Five for Friday: July 11, 2025

Five for Friday: Grant Opportunities and More!

Curated by: The Western Nevada Development District
This edition of Five for Friday highlights funding and technical assistance opportunities for community development, environmental revitalization, WNDD Office Hours, Native American economic empowerment, arts programming, and women-led entrepreneurship. Featured updates include a new EPA Brownfields webinar, grants for arts and Native American community development, and business funding through Boundless Futures Foundation.
Grant Opportunities & More

Get to Know Economic Development Districts

The National Association of Development Organizations has released EDDs in Action, a short video to help explain the valuable work of Economic Development Districts (EDDs), like the Western Nevada Development District to community partners. If you want to know more about EDDs and WNDD, visit us during our Open Office Hours on the last Thursday of every month from 10 AM to 2 PM.

We offer insights on:

  • Grants
  • Technical Assistance
  • Infrastructure
  • CEDS
  • Additional support tailored to your community’s needs

Schedule with the link below a time to stop by, ask questions, and get the support you need to move your projects forward. 

EDDs in Action
Schedule Your Time

Brownfields Webinars: Technical Assistance & Guidance

The next topic in the EPA’s Brownfields webinar series is Brownfields Technical Assistance set for 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST on July 23, 2025.

This webinar will highlight EPA’s nationwide topic-specific technical assistance providers. Each technical assistance provider will share a short presentation about their specialized technical assistance support and opportunities.

Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) is available at no cost to communities. EPA funds regionally based expert organizations to support communities in each of its 10 regions. TAB grant recipients, also known as TAB providers, serve as an independent resource and can provide expert technical assistance and guidance to help communities, among other things, understand how to:

  • Prepare brownfields grant applications.
  • Perform site inventories.
  • Review historical information.
  • Design site investigations, sampling and field analysis.
  • Plan cleanup and redevelopment.
Zoom Link

Native American Community Development Support  

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Native Americans has announced the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 funds for the Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS) program. This program is focused on community-driven projects designed to grow local economies, strengthen Native American families, including the preservation of Native American cultures, and decrease the high rate of current challenges caused by the lack of community-based businesses and social and economic infrastructure in Native American communities.

The goal of the SEDS program is to support projects that focus on one or more of the following three interrelated concepts, which form a foundation for self-sufficiency for Native American communities:

• Social development: To support local access to, control of, and coordination with, programs and services that safeguard the health, well-being, and culture of Native people.

• Economic development: To foster the development of stable, diversified local economies and economic activities that provide jobs and opportunities in Native American communities.

• Governance: To help Tribes and Alaska Native Village governments build capacity that results in local control of their resources

Application closing date is July 22, 2025

NOFO

Grants for Arts Projects  

The National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides project-based funding for organizations in the areas of Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Film & Media Arts, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Our Town, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts. Funded activities may include public engagement with the arts and arts education, the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.

Awards require a 1:1 cost share/match. Applicants may request an amount between $10,000-$100,000.

Eligible applicants include nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; units of state or local government; and federally recognized tribal communities or tribes. Funding in this category is not available for individuals, fiscally sponsored entities, commercial/for-profit enterprises, State Arts Agencies (SAA), or Regional Arts Organizations (RAO).

This is a two-part application process. The first part is due July 17, 2025, through grants.gov.

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Empowering Female Entrepreneurs  

Boundless Futures Foundation empowers, embraces, and elevates female entrepreneurs through grants to new businesses and to likeminded nonprofits.

Boundless Futures Foundation’s grants to businesses are awarded directly to female entrepreneurs who put social impact front and center in their business products or practices. The program looks at society’s biggest issues and harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to provide solutions by going above and beyond “business as usual” to create impact through profit and purpose — to solve a problem, improve on the status quo, or give back in an intentional way.

EmpowHer Grants are available to female entrepreneurs 22 years of age and older with businesses registered and operating solely in the United States. An applicant’s business must make a social impact through its product or business model, must be earning revenue, and must not be more than 3 years old. To be awarded grant funding, applicants must self-report a credit score and agree to a third-party background check.

Applicants may request up to $25,000 in business support. Grant funding is remitted as reimbursement (following proof of payment) for business-related expenses.

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