Five for Friday: December 20, 2024
Five for Friday: Grant Opportunities and More!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from your Five for Friday team at Western Nevada Development District.
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 culture, wildfire defense, conservation, small business grants, and water resources.
Grant Opportunities & More
Nevada Humanities Project Grants
Nevada Humanities creates and supports public programs statewide that articulate the Nevada experience and facilitate the exploration of issues that matter to Nevadans and their communities. These programs help perpetuate and disseminate local culture and heritage, improve quality of life, enhance education, and enrich life and thought.
Nevada Humanities awards matching project grants in three categories: Major Project Grants, Mini-Grants, and Planning Grants. These grants are awarded to Nevada 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, education institutions, and state and local government and tribal entities to support the implementation of public humanities projects throughout Nevada.
Still Open:
FY2025 Nevada Humanities Mini-Grants up to $2,000
FY2025 Nevada Humanities Planning Grants up to $1,000
Application Deadline: July 30, 2025
Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program
The U.S. Forest Service’s Community Wildfire Defense Grants (CWDG) assist at-risk local communities and Indian Tribes with planning and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire. The program prioritizes at-risk communities in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard potential, are low-income, and/or have been impacted by a severe disaster.
The CWDG helps communities in the wildland urban interface implement the three goals of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy:
• Restore and Maintain Landscapes: Landscapes, regardless of jurisdictional boundaries, are resilient to fire, insect, disease, invasive species, and climate change disturbances, in accordance with management objectives.
• Create Fire Adapted Communities: Human populations and infrastructure are as prepared as possible to receive, respond to, and recover from wildland fire.
• Improve Wildfire Response: All jurisdictions participate in making and implementing safe, effective, and efficient risk-based wildfire management decisions.
Grants available up to $10 million.
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
Conservation Education & Outreach Grant
The Nevada Division of Forestry’s Conservation Education and Outreach Program (CE) provides funding to organizations that help people of all ages understand and appreciate our country’s natural resources and how to conserve those resources for future generations. Through structured educational experiences and activities targeted to diverse age groups and populations, CE enables people to realize how natural resources and ecosystems affect each other and how resources can be used wisely. Funding is currently available for eligible applicants to expand or enhance CE programs and activities.
Funding requests may not exceed $10,000 per application and indirect costs may not exceed 10% of the total budget request.
America’s Seed Fund: Small Business Technology Grants From Federal Agencies
America’s Seed Fund provides funding that advances high-impact, transformative innovations through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. America’s Seed Fund awards non-dilutive funding to develop technology and chart a path toward commercialization. The Fund is coordinated by the Small Business Administration and funded through 11 participating federal agencies that fund innovations through the SBIR/STTR programs.
Program Goals:
• Stimulate technological innovation.
• Meet Federal research and development needs.
• Foster and encourage participation in innovation and entrepreneurship by women and socially or economically disadvantaged persons.
• Increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development funding.
Bureau of Reclamation: Water Resource Technical Assistance to Tribes
This program, administered through the Bureau of Reclamation’s Technical Assistance Program (TAP), provides financial and technical assistance to federally recognized Tribes for developing, managing, and protecting their water and related resources.
Eligible Include:
• water need and water infrastructure assessments
• water management plans and studies
• short-term water quality or water measurement data collection
• assessment to inform new management approaches
• and more
Project ceiling is $1 million with no match requirement.
Application Deadline: February 27, 2025