FY 2016 Five Star Restoration Training Grant

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants to manage the Five Star Restoration Training Grant. Specifically, EPA is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants to: 1) prepare and advertise to a wide variety of potential subaward applicants a Request for Proposals (RFP), establish review criteria for evaluating and selecting subawardee proposals, and make subawards to support environmental training through voluntary, community/watershed-based wetland restoration projects that provide ecological and socioeconomic benefits to the surrounding communities and their citizens; 2) oversee and monitor subawardees for successful completion of the restoration training projects; 3) provide technical support to subawardees through peer-to-peer outreach to broaden participation in restoration training projects; 4) qualitatively and quantitatively measure and report on the environmental results of the restoration training projects accomplished through the subawards; and 5) develop a strategy to promote and grow the Five Star Restoration Training Grant program over the life of the cooperative agreement. The competitive subaward process proposed by the applicant must be on a national scale by allowing for subaward proposals for restoration training projects from across the 50 United States, Tribal Lands, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories.

Learn more HERE: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=280204

2016 Environmental Justice Small Grants

Applications accepted through January 22, 2016. Grant recipients announced in June 2016.

A minimum $1 million in grant funds is available for the 2016 grant cycle. The maximum amount of a grant provided is $50,000. Public Resources Code Section 71116(i). The grant term will be 12 months.

- See more at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EnvJustice/Funding/#sthash.7ohXkl7k.dpuf