Culture of Repair School Grant We believe repair is a gateway for learning far more than how to solder and sew. While we celebrate students’ learning technical skills, our objective is more fundamental. Our grants program provides funding and other resources to K-12 educators and advocates who are teaching not only hands-on technologies, but are also teaching the thinking skills, conceptual frameworks and mindset, and are cultivating the individual agency, that undergird a culture of repair. They are looking for proposals to develop programs and materials for teaching about repair in K-12 educational settings. DUE SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
MassDEP's Reduce, Reuse, Repair Micro-Grant This program provides grants of up to $5,000 to for-profit and non-profit organizations, regional authorities, and eligible municipalities for short-term waste reduction projects. ROLLING APPLICATION
Plastic Free Restaurants This organization works to eliminate petroleum-based, single-use plastic from restaurants and schools by subsidizing the purchase of reusable replacements. ROLLING APPLICATION
MassDEP's Recycling Dividends Program (RDP) The Recycling Dividends Program (RDP) provides payments to qualifying municipalities that have implemented specific waste reduction, reuse, and recycling programs and policies. DUE ANUALLY MID-JUNE
Farm to School Grant Program The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) (42 USC 1751 et seq.) establishes a Farm to School Program in order to assist eligible entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in USDA Food and Nutrition (FNS) Child Nutrition Programs, including the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), School Breakfast Program (SBP), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).
Each year $5 million is provided to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support grants, technical assistance, and other activities related to USDA’s Farm to School Program. Additional funding for the Farm to School Program was made available from the FY 2018 through FY 2021 agriculture appropriations acts and, as a result, USDA expects to award approximately $12 million under this solicitation. The USDA Farm to School Grant Program is administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Office of Community Food Systems (OCFS).
Schools and school districts can apply for planning or implementation grants from the USDA’s Farm to School Grant Program to start or expand a farm-to-school program. DEADLINE JANUARY 6, 2023
EPA's Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grant Program The Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grant program is a new grant program authorized by the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act and initially funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, provides $275 million for Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grants authorized by the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. This is allocated as $55 million per year from Fiscal Years 2022 to 2026 to remain available until expended. EPA was provided an additional $2.5 million in Fiscal Year 2022 funding to implement the program.
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