NOTE: We contact eligible systems to apply for planning grants annually. Interested systems must submit a letter of interest (LOI) for the following fiscal year between October and January. DEQ evaluates, rates, and ranks the LOIs for inclusion on the next annual priority list. The highest-rated projects are invited to submit a planning grant application. Contact your DEQ regional office if interested in applying for a planning grant. Most systems find it in their best interest to have a consulting engineer assist them with completing the Letter of Interest.

Facility Planning Grant

Our planning grant program provides financial assistance to eligible wastewater and drinking water systems. These grant funds are typically used to develop facility plans to identify the most cost-effective, environmentally sound method of upgrading and expanding a system to achieve and maintain compliance with state and federal standards.

The number of grants each year is limited to the available funding and funds committed to the highest-ranked projects. Grants provide funding for up to 50% of eligible planning costs following IDAPA 58.01.22.030.02. Funding is typically subject to a maximum amount. For example, the maximum DEQ match amount for drinking water and wastewater planning grants has historically been $45,000 and $65,000, respectively. The remaining cost is the recipient’s responsibility.

Criteria

Rating criteria focus on potential public health and environmental risks, the extent to which the planning process will address the long-term viability of the system (i.e., sustainability), and the status of the system’s compliance with state and federal regulations.

Battlefield Preservation Fund

Grants from the Battlefield Preservation Fund will serve as a catalyst to stimulate efforts to preserve battlefields, viewsheds, and related historic structures and to leverage fund-raising activities.

Eligible Activities

National Trust Preservation Fund grants are awarded for planning activities and education efforts focused on preservation. Grant funds can be used to launch new initiatives or to provide additional support to on-going efforts.

Planning

Supporting existing staff (nonprofit applicants only) or obtaining professional expertise in areas such as architecture, archaeology, engineering, preservation planning, land-use planning, and law. Eligible planning activities include, but are not limited to:

• Hiring a preservation architect or landscape architect, or funding existing staff with expertise in these areas, to produce a historic structure report or historic landscape master plan.
• Hiring a preservation planner, or funding existing staff with expertise in this area, to produce design guidelines for a historic district.
• Hiring a real estate development consultant, or funding existing staff with expertise in this area, to produce an economic feasibility study for the reuse of a threatened structure.
• Sponsoring a community forum to develop a shared vision for the future of a historic neighborhood.
• Organizational capacity building activities such as hiring fundraising consultants, conducting board training, etc.

Education and Outreach

Support for preservation education activities aimed at the public. The National Trust is particularly interested in programs aimed at reaching new audiences. Funding will be provided to projects that employ innovative techniques and formats aimed at introducing new audiences to the preservation movement, whether that be through education programming or conference sessions.

Guidelines

Grants from National Trust Preservation Funds (NTPF) are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by supporting on-going preservation work and by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for preservation projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector.

A small grant at the right time can go a long way and is often the catalyst that inspires a community to take action on a preservation project. Grants generally start at $2,500 and range up to $5,000. The selection process is very competitive.

Eligible Activities

National Trust Preservation Fund grants are awarded for planning activities and education efforts focused on preservation. Grant funds can be used to launch new initiatives or to provide additional support to on-going efforts.

Planning: Supporting existing staff (nonprofit applicants only) or obtaining professional expertise in areas such as architecture, archaeology, engineering, preservation planning, land-use planning, and law. Eligible planning activities include, but are not limited to:

• Hiring a preservation architect or landscape architect, or funding existing staff with expertise in these areas, to produce a historic structure report or historic landscape master plan.
• Hiring a preservation planner, or funding existing staff with expertise in this area, to produce design guidelines for a historic district.
• Hiring a real estate development consultant, or funding existing staff with expertise in this area, to produce an economic feasibility study for the reuse of a threatened structure.
• Sponsoring a community forum to develop a shared vision for the future of a historic neighborhood.
• Organizational capacity building activities such as hiring fundraising consultants, conducting board training, etc.

Education and Outreach: Support for preservation education activities aimed at the public. The National Trust is particularly interested in programs aimed at reaching new audiences. Funding will be provided to projects that employ innovative techniques and formats aimed at introducing new audiences to the preservation movement, whether that be through education programming or conference sessions.

The Community Foundation of Teton Valley elevates lives through the power of generosity. It achieves that mission, in part, by hosting a Competitive Grant Program to award funds to our nonprofit community in the most strategic and impactful way.

Competitive Grants Program

The Community Foundation supports a wide variety of proposals. Ideas for addressing issues in the arts, environment, social services, education, recreation, animal, and civic arenas are all welcome. Applicants may request funding to support new or existing programs, capital projects, professional development, strategic planning, new or existing projects, pilot projects, equipment purchases, general operations, and capacity building.

What does this program do?

This program is designed to provide technical assistance and training for small rural businesses. Small means that the business has fewer than 50 new workers and less than $1 million in gross revenue.

What is an eligible area?

Rural Business Development Grant money must be used for projects that benefit rural areas or towns outside the urbanized periphery of any city with a population of 50,000 or more. Check eligible areas.

What kind of funding is available?

There is no maximum grant amount; however, smaller requests are given higher priority. There is no cost sharing requirement. There are two types of RBDG projects, Opportunity grants and Enterprise grants.

