Best Scott County Grants for Nonprofits in Virginia

About PLTW Computer SciencePLTW Computer Science students are technology trailblazers who are empowered through transportable skills and prepared to start their career, whether that is in computer science or not.

Lockheed Martin has committed funds to support PLTW grants to schools interested in adding PLTW.Since 2007, Lockheed Martin has partnered with PLTW to address the nation's critical need for future engineers, computer scientists, and math- and science-trained professionals, and to equip all students with the knowledge and skills they need to thrive. Lockheed Martin supports PLTW programs in school districts across the nation and has contributed to the development of PLTW's middle school and high school courses focused on aerospace engineering and flight. Since the first school district partnership in 2014, over 855 PLTW programs have been implemented and more than 145,328 students have gained access to PLTW.Program Requirements:

• Grantee must offer at least one PLTW Computer Science course in the 2027-2028 academic year.
• Grantee may implement any PLTW Computer Science course of their choosing

Grant Award and Distribution Schedule:

• Total Award: $10,000
  • 2027-2028: $10,000

Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development

The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) partners with state, federal, local and nonprofit housing and community and economic development initiatives. DHCD programs strive to maintain the vibrancy of communities throughout the Commonwealth and include providing universal broadband access, investing in economic development initiatives, promulgating the statewide building and fire regulations, preserving the affordability and efficiency of Virginia’s homes and buildings, addressing homelessness, reducing eviction rates across the state and fostering innovative solutions to create affordable housing. DHCD invests over $350 million annually in addition to $2 billion in federal recovery programs as a partner to Virginia communities to create safe, affordable and prosperous communities to live, work and do business in Virginia.

Virginia Individual Development Accounts (VIDA) Program

The Virginia Individual Development Accounts (VIDA) program helps qualified individuals save for a down payment on a home. Eligible participants receive training, support and match funding on their savings. The current match rate is $10 for every $1 the participant saves, earning up to $10,000 in match to be used towards down payment and closings.

Individuals interested in saving should contact a VIDA intermediary listed. VIDA intermediaries determine eligibility and work with enrolled savers to prepare them to achieve their homeownership goals. Enrollment in the program will depend on eligibility, readiness, availability of funding, and having an intermediary located within your locality.

If you are interested in the VIDA program:

• Review the income eligibility criteria under the Income Guidelines document
• Review the VIDA Flyer for additional eligibility criteria
• If you meet the preliminary eligibility, please use the List of Intermediaries to find a location near you

Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity

Small businesses are the backbone of Virginia’s economy, and the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (SBSD) exists to help them thrive.

Whether you are starting a new business, looking for funding, pursuing government contracts, growing your customer base, or navigating the next stage of expansion, SBSD connects Virginia businesses with the tools, guidance, resources, and opportunities needed to move forward with confidence.

Our mission is simple: help small businesses overcome barriers, create economic opportunity, and strengthen communities across the Commonwealth.

Small Business Investment Grant (SBIG)

The Small Business Investment Grant Fund (SBIG), as directed by the Code of Virginia §2.2-1616, incentivizes Investors to inject capital into Virginia’s small businesses by offering them an opportunity to receive a cash return on their investment of up to $50,000.

The Virginia Small Business Financing Authority (VSBFA), under the auspices of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity, administers the SBIG program. The VSBFA certifies the eligibility of the investor, the small business, and the investment, to award the grant. Grants are awarded to on a first come first serve basis, until funds are exhausted.

All eligibility conditions must be met to qualify for an award

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture encourages, protects and promotes agriculture and related industries throughout the commonwealth while providing consumer protection through inspection services that impact the health and financial security of Pennsylvania's citizens.

Wine Marketing & Research Program

Introduction

The Pennsylvania Wine Marketing and Research Program Board (Board) annually, or more frequently as the availability of the fund permits, solicits applications for grants to conduct promotion, marketing and research projects to increase the quality, profitability, production and sale of wines, enhance the wine industry and benefit wine producers of this Commonwealth.

