Grant Memo: Cultural, Health, Environmental, Public Safety, Transportation, and Redevelopment Opportunities
Rep. Amen Brown January 3, 2024 | 3:53 PM
NEWLY LISTED PROGRAMS
Department of Human Services: OCDEL Keystone STARS Continuous Quality Improvement
Who May Apply: Eligible childcare providers will be notified via an eligibility letter from their Early Learning Resource Center. Providers must meet the requirements outlined here.
Use: Staff qualifications and professional development, early childhood education programs, partnerships with families and communities, leadership and management, and accreditation costs.
Funds: Grant amounts vary by provider. Grant funding comes from $12 million of federal Childcare Development Fund funds.
Application Deadline: Feb. 15, 2024
More information: Keystone STARS Website
Department of Transportation: State Transportation Innovation Council (STIC) Incentive Program
Who May Apply: To be eligible for STIC Incentive funding, the STIC or other equivalent task force, committee or group must be formally established with a charter, include public and private members, meet regularly, and comprehensively consider sources of innovation.
Use: The State Transportation Innovation Council Incentive Program provides funding to help STICs foster a culture of innovation and make innovations standard practice in their states. Examples of allowable activities include but are not limited to: developing standards and specifications; developing training to facilitate widespread use of innovation, developing memoranda of agreement; preparing a report summarizing the lessons learned and economic analysis of an innovation; and sponsoring an innovation workshop to share best practices.
Funds: $125,000 in federal funding is available for this funding round. Applicants must provide a 20% non-federal funding match.
Application Deadline: Feb. 16, 2024
More information: PennDOT Website
Commission on Crime and Delinquency: Substance Abuse Education and Demand Reduction Category 1
Who May Apply: Nonprofit organizations. Governmental entities, including school districts, are not eligible, though they may apply with a nonprofit that is the formal applicant agency.
Use: Funding is to be used to provide research-based or evidence-based approaches to prevention, intervention, treatment, training, and education services to reduce substance use, reduce substance use behavior, or combat opioid heroin overdoses.
Funds: PCCD expects to fund up to nine grants with budgets not to exceed $250,000 over a 2-year project period.
Application Deadline: Feb. 23, 2024
More information: PCCD Website
Commission on Crime and Delinquency: Substance Abuse Education and Demand Reduction Category 2 & 3
Who May Apply: Nonprofit organizations that meet certain criteria, including serving a statewide population, possessing five or more years of experience carrying out substance use education, maintaining a drug-free workplace policy, and have a purpose dedicated to the reduction of substance use.
Use: Category 2 funding is available to educate youth, caregivers of youth, and employers about the dangers of substance abuse and increase awareness of the benefits of a drug-free Pennsylvania. Category 3 funding is available to educate employers, unions, and employees about the dangers of substance use in the workplace and provide drug-free programs to businesses.
Funds: PCCD expects to fund up to eight grants with budgets not to exceed $250,000 over a 2-year project period.
Application Deadline: Feb. 23, 2024
More information: PCCD Website
Department of Environmental Protection: Air Quality Small Business Technical Assistance Grant
Who May Apply: Nonprofit organizations.
Use: Provide Pennsylvania small businesses with free and confidential compliance and technical information and assistance related to air pollution requirements.
Funds: Up to $500,000 is available for the first year of funding. Subsequent fiscal year funding will be dependent on availability of funds.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
More information: DEP Website
PROGRAMS OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS:
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
Office of the Budget: Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP)
Who May Apply: Applicants’ projects must have been previously itemized in a Capital Budget Project Itemization Act.
Use: Applicants can use funds for the purposes prescribed in the Capital Budget Project Itemization Act.
Funds: Varied.
Application Deadline: January 12, 2024
More information: OB website
Council on the Arts: Arts Organizations and Arts Programs
Who May Apply: Nonprofit organizations and municipalities with at least two years of consistent arts programming in Pennsylvania and an average arts revenue of over $200,000. School districts providing arts programming/services are also eligible.
Use: Eligible uses of funds include, but are not limited to, operating, programming or project expenditures.
Application Deadline: Jan. 17, 2024
More information: Arts Website
Commission on Crime and Delinquency: Violence Intervention and Prevention
Who May Apply: Community-based organizations with 501(c)(3) designation, institutions of higher education, municipalities, district attorneys, and counties,
Use: Effective local intervening and preventive measures to stop gun and group violence that is occurring across the state in both the short- and long-term
Funds: $40 million in state funding is available for two tracks:
- VIP Grants: Applicants can request up to 50% of their operating budget up to $950,00 total.
