Five for Friday: Grant Opportunities and More!
Curated by: The Western Nevada Development District…This edition of Five for Friday focuses on opportunities for economic development around the region in the areas of events, flood risk, grants, veterans and infrastructure.
Mitigating Flood Risk
The Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant program makes federal funds available to states, U.S. territories, federally recognized tribal governments, and local governments to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and within NFIP participating communities.
A total of $500M is available for this opportunity until the end of May 2025.
Eligible Projects Include:
• Property acquisition and structure demolition/relocation
• Structure elevations
• Dry floodproofing of historic residential structures or non-residential structures
• Non-structural retrofitting of existing structures and facilities
• Mitigation reconstruction
• Structural retrofitting of existing structures
Application Deadline: April 18, 2025
Hazard Mitigation Policy Guide
For Nonprofits: Google Ad Grant Program
Through the Google Ad Grant Program, qualifying nonprofits can receive up to $10,000 per month in free advertising on the Google Search Network. This in-kind donation allows nonprofits to promote their brand, programs, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers online using the Google Ads platform. The program includes training to plan, build, and launch a digital marketing campaign. Learn to build video resources are also available for YouTube presence and enhancements to website content and outreach.
Supporting Our Veteran Community
Fisher House Foundation and Military Times Foundation have partnered to create the Fisher Service Award. This annual program will award a total of $400,000 to be divided among the top applying nonprofits with innovative programs improving the life of active duty and veteran communities. Each award winner will also receive an advertising package valued at $50,000 from Military Times. Since the program began in 1999, it has distributed more than $2.75M across 200 nonprofit programs.
Past awardees have addressed veteran housing and homelessness, improving veteran workforce skills training, and veteran peer-to-peer mentorships.
Transportation Planning: Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program
US DOT’s Build America Bureau is opening applications for the Rural and Tribal Assistance (RTA) Pilot Program grants on March 18th. The funds are awarded for the planning and design phase activities for developing transportation projects in rural or tribal communities. Grants will support hiring staff or expert firms to provide technical, legal, or financial assistance to advance transportation projects that would be reasonably expected to be eligible for select Department of Transportation discretionary grant or credit programs.
Grant Types:
Single Project Grants:
• $10M Available
• Minimum Award: $200K
• Maximum Award : $750K
Multi-Community Grants:
• $17M Available
• Minimum Award: $500K
• Maximum Award: $2.25M
Application Deadline: April 17, 2025
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