Research includes, but is not limited to:

• Characterization of Accentuated Cut Edges (ACE)
• Impacts of Spotted Lanternfly
• Impact of Under-trellis Groundcover
• Marketing Education and Professional Development for the PA Wine Industry
• Pennsylvania Wine Land Statewide Marketing & Promotions
• Spotted Wing Drosophila in Pennsylvania
• Grapevine Leafroll Viruses
• Tannin Extraction

Virginia Department of Forestry

The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) was established in 1914 to prevent and suppress forest fires and reforest bare lands. More than 100 years later, we still fight wildfires and plant trees, but the agency has grown and evolved to meet the needs of Virginians and the forestry community.

The agency’s mission is to protect and develop healthy, sustainable forest resources for Virginians.

Pine Bark Beetle Prevention Programs

The southern pine beetle is a destructive native insect that threatens pine forests. Good forest management practices like thinning can help reduce losses from this insect. There are currently three cost-share programs available through the Pine Bark Beetle Prevention Cost-Share Program (including the Longleaf Pine Restoration Program). All programs exist to offer incentives to landowners and loggers for specific forest management projects aimed at improving the health of managed pine stands in Virginia.

Longleaf Pine Restoration Program

Longleaf pine is an outstanding species in Virginia and is somewhat resistant to attack from southern pine beetle. This program is open to Virginia landowners who have a site appropriate for successful longleaf pine establishment, growth and survival with proper management.

Virginia Department of Forestry

The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) was established in 1914 to prevent and suppress forest fires and reforest bare lands. More than 100 years later, we still fight wildfires and plant trees, but the agency has grown and evolved to meet the needs of Virginians and the forestry community.

The agency’s mission is to protect and develop healthy, sustainable forest resources for Virginians.

Hardwood Initiative Cost-Share Program

The Hardwood Initiative Cost-Share Program provides Virginia forest landowners with financial assistance to conduct hardwood management practices recommended by a forestry professional. Carrying out the practices will improve the forest resource for the landowner and the Commonwealth.

What Qualifies

Cost share is available starting at 5 acres of forestland up to a maximum of 100 acres per tract, per year, and up to 100 acres per landowner, per year. Cost-share is 90% of the total project cost, not to exceed the per acre rate for each practice (see table). Invasive plant control may be cost-shared on as little as 1 acre, although the tract must contain at least 5 acres of forest. This cost share cannot be combined with another cost share to complete the same practice on the same acre. Practices must be completed by May 31 so they can be verified and payments processed before the end of Virginia’s fiscal year June 30.

Virginia Department of Forestry

The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) was established in 1914 to prevent and suppress forest fires and reforest bare lands. More than 100 years later, we still fight wildfires and plant trees, but the agency has grown and evolved to meet the needs of Virginians and the forestry community.

The agency’s mission is to protect and develop healthy, sustainable forest resources for Virginians.

Emerald Ash Borer Treatment Cost-Share Program

Treating ash trees for this destructive non-native insect increases the chance of preserving genetic material of ash trees throughout the state. The Emerald Ash Borer Treatment Cost-Share Program can help landowners and organizations offset up to 70% of costs for treatment of ash trees through stem injections with emamectin benzoate insecticide. Payment may not exceed $10.50 per inch diameter at breast height or $2,000 in cost-share payments to landowners or $10,000 in cost-share payments per organization.

Virginia Department of Forestry

The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) was established in 1914 to prevent and suppress forest fires and reforest bare lands. More than 100 years later, we still fight wildfires and plant trees, but the agency has grown and evolved to meet the needs of Virginians and the forestry community.

The agency’s mission is to protect and develop healthy, sustainable forest resources for Virginians.

Logger Best Management Practice (BMP) Cost-Share Program

The Importance of Best Management Practices (BMPs)

The implementation of forestry best management practices (BMPs) during timber harvests is essential to protect water quality in Virginia. BMPs keep sediment movement on site to a minimum with the ultimate goal of keeping sediment associated with the timber harvest from moving to a watercourse. 

Cost-Share Program

This program focuses cost-share funding provided by the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Water Quality Improvement Fund to the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF)to assist in those areas of a timber harvest that can potentially deliver sediment to a stream. The Logger BMP Cost-Share Program helps cover the cost of implementing best management practices on stream crossings, including labor, equipment, and material costs on timber harvests in Virginia.

Program funding is available on a first-come-first-serve basis. The program runs from July 1 to June 30 each year.

