| Grant | Funder | Purpose | Due Date | Grant Ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tribal Energy Development Capacity (TEDC) Grant | BIA | Every year, our Division of Energy and Mineral Development provides the opportunity for Tribes to receive financial assistance to establish the legal framework for developing and regulating their energy resources. Developing the legal infrastructure to create any type of Tribal energy business Establishing an energy-focused corporation under Tribal or state incorporation codes Establishing an energy-related Tribal business charter under federal law (IRA Section 17 corporation) Developing or enhancing tribal policies, codes, regulations, or ordinances related to energy resource, including land-lease regulations in accordance with the Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership (HEARTH) Act for energy development purposes or for business purposes connected to an energy project Establishing a Tribal utility authority (TUA) Adopting secured transaction codes and a subsequent joint power agreement with a state government | 6/30/2024 | |
| Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program: Implementation Grants Competition for Tribes and Territories | EPA | This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) announces the availability of up to $300 million for for competitive grants to eligible applicants to implement GHG reduction programs, policies, projects, and measures (collectively referred to as “GHG reduction measures,” or “measures”) identified in a PCAP developed under a CPRG planning grant | 5/1/2024 | $25,000,000.00 |
| Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) | FEMA | The BRIC program’s guiding principles include supporting communities through capability and capacity-building; encouraging and enabling innovation, including multi-hazard resilience or nature-based solutions; promoting partnerships; enabling large, systems-based projects; maintaining flexibility; and providing consistency. Through these efforts communities are able to better understand disaster risk and vulnerabilities, conduct community-driven resilience, hazard mitigation planning, and design transformational projects and programs. | 2/29/2024 | |
| Inspire! Grants for Small Museums | Insitute of Museum and Library Services | Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is a special initiative of the Museums for America program. It is designed to support small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. Inspire! has three project categories: Lifelong Learning Institutional Capacity Collections Stewardship and Access | 11/15/2023 | $75,000.00 |
| Museums for America | Institute of Museum and Library Services | The Museums for America program supports museums of all sizes and disciplines in strategic, project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, professional development, community debate and dialogue, audience-focused studies, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. Museums for America has three project categories: Lifelong Learning Community Engagement Collections Stewardship and Access | 11/15/2023 | $250,000.00 |
| Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program | Institute of Museum and Library Services | The Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (NANH) grant program is designed to support Indian tribes and organizations that primarily serve and represent Native Hawaiians in sustaining indigenous heritage, culture, and knowledge. The program supports projects such as exhibitions, educational services and programming, workforce professional development, organizational capacity building, and collections stewardship. | 11/15/2023 | $250,000.00 |
| Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program | MN DEED | The legislative focus of this grant program is to provide financial resources that help make the business case for new and existing providers to invest in building broadband infrastructure into unserved and underserved areas of the state | 12/7/2023 | $20,000,000.00 |
| Contamination Cleanup and Investigation Grants | MN DEED | The Contamination Cleanup and Investigation Grant Program helps communities pay for assessing and cleaning up contaminated sites for private or public redevelopment. Grants pay up to 75% of the costs to investigate and clean up polluted sites. Both publicly and privately owned sites with known or suspected soil or groundwater contamination qualify. | 5/1/2024 | |
| Greater Minnesota Public Infrastructure Grant Program | MN DEED | The Greater Minnesota Business Development Infrastructure Grant Program helps stimulate new economic development, create new jobs and retain existing jobs through investments in public infrastructure. It provides grants to cities of up to 50% of the capital costs of the public infrastructure necessary to expand or retain jobs in the area, increase the tax base, or expand or create new economic development. | 6/30/2024 | $2,000,000.00 |
| Redevelopment Grant Program | MN DEED | Grants pay up to half of the redevelopment costs for a qualifying site, with a 50% local match. Eligible applicants are cities, counties, port authorities, housing and redevelopment authorities, and economic development authorities. Grants can assist with the cost of public land acquisition (if public ownership is necessary to facilitate redevelopment), building and site demolition, infrastructure improvements, soil stabilization, ponding or other environmental infrastructure, and costs necessary for the adaptive reuse of buildings, such as asbestos abatement and lead paint mitigation. Grants do not provide assistance for building construction, renovation, or rehabilitation. | 6/30/2024 | $2,000,000.00 |
| Low Income Worker Training Program | MN DEED | Grant funds may be used to pay for job-specific skills training through existing training programs. Grant funds may also be used for training-related materials and supplies and for training-related certification or test fees. When a need is adequately demonstrated, up to 10% of the direct training costs may be requested for operating costs directly related to project coordination. Allowable operating costs include costs associated with recruitment, screening, referral of program participants and job placement, along with costs for completing program reporting requirements. | 6/30/2024 | |
