of Wastewater Management funding, RCAP provides on-site technical assistance and information transfer to communities in the areas of needs assessment, financing, technology selection, operations and maintenance, management practices, and systems restructuring and consolidation to achieve and maintain national compliance. Its goal is to enhance the ability of rural communities to plan, develop, operate, and maintain water and wastewater systems.

State Revolving Fund (SRF) - www.epa.gov/owm/cwfinance/index.htm

Under the SRF program, each state (and Puerto Rico) may create revolving loan funds to provide independent and permanent sources of low-cost financing for a range of water quality infrastructure projects. Funds to establish or capitalize the SRF programs are provided by the federal (83 percent) and state (17 percent) governments. Currently, all 50 states and Puerto Rico are operating successful SRF programs. Capitalization began in 1988; today total assets of the SRF program stand at more than $34 billion.

Private Funding Opportunities

America's Charities - www.charities.org/

America's Charities is a coalition of the nation's best-known and most-loved charitable organizations - groups that provide direct services in thousands of local communities, across the United States and around the world.

Directory of Funding Sources for Grassroots River and Watershed Conservation

Compiled by Alison Cook and Pat Munoz, this directory provides profiles of foundations, corporations, state and federal agencies, and other nonprofits that support small, nonprofit watershed groups, as well as a few sources that support tribes. Only multistate funders are included in this directory. Includes contact information, grant sizes, and a brief description of each source's particular interests. Contains sections on grant proposal writing, indexes, and resources. Order online from the Rivernetwork.

Directory of State Environmental Federations and Social Action Funds - http://www.rivernetwork.org/resource-library.php?ResourceID=658

Rivernetwork developed this list of environmental federations and social action funds organized by state.

The Foundation Center - fdncenter.org/

The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed. This site contains an online library of private and corporate funding sources, online training on proposal writing, and helpful publications.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation - www.mott.org/

The foundation's environmental mission is to support the efforts of an engaged citizenry working to create accountable and responsive institutions, sound public policies, and appropriate models of development that protect the diversity and integrity of selected ecosystems in North America and around the world.

The Environmental Finance Center - www.efc.umd.edu/

This web site provides links to the environmental finance community. Among the information included at this site is information on watershed management and water quality sites and sources of assistance.

Global Environmental and Technology Foundation - www.getf.org/about/

The Global Environmental & Technology Foundation (GETF) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that helps create the infrastructure necessary to achieve sustainable development. Since 1988 GETF has played a key role in designing and implementing initiatives that improve the quality of life in all of its economic, environmental, and social dimensions.

Land Trust Alliance - www.lta.org/

The Land Trust Alliance promotes voluntary land conservation across the country and provides resources, leadership, and training to the nation's nonprofit, grassroots land trusts, helping them to protect important open spaces. They provide financial assistance, training, and publications.

Pew Charitable Trusts - www.pewtrusts.com/grants/index.cfm

The mission of the Trust's environmental program is to promote policies and practices that protect the global atmosphere and preserve old-growth forest, wilderness, and marine ecosystems. The organizations with which they work are widely representative of the American public, encompassing constituencies at the local, state, regional, and national levels.

Prospect Hill Foundation - fdncenter.org/grantmaker/prospecthill/prog.html

The foundation's environmental grant-making program concentrates on habitat and water protection in the northeastern region of the United States. It encourages proposals from organizations that offer strategies and policies for the conservation of significant private and public lands and strengthen policies and initiate means of improving water quality and protecting coastal areas.

A State and Local Government Guide to Environmental Program Funding Alternativex- www.epa.gov/owow/nps/MMGI/funding.html

This document provides an overview of nongovernmental funding mechanisms and innovative approaches to fund environmental programs.

Tides Foundation - http://www.tides.org/

The Tides Foundation actively promotes change toward a healthy society, one that is founded on principles of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices.

Trust for Public Lands - www.tpl.org/

TPL's legal and real estate specialists work with landowners, government agencies, and community groups to create urban parks, gardens, greenways, and riverways; build livable communities by setting aside open space in the path of growth; conserve land for watershed protection, scenic beauty, and close-to-home recreation; and safeguard the character of communities by preserving historic landmarks and landscapes.

Turner Foundation - www.turnerfoundation.org/grants/pa.asp

The foundation's water environmental goals are to strengthen the advocacy, outreach, and technical capabilities of organizations addressing the protection of water systems; reduce wasteful water use through conservation; promote allocation of water specifically for environmental purposes, including habitat restoration and fish and wildlife protection; and support efforts to improve public policies affecting water protection, including initiatives to secure pollution prevention and habitat protection.

This portal to tribal pollution prevention is a partnership project of the: National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) Tribal Workgroup , Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx) , and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Contact Stacy Barrentine, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, for information about the Tribal Pollution Prevention work group and monthly conference calls: stacy@p2.org; 202-299-9701 ext 11.

Contact Elizabeth Bird, Peaks to Prairies Pollution Prevention Information Center, for information about the www.tribalp2.org web site or listserv: ebird@montana.edu; 406-994-6948.