Welcome to SCAG’s grant opportunities page. Here you will find
information on current open and upcoming grant opportunities
offered by various agencies that may be pertinent to your
agency’s workplan. SCAG gathers this information in order to
disseminate it to all interested agencies in the SCAG region.
The basic characteristics of each of the grant opportunities
are listed below each of the grant titles. Links to the grant
program websites are also provided for more detailed
information about each program.
We are also providing an additional link to
the Federal
Transportation Funding: Fiscal Year 2023 Discretionary Grant
Preparation Checklist for Prospective Applicants. This
resource provides useful guidelines designed to assist in
understanding existing requirements for successful grant
application.
THRIVING COMMUNITIES AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
sponsor/source: U.S Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
HUD’s Thriving
Communities Technical Assistance (TCTA) program will help
local governments ensure housing needs are considered as part of
their larger infrastructure investment plans while also
supporting equitable development in disadvantaged communities.
Deadline: Ongoing
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies and
Tribal Government Agencies.
RESILIENT AND EFFICIENT CODES IMPLEMENTATION
SPONSOR/SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy
The
Resilient and Efficient Codes Implemetation program will
invest in American manufacturing and workers; expand access to
energy efficiency and clean energy; deliver reliable, clean, and
affordable power to more Americans; and demonstrate and deploy
the technologies of tomorrow through clean energy demonstrations.
Deadline: March 27, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agenices,
Associations of Builders, Special District Governments, Codes and
Standards Developers.
MULTIBENEFIT LAND REPURPOSING PROGRAM (MLRP)
sponsor/source: Department of Conservation
This
program’s purpose is to increase regional capacity to
repurpose agricultural land to reduce reliance on groundwater
while providing community health, economic wellbeing, water
supply, habitat, and climate benefits.
Deadline: March 29, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Agency Governments,
Non-Profit Organizations and Tribal Governments
ADAPTATION PLANNING GRANT PROGRAM
SPONSOR/SOURCE: GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH
This program provides funding to help fill local, regional,
and tribal planning needs, provides communities the resources to
identify climate resilience priorities, and supports the
development of a pipeline of climate resilient infrastructure
projects across the state.
Deadline: March 31, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Tribal
Governments, Non-Profit Organizations.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM ROUND 7
sponsor/source: Department of Housing and Community
Development
AHSC funds will be used for loans or grants, or a combination
thereof, to projects that will achieve GHG emissions reductions
to benefit communities throughout California, particularly
through increasing accessibility to affordable housing and Key
Destinations via low-carbon transportation, resulting in fewer
vehicle miles traveled through shortened or reduced trip length
or mode shift from single occupancy vehicle use to transit,
bicycling, or walking.
Deadline: April 4, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Public
Housing Authorities, Regional Transportation Planning Agency,
Deevlopers, Tribal Governments.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GOVERNMENT-TO-GOVERNMENT (EJG2G)
PROGRAM
sponsor/source: United States Environmental Protection
Agency
The Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G)
program provides funding at the state, local, territorial,
and tribal level to support government activities that lead
to measurable environmental or public health impacts in
communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms.
Deadline: April 14, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Tribal
Government Agencies, Non Profit Organizations
2023 LOCAL HOUSING TRUST FUND PROGRAM NOTICE OF FUNDING
AVAILABILITY
source/sponsor: Department of Housing and Community
Development
Program Funds awarded under
this NOFA shall be used to provide construction loans and/or
permanent financing loans at simple interest rates of no higher
than three percent per annum, for payment of predevelopment
costs, acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation as well as to
construct, convert, reconstruct, rehabilitate, and/or repair
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) or Junior Accessory Dwelling
Units (JADUs).
Deadline: April 19, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Non
Profit Organizations, Tribal Government Agencies, Local Housing
Trust Funds
CLEAN CALIFORNIA LOCAL GRANT PROGRAM
SOURCE/SPONSOR: CALTRANS
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) developed
the
Clean California Local Grant Program through which funds will
go to local communities to beautify and improve local streets and
roads, tribal lands, parks, pathways, and transit centers to
clean and enhance public spaces.
Deadline: April 28, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies,
Special District Governments, Tribal Governments, Public Housing
Authorities, Non-Profit Organizations, and Private
Organizations.
2023 PORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM GRANTS
SPONSOR/SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation
Funds for
FY 2023 PIDP grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to
assist in funding eligible projects for the purpose of improving
the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods
through ports and intermodal connections to ports.
Deadline: April 28, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Port Authorities, Local
Government Agencies, Tribal Governments, Special District
Governments.
CARL MOYER PROGRAM
Sponsor/Source: SOUTH COAST aqmd
The
Carl Moyer Program has played a significant role in
incentivizing equipment owners to purchase cleaner-than-required
engines vehicles and equipment.