• Opportunity type grants are limited to up to 10 percent of the total Rural Business Development Grant annual funding.
• Enterprise type grants must be used on projects to benefit small and emerging businesses in rural areas as specified in the grant application.

How may Enterprise type funds be used?

Enterprise grants must be used on projects to benefit small and emerging businesses in rural areas as specified in the grant application. Uses may include:

• Training and technical assistance, such as project planning, business counseling and training, market research, feasibility studies, professional or/technical reports, or producer service improvements.
• Acquisition or development of land, easements, or rights of way; construction, conversion, renovation of buildings; plants, machinery, equipment, access for streets and roads; parking areas and utilities.
• Pollution control and abatement.
• The capitalization of revolving loan funds, including funds that will make loans for start-ups and working capital.
• Rural distance learning for job training and advancement for adult students.
• Rural transportation improvement.
• Community economic development.
• Technology-based economic development.
• Feasibility studies and business plans.
• Leadership and entrepreneur training.
• Rural business incubators.
• Long-term business strategic planning.

How may Opportunity type funds be used?

• Community economic development.
• Technology-based economic development.
• Feasibility studies and business plans.
• Leadership and entrepreneur training.
• Rural business incubators.
• Long-term business strategic planning.

NOTE: All applicants must be invited to apply for a grant from Bayer Fund. Invitation codes can be requested from the Bayer site in your community or through the Contact Us page.

We support high-quality educational programming by schools and nonprofit organizations that enable access to knowledge and information and empower students and teachers in communities around the nation, with a focus on furthering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) education. Priority is given to programs that take place during the school day, but also includes after school and summer programs, technical training programs, and academic programs that enrich or supplement school programs.

The in-school educational programs we support target grades K-12 and under-served students (50%+ students qualify for free/reduced lunch) and take place during the school day. The after school and summer programs we support include those offered by youth development organizations that take place outside of the regular school day and provide students in grades K-12 with opportunities to enhance their skills and interests through exposure to STEM fields.

All funding requests and budgets must be for program activities and expenses that start after funding decisions are made. All programs must be completed within one year of the start date, except in limited situations where longer term programs have been agreed upon. Grant award amounts vary, depending on the size of the community, the type of programming, and the reach/impact of the organization.

Consulting Grants

This quarterly grant opportunity supports consulting services for organizational development or artistic needs of nonprofit organizations, or informal arts groups applying through fiscal agents.

The Commission uses the following criteria to assess most applications:

• Artistic quality
• Management and feasibility

And, where appropriate:

• Educational merit
• A public benefit

Amount

The grant requires a 1:1 match with cash or in-kind donations, and funds up to 50% of projected expenses. Maximum request is $600.

Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Grant

The Foundation will consider requests to support museums, cultural and performing arts programs; schools and hospitals; educational, skills-training and other programs for youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities; environmental and wildlife protection activities; and other community-based organizations and programs.

NOTE: Here are the pages for the Research and Development Grant and the Planning Grant.

About Us

Cambia Health Foundation is the corporate foundation of Cambia Health Solutions, which is dedicated to making the health care experience simpler, better and more affordable for people and families. Founded in 2007, the foundation has funded over $110 million in grants to advance whole-person health models at every stage of life. We make purposeful philanthropic investments in solutions that reduce disparities, eliminate systemic barriers, and result in better health care experiences and outcomes for everyone. 

Health Care Workforce

Strengthening the health care workforce, particularly in behavioral health, is key to advancing whole-person care. The pandemic and other challenges continue to put excessive strain on both paid professionals and unpaid caregivers, which exacerbate gaps in care access. There is an urgent need to address and invest in the behavioral health workforce to close these gaps.

Since its launch in 2022, our Health Care Workforce program has focused on removing barriers that contribute to workforce shortages. We invest in solutions that address the root causes of workforce shortages as well as innovative solutions that expand access, such as training providers in integrated and collaborative care models.

Our Workforce Strategy

Health care studies show people generally have better outcomes and experiences when care is provided by more diverse teams. And yet, data hows that a severe lack of diversity exists in the health care workforce. We are committed to partnering with organizations that prioritize centering racial and other diversity strategies to:

 Expand

Create opportunities to expand workforce capacity through innovative strategies to recruit new providers into the behavioral health workforce.

Support

Implement activities that address the root causes of burnout, vicarious trauma and overall reduced longevity of current health care providers, including career enrichment and advancement opportunities.

Train

Advance whole-person integrated and collaborative care models to provide primary and preventive care through training and development for a wide range of clinical and nonclinical providers.

By expanding, supporting, training and diversifying the health care workforce, we seek long-term and sustainable impact in the following areas:

• Reducing behavioral health provider shortages in our region
• Increasing the number of providers trained and supported in whole-person integrated and collaborative models of care
• Increasing diversity of the health care workforce with a focus on behavioral health care
• Reducing rates of and disparities in health care workforce anxiety, depression, tobacco use, obesity and hypertension
• Reducing rates of and disparities in unpaid caregiver anxiety, depression, tobacco use, obesity and hypertension

Implementation Grant

A grant that seeks to address a documented workforce issue that is ready to scale, replicate proven strategies within the same community context or maintain current services