New Agricultural, Educational, Safety, Redevelopment and Additional Grant Opportunities

April 22, 2024 grant update

Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski April 25, 2024 | 10:45 AM

Below are multiple state grant programs that are currenctly open for application. Please contact my office if you have questions.

NEWLY LISTED PROGRAMS

Commission on Crime and Delinquency: National Incident-Based Reporting System Compliance Efforts

Who May Apply: Local law enforcement agencies, campus or university police, railroad or street railway police, airport authority police, and county park police.

Use: Funds for the proposed program shall be used to improve reporting of crime statistics by upgrading technology infrastructure to report incident-based crime data to the FBI’s NIBRS.
Funds: $10 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding is available. PCCD expects to fund approximately 50 grants with budgets not to exceed $200,000 over the two-year project period.

Application Deadline: June 13. 2024

More information: PCCD Website

Department of Environmental Protection: Growing Greener (Watershed Restoration and Protection) Plus Program

Who May Apply: Incorporated watershed associations, counties, county conservation districts, council of governments, tax-exempt corporations under 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, educational institutions, or municipal authorities.

Use: Projects that reduce nonpoint source pollution—especially nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution from agricultural and stormwater runoff. The Department is particularly interested in design and construction projects that implement effective best management practices that reduce or eliminate pollutant loadings and lead to local water quality improvements
Funds: The maximum grant amount is $500,000.

Application Deadline: June 21, 2024

More information: DEP Website

Department of Environmental Protection: Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Grant

Who May Apply: Incorporated watershed associations, counties, municipalities, county conservation districts, council of governments, tax-exempt corporations under 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, educational institutions, or municipal authorities.

Use: To improve and protect Pennsylvania’s waters from nonpoint source pollution associated with AMD, energy resource extraction, agricultural activities, stormwater runoff, streambank, and shoreline degradation, along with verifying and demonstrating efficacy with enhanced data collection and distribution.
Funds: Funding is provided by the EPA and authorized through Section 319(h) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

Application Deadline: June 21, 2024

More information: DEP Website

Department of Community and Economic Development: Sports Marketing and Tourism Account

Who May Apply: Municipalities, local authorities, nonprofit organizations, or a legal entity that meets the criteria outlined in the program guidelines.

Use: Eligible expenses include, but are not limited to, costs related to preparations necessary for conducting the event, promotion, marketing, programming, paid advertising, production and technical expenses, site fees and costs, on-site hospitality, and more.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2024

More information: DCED Website

PROGRAMS OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS:

Department of Agriculture: Farm Vitality Planning Grant

Who May Apply: Farmers, prospective farmers, and others may apply.

Use: Strategic business planning to expand or diversify farms or support transition of ownership.
Funds: $500,000 in funding is available. Grants shall not exceed $7,500.

Application Deadline: Applications will be received until funds are exhausted.

More information: Pennsylvania Bulletin

Commission on Crime and Delinquency: Recruitment Incentives for Law Enforcement

Who May Apply: Local law enforcement agencies, campus or university police, railroad or street railway police, airport authority police, and county park police.

Use: Funding is explicitly to support Act 120 training and recruitment activities for law enforcement officers that will take place between Oct. 19, 2023 and June 30, 2025.
Funds: $14 million in federal COVID Relief (ARPA) is available. PCCD anticipates this funding being able to support approximately 2,000 new fulltime officers statewide.

Application Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all funding is committed, at which point the application period will close.

More information: PCCD Website

Department of Community and Economic Development: Manufacturing PA Training-to-Career Grant

Who May Apply: Technical and trade schools, school districts, post-secondary academic institutions, workforce investment boards, economic development organizations, and nonprofit organizations. For-profit entities are not eligible.

Use: Projects must focus on the development and deployment of workforce training programs for individuals with barriers to employment, engage youth or those with barriers in awareness building activities of manufacturing career opportunities, and advance capacity for local or regional manufacturers to meet the needs of local and regional manufacturers that cannot be met through existing programs such as WEDnet and Industry Partnerships.
Funds: Funds are available on an annual basis and vary based on recommendations and constraints set in the annual budget.

Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted and evaluated on an ongoing basis as long as funds remain available.

More information: DCED Website

Department of Environmental Protection: Alternative Fuel Vehicle Rebate Program

Who May Apply: Pennsylvania residents whose total household income is below 400 percent of the Federal Income Poverty Level.

Use: This program provides a rebate to Pennsylvanians who purchase or lease alternative fuel vehicles.
Funds: Rebates vary depending on type of vehicle purchased.

Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted and evaluated on a first come, first served basis as long as funds remain available. Please note applications must be received within six months of the date of the vehicle purchase.

More information: DEP Website

Commission on Crime and Delinquency: Intermediate Punishment Treatment Program

Who May Apply: Counties

Use: Funds for the proposed program must be used to support restrictive conditions that are imposed as part of a county probation sentence and may be used for needed drug and alcohol-related services, and mental health treatment and supportive services for eligible individuals
Funds: Funding is contingent upon the availability of funds in the FY 2024-25 budget.

Application Deadline: May 1, 2024

More information: PCCD Website

Commission on Crime and Delinquency: STOP Violence Against Women Grant Program

Who May Apply: County governments and non-profit victim service agencies are eligible to apply. Faith-based organizations may be eligible to apply under certain circumstances.

Use: Funds may be used to support cross-system, collaborative efforts to respond to victims of violence against women crimes. This includes, but is not limited to, personnel and benefit costs associated with specialized units in law enforcement or core direct victim services, supplies and operating expenses related to the STOP project, equipment necessary for implementation, and training or professional development.
Funds: A total of $12 million in federal STOP funds is available for this program. PCCD expects to fund up to 32 grants with budgets not to exceed $125,000 per 12-month project period. Applicants awarded funding in year 1 will resubmit separate applications for years 2 and 3 to continue the project.

Application Deadline: May 3, 2024

More information: PCCD Website

Department of Environmental Protection: Development & Implementation of Municipal Recycling Programs Grants

Who May Apply: Municipalities

Use: Recycling program design costs, recycling market investigations, development of recycling public education program, purchasing or leasing vehicles used to collect recyclables, transporting recyclables to processing facilities, and other eligible activities.
Funds: Municipalities are eligible for 90% funding of approved recycling program costs and applications may not request more than $200,000.

Application Deadline: May 10, 2024

More information: Pennsylvania Bulletin

Department of Agriculture: Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program

Who May Apply: Agricultural producers or processors and nonprofits, for-profits, local government entities, and institutions such as schools, universities or hospitals that operate middle of the food chain activities or invest in equipment that will benefit middle of the supply chain activities.

Use: Activities that expand capacity and infrastructure for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling or distribution of targeted local and regional agricultural products
Funds: Grants will be awarded to the extent that funds are available. Grant requests shall be between $10,000 and $100,000.

Application Deadline: May 15, 2024

More information: PDA Website

Commonwealth Financing Authority: Abandoned Mine Drainage Abatement & Treatment Program

Who May Apply: Municipalities, Councils of Governments, Authorized Organizations, Institutions of Higher Education, Watershed Organizations, for profit businesses.

Use: Grants may be used for abatement of abandoned mine drainage and/or treatment of abandoned mine drainage through treatment facility system construction, treatment system repair, and upgrades or operation and maintenance of existing passive and active treatment systems.
Funds: Grant requests shall not exceed $1 million.