Deadline: May 9, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Any owner of an eligible
heavy-duty on-road or off-road project, public or private, that
results in cost-effective NOx, PM and/or ROG emission reductions.
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND (LWCF)
sponsor/source: CA Department of Parks and Recreation
Land and Water
Conservation Fund (LWCF) grants provide funding for the
acquisition or development of land to create new outdoor
recreation opportunities for the health and wellness of
Californians.
Deadline: June 1, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Tribal
Governments, Special District Governments.
TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
sponsor/source: California Strategic Growth Council
The TCC
Program furthers the purposes of AB 32 and AB 2722 by funding
projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the
development and implementation of neighborhood-level
transformative climate community plans that include multiple
coordinated GHG emissions reduction projects that provide local
economic, environmental, and health benefits to disadvantaged
communities.
Deadline: Aug. 1, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Non
Profit Organizations, Tribal Government Agencies
SMALL COMMUNITY DROUGHT RELIEF PROGRAM
Sponsor/Source: DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
The
Small Community Drought Relief Program is to provide
immediate and near-term financial and technical support to help
small communities survive this and future droughts.
Deadline: Dec. 29, 2023
Status: Open
Eligible: Non-Profit Organizations and
Tribal Governments
LOCAL AGENCY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Sponsor/Source: CA Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
The Local Agency Technical Assistance (LATA) grant
program is available for eligible pre construction work
facilitating broadband network projects to areas in need.
Deadline: $50 million to be awarded by
December 2024.
Status: Open
Eligible: Local Government Agencies and
Tribal Governments
UPCOMING
SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL (SS4A) GRANT PROGRAM
Sponsor/Source: U.S. Dept. of Transportation
The SS4A
program funds regional, local, and Tribal initiatives through
grants to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries.
Deadline: TBD
Status: Upcoming
Eligible: Local Government Agencies and
Tribal Government Agencies.
LOCAL TRANSPORTATION CLIMATE ADAPTATION PROGRAM (LTCAP)
Sponsor/Source: California Transportation Commission
The primary objective of
this program is to provide competitive grants to local
agencies for the development and implementation of capital
projects adapting local transportation infrastructure to climate
changes.
Deadline: TBD
Status: Upcoming
Eligible: TBD
INTEGRATED CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCY PROGRAM’S REGIONAL
RESILIENCE PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GRANT PROGRAM
Sponsor/Source: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
The
RRGP will help address local, regional, and tribal climate
resilience needs and build a pipeline of climate resilient
planning and implementation projects at the regional scale.
Deadline: TBD
Status: Upcoming
Eligible: Local Government Agencies,
Regional Transportation Agencies, Tribal Government Agencies, Non
Profit Organizations.
RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES: HIGHWAYS TO BOULEVARDS
SPONSOR/SOURCE: caltrans
This
program will fund the planning for and fund the conversion of
key underutilized highways in the State into multi-modal
corridors to reconnect communities divided by transportation
infrastructure.
Deadline: TBD
Status: Upcoming
Eligible: TBD
CALIFORNIA ADVANCED SERVICES FUND: RURAL AND URBAN REGIONAL
BROADBAND CONSORTIA ACCOUNT
SPONSOR/SOURCE: CA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
The California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) Rural and Urban
Regional Broadband Consortia Account (Consortia Grant
Account) funds grants are available to facilitate the
deployment of broadband services by assisting CASF infrastructure
grant applicants in the project development or grant application
process or assisting broadband deployment projects related to
programs created under Senate Bill (SB) 156 and Assembly Bill
(AB) 164.
Deadline: Upcoming
Status: Upcoming
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Public
Safety Agencies, Schools, Non-profit organizations, Libraries,
and Higher Education Institutions.
CHARGING AND FUELING INFRASTRUCTURE
SPONSOR/SOURCE: u.s. department of transportation
Program funds will be made available each fiscal year for
Community Grants, to install electric vehicle charging and
alternative fuel in locations on public roads, schools, parks,
and in publicly accessible parking facilities.
Deadline: TBD
Status: Upcoming
Eligible: TBD
CLOSED
WILDFIRE PREVENTION GRANTS PROGRAM
sponsor/source: Cal fire
The
Wildfire Prevention Grants Program funds three types of
activities: hazardous fuels reduction, Wildfire prevention
planning, and Wildfire prevention education. Please see the
corresponding FY 2022-23 Wildfire Prevention Grants Procedural
Guide located on the Wildfire Prevention Grants webpage.
Deadline: March 15, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Non
Profit Organizations, Tribal Government Agencies
PRO HOUSING INCENTIVE PILOT
SPONSOR/source: Department of Housing and Community
Development
The
PIP Program complements the Prohousing Designation Program
and is designed to encourage cities and counties to obtain a
Prohousing Designation.
