2010 FOCUS WV Brownfields Program Application

Foundation for Overcoming Challenges and Utilizing Strengths

The FOCUS West Virginia Brownfields Program provides up to $5,000 plus site redevelopment support to spur the completion of community-based brownfields projects throughout West Virginia.

Eligibility

•Do you have an underutilized or abandoned site in your community with real or perceived environmental barriers to redevelopment?
•Are you a unit of local government or non profit organization?
Examples of Eligible Uses for the Grant:

•Researching property ownership and environmental concerns
•Community workshops to create a vision and facilitate site reuse
•Developing site-specific business plans
•Events to encourage private and public investment

Applications due December 18, 2009

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Environmental Education Grants -- Solicitation Notice for 2010

This document solicits grant proposals to support environmental education projects that promote environmental stewardship and help develop knowledgeable and responsible students, teachers, and citizens. This grant program provides financial support for innovative projects that design, demonstrate, or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques as described in this notice.

Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-EE-10-02
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Oct 29, 2009
Creation Date: Oct 29, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: Dec 15, 2009 Please refer to the full announcement, including Section IV, for additional information on submission methods and due dates.
Current Closing Date for Applications: Dec 15, 2009 Please refer to the full announcement, including Section IV, for additional information on submission methods and due dates.
Archive Date: Jan 14, 2010
Funding Instrument Type: Grant

Category of Funding Activity: Environment

Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 95
Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,000,000
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s): 66.951 -- Environmental Education Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes

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Grants Promote Hiking Trail Projects

The National Trails Fund, sponsored by American Hiking Society, provides funding to grassroots nonprofit organizations throughout the country working toward establishing, protecting, and maintaining foot trails in America. The Fund’s grants help give local groups the resources they need to secure access, volunteers, tools and materials to protect America's public trails. The following types of grants will be considered for the 2010 program: projects that have hikers as the primary constituency; projects that secure trail lands, including acquisition of trails and trail corridors and the costs associated with acquiring conservation easements; projects that will result in substantial ease of access, improved hiker safety, or avoidance of environmental damage; and projects that promote the trails constituency. The application deadline is December 15, 2009. Visit the American Hiking Society website to download the grant guidelines and submit an online application.

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Freshwater Future. Technology and Insight Grants Available!

Deadline: 12/8/09

Freshwater Future’s grants program provides support to activities that strengthen the role of individuals and community groups working to protect and restore shorelines, inland lakes, rivers and wetlands.

Insight Grants:
Assistance from Freshwater Future to build capacity of grassroots organizations, which could include board development, membership expansion, fundraising, and strategic planning.

Technology Grants:
Funding for technology consulting, equipment and/or software.

For more information and to view the Request for Proposals, go to www.freshwaterfuture.org

Need help deciding how to best spend technology dollars and time to meet your goals?
Sign up for a free one-hour webinar on Nov. 18th at 12:00 EST to help you strategically develop your proposal. We will be reviewing web-based tools such as marketing with websites, Internet newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, other social media outlets, blogging, online discussion boards, viral messages and spreading the word, and how to host your own content management website with tips and tactics. Register by November 16th by emailing Cheryl@freshwaterfuture.org.

BROWNFIELDS JOB TRAINING GRANTS

The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (“Brownfields Law”, P.L. 107-118) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance to assist applicants in preparing proposals for grants. This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals from eligible entities, including non-profit organizations to deliver environmental job training. Applicants must propose to serve a community that currently receives, or has received, financial assistance from EPA for a brownfields assessment, revolving loan fund, or cleanup grant, a targeted brownfield assessment, and/or site-specific brownfields work carried out under a state or tribal response program.

Proposals sent through the U.S. Postal Service or sent via a commercial delivery service must be postmarked by December 1, 2009. Proposals sent via e-mail must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 1, 2009.

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Support for Environmental Programs in Maryland

The Town Creek Foundation primarily provides grants to nonprofit organizations that work to promote ecological sustainability in Maryland. The Foundation focuses on statewide environmental advocacy and programs that encourage ecologically sustainable policies and practices on the Eastern Shore, with emphasis on organizations helping to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay. In addition, the Foundation supports a limited number of organizations nationally that are working to reduce the pressure on forests from the paper products industry, with emphasis on the Southern Appalachian region. The Foundation reviews letters of inquiry twice each year; the upcoming deadline is November 20, 2009. Online letter of inquiry guidelines are available on the Foundation’s website.

Children, Youth and Families At Risk Sustainable Community Projects

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) requests applications for the Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) Sustainable Community Projects (SCP) for fiscal year (FY) 2010 to marshal resources of the Land-Grant and Cooperative Extension Systems so that, in collaboration with other organizations, they can develop and deliver educational programs that equip youth who are at risk for not meeting basic human needs with the skills they need to lead positive, productive, contributing lives. The amount available for support of new projects funded under this solicitation in FY 2010 is approximately $800,000. More information here.