Grant Due: FY 2023 Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants

FY 2023 Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this new program is to conduct demonstration projects focused on advanced smart city or community technologies and systems in a variety of communities to improve transportation efficiency and safety. The program funds projects that are focused on using technology interventions to solve real-world challenges and build data and technology capacity and expertise in the public sector. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE?  States, political subdivisions of a state, public transit agencies or authorities, public toll authorities, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), or a group of two or more eligible entities

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $50 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 10, 2023 

Grant Due (JustGrants): FY 2023 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success

Grant Due (JustGrants): FY 2023 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program will assist communities in planning and assessing promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services to facilitate the development of a community-based continuum of care for youth at risk of becoming or already involved in the juvenile justice system. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local and state governments, special district governments, for profit organizations other than small businesses, nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, and small businesses

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $16.2 million

WHEN'S IT DUE?  October 10, 2023 (JustGrants)

Grant Due: FY 2023 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning (TOD Pilot Program)

FY 2023 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning (TOD Pilot Program)

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to improve public transportation for U.S. communities by providing funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a new fixed-guideway or core capacity transit capital investment. This program intends to support comprehensive planning that will improve economic development, ridership, multimodal connectivity and accessibility, transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and mixed-use development near transit stations. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE?  A State or States, U.S. Territory, or local governmental authority, and Federal Transit Administration grant recipients

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $13.4 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 10, 2023 

Grant Due: FY 2023 Historic Preservation Fund: African American Civil Rights Preservation Grants

FY 2023 Historic Preservation Fund: African American Civil Rights Preservation Grants 

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to preserve and protect sites associated with the struggle for equality from the transatlantic slave trade forward. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE?  Local, states, and special district governments, independent school districts, institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments and organizations, and nonprofit organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $24 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 10, 2023

Grant Due: FY 2023 Historic Preservation Fund African American Civil Rights History Grants

FY 2023 Historic Preservation Fund African American Civil Rights History Grants 

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The program funds the documentation, interpterion, and preservation of site and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights from the transatlantic slave trade froward. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local and state governments, special district governments, (including Certified Local Governments), nonprofit organizations, private institutions of higher education, independent school districts, educational institutions, and federally recognized Indian Tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $24 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 10, 2023

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Grant Due: FY 2023 Solar for All Program

FY 2023 Solar for All Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to spur the deployment of residential distributed solar energy to lower energy bills for millions of Americans and catalyze transformation in markets serving low-income and disadvantaged communities. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? States, municipalities, Tribal governments, and eligible nonprofits 

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $7 billion

WHEN'S IT DUE? September 26, 2023

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AI DC 2023: Securing America's Future

AI DC 2023: Securing America's Future

ICIT

Oct. 4, 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT

Click here to register

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Grant Due: FY 2023 Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program (Phase 1)

FY 2023 Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program (Phase 1)

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to alleviate persistent economic distress and support long-term comprehensive economic development and job creation, in places with a high prime-age employment gap (PAEG). For the purposes of this program, prime-age is defined as ages 25 to 54. Ultimately, the program's goal is to ensure that all communities have a path to economic prosperity. The funding agency will support communities through flexible, bottom-up strategy and implementation awards that tackle the unique challenges these communities face. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local governments, the District of Columbia, territories, tribal governments, political subdivisions of a state or other entity including special-purpose entities engaged in economic development activities, public entities and nonprofit organizations acting in cooperation with the officials of a political subdivision of a state or other entity, economic development districts, and coalitions of any of the above entities that serve or are contained within a single geographic area. Some institutions of higher education will be eligible if they fall within one of the above categories.

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $6 million - $12 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 5, 2023

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Grant Due: FY 2023 WaterSMART Applied Science Grants

FY 2023 WaterSMART Applied Science Grants

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to invite eligible non-Federal entities to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on applied science projects (Project) to improve access to and use of hydrologic data, develop and improve water management tools, improve modeling and forecasting capabilities. Results from these projects will be used by water managers to increase water supply reliability, provide flexibility in water operations, improve water management, and support nature-based solutions. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE?  States, tribes, irrigation districts, water districts, and other organizations with water or power delivery authority located in the Western United States, as well as nonprofit research organizations partnering with eligible water delivery authorities

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $4 million - $5 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 17, 2023

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Grant Due: FY 2023 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG): On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials

FY 2023 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG): On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of On-Farm Trials is to stimulate the evaluation and adoption of innovative conservation approaches in partnership with agricultural producers. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local, state, and tribal governments, for profit organizations other than small businesses, nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education), private institutions of higher education, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and small businesses

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $50 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? October 30, 2023

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Grant Due: FY 2023-2024 Wetland Program Development Grants (WPDGs) Region 5

FY 2023-2024 Wetland Program Development Grants (WPDGs) Region 5

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides an opportunity to conduct projects that promote the coordination and acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of water pollution. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, tribal, territory (Insular Areas), local government agencies, and interstate or intertribal entities within EPA’s Region 5.

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $2.82 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? November 3, 2023

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US Congressional Calendar

27 November 2023

TFG Presents 2024 Congressional Calendar

The Ferguson Group (TFG) compiled a 2024 Congressional Calendar with session and recess dates for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate 118th congressional session. 

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Kristen H. Long Promoted to Grants Principal at TFG 24 July 2024

Kristen H. Long Promoted to Grants Principal at TFG

TFG strengthens leadership team amidst explosive growth in grants division.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The TFG Grants Division is pleased to announce the promotion of Kristen H. Long to Grants Principal. Kristen has been an integral part of the TFG Grants Division since 2022.

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