Environmental Finance
Center - The Center promotes alternative and innovative ways to
manage the cost of environmental activities, provides training and development
opportunities in environmental management, and works to increase the
public and private sector's awareness of the benefits associated with
sound environmental management policies. They have published the following
brochures:
Funding opportunities through Corporations
Funding opportunities through the Federal Government
Funding opportunities through State governments
- Marylandscapes -- grants
for Maryland communities
- Maryland Grant Resource
Center - A service of the Maryland Office of Planning, the
resource center is an extensive data base of financial and technical
assistance resouces that can help local governments address its
needs such as land use planning and natural resource protection.
Funding opportunities through Foundations
- The Foundation Center
- the mission of the Foundation Center is to foster public understanding
of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing and
disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and
related subjects. Its audiences include grantseekers, grantmakers,
researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.
- Environmental Grantmaking
Foundations - An invaluable, comprehensive directory of grant
making foundations -- national, local, large and small -- is available
in print or on CD-ROM from the Resources for Global Sustainability.
Call 1-800-724-1857 or e-mail [email protected]
to order the directory. The publication is broken down by environmental
issues, grant maker location, recipient location and activity region.
Over 400 grant makers have provided funding to recipients in the
Bay watershed.
- The Abell Foundation has provided environmental awards to programs
in Maryland designed to encourage greater public awareness, and
to preserve ecologically significant and endangered habitats. Areas
of special interst include: Conservation; Resource protection; growth
management. Contact Robert C. Embry, Jr,; phone: 410-547-1300; 111
South Calvert St., Ste 2300, Baltimore, MD 21202-6174.
- The Virginia Environmental Endowment has provided environmental
grants to non-profits that include support for urban environment
and environmental justice. Contact information: Gerald P. MacArthy,
Executive Director; phone: 804-644-5000; Three James Center, 1051
East Cary Street, Ste 1400, Richmond, VA 23219.
- The Chesapeake Corporation Foundation has provided grants to educational
institutions and non-profits to support the development of arboreta
and gardens, forests and natural resource management. Contact:J.
P. Causey, Jr., President, phone: 804-697-1000; 1021 East Cary Street,
Richmond, VA 23219.
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- has provided funding to non-profit organizations to reduce emissions
of carbon dioxide and other green house gases, and to halt the destruction
and further degradation of forests and marine ecosystems.
ESRI Grant for Local Governments
ESRI has formed a $2.4 million grant program for local governments in
the United States. Grants will be awarded to agencies to develop an
organizationwide geographic information system. The ESRI Local Government
Start-up Grant Program will provide GIS software and online training
to 100 organizations by February 28, 1999. Eligible agencies include
cities, counties, councils of government (COGs), and metropolitan planning
agencies (MPOs). The purpose of the grant program is to encourage data
sharing among local government jurisdictions and to foster the development
of geographic databases where none exist. The provisions of the grant
call for the development of GIS framework databases that include parcels,
street rights-of-way, and street centerlines. It is ESRI's hope that
these GIS databases become widely available to government agencies in
the spirit of national and state framework and clearinghouse initiatives.
ESRI software provided by the grant include ARC/INFO, ArcView GIS, MapObjects
Internet Map Server, Internet starter applications, and ArcExplorer,
as well as ArcView GIS training via ESRI's Virtual Campus. Get the full
details about the program including how and when to apply by visiting
their web site at
http://www.esri.com/industries/localgov/ or by contacting Christopher
Thomas, State and Local Government Solutions Manager or Steve Trammell,
Cadastral and Real Estate Solutions Manager at 909-793-2853, or at the
address:
Local Government Start-up Grant Program
380 New York Street
Redlands, CA 92373-8100
Transportation Funding
Transportation and Community System Preservation Program (TCSP)
$120 million dollars in funding over the next 5 years is now available
for local governments through the TCSP. The TCSP is part of the recently
passed Federal Tea-21 bill and authorizes funding for three types of
grants: implementation; planning; and research and program grants. (Research
and program grants are not available in the first round). The program
provides grants to investigate and address the relationship between
transportation and community and system preservation. Its purpose is
to improve the efficiency of the transportation system; reduce the impacts
of transportation on the environment; reduce the need for costly future
public infrastructure; provide effecient access to jobs, services, and
centers of trade; and encourage private sector development patterns.
Additional criteria includes a commitment of non-federal resources;
an evaluation of the project which features a description of activities
so results can be disseminated; an equitable distribution among achievements
of populations an geographic regions, and an involvement of non-traditional
partners (e.g. utility operations, community groups, environmental organizations,
non-profit organizations).
State Agencies, metropolitan planning organizations and units of
local governments recognized by a state (cities, towns, transit agencies,
school boards) are eligible to apply. There are no requirements for
a funding match and there is a priority for non-federal resources.
$20 million is available for FY 99' and $25 million annually for fiscal
years 00' through 03'. To appl for a FY 99' grant, prepare a letter
of intent which must be received by a Federal Highway Administration
regional office by November 15, 1998. It should be about 4 pages long
and should include letters of support from parterns in the application.
Letters of intent deadline for FY 00' is in March 99'.
The regional FHWA offices:
In Maryland: The Rotunda, Suite 220, 711 West 40th St., Baltimore,
MD 21211-2187, phone: 410-962-4342.
In Pennsylvania: Forum Place, 555 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, PA
17101-1900, phone: 717-221-3759
In Virginia: Dale Building, Ste. 205, 1504 Santa Rosa Road, Richmond,
VA 23229, phone: 804-281-5111
In DC: Union Center Plaza, 820 First Street, NE., Ste. 750, Washington,
DC 20002, phone: 202-523-0163
For more information, check out the Transportation and Community
System Preservation Program web page at
www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/FEDREG3.htm, contact your regional FHWA
office, or try the following individuals:
Susan B. Petty, Office of Environment and Planning, HEP-20, FHA,
400 Seventh St., SW, Washington, DC 20509, phone: 202-366-6577 - or
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S. Reid Alsop, Office of the Chief Counsel, HCC-31, FHA, 400 Seventh
St., SW, Washington, DC 20509, phone: 202-366-1371.
Ford Foundation Innovation Awards
In 1999, the Ford Foundation will award grants of $100,000 to ten government
programs and grants of $20,000 to an additional ten programs, for a
total of $1.2 million. The program publicizes the award winners widely,
facilitates their repliction, and seeks, by their example, to inspire
innovation at all levels of American government. Funded by the Ford
Foundation, Innovations in American Government Program is administered
by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The Innovation Program has become a significant force in identifying
and promoting excellence and creativity in the public sector. Innovations
Award winners receive national media attention. Government officials
increasingly look to Innovation Program winners for model programs
to replicate.
To request an application or additional information, call 800/722-0074
or visit their homepage at www.ksg.harvard.edu/innovations
Applications must be received by Friday, January 8, 1999.
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