A calendar of grants, resources, and funding opportunities listed by application or inquiry due date and tagged in various categories. For more information about grant, foundation, and other resources contact Laura Hennighausen at lhennighausen@purposepossible.com.
Peoples Bank Foundation
Application deadlines: Applications are reviewed quarterly. Visit the Foundation’s website for the upcoming application deadlines.
Geographic scope: Communities within the Peoples Bank footprint in OH, WV, KY, VA, DC, and MD, as well as Burlington, VT; Excelsior, MN; and Lee’s Summit, MO
The Peoples Bank Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations working to improve the quality of life for individuals and families within the Peoples Bank footprint of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland, as well as Burlington, VT; Lee’s Summit, MO; and Excelsior, MN. Support is provided for local programs that help low- to moderate-income individuals and families. Areas of interest include community investment and economic development, youth and education, health and human services, arts and culture, and the environment.
TD Charitable Foundation: Regional Grants
Application deadline: Applications are accepted on a bimonthly basis; upcoming deadlines are December 22, 2023, and February 16, 2024.
Geographic scope: Communities TD Bank serves
Grant amount: The minimum amount is $5,000.
The TD Charitable Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations to improve the quality of life in the communities TD Bank serves, which include specific counties of CT, DE, DC, FL, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, NC, PA, RI, SC, VT, and VA. (A list of eligible counties is available in the online application.)
The Foundation primarily funds programs aligned to one or more of the following areas: better health, with a focus on research, technology, and innovative solutions that improve access to care for all; connected communities, with a focus on increasing access to the opportunities people need to participate and feel a sense of belonging in their community, including arts and culture; financial security, including early learning, income stability, financial literacy, and affordable housing; and vibrant planet, including clean economic growth that supports the transition to a low-carbon economy and activating green spaces.
Special consideration will be given to organizations delivering programs that support diverse and historically underserved communities and to programs that support low- to moderate-income individuals with services that improve the quality of life.
The Families and Workers Fund: Powering Climate and Infrastructure Careers Challenge
Grant amount: $150,000 to $1.5 million in direct funding or technical assistance over one to three years
The Powering Climate and Infrastructure Careers Challenge, an initiative of the Families and Workers Fund, is a collaborative philanthropic effort to help create at least one million good jobs in the clean energy and infrastructure industries. Through grants and technical assistance to nonprofits, state and local governments, training and education providers, and private sector employer groups, the Challenge aims to tackle the workforce implementation challenges facing the United States on its path toward a net-zero economy and 21st-century infrastructure.
Funding will be provided in two tracks: the Training and Career Pathways track, focused on scaling models to train, place, support, and retain a diverse workforce that meets the growing labor demand in clean energy, infrastructure, and related industries, and the Government Planning and Implementation track, focused on supporting government agencies and their community partners to plan for and implement good jobs and effective, inclusive workforce development.
Applicants must be using, applying for, or otherwise leveraging climate, infrastructure, or other related public or private funding and must be committed to advancing career opportunities and improving economic mobility, especially for underinvested communities.
Request for Partners: NOAA Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, Resilience Hub Network Coordination
The Department of Energy and Environment (the Department) seeks eligible entities through a Request for Partners (RFP) to be included in the Department’s response to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Resilience Regional Challenge (CRRC). NOAA encourages the inclusion of community organizations in their applications. The deadline for the NOAA grant is February 13, 2024. This RFP seeks applications for the following related activities:
1. Conducting outreach to potential resilience hub organizations.
2. Assisting at least three organizations to take on the role of resilience hub, one in each of Wards 6, 7, and 8.
3. Coordinating a network of resilience hub partners.
The Department anticipates applying for approximately $65,000,000 from NOAA, of which up to $550,000 will be available for the above listed activities.
Park Foundation
Application deadline: Letters of inquiry are accepted year-round. (Invited proposals are reviewed quarterly.)
