February 24, 2025

Grant Watch: Week of 2/24/25

The Grant Plant routinely reviews funder websites and notices and is pleased to share some upcoming opportunities with you.

Preservation Technology and Training Cooperative Agreements

  • Deadline: March 4, 2025
  • Purpose: To support innovative cultural resource projects that develop better tools, materials, and approaches for conserving buildings, landscapes, and cultural resources.
  • Award Size: Up to $50,000
  • Eligibility: Open to Federal, State, local, and tribal governments, Native Hawaiian organizations, educational institutions, and other public entities.
  • Link: Preservation Technology and Training Cooperative Agreements

NSF Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Fast-Track Pilot Programs

  • Deadline: March 5, 2025
  • Purpose: To support startups and small businesses in commercializing technological innovations derived from NSF-funded research.
  • Award Size: $400,000-$1,555,000
  • Eligibility: For-Profit Business
  • Link: NSF Programs

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services: American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services

  • Deadline: March 6, 2025
  • Purpose: Provides grants to Indian Tribes to deliver culturally appropriate vocational rehabilitation services to American Indians with disabilities, helping them prepare for and engage in high-quality employment.
  • Award Size: Up to $750,000
  • Eligibility: Indian Tribes located on Federal and State reservations, and Tribal organizations with a mission that includes vocational rehabilitation of American Indians with disabilities.
  • Link: OSERS: AIVRS

Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program

  • Deadline: March 6, 2025
  • Purpose: To provide financial assistance for the development and improvement of distance learning and telemedicine services in rural areas.
  • Award Size: $50,000-$1,000,000
  • Eligibility: Nonprofit, Government Entity, Indigenous Group, For-Profit Business, College / University, School District.
  • Link: DLT Program

Aim High Grants

  • Deadline: March 7, 2025
  • Purpose: To support afterschool, summer, or expanded learning programs that help middle school students transition successfully to high school, particularly by reducing school absences and chronic absenteeism.
  • Award Size: Fifteen two-year grants of $100,000 each; fifteen one-year general operating grants of $20,000 each.
  • Eligibility: 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
  • Link: Aim High Grants

High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Nuclear Fuel Supply Chain Innovative Technology

  • Deadline: March 12, 2025
  • Purpose: To solicit applications addressing technological advancements across the front-end nuclear fuel cycle, aiming to develop a safe, sustainable, and efficient supply chain of enriched uranium.
  • Award Size: Up to $40,000,000
  • Eligibility: Private institutions of higher education, state governments, small businesses, nonprofit organizations, county, city or township governments, Native American tribal governments, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations.
  • Link: HALEU Nuclear Fuel Supply Chain Innovative Technology 

NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program

  • Deadline: March 14, 2025
  • Purpose: To stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting federal research and development needs, and increase the commercialization of innovations derived from federal research and development funding.
  • Award Size: $690,000
  • Eligibility: Small businesses as defined by the Small Business Administration.
  • Link: SBIR Program

Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation Grants

  • Deadline: March 15, 2025
  • Purpose: To improve the quality of life in communities associated with Henry Mayo Newhall by supporting programs in academic and cultural enrichment for youth, agriculture, animal welfare, conservation, college scholarships, historical preservation, and outreach for the disadvantaged.
  • Award Size: $5,000 to $20,000 per year
  • Eligibility: Nonprofit institutions
  • Link: Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation Grants

Language Legacies Grant Program

  • Deadline: March 15, 2025
  • Purpose: To support language documentation and revitalization efforts worldwide, aiming to preserve endangered languages and contribute valuable linguistic data to the scientific community.
  • Award Size: $2,000 annually
  • Eligibility: Open to community members and researchers from any country.
  • Link: Language Legacies Grant Program

Japanese Teaching Material Purchase Grant

  • Deadline: March 15, 2025
  • Purpose: To assist educational institutions in the U.S. in purchasing teaching materials for Japanese-language courses, including textbooks, audio-visual materials, cultural decor, dictionaries, digital learning software, and teachers’ reference books.
  • Award Size: Up to $1,000 per institution
  • Eligibility: Non-profit educational institutions/organizations in the U.S. that teach Japanese as a world language, Japanese heritage language schools, and Saturday schools with a Japanese as a Heritage Language program.
  • Link: Japanese Teaching Material Purchase Grant

Aligning Manufacturability & Pre-production Design for Storage Technologies

  • Deadline: March 17, 2025
  • Purpose: To improve the manufacturability of energy storage technologies through pre-production design innovations, facilitating manufacturing scale-up to meet the energy storage needs of American consumers.
  • Award Size: Up to $2,000,000
  • Eligibility: Unrestricted; open to all entities.
  • Link: AMPD for Storage Technologies

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Program: Employment Development

  • Deadline: March 18, 2025
  • Purpose: To fund research and development projects that promote employment opportunities and outcomes for individuals with disabilities, advancing the field of disability and rehabilitation research.
  • Award Size: Up to $500,000
  • Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, public and private institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations, small businesses, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, Native American tribal organizations, nonprofits, and faith-based/community organizations.
  • Link: DRRP Program: Employment Development

National Book Fund

  • Deadline: March 17, 2025
  • Purpose: To provide adult literacy and basic education programs with high-quality print instructional materials from New Readers Press, supporting initiatives such as basic literacy, adult education, English language instruction, high school equivalency preparation, and citizenship test preparation.
  • Award Size: $250-$2,000
  • Eligibility: Organizations that have not received a National Book Fund grant in the last two years.
  • Link: National Book Fund

Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program, Incarcerated Veterans’ Transition Program, and the Homeless Women Veterans’ and Homeless Veterans’ with Children Reintegration Grant Program (referred to collectively as HVRP)

  • Deadline: March 17, 2025
  • Purpose: To provide employment and training services to homeless veterans, incarcerated veterans transitioning back into the community, and homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children to facilitate their reintegration into the workforce.
  • Award Size: $150,000-$500,000
  • Eligibility: State governments, special district governments, Nonprofits, Native American tribal governments/organizations, small businesses, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, City or township governments, Institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations, County governments.
  • Link: HVRP

Circles of Care for American Indian/Alaska Natives

  • Deadline: March 17, 2025
  • Purpose: To support American Indian/Alaska Native communities in developing and implementing comprehensive, community-based systems of care to improve the mental health and well-being of AI/AN children and youth experiencing or at risk of mental health challenges.
  • Award Size: $350,000
  • Eligibility: Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and tribal organizations; Urban Indian Organizations; or consortia of tribes or tribal organizations; and Tribal colleges and universities.
  • Link: Circles of Care for American Indian/Alaska Natives

Statewide Family Network

  • Deadline: March 17, 2025
  • Purpose: To supporting family-focused initiatives related to mental health and/or substance use disorders.
  • Award Size: $120,000
  • Eligibility: Domestic public and private nonprofit entities.
  • Link: Statewide Family Network

Please be advised that The Grant Plant endeavors to provide accurate and up-to-date information; however, applicants are strongly encouraged to verify the currency and accuracy of all details by consulting the funder’s official website directly.


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