Deadline: March 15, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies
AREAS OF PERSISTENT POVERTY PROGRAM
SPONSOR/SOURCE: Federal Transit Administration
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the
opportunity to apply for the
Areas of Persistent Poverty Program. Funds will be awarded
competitively for planning, engineering, or the development of
technical or financing plans for project to assist Areas of
Persistent Poverty or Historically Disadvantaged
Communities.
Deadline: March 10, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Recipients and subrecipients
under 49 U.S.C. 5307, 5310, and 5311 located in areas of
persistent poverty or historically disadvantaged
communities.
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING GRANTS
Sponsor/Source: Caltrans
Sustainable Transportation Planning Grants funds local
and regional multimodal transportation and land use planning
projects, transportation planning studies partnering with
Caltrans, and multimodal planning studies partnering with
Caltrans that further the region’s RTP SCS (where applicable),
contribute to the State’s GHG reduction targets, and assist in
achieving the Caltrans Mission and Grant Program Objectives.
Deadline: March 9, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: MPO’s, RTPA’s, Transit Agencies,
Local Government Agencies, Tribal Governments and Other Public
Transportation Entities
AB 617 COMMUNITY AIR GRANT PROGRAM
sponsor/source: CA Air Resource Board
The
Air Grants Program aim is to provide support for
community-based organizations to participate in the AB 617
process, and to build capacity to become active partners with
government to identify, evaluate, and ultimately reduce air
pollution and exposure to harmful emissions in their communities.
The total funding available for this round is $10 million.
Deadline: March 3, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Non-Profit Organizations and
Tribal Governments
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY BREAKTHROUGH CHALLENGE
sponsor/source: ENTERPRISE
The
Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge aims to meet the
nation’s affordable housing challenges across Native, rural,
suburban, Tribal and urban communities.
Deadline: March 3, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Non Profit Organizations, Housing
Authorities, Tribally Designated Housing Entities, Tribal Housing
Authorities.
URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY PROGRAM
sponsor/source: Cal fire
The purpose of CAL FIRE’s
Urban and Community Forestry Grant Program is to help create
a sustainable urban forest and increase the long-term benefits
trees provide, improve the public’s understanding and
appreciation of urban trees, and advance urban forest management
and tree care.
Deadline: March 3, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies,
Special District Governments, Non-Profit Organizations.
FOREST HEALTH PROGRAM
SPONSOR/SOURCE: cal fire
The Forest Health
Program addresses the risk to California’s forests from
extreme disturbance events including catastrophic wildfires,
drought, and pest mortality.
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies,
Academic Institutions, Tribal Government Agencies, Non Profit
Organizations, Private Organizations
REBUILDING AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE WITH SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUITY
(RAISE)
SPONSOR/SOURCE: U.S. Department of TRANSPORTATION
The Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and
Equity, or
RAISE Discretionary Grant program, provides a unique
opportunity for the DOT to invest in road, rail, transit and port
projects that promise to achieve national objectives.
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: States, Local Government
Agencies, Special District Governments, Tribal Governments, and
Port Authorities.
BUILDINGS UPGRADE PRIZE
SPONSOR/SOURCE: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy
The
Buildings Upgrade Prize (Buildings UP) is offering more than
$22 million in cash prizes and technical assistance to teams
across America with winning ideas to accelerate widespread,
equitable energy efficiency and building electrification
upgrades.
Deadline: Feb. 18, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Tribal
Government Agencies, Non Profit Organizations.
CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND COMMUNITY ACCESS GRANT
sponsor/source: Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy
The Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy is pleased to announce
the launch of its Climate
Resiliency & Community Access Grant Program. They are
accepting proposals for projects that best fulfill the objectives
and criteria of the Program and the relevant portions of the
Conservancy’s 2020-2025 Strategic Plan.
Deadline: Feb. 11, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies,
Special District Governments and Non Profit Organizations
TRANSIT AND INTERCITY RAIL CAPITAL PROGRAM
Sponsor/Source: CALIFORNIA STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
This program provides grants from the Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Fund (GGRF) to fund transformative capital improvements
that will modernize California’s intercity, commuter, and urban
rail systems, and bus and ferry transit systems, to significantly
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, vehicle miles traveled, and
congestion.
Deadline: Feb. 10, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Public Agencies that operate
transit service, Urban Rail Transit Service, and Bus or Ferry
TransitService.
BLOOMBERG INITIATIVE FOR CYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE (BICI)
Sponsor/Source: bloomberg cities network
The Bloomberg
Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI) is a competitive
grant program that will foster catalytic change in city cycling
infrastructure around the world.
Deadline: Feb. 3, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Cities with popuations of 100,000
or more.