- Coordinated Community Violence Intervention Strategies Projects (CCVI): Applicants can request up to $3 million in total funding over a 36-month period (funding match required). PCCD anticipates approving only 2-3 CCVI projects.
Application Deadline: January 18, 2024
More information: PCCD Website
Department of Environmental Protection: Pennsylvania Grid Resilience Grant Program
Who May Apply: An electric grid operator, an electricity storage operator, an electricity generator, a transmission owner or operator, a distribution provider, a fuel supplier, or any other relevant entity as determined by DEP in consultation with the federal Department of Energy.
Use: Funding is intended to be used to implement resilience measures intended to mitigate the impact of disruptive events. These measures may include weatherization technologies and equipment, fire-resistant technologies, monitoring technologies, undergrounding of electrical equipment, utility pole management, advanced conductors, hardening of power lines, facilities, substations, or other systems, and more.
Funds: Approximately $16 million is available for grants. Funding originated through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Application Deadline: There are two deadlines for this program. Applicants must have submitted a concept paper by November 14, 2023. Full applications must be submitted by January 26, 2024.
More information: DEP Website
Department of Community and Economic Development: Local Share Account Philadelphia
Who May Apply: Community Development Corporations, economic development organizations and redevelopment authorities, business improvement districts/neighborhood improvement districts, non-profit organizations with a 501(c) designation, the City of Philadelphia, the School District of Philadelphia. Any eligible organization must be located in Philadelphia.
Use: Economic development projects, neighborhood revitalization projects, community improvement projects, projects in the public interest. Any eligible project must be located in Philadelphia.
Funds: Grant amounts will vary based on the specific project requirements but are limited to a minimum request/award of $10,000 and a maximum request/award of $500,000.
Application Deadline: January 31, 2024
More information: DCED Website
Historical & Museum Commission: Empowered History Micro-Grant Program
Who May Apply: Any community group or member of a community with historical materials located in Pennsylvania. Highest priority is given to organizations with demonstrated financial need and historical material from communities that are underrepresented in the historical record.
Use: Enable communities to preserve and share their history through purchases that capture, preserve or disseminate community history, such as but not limited to, archival boxes, digital projects, educational materials, equipment to improve storage, and more.
Funds: Grants will be awarded in amounts between $100 and $1,000
Application Deadline: Jan. 31, 2024
More information: PHMC Website
Council on the Arts: Entry to Arts Organizations and Arts Programs
Who May Apply: Nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation, a unit of government, or school district, providing arts programming and/or arts services in Pennsylvania with at least two years of consistent arts programming and an annual arts revenue of over $200,000.
Use: This program is the entry point for organizations or programs to enter the Arts Organizations and Arts Programs track. Eligible uses of funds include, but are not limited to, operating, programming or project expenditures.
Application Deadline: Feb. 15, 2024
More information: Arts Website
Historical & Museum Commission: Keystone Historic Preservation Planning Grant
Who May Apply: Local governments, historic preservation organizations, historical societies, conservancies, colleges and universities, religious institutions, museums, and other historical organizations. Historic property must be publicly accessible and listed in, or documented as eligible for listing in, the National Register of Historic Places. Private property owners and businesses are not eligible.
Use: To support projects that identify, preserve, promote and protect historic and archaeological resources of Pennsylvania for both the benefit of the public and the revitalization of communities.
Funds: Grant awards range from $5,000 to $25,000. A 50/50 cash match is required.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
More information: PHMC Website
Historical & Museum Commission: Keystone Historic Preservation Construction Grant
Who May Apply: Local governments, historic preservation organizations, historical societies, conservancies, colleges and universities, religious institutions, museums, and other historical organizations. Historic property must be publicly accessible and listed in, or documented as eligible for listing in, the National Register of Historic Places. Private property owners and businesses are not eligible.
Use: To support projects that rehabilitate, restore, or preserve historic resources listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
Funds: Grant awards range from $5,000 to $100,000. A 50/50 cash match is required.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
More information: PHMC Website
Department of Environmental Protection: Small Business Advantage Grant Program
Who May Apply: For-profit businesses in PA with a primary physical location in PA and 100 or fewer full-time employees. Commercial real estate businesses and tenant businesses may also be eligible if they meet the criteria outlined in the program guidelines.
Use: The Program is a first-come, first-served grant program that provides matching grants to assist small businesses undertaking energy efficiency, pollution prevention or natural resource conservation projects.
Funds: $1 million in grant funding is available for this funding round for grants between $5,000 and $8,000.
Application Deadline: Grants will be accepted through March 22, 2024 or when funds are exhausted, whichever occurs first.
More information: DEP Website