Tribal Pollution Prevention

Current Funding Notices

Captain Planet Foundation Grants
Captain Planet Foundation provides funds for hands-on programs that promote understanding of environmental issues. In order to be considered for funding, proposals must promote understanding of environmental issues, focus on hands-on involvement, involve children and young adults 6-18, promote interaction and cooperation within the group, help young people develop planning and problem solving skills, include adult supervision, and commit to follow-up communication with the Foundation (specific requirements are explained once the grant has been awarded). For more information, visit the foundation's website. Applications due: December 31.

WaterSMART: Water and Energy Efficiency Grants for FY 2012
The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite States, Indian tribes, irrigation districts, water districts, and other organizations with water or power delivery authority to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on projects that seek to conserve and use water more efficiently, increase the use of renewable energy and improve energy efficiency, benefit endangered and threatened species, facilitate water markets, or carry out other activities to address climate-related impacts on water or prevent any water-related crisis or conflict. Water conservation, use of water markets, and improved efficiency are crucial elements of any plan to address western United States water issues. With leveraged water and energy efficiency grants, an important step will be taken towards increasing conservation for a more efficient use of water in the West. For more information, visit the Grants.gov website. Applications due: January 19, 2012.

Activities That Reduce Global Anthropogenic Methane Emissions
EPA is soliciting proposals for investigation, survey, study, training, and demonstration projects (eligible projects) that advance international near-term, cost-effective methane abatement and/or recovery and use as a clean energy source, and support the goals of the Global Methane Initiative. This funding opportunity is only for international activities in support of the Global Methane Initiative. Benefits to the U.S. will result from the mitigation in climate change emissions and the potential use of U.S. technologies and services in projects around the world. For more information, visit the Grants.gov website. Applications due: January 19, 2012.

Urban Waters Small Grants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for projects that will contribute to improved water quality in urban areas. The goal of the Urban Waters Small Grants is to fund research, studies, training, and demonstration projects that will advance the restoration of urban waters by improving water quality through activities that also support community revitalization and other local priorities. In general, projects should promote a comprehensive understanding of local water quality issues; identify and support activities that address these issues at the local level; engage, educate and empower communities surrounding the urban water body; and benefit surrounding communities including those that have been adversely impacted by the water pollution issues affecting the urban water body. For more information, visit the EPA website. Webinar to assist applicants: January 5 (space is limited; register now). Deadline for submitting questions: January 16. Applications due: January 23, 2012.

Environmental Justice Small Grants Program
Since its inception in 1994, the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program has awarded more than $23 million in funding to 1,253 community-based organizations, and local and tribal organizations working with communities facing environmental justice issues. The Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, supports and empowers communities working on solutions to local environmental and public health issues. The program assists recipients in building collaborative partnerships to help them understand and address environmental and public health issues in their communities. Successful collaborative partnerships involve not only well-designed strategic plans to build, maintain and sustain the partnerships, but also working towards addressing the local environmental and public health issues. The EPA is now accepting grant applications for $1 million in funding to support projects designed to research, educate, empower and enable communities to understand and address local environmental and public health issues. Funding is available for grants up to $25,000 each. For more information, visit the EPA website. Applications due: February 29, 2012.

Public Media Content Fund
With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Native American Public Telecommunications' Public Media Content Fund will award grants for video projects boasting significant Native American involvement to help bring the projects to public television for national broadcast. NAPT invites proposals for projects intended for public television that represent the values, experiences, histories, and cultures of Tribal Nations, communities, and people. Programs should be accessible to a broad audience and have the potential for national broadcast, as well as the potential to be used for effective outreach and engagement activities to reach audiences beyond the public television broadcast.

Priority will be given to projects that can be part of an overarching PBS series about Native American peoples, history, culture, and contemporary issues. NAPT is particularly interested in projects that profile Native American leaders, activists, and artists whose work has great impact on Native culture today. The working title for this documentary series is "Native Word: Stories Past & Present." For more information, visit the NAPT website. Applications due: March 16, 2012

Climate Change and Health: Assessing and Modeling Population Variability to Climate Change (NIEHS)
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces this funding opportunity which will support small research grants to examine the differential risk factors of populations that lead to, or are associated with increased vulnerability to exposures, diseases and other adverse health outcomes that are linked to or likely to result from climate change. The ultimate goal of the program is to identify specific characteristics of populations associated with vulnerability that can then be used to more effectively target and implement climate change responses and public health interventions. For more information, visit the Grants.gov website. Applications due: May 24, 2012.

Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation (AMLR) Program
This funding opportunity is restricted to state governments and federally recognized Indian Tribes. The Office of Surface Mining awards grants to States and Tribes to support the operation of APPROVED State and Trival abandoned mine land (AML) reclamation programs. Approved programs use grant funds for mine site reclamation projects on eligible lands, which are lands and waters mined or affected by coal mining processess that occurred prior to August 7, 1977 as well as certain post-1977 and noncoal mining activity. For more information, visit the Grants.gov website. Applications due: September 30, 2012.

Xcel Energy Solar Rewards Program
Xcel Energy offers the Solar*Rewards program to customers in the states listed below. This program offers an up-front incentive of $2.25 per watt to both residential and non-residential customers for PV systems up to 40 kilowatts. The customer is required to enter into a 20-year agreement that grants the utility ownership of the renewable energy credits produced by the system.

Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program (Section 184)
The Section 184 Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program is a mortgage product specifically for American Indian and Alaska Native families, tribes, Alaska Villages or tribally designated housing entities. Congress established this program in 1992 to facilitate homeownership in Native American communities.