The Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act establishes the Small, Underserved and Disadvantaged Communities grant to award funding to states, territories and tribes to assist public water systems in meeting Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requirements. Grants will be awarded as non‐competitive grants. EPA will award approximately $25.8 million for the Small, Underserved and Disadvantaged Communities Grant Program from the FY21 appropriations. To view the application and learn more, click here.

NFWF announced the 2022 Request for Proposals for the America the Beautiful Challenge, a public-private grant program designed to support locally-led, voluntary ecosystem restoration projects. The NFWF program will invest in the restoration of watersheds, forests and grasslands while also working toward other goals consistent with the America the Beautiful Initiative. Approximately $85 million in grant funding is available. For more information, click here.

DOI’s WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grants will fund projects that result in quantifiable water savings, implement renewable energy components and support broader sustainability benefits. These projects conserve and use water more efficiently; increase the production of renewable energy; mitigate conflict risk in areas at a high risk of future water conflict; and accomplish other benefits that contribute to sustainability in the Western United States. To learn more about the opportunity, click here.

EPA recently announced that funding for environmental job training grants is now available under the Fiscal Year 2023 Brownfields Job Training Program. EPA anticipates awarding approximately 25 grants nationwide at amounts up to $500,000 per award. Funding supports the organizations to deliver Brownfields Job Training programs that recruit, train and retain a local, skilled workforce by prioritizing unemployed and under-employed residents to obtain the skills and credentials needed for pathways into full-time employment in the environmental field. To learn more, click here.

With this joint solicitation, the National Science Foundation and the U.S Department of Commerce National Institute for Standards and Technology call for proposals for research to advance fundamental understanding of disaster resilience in support of improved, science-based planning, policy, decisions, design, codes, and standards. For more information, click here.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Coastal Program is a voluntary, community-based program that provides technical and financial assistance through cooperative agreements to coastal communities, conservation partners and landowners to restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat on public and private lands. The Coastal Program staff coordinates with partners, stakeholders and other Service programs to identify geographic focus areas and develop habitat conservation goals and priorities within these focus areas. Coastal Program habitat improvement projects strive to increase coastal resiliency by improving the ability of coastal ecosystems to adapt to environmental changes and supporting natural and nature-based infrastructure projects to protect and enhance coastal habitats. To learn more about this grant opportunity, click here.