| Partnership Program | MN DEED | Our main training grant option, the Partnership program, focuses on providing training for both new and existing employees of participating businesses throughout the state. Minnesota participating businesses must partner with an accredited Minnesota educational institution. Grants of up to $400,000 are awarded to the educational institution to develop and deliver custom training specific to business needs. A cash or in-kind contribution from the participating business must match the grant funds on at least a one-to-one basis. | 6/30/2024 | |
| Pathways Program | MN DEED | The Pathways program focuses on providing training, new jobs and career paths for people who have incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines or those who are making a transition from public assistance to work. Projects must include at least one participating business and an accredited Minnesota educational institution or training provider. Grants of up to $400,000 per project may be awarded to develop and deliver training specific to business needs. Cash or in-kind contributions from the participating business(es) must match program funds on at least a one-half to one ratio. | 6/30/2024 | $400,000.00 |
| Job Training Incentive Program | MN DEED | This program provides grants to new or expanding businesses located in Greater Minnesota for the purposes of training workers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Funds may be used to pay direct training costs for workers in new jobs including trainee wages for on-the-job training, curriculum development, delivery of training, materials and supplies, training equipment and facilities, and trainer travel and lodging costs. Funds may also be used for assessment, testing and certification costs. Training may be provided in-house, by institutions of higher education, by federal, state, or local agencies, by consultants, or equipment vendors. | 6/30/2024 | |
| Automation Training Incentive Program | MN DEED | This program provides grants to small businesses for the purpose of training existing workers on new automation technology. Funds may be used to pay direct training costs for existing workers including trainee wages for on-the-job training, curriculum development, delivery of training, materials and supplies, training equipment and facilities, and trainer travel and lodging costs. Funds may also be used for assessment, testing and certification costs. Training may be provided in-house, by institutions of higher education, by federal, state, or local agencies, by consultants, or equipment vendors. | 6/30/2024 | |
| Minnesota Investment Fund | MN DEED | The Minnesota Investment Fund provides financing to help add new workers and retain high-quality jobs on a statewide basis. The focus is on industrial, manufacturing, and technology-related industries to increase the local and state tax base and improve economic vitality statewide | 6/30/2024 | |
| Minnesota Job Creation Fund | MN DEED | The Job Creation Fund provides financial incentives to new and expanding businesses that meet certain job creation and capital investment targets. Companies deemed eligible to participate may receive up to $1 million for creating or retaining high-paying jobs and for constructing or renovating facilities or making other property improvements. In some cases, companies may receive awards of up to $2 million. | 6/30/2024 | $2,000,000.00 |
| Innovative Business Development Public Infrastructure | MN DEED | The Innovative Business Development Public Infrastructure (BDPI) program focuses on job creation and retention through the growth of new innovative businesses and organizations. The program provides grants to local governmental units on a competitive basis statewide. The amount of a grant may not exceed the lesser of the cost of the public infrastructure or 50% of the sum of the cost of the public infrastructure plus the cost of the completed eligible project. | 6/30/2024 | |
| Water Infrastructure Fund | MN DEEED | The Water Infrastructure Fund (WIF) provides supplemental grants based on affordability criteria to help communities build wastewater and drinking water projects that replace aging infrastructure and meet permit requirements. | 6/30/2024 | $5,000,000.00 |
| Utilizing Navigators to Support Linkage to Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Care and Harm Reduction Services | MN Dept of Health | The Minnesota Department of Health is soliciting proposals from syringe services programs and community-based organizations to provide navigation services to people at risk of overdose. Navigators will meet people where they are at, identify and collaborate with community resources, enable connection to treatment, improve accessibility to recovery support services, provide access to harm reduction services, and to increase community-supported intervention points. | 11/17/2023 | $400,000.00 |
| Capacity Strengthening Initiative | MN Dept of Health | The Minnesota Department of Health Center for Health Equity released a new request for proposals (RFP) for the Capacity Strengthening Initiative, a grant program established to empower and uplift the ability of community organizations to receive state funding that is focused on improving the health and well-being of Minnesotans. | 11/20/2024 | $100,000.00 |
| Heritage Partnership Program | MN Historical Society | The goal of this grant program is to build the capacity of eligible applicants to preserve and enhance access to Minnesota’s history and cultural resources by supporting the creation and development of sustainable, history-based partnerships throughout the state. Two or more partners that are educational institutions, units of state or local government, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations and federally recognized tribes based in Minnesota are encouraged to apply. | 3/8/2024 | $400,000.00 |
| Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant | MN Historical Society | To preserve and enhance access to Minnesota's cultural and historical resources and to support projects of enduring value for the cause of history and historic preservation across the state. Eligible projects fall into three project categories: history projects, historic preservation projects, and structured grants. | 6/30/2024 | |
| Commercial Redevelopment | MN IRRRB | Commercial Redevelopment grants assist with the internal and external demolition of commercial and industrial buildings and clean-up brownfields to pave the way for new development. | 5/30/2024 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Housing Development Assistance Grant | MN IRRRB | Housing grants assist projects or programs that result in the creation of new housing units or the rehabilitation of existing housing units. The program will support housing solutions that align with local priorities and regional employer’s needs. | 5/30/2024 | $5,000,000.00 |
| Infrastructure Development Grant | MN IRRRB | Development Infrastructure grants assist with infrastructure projects that support business development. | 5/30/2024 | $10,000,000.00 |
| Community Infrastructure Grant | MN IRRRB | Community Infrastructure grants assist projects that support residential infrastructure and public facility improvements. | 5/30/2024 | $10,000,000.00 |
| Broadband Infrastructure Grant | MN IRRRB | Broadband Infrastructure grants assist projects that help households and businesses reach the State of Minnesota broadband Speed Goal. | 5/30/2024 | $2,000,000.00 |
| Residential Redevelopment Grant | MN IRRRB | Residential Redevelopment grants assist with the demolition of residential structures. Projects must reach the objective of eliminating blight, improving property maintenance, promoting health and safety or encouraging economic development. | 5/30/2024 | $275,000.00 |
| Cultural and Tourism Grant | MN IRRRB | Culture & Tourism grants assist projects that support arts, culture, history, tourism and recreational activities, enhance the quality of life in the region and attract visitors. | 5/30/2024 | $30,000.00 |
| Development Partnership Grant | MN IRRRB | Development Partnership grants provide funds for research, planning, education and development-based initiatives that support the long-term economic growth of northeastern Minnesota | 5/30/2024 | |
| Regional Trails Grant | MN IRRRB | Regional Trails grants assist with the design, engineering and construction of various types of trails. | 5/30/2024 | |
| Workforce Development Grant | MN IRRRB | Workforce Development grants assist with education, training and career awareness initiatives that address regional workforce needs and gaps emerging in industries and schools. | 5/30/2024 | |
| Greater MN Waste Reduction, Reuse, Recycling, and Composting Grant | MN PCA | MPCA has approximately $1 million for projects that increase the efficiency or effectiveness of waste reduction, reuse, recycling, or composting programs. Reducing the amount of materials entering landfills in Greater Minnesota communities benefits the environment as well as local economies. | 11/15/2023 | $250,000.00 |
| Planning grants for stormwater, wastewater, and community resilience | MN PCA | This funding provides an opportunity for these communities to assess vulnerabilities and begin planning for the effects of Minnesota’s changing climate in three areas: How to increase resilience to stormwater and reduce localized flood risk. How to improve the resilience of wastewater systems. How to reduce human health effects and adapt community services, ordinances, and public spaces to the changing climate. | 12/14/2023 | |
| Drinking Water Planning and Design Funds for PFAS Treatment | MN PCA | This opportunity provides funding for planning and design of PFAS treatment systems for owners and operators of community drinking water supply systems in Minnesota. | 6/21/2024 | $22,000,000.00 |
| Brownfield Assessment Grant | MN PCA | The grant can be used for: Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments Sampling and analysis plans/work plans Hazardous materials building surveys to identify lead paint and asbestos Preparation of response action plans Community engagement for reuse planning MPCA Brownfield Program fees | 6/30/2024 | |
| Small Community Wastewater Treatment Program | MN Public Facilities Authority | The Small Community Wastewater Treatment Program provides funding to help communities replace non-complying septic systems and straight pipes with new individual or cluster subsurface sewage treatment systems (SSTS) that will be publicly owned, operated and maintained. | 6/30/2024 | |
| Media Projects Program | National Endowment For The Arts | The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. | 1/10/2024 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Save America's Treasures | National Park Service | The Save America’s Treasures grant program was established in 1998 and first awarded grants in 1999 to help preserve nationally significant historic properties and collections that convey our nation’s rich heritage to future generations | 12/19/2023 | $750,000.00 |
| Otto Bremer Trust | Otter Bremer | OBT’s financial investments — grants, program-related investments, and strategic investments — work together to deliver impact for the communities we serve. One hundred percent of our assets are put to work to support a better quality of life for people in our region. | 11/30/2023 | |
| Tribal Cybersecurity | US DHS | The goal of TCGP is to assist tribal governments with managing and reducing systemic cyber risk. Accomplishment of this goal can be achieved by implementing or revising Cybersecurity Plans, priorities, projects and addressing TCGP objectives. | 1/10/2024 | $18,246,845.00 |
| Communities Local Energy Action Program (LEAP) | US DOE | The DOE Communities LEAP (Local Energy Action Program) aims to facilitate sustained community-wide economic and environmental benefits primarily through DOE’s clean energy deployment work. This opportunity is specifically open to low-income, energy-burdened communities that are also experiencing either direct environmental justice impacts, or direct economic impacts from a shift away from historical reliance on fossil fuels. Under Communities LEAP, DOE matches selected communities with technical assistance providers who assist them with bringing their clean energy planning and economic development vision to life. | 12/12/2023 | |