Geographic scope: Nationally throughout the U.S., as well as New York and Tompkins County, NY
The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in the Foundation’s local Ithaca, NY, community. The Foundation’s national grantmaking focuses on the following program areas: democracy, including a broad array of initiatives intended to strengthen the foundations of democracy and good governance; civic participation, with priority on state-based organizations that are educating and mobilizing voters, national and state groups protecting voters' rights and election integrity, and groups thwarting attempts to suppress participation in the democratic process; media, with a focus on public interest media that raises awareness of critical environmental, political, and social issues; the environment, with a focus on drinking water; and animal welfare, with a focus on nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife.
(Additional areas of interest target New York state and Tompkins County, NY.)
Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's Corporate Giving Program
Geographic scope: United States and Canada, with a focus on projects of national scope, projects near the company’s retail locations, and the Missouri Ozarks region.
Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's corporate giving program aims to positively shape the future of the outdoors in the United States and Canada. Support is provided for projects and events with a national scope; near a retail Bass Pro Shop, Cabela's, or Tracker Boat Center; and in the Missouri Ozarks region. Areas of interest include conserving wildlife and habitat, connecting new audiences to the outdoors, advocating for access and sportsmen’s rights, supporting military and veterans, and strengthening communities in the Missouri Ozarks.
SunPower Foundation
Geographic scope: United States (including the U.S. territories) and the Philippines
The SunPower Foundation aims to increase environmental and economic equity for all, regardless of socioeconomic status. Support is provided to U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations working in the United States (including the U.S. territories) and the Philippines for projects improving access to affordable solar energy and participation in solar economic opportunities.
Funding focuses on 1) solar accessibility, affordability, and resiliency, including projects that support the deployment of affordable or free-of-cost solar solutions to communities that have been historically underserved or impacted by climate disasters; 2) workforce development, including projects increasing access to all solar careers; and 3) solar economic opportunities, including support for nonprofits delivering technical assistance, coaching, or business accelerator services to minority and women-owned business enterprises in the solar industry.
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation: Environmental Education and Stewardship Grants
Geographic scope: Communities served by Dominion Energy companies, including areas of CT, GA, ID, MD, NC, OH, RI, SC, UT, VA, WV, WI, and WY
Grant amount: Up to $50,000
The Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation’s Environmental Education and Stewardship Grants program provides support to nonprofit organizations in the communities served by Dominion Energy companies for projects to improve the environment. Communities served include areas in Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Supported projects should focus on one or more of the following priorities: educating K-12 students and the public about environmental science; protecting and preserving natural habitats; and improving open spaces and making nature accessible. Public and private K-12 schools in eligible regions can also apply for classroom grants up to $5,000 for environmental education programs.
Open Space Institute: Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund
Geographic scope: Areas of Alabama, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Vermont
Grant amount: Typically between $50,000 and $400,000
The Open Space Institute’s Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund provides capital grants to protect 50,000 acres in key focus areas along the Appalachian mountain range. The Fund is currently providing support in portions of 1) the Cradle of Southern Appalachia (Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama); 2) Western/Central Pennsylvania; and 3) the Northern Appalachians (Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont). The grants must be used to acquire land or permanent conservation easements. Supported land conservation projects should have strong climate resilience attributes and be managed to enhance forest carbon. Nonprofit conservation organizations, federally and state-recognized tribes, government entities, and municipalities are eligible to apply.
Imlay Foundation LOI
The Imlay Foundation currently funds organizations largely in Metro Atlanta, Georgia and Hilton Head, SC. First time grants are generally in the $10,000 – $15,000 range.
Rolling - U.S. Bank Foundation's Community Possible Grant Program
U.S. Bank Foundation's Community Possible Grant Program provides support to nonprofit organizations in the 26 states served by U.S. Bank. Grants are provided in the following categories: 1) play, with a focus on access to artistic and cultural enrichment, learning through play, and preserving, protecting, and enhancing outdoor places to play; 2) work, with a focus on small business and workforce development, pathways to higher education, and financial literacy; and 3) home, with a focus on safe, affordable, energy efficient housing and home ownership education. Priority is given to organizations serving low- and moderate-income communities, women, and people of color as well as organizations led by people of color. A guidelines document (PDF) for the Community Possible Grant Program, which includes a list of eligible states, is available on the U.S. Bank website. Online letters of interest may be submitted throughout the year.
