Announcement of Sustainable Communities Funding Opportunities
July 8, 2010
In support of the HUD/DOT/EPA Sustainable Communities Partnership http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/partnership/index.html, two large grant programs were recently announced. The programs are designed to bring together new partnerships to support sustainable community planning and development.
There may already be contacts in your community (many in Planning, Smart Growth, and Green Building programs) who are planning to apply for this funding. The strongest applications will include cross-program collaborations with multiple partners, so please reach out to others in your community.
Please note: Online application through Grants.gov http://grants.gov/applicants/get_registered.jsp is required and registration to use the system can take several weeks.
HUD’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/nofa10/scrpg.cfm
Open date: June 24, 2010
Close date: August 23, 2010
HUD’s Community Challenge Planning Grants and DOT’s TIGER II Planning Grants
http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/nofa10/huddotnofa.cfm
Open date: June 24, 2010
Close date: July 26, 2010
A note from the Federal Register for the Community Challenge/TIGER II grants:
“The Community Challenge Planning Grant Program differs from HUD’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program, a $100 million program also created in the FY2010 Appropriations Act. While the latter program is designed to support regional planning efforts, the Community Challenge Planning Grant Program focuses on individual jurisdictions and more localized planning.”
NSPE Web Seminars
March 30, 2009
The National Society of Professional Engineers would like to offer NPPR members an opportunity to attend an upcoming web seminar.
To check out one of their web seminars: click on http://www.nspe.org/Education/WebSeminars/online_seminars.html
and register now.