| Thriving Communities Program | US DOT | TCP provides technical assistance, planning, and capacity building support to teams of community partners that may lack the staffing or technical expertise to scope, fund, and develop infrastructure projects that advance broader community goals. TCP will provide 2 years of deep-dive assistance and 3 years of facilitated peer learning support to selected communities to help them plan and develop a pipeline of comprehensive transportation, housing, and community revitalization activities. | 11/15/2023 | |
| FY 2023 Disaster Supplemental | US EDA | Applicants will seek to help communities and regions devise and implement long-term economic recovery strategies through a variety of non-construction and construction projects to address economic challenges in areas affected by a disaster. | 6/30/2024 | $30,000,000.00 |
| FY 2023 EDA Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Program | US EDA | Funds projects that support construction, non-construction, planning, technical assistance, and RLF projects which leverage existing regional assets and support the implementation of strategies that advance economic prosperity in distressed communities. | 6/30/2024 | $30,000,000.00 |
| EDA Planning and Local Technical Assistance | US EDA | EDA makes planning and local technical assistance investments to support economic development, foster job creation, and attract private investment in economically distressed areas of the United States. | 6/30/2024 | $300,000.00 |
| Landscape Scale Restoration | US Forestry | The Landscape Scale Restoration Program is a Forest Service State and Private Forestry competitive grant program that promotes collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes and furthers priorities identified in State Forest Action plans or equivalent restoration strategy. | 11/19/2023 | $600,000.00 |
| Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance (WPIA) Grant | US Forestry | The Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance provides funding may be used to provide support for facilities that purchase and process byproducts of ecosystem restoration projects. This includes applications to establish, reopen, retrofit, expand, or improve a sawmill or other wood-processing facility in close proximity to federal or Indian lands that need ecosystem restoration and will generate byproducts | 12/1/2023 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Wood Innovations Grant | US Forestry | The Wood Innovations Grants Program stimulates, expands, and supports U.S. wood products markets and wood energy markets to support the long-term management of National Forest System and other forest lands. Focus areas include mass timber, renewable wood energy, and technological development that supports hazardous fuel reduction and sustainable forest management. | 12/15/2023 | $300,000.00 |
| Community Wood Grant Funding Opportunity | US Forestry | The Community Wood Grant Program provides funding for grants to install thermally led community wood energy systems or to build innovative wood product manufacturing facilities | 12/15/2023 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Community Forest Program | US Forestry | The Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program (Community Forest Program) of the Forest Service offers a unique opportunity for communities to acquire and conserve forests that provide public access and recreational opportunities, protect vital water supplies and wildlife habitat, serve as demonstration sites for private forest landowners, and provide economic benefits from timber and non-timber products. | 1/12/2024 | $600,000.00 |
| ROSS (Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency) Service Coordinator Program | US HUD | The Resident Opportunity and Self Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) program is designed to assist residents of Public and Indian Housing make progress towards economic and housing self-sufficiency by removing the educational, professional and health barriers they face. Self-sufficiency is defined as an individual’s ability to support their household by maintaining financial, housing, and personal/family stability. To achieve self-sufficiency, an individual moves along a continuum towards economic independence and stability; such movement is facilitated by the achievement of individual educational, professional, and health-related goals. | 12/18/2023 | $816,750.00 |
| Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (Capital Advance) | US HUD | The Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities Program aims to expand the supply of integrated affordable housing by providing Capital Advance funding for the development of permanent supportive rental housing for very-low-income persons with disabilities who are 18 years of age or older and less than 62 years of age at entry. The program also provides project rental subsidies in the form of a Project Rental Assistance Contract (“PRAC”) to maintain ongoing affordability over at least the next forty years. These units provide persons with disabilities the opportunity to live with dignity and independence within the community in an integrated environment that provides access to appropriate and voluntary supportive services | 2/24/2024 | $5,000,000.00 |
| Tribal Transportation Safety Fund | USDOT | TTPSF emphasizes the development of strategic transportation safety plans using a data-driven process as a means for Tribes to identify transportation safety needs and determine how those needs will be addressed in Tribal communities. FHWA has identified four eligibility categories: transportation safety plans; data assessment, improvement, and analysis activities; systemic roadway departure countermeasures; and infrastructure improvements and other eligible activities. | 1/15/2024 | $24,098,400.00 |
| AmeriCorps State and National Grants | AmeriCorpos | Provides volunteers in the community through a variety of programs | 1/4/2024 | |
