RESOURCE TYPE
APTA Local Coalition Grant Program
Administering Agency: American Public Transportation Association
Closing Date for Applications: Apr 24, 2024
Funding Range: $5,000 to $10,000+
Geographic Scope: National
Description: This grant opportunity is for local public transportation coalitions who are prioritizing equitable transportation strategies that improve access for traditionally disadvantaged groups, emphasize the importance of public engagement, promote sustainable transportation policies that mitigate the impacts of climate change on underserved populations, and promote safe access to transportation.
For this grant program, a coalition is defined as a collection of groups and/or individuals joined together for the common purpose of promoting public transit. An APTA public transit system member may apply for the funds on behalf of a coalition, or a coalition may apply directly for the funds.
Communities Taking Charge Accelerator
Administering Agency: U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Posted Date: Apr 16, 2024
Concept Paper Submission Deadline: May 20, 2024
Closing Date for Applications: Jul 16, 2024
Funding Range: Total funds available: $54,000,000 — Grant award maximum: $4,000,000
Geographic Scope: National
TOPICS: Funding Opportunities , Zero Emission Buses
Description: The Communities Taking Charge Accelerator FOA seeks applications that will help further the Joint Office’s vision of a future where everyone can ride and drive electric. This FOA will fund innovative approaches to expanding EV adoption and charging access, particularly at the local level in urbanized areas where land use, density, car ownership rates, grid considerations, and other factors add further complexities to electrifying the transportation network while the demand for transportation access is at its highest density.
Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program
Administering Agency: U.S. Department of Labor, Womens Bureau
Posted Date: Apr 11, 2024
Closing Date for Applications: Jun 10, 2024
Funding Range: Total funds available: $6,000,000 — Grant award maximum: $750,000; Grant award minimum: $350,000
Geographic Scope: National
Description: This program aims to provide technical assistance (TA) to employers (which may include public sector entities) and labor unions in the United States and its territories to encourage employment of women in both apprenticeable occupations and nontraditional occupations (A/NTO), specifically in the following ways:
- Developing (establishing, expanding, and/or enhancing) pre-apprenticeship, youth apprenticeship, Registered Apprenticeship (as defined in Appendix B “Acronyms and Definitions”), or other nontraditional skills training programs designed to prepare women for careers in A/NTO;
- Providing ongoing orientations or other resources for employers, unions, and workers on creating a successful environment for women in A/NTO; and/or
- Setting up support groups, facilitating networks, and/or providing supportive services (as defined in section IV.E.3) for women in A/NTO to improve their retention.
Applicants may propose to provide technical assistance to support women’s participation and success in the full range of industries in which women are historically underrepresented or where women are disproportionately concentrated in the lower-wage occupations. Such industries include, but are not limited to; advanced manufacturing, construction, energy, health care, information technology, finance, and transportation. Applicants with experience working with or as an equity intermediary are encouraged to apply, as well as applicants with a proposed focus on expanding outreach/recruitment to historically underrepresented communities, including but not limited to women of color and women with disabilities, women at or below the federal poverty line, formerly incarcerated women, immigrant women, transgender women, and women who live in rural geographic areas
Port Infrastructure Development Program
Administering Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration
Posted Date: Mar 8, 2024
Closing Date for Applications: May 10, 2024
Funding Range: Total funds available: $450,000,000 — Grant award maximum: $112,500,000; Grant award minimum: $1,000,000
Geographic Scope: National
TOPICS: Funding Opportunities , Training
Description: The Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) is a discretionary grant program administered by the Maritime Administration. Funds for the PIDP are awarded on a competitive basis to projects that improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port.
PIDP grants support efforts by ports and industry stakeholders to improve port and related freight infrastructure to meet the nation’s freight transportation needs and ensure our port infrastructure can meet anticipated growth in freight volumes. The PIDP provides funding to ports in both urban and rural areas for planning and capital projects. It also includes a statutory set-aside for small ports to continue to improve and expand their capacity to move freight reliably and efficiently and support local and regional economies.
Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Stimulate (RAMPS) Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development
Administering Agency: Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Posted Date: Mar 25, 2024
Closing Date for Applications: May 24, 2024
Geographic Scope: National
TOPICS: Career Pathways , Funding Opportunities , Training
Description: The NIST National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for activities to establish community-based partnerships to develop cybersecurity career pathways that address local workforce needs. Effective multistakeholder workforce partnerships will organize multiple employers with skill shortages in specific occupations to focus on developing the skilled workforce to meet industry needs within the local or regional economy.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Opportunities
This is a searchable tool to help sort through the nearly 400 funding opportunities in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Users can search by funding agency, categories/topics, and eligible applicants.
Local Infrastructure Hub
TOPICS: Funding Opportunities , Policy and Planning
Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Programs
Administering Agency: Transportation Research Board
Closing Date for Applications: May 15, 2024
Funding Range: Grant award maximum: $100,000
Geographic Scope: National
TOPICS: Funding Opportunities
Description: The Transit IDEA Program is a part of the Transit Cooperative Research Program and is designed to foster innovative concepts that have the potential to enhance security, increase ridership, improve efficiency for transit agencies, and protect the environment. IDEA programs differ from traditional research programs in two ways: IDEA projects are initiated by researchers rather than by a request for proposals, and funding can support initial testing of unproven concepts. One of IDEA’s high priority areas is “improving transit patron and employee environment for health and safety.”
Public transit agencies can’t apply directly, but can be partners in developing proposals, participate in the project generally, and test prototypes.
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program
Administering Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Posted Date: Nov 21, 2023
Closing Date for Applications: Nov 21, 2024
Funding Range: Total funds available: $2,000,000,000 — Grant award maximum: $20,000,000
Geographic Scope: National
TOPICS: Funding Opportunities
Description: The Community Change Grants will fund community-driven projects that address climate challenges and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful implementation. There will be two tracks of funding under this opportunity. Track I will fund approximately 150 large, transformational community-driven investment grants of $10 million – $20 million. Track II will fund approximately 20 meaningful engagement grants of $1 million – $3 million. Grants cannot exceed 3-years in duration. These programs will address the diverse and unique needs of disadvantaged communities by:
- Reducing and preventing pollution;
- Building resilience to climate change and mitigating current and future climate risks;
- Enhancing meaningful involvement in government processes related to environmental and climate
justice; - Expanding access to high-quality jobs and economic opportunity through workforce development;
and - Bolstering community strength by ensuring that local residents receive the benefits of investments
and have the opportunity to build on them for current and future generations.
Low or No Emission and Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Programs FY2024
Administering Agency: Federal Transit Administration
Posted Date: Feb 8, 2024
Closing Date for Applications:
Total Program Funding: $1,103,963,762
Geographic Scope: National
TOPICS: Funding Opportunities , Training , Zero Emission Buses
Description: The purpose of the Low-No Program is to support the transition of the nation’s transit fleet to the lowest polluting and most energy efficient transit vehicles. The Low-No Program provides funding to state and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities.
The purpose of the Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program is to assist in the financing of buses and bus facilities capital projects, including replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing or leasing buses or related equipment, and rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing or leasing bus-related facilities.
Additionally, recipients are permitted to use up to 0.5 percent of their requested grant award for workforce development activities eligible under federal public transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5314(b)) and an additional 0.5 percent for costs associated with training at the National Transit Institute. For applicants proposing projects related to zero-emission vehicles for either program, 5 percent of the requested federal award must be used for workforce development activities.
Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE)
Administering Agency: Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
Closing Date for Applications: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis
Funding Range: $73.5M available total
Geographic Scope: Regional
Description: ARISE is an ARC initiative that aims to drive large-scale, regional economic transformation through multistate, collaborative projects across Appalachia.
With the additional funding provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, ARC launched ARISE to strengthen Appalachian business and industry, and to grow and support the development of new opportunities across multiple states.
Posted January 20, 2023 to TWC Resource Center. Please refer to the link below for the most up to date information from the funder.