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GRANTS & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE:
The Nature Conservancy's Resilient and Connected Appalachians Grant Program
Deadline: February 7
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TNC’s Connectivity, Climate, Communities Fund offers this grant program for conservation and community organizations, municipalities, Federally Recognized Tribal Nations, and local and state agencies in the Appalachians who are working to protect and conserve this region. The Resilient and Connected Appalachians Grant Program provides grants of up to $50,000 for fee and easement acquisition projects throughout the Appalachians that strengthen organizational capacity for protecting resilient lands, secure vital floodplains and shorelines and help communities adapt to climate change. Projects with exceptional conservation and community-focused attributes may be eligible for additional funding.
The Nature Conservancy's Climate Resilience Grant Program
Deadline: February 7
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The program supports conservation and climate adaptation projects, including land protection, led by local organizations, with the goal of increasing resilience to climate change for people and nature. Program grants will help local organizations with fee and easement acquisitions of lands that connect with important floodplains and shorelines that mitigate flooding and erosion. The grants will also provide funding for organizational capacity-building, planning and strategy development. We will prioritize projects that include engagement with and benefits to local communities, particularly in underserved and frontline communities. The total amount of funding available is $500,000. Applicants may apply for up to $50,000 for a project.
Drinking Water Source Protection Program
Deadline: February 28
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As part of DWSP2, up to 30 volunteer communities will work with technical assistance providers to develop and implement a customized drinking water source protection program at no cost to the participating municipalities. DWSP2 is open to all community public drinking water supplies in New York regardless of size or water source. The program is designed to build on previous work, help align priorities, and fill potential gaps in a municipality’s current and future source water protection efforts.
Partners for Places
Deadline: February 28
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Partners for Places aims to enhance local capacity to build equitable and sustainable communities in the United States and Canada. These matching awards support the planning and implementing of urban sustainability and green stormwater infrastructure projects. For the latest round of Partners for Places grants, these matching awards provide partnership investments between $45,000 and $100,000 for one-year projects, or between $75,000 and $150,000 for two-year projects, with one or more local foundations required to provide at least a 50% matching grant.
Hudson Estuary Trees for Tributaries (Tribs)
Deadline: March 1
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Hudson Estuary Trees for Tributaries (Tribs) offers free native trees and shrubs for planting along streams in the Hudson River Valley. Trees planted along streams help protect water quality, fish, and wildlife, and also reduce erosion and flooding. They also provide an opportunity for the public to learn more about native plants and how they can benefit streams and may help to reduce long-term maintenance costs.
Climate Smart Communities Initiative
Deadline: March 3, 2025
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This grants program is focused on assisting communities on the front lines of the climate crisis in the United States, inclusive of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, commonwealths, and territories, as well as the Tribal nations that share this geography. As detailed in the selection criteria below, the community must be facing significant climate-related challenges, based on environmental as well as socioeconomic considerations. If the proposed work is local in scope, the population of the community should be less than 300,000 residents. If the proposed work is regional in scope, areas with up to 500,000 residents will be considered.
DEC Community Reforestation (CoRe) Grant Program
Deadline: March 12
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More than 85% of New York’s population lives in or near an urban community. $15 million is available for municipalities, nonprofits, and State agencies through the Community Reforestation (CoRe) Grant program for tree planting projects that expand, restore and create forested natural areas that serve urban populations. This competitive reimbursement grant program contributes to New York State’s goal to plant 25 million trees by 2033, which will mitigate climate change impacts like extreme heat.
DOC NOAA Coastal Habitat Restoration and Resilience Grants for Tribes and Underserved Communities
Deadline: May 12
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The principal objective of this funding opportunity is to support opportunities for tribes, and/or tribal entities, and underserved communities to meaningfully engage in coastal habitat restoration activities. NOAA anticipates up to $20 million will be available under this opportunity, of which up to 15% will specifically be available as direct awards and subawards to Indian tribes (as defined in 25 U.S.C. Section 5304 (e)) and Native American organizations that represent Indian tribes through formal legal agreements (e.g. tribal commissions, tribal consortia, tribal conservation districts, and tribal cooperatives). The remaining funding will be available to all eligible applicants. Funding will prioritize capacity building, meaningful engagement, and restoration project activities that enhance resilience of tribes, tribal entities, and underserved communities and have the greatest potential to lead to habitat restoration in coastal, estuarine, marine, and Great Lakes areas.
Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
Deadline: Rolling through May 30, 2025
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The Clean Water State Revolving Fund provides New York State eligible applicants financial assistance for planning, design, and construction of eligible projects. Eligible projects include projects for publicly owned treatment works, stormwater/non-point source projects, construction, repair, or replacement of decentralized wastewater treatment systems that treat municipal wastewater or domestic sewage, or emerging contaminates. Financial assistance is provided by short and long-term financing, interest-free or low interests loans. A project must be on the IUP Annual List in order to receive funding in FFY 2026.
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)
Deadline: Rolling through May 30, 2025
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The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund provides New York State eligible applicants financial assistance for eligible projects. Eligible projects include investments to upgrade or replace infrastructure address noncompliance with federal or state health standards, prevent future violations of such standards, and provide the public with safe drinking water. Financial assistance is in the form of short and long-term financings. Interest-free financing and grants may be available to qualifying communities that demonstrate financial hardship.
Septic System Replacement Fund
Deadline: Rolling; county dependent
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This program provides funds to counties to help homeowners replace cesspools and septic systems that are adversely impacting designated water bodies. Participating counties provide grants to reimburse property owners for up to 50% (maximum $10,000) of the cost for their septic system project. Eligible projects include replacement of a cesspool with a septic system, installation, replacement, or upgrade of a septic system, or installation of enhanced treatment technologies. Please contact your county local program contact for more information and eligibility determination. Participating counties: Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester.
Source Water Buffer Program
Deadline: Rolling
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Approximately $5M was made available by the Clean Water Infrastructure Act in 2017 to support the purchase of conservation easements and the implementation of buffer systems to protect the water quality of NYS’s aquifers, watersheds, reservoirs, lakes, rivers, and streams. Easements purchased under this grant can be for active crop production land, riparian land, pastureland, and/or agricultural woodlots. This land must be adjacent to land or water bodies contributing directly to a surface water source. Projects must also include the establishment of a vegetated buffer system to protect the drinking water source.
Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Program
Deadline: Rolling
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EPA announced $6.5B in New Funding Available for Water Infrastructure Projects and released notices of funding availability for the agency’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Program and the State Infrastructure Financing Authority WIFIA (SWIFIA) Program. Letters of interest will be accepted on a rolling basis until all funds are expended.
FY 2023 Disaster Supplemental Grant Program
Deadline: Rolling
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Through this Disaster Supplemental Program, EDA will award investments in regions experiencing severe economic distress or other economic harm resulting from Hurricanes Ian and Fiona, and of wildfires, flooding, and other natural disasters occurring in calendar years 2021 and 2022. The entire Mid-Hudson region meets the area eligibility requirement from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in 2021. Under this competitive grant, projects must incorporate principles related to EDA’s Investment Priority #2, Recovery & Resilience, which builds economic resilience to and long-term recovery from various future disruptions to the greatest extent possible, including extreme weather events and the impacts of climate change. Eligible projects can apply and expect up to an 80/20 investment rate for cost sharing.
Fordham University’s Flourishing in Community initiative
Deadline: Rolling
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The FIC Grantmaker is here to bridge this gap, by offering funding, technical support, capacity development, programs, and research opportunities to projects led by community organizations, nonprofits, and other entities championing environmental justice initiatives in Region 2: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and eight federally recognized Indian Nations. This initiative aligns deeply with Executive Orders (EO 14008 and EO 13985) from the Biden Administration and is funded and supported by the EPA.
Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program
Deadline: Rolling
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The EPA’s Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program aims to make it easier for small, community-based organizations—particularly those with low capacity or resources—and other eligible subrecipients to access federal environmental justice funding for projects that identify, document, address, and respond to conditions related to environmental and/or climate injustice. It is hosted by Fordham University and will offer $40 million in grants to environmental justice projects, programs, and initiatives in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation’s Land Capital Grants Program
Deadline: Rolling
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The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation and Land Trust Alliance share a collective goal of increasing the pace and scale of land conservation. To advance this goal, they will work together to offer a land capital grants program that will provide PCLB grants to allow land trusts to complete projects in PCLB’s geographic focus area. The program is intended to prioritize lands that exhibit biodiversity, connectivity, climate resilience, water quality and human benefits. Grants for acquisition of land and conservation easements and related transaction costs are available to qualifying land trusts that need matching funds to close on active projects. Priority will be assigned to projects that bring about protection of the following: Biodiverse lands and critical habitats, Interconnected open space, Lands that exhibit climate resilience, High-quality water resources, Public access opportunities.
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