Funding & Technical Resources
Latest funding opportunities
Grid Alternatives, Tribal Energy Plan Grant, (award ceiling $50,000; open now - rolling due date until all funds awarded)
BIA, Tribal Energy Development Capacity, (maximum award $450,000; open until January 16, 2025)
National Park Service, Historic Preservation Fund- Save America's Treasures- Collection Grants (maximum award $750,000; open until December 12, 2024)
Bureau of Reclamation, Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects (maximum award $30,000,000; open until December 12, 2024)
EPA, Brownfields, Various Funding Opportunities
US Forest Service, 2025 Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program for Tribes (minimum award: $50,000; maximum award: $300,000; open until December 16, 2024)
DOT, Tribal Transit Program (open until November 13, 2024)
EPA, Community Change Grants (open until November 21, 2024)
Washington State Department of Commerce: Clean Energy Grant Programs (rolling applications, apply early)
Hearst Foundations: Foundation Funding, Health (rolling applications, minimum grant of $100,000)
Erich and Hannah Sachs Foundation: Foundation Funding (rolling applications)
EPA: Community Change Equitable Resilience Technical Assistance (relocation activities are not eligible, rolling applications, open until November 21, 2024)
EPA: Inflation Reduction Act Community Change Grants Program (relocation activities are not eligible, rolling applications, open until November 21, 2024)
FEMA: FEMA Resources for Climate Resilience (report published December 2021, funding matrix on p. 7)
EPA: Inflation Reduction Act Environmental and Climate Justice Program (open until September 30, 2026)
NOAA: Climate Ready Fisheries
NOAA: Tribal Priorities
NDN Collective: Inflation Reduction Act Text Alert Tool for Tribes
Worksheet to hone in on RMP goals and blank funding calendars to fill
Then find funding to help your community reach its goals
Work plan worksheet (p. 1-5 - thinking about your goals)
Funding Calendar Gantt Chart Tools
Where to find funding and technical resource opportunities
Report - published Winter 2022/23
Additional resources
Report - published 2018
Website - kept up-to-date
Website - kept up-to-date
Cohort Funding Calendar/Gantt Chart
Kept up-to-date
Newsletter listservs and network calls with Tribal technical and funding resource opportunities
Inflation Reduction Act funding information (including text alert tool)
Inflation Reduction Act Investment in Tribal and Indigenous Communities by Rewiring America, NDN Collective (November 2022)
Inflation Reduction Act Text Alert Tool for Tribes by NDN Collective
Inflation Reduction Act Miniguide by the Urban Sustainability Directors Network
Organizations that can help with grant writing
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (serves the Pacific Northwest - including northern California - and southeast Alaska)
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (serves Alaska)
Alaska Tribal Resilience Learning Network (serves Alaska)
Environmental Finance Center at the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) (serves USEPA Regions 9 and 10 including Alaska, California, and Washington)
Environmental Finance Center at Sacramento State University (serves USEPA Region 9 including California)
Example Grant Application Request Form to get Tribal Leadership approval for proposals submitted
Proposal writing tips and resources
Webinar: BIA & Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Grant-Writing (April 2022)
Webinar: Housing and Urban Development Agency: Finding and Applying for Grants (2021)
Webinar: Alaska Tribal Resilience Learning Network: An Overview of Grantstation Online (membership based resource, however, parts of website are free to use) (Nov. 2022)
Website: First Nations Development Institute website with lots of grant seeking and writing resources
Technical assistance
ANTHC (Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium) variety of technical assistance
Denali Commission Technical Assistance (contacts towards end of webpage)
DOE (Department of Energy) Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP)
DOE Technical Assistance, Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs
DOT (Department of Transportation) Tribal Technical Assistance Program
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Direct Technical Assistance
KSU (Kansas State University) Tribal Technical Assistance to Brownfields (USEPA-funded)
USDA NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) Emergency Watershed Protection Program
USEPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) Advance Program (Air Quality-Related ) Technical Assistance