The cost-share will provide up to 75% of the actual cost, not to exceed $8,000, for BMP implementation at the stream crossing and, if the crossing requires the purchase of a portable bridge, the maximum increases to $16,000. A logger can have two projects per program year, only one of which can be a bridge purchase; total cost-share not to exceed $24,000 per program year per tax identification entity.

Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Established in 1877, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) promotes the economic growth and development of Virginia agriculture, provides consumer protection and encourages environmental stewardship. The agency is headquartered in Richmond and has several field offices, four regional diagnostic animal health laboratories and a global network of representatives promoting Virginia products internationally.

VDACS is organized into five units, one of which is the Office of Agriculture and Forestry Development (OAFD). OAFD provides economic development assistance to businesses involved in food, forestry or agriculture. The office administers the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) grant program.

AFID Facility Grant

The AFID Fund allows the Governor to make discretionary, matching grants to localities and other political subdivisions through grants to support economic development related to agriculture and forestry across the Commonwealth. 

An AFID facility grant is awarded to a political subdivision for the benefit of the company, with the expectation that the grant is critical to the success of the new or expanding facility. In order to qualify for an AFID Facility grant, the benefiting project should:

• be a facility that produces "value-added agricultural or forestal products," meaning any agricultural or forestal product that (i) has undergone a change in physical state; (ii) was produced in a manner that enhances the value of the agricultural commodity or product; (iii) is physically segregated in a manner that results in the enhancement of the value of the agricultural or forestal product; (iv) is a source of renewable energy; or (v) is aggregated and marketed as a locally produced agricultural or forestal product.
• demonstrate that a minimum of 30% of the agricultural or forestal products to which the facility is adding value will be grown or produced within the Commonwealth of Virginia on an annual basis in normal years. 

Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Established in 1877, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) promotes the economic growth and development of Virginia agriculture, provides consumer protection and encourages environmental stewardship. The agency is headquartered in Richmond and has several field offices, four regional diagnostic animal health laboratories and a global network of representatives promoting Virginia products internationally.

VDACS is organized into five units, one of which is the Office of Agriculture and Forestry Development (OAFD). OAFD provides economic development assistance to businesses involved in food, forestry or agriculture. The office administers the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) grant program.

AFID Planning Grant Program

The AFID Fund allows the Governor to make discretionary, matching grants to localities and other political subdivisions through grants to support economic development related to agriculture and forestry across the Commonwealth. 

The Governor’s AFID Planning Grant Program is designed to encourage local governments to think strategically about how they can better support and integrate agriculture and forestry-based industries into their overall economic development and job-creation efforts. The AFID Planning Grant Program can also support innovative efforts by localities to assist their agriculture and forestry-based businesses and encourage the participation of local farm and forestland owners in these efforts. Maximum grant amounts are:

• Single locality applicant - An individual applicant may apply for up to $20,000 per grant application.
• Multi-locality applicant - Applications made on behalf of more than one locality may apply for up to $35,000 per grant. 

Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Established in 1877, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) promotes the economic growth and development of Virginia agriculture, provides consumer protection and encourages environmental stewardship. The agency is headquartered in Richmond and has several field offices, four regional diagnostic animal health laboratories and a global network of representatives promoting Virginia products internationally.

VDACS is organized into five units, one of which is the Office of Agriculture and Forestry Development (OAFD). OAFD provides economic development assistance to businesses involved in food, forestry or agriculture. The office administers the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) grant program.

AFID Infrastructure Grant Program

The AFID Fund allows the Governor to make discretionary, matching grants to localities and other political subdivisions through grants to support economic development related to agriculture and forestry across the Commonwealth. 

Projects receiving funding through the AFID Infrastructure Program must be infrastructure development projects that directly support local food production and sustainable agriculture/forestry and demonstrate a broad community benefit. Grant funds should be used primarily for capital expenditures. Priority Project Types Consideration will be given to the following project types:

• Processing facilities that are primarily locally owned, including commercial kitchens, packaging and labeling facilities, animal slaughtering facilities, or other facilities, and that are primarily utilized for the processing of meats, dairy products, produce, or other products
• Farmers markets
• Food hubs and other agricultural aggregation facilities