Imlay Foundation LOI
The Imlay Foundation currently funds organizations largely in Metro Atlanta, Georgia and Hilton Head, SC. First time grants are generally in the $10,000 – $15,000 range.
Third Wave Fund Mobilize Power Fund
Third Wave Fund's Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations in the U.S. and U.S. territories to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions. Supported efforts can include community organizing and mobilization, healing justice work, conflict resolution, community accountability, transformative and restorative justice work, direct action, and more. Support is provided to organizations that are led by young women of color and trans, queer, gender non conforming, and intersex young people of color under 35. Organizations must demonstrate how the issues they are responding to are connected to patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, gender inequity, or gender-based violence; be led by and for communities directly impacted by the issues they focus on; and have a total organizational budget under $500,000. Click here for more.
The Funders Network Partners for Places
Partners for Places, hosted by The Funders Network, aims to enhance local capacity to build equitable and sustainable communities in the United States and Canada. The program provides support to advance collaborative partnerships between a local government sustainability or water department, frontline community partner, and place-based funder, and to support the planning and implementation of urban sustainability and green stormwater infrastructure projects. For this round of funding, two-year grants ranging from $75,000 to $180,000 are available to create or improve the collaborative partnerships and to plan or implement an equitable climate action or green stormwater infrastructure project that addresses frontline community priorities. (One-year grants of $45,000 to $150,000 are only available to partnerships that have previously received a Partners for Places mini grant.) One or more local foundations are required to provide at least a 50% matching grant.
Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program
The purpose of the Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program is to increase the knowledge of agricultural science and improve the nutritional health of children. The Program supports projects that bring together stakeholders from the distinct parts of the food system to increase the capacity for food, garden, and nutrition education within host organizations or entities, such as school cafeterias and classrooms, while fostering higher levels of community engagement between farms and school systems. All projects must involve underserved rural or urban communities and facilitate a connection between elementary schools and secondary schools with agricultural producers in the local and regional area. Click here for more.
Indigenous Earth Fund
The Indigenous Earth Fund will invest an additional $1 million investment from our fund, Liberated Capital. We are inviting proposals from tribes and Indigenous-led organizations doing the work, building political power, building movements and leading campaigns on climate change and conservation issues in the United States. We are inviting both existing Indigenous Earth Fund grantee partners and new organizations and tribes to apply.
The work may include movement-building efforts and organizing campaigns that center Indigenous self-determination that promote sustainable food systems, land and forest management; protection and conservation of water sources and natural resources, and Indigenous-led data and research to advance advocacy efforts on climate and conservation solutions, for example. We also value and understand the importance of our sovereign tribal governments in this work and encourage projects led by, or partnered with, tribal nations. This list is not exhaustive.
We are inviting tribes and Indigenous-led organizations working on environmental issues in the United States to apply. Grant awards will likely range from $50,000 – $75,000 for one year.
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation (Rolling)
The Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation provides support in the communities served by Dominion Energy, including areas within Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Grant funding is provided to nonprofit organizations with proposals in the following four focus areas: 1) human needs, including food security, housing and shelter, and access to healthcare; 2) environmental stewardship, with a focus on protecting natural resources and making efficient use of energy; 3) education, with a focus on future workforce, especially in STEM and energy fields; and 4) community vitality grants to foster an appreciation of diversity, revitalize neighborhoods, and ensure a vibrant community and cultural life. Applications are accepted throughout the year and are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Visit the Dominion Energy website to access the application guidelines, including a list of the eligible states and counties, and to begin the application process by completing the Eligibility Quiz.