LIGHT-DUTY VEHICLE AND MULTI-USE HYDROGEN REFUELING
INFRASTRUCTURE
Sponsor/Source: CA ENERGY COMMISSION
The California Energy Commission’s (CEC’s)
Clean Transportation Program announces the availability of up
to $27 million in grant funds for projects that will provide
publicly available hydrogen refueling stations to enable
continued growth of the California fuel cell electric vehicle
(FCEV) market.
Deadline: Feb. 3, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Tribal
Governments, Non-Profit Organizations, and Private
Organizations.
OTS GRANTS
SPONSOR/SOURCE: Ca Office of Traffic Safety
The goal of the annual
program is to prevent serious injury and death resulting from
motor vehicle crashes so that all roadway users arrive at their
destination safely.
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies
INFILL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM
SPONSOR/SOURCE: DEPARTMET OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The objective of the
IIG Program is to promote infill housing development by
providing financial assistance for Capital Improvement Projects
that are an integral part of, or necessary to facilitate the
development of affordable and mixed income housing.
Concept Proposal Deadline: Dec. 29, 2022
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies and
Public Housing Authorities
URBAN COMMUNITY DROUGHT RELIEF FUNDING
SOURCE/SPONSOR: CA Department of Water Resources
This
grant is intended to provide water to communities that face
the loss or contamination of their water supplies, to address
immediate impacts on human health and safety, to secure the
future of California’s water supply, and to protect fish and
wildlife resources.
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies,
Special District Governments, Public Utilities, Higher Education
Institutions, Non-Profit Organiztions and Tribal Governments.
ASSESSING THE ROLE OF HYDROGEN IN CALIFORNIA’S DECARBONIZING
ELECTRIC SYSTEM
SOURCE/SPONSOR: CA Energy commission
The purpose is
to fund an assessment of the potential role of hydrogen
production from renewable electricity and end-use conversion
technologies for electric sector applications in California’s
decarbonizing electric system.
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Tribal
Governments, Non-Profit Organizations, and Private
Organizations.
TRIBAL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM SAFETY FUND (TTPSF)
Sponsor/Source: FeDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
Transportation fatalities and injuries severely impact the
quality of life in Indian country. Each year under the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), as enacted by the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), 4% of
the available TTP funds are set aside to address transportation
safety issues identified by federally recognized Indian tribes
through a competitive, discretionary program.
Projects are chosen whose outcomes will reduce fatal and
serious injuries in transportation related incidents, such as
motor vehicle crashes.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Tribal Governments.
PORT AND FREIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM
SPONSOR/SOURCE: CALIFORNIA STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
The program
seeks to improve the capacity, safety, efficiency and resilience
of goods movement to, from and through California’s maritime
ports, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions and harmful
impacts to communities adjacent to the corridors and facilities
used for goods movement.
Deadline: Jan. 13, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Governments Agencies,
MPO’s, RTPA’s, Ports, and Joint Powers.
FY 2022 CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS IMPLEMENTATION GRANT PROGRAM
SPONSOR/SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
The purpose of
this program is to support locally-driven strategies that
address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or
HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to
neighborhood transformation.
Deadline: Jan. 11, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Public
Housing Authorities and Indian Housing Authorities.
AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY OUTREACH GRANT PROGRAM
SPONSOR/SOURCE: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
The
ACP Outreach Grant Program provides new federal funding for
the FCC to grant eligible governmental and non-governmental
entities with the funding and resources needed to increase
awareness of and participation in the ACP among those households
most in need of affordable connectivity.
Deadline: Jan. 9, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies,
Nonprofits, Tribal Governments, and Special Districts.
COMPETITIVE GRANTS FOR RAIL VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
SPONSOR/SOURCE: FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
The purpose of
the Rail Program is to modernize America’s transit system,
focusing on maintaining a State of Good Repair for fixed-guideway
rail transit. Eligible projects are the replacement of rail
rolling stock.
Deadline: Jan. 5, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies and
States that receive fixed guideway or high intensity motorbus
systems in revenue for at least seven years.
CALIFORNIA ADVANCED SERVICES FUND: BROADBAND ADOPTION ACCOUNT
SPONSOR/SOURCE: CA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
The
California Advanced Services Fund Broadband Adoption Account
provides grants that will increase publicly available or
after-school broadband access and digital inclusion, such as
grants for digital literacy training programs and public
education to communities with limited broadband adoption.
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Local Government Agencies, Senior
Agencies, Schools, Public Libraries, and Non-Profit
Organizations.
CALIFORNIA ADVANCED SERVICES FUND: BROADBAND PUBLIC HOUSING
ACCOUNT
SPONSOR/SOURCE: CA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
The basis of the
California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) Broadband Public Housing
Account is to provide grants and loans to finance projects to
build broadband networks offering free broadband service for
residents of low-income communities.
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2023
Status: Closed
Eligible: Public Housing Agency or
Nonprofit orrganizations.
