Funding Opportunities for Sustainability at Appalachian State

Funding Opportunities for Sustainability

The following funding opportunities are available to support sustainability research and scholarly activity. Sign into Pivot, Appalachian State's subscription funding database, to see additional details about any of the opportunities listed here, or contact grs@appstate.edu for more information.

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Sustainability

15 OpportunitiesDeadlineAmount
Research Grants
Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF)
01 Dec 2023
$500,000USD
The sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are being managed. The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to…
 Limited  Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP)
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
07 Dec 2023
$225,000USD
The purpose of FASLP (Assistance Listing 10.522) is to increase knowledge of agriculture and improve the nutritional health of children. The primary goals of FASLP are to:
1. Increase capacity for food, garden, and nutrition education within host organizations or entities and school cafeterias and…
Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program
United States Forest Service (USFS)
15 Dec 2023
$1,000,000USD
The Forest Service solicits proposals for projects that will achieve the following:
  1. Expand thermally led community wood energy or innovative wood product opportunities;
  2. Improve Forest health; and
  3. Stimulate local economies.
Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Grant Program
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
31 Jan 2024
$50,000USD
The Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration grant program seeks to develop community capacity to sustain local natural resources for future generations by providing modest financial assistance to diverse local partnerships focused on improving water quality, watersheds and the species and habitats…
Seeding Solutions Grants
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
08 Mar 2024
$1,000,000USD
Seeding Solutions encourages the development of unique partnerships that support innovative and transformative research focused on one of our Challenge Areas or AgMission.
To be considered, applications must address and provide solutions to an intractable problem and/or accelerate innovation within…
Acres for America
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
03 May 2024
see record
Acres for America is the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's (NFWF) premier land conservation program and was established to provide urgently needed funding for projects that conserve important large-scale habitats for fish, wildlife, and plants through voluntary land acquisitions and perpetual…
Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability, and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities)
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
01 Aug 2024
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Microbes and communities of microbes have remarkable genetic, physiological and biochemical diversity, allowing them to flourish in environments all over the planet and in a variety of substrates and hosts. Given their relative importance to ecosystems around the world, to the economy and to…
Farmers Advocating for Organic Grant
Farmers Advocating for Organic (FAFO)
01 Aug 2024
$50,000USD
Farmers Advocating for Organic is a grant program funded entirely by annual, voluntary contributions from Organic Valley farmers. It's the largest farmer-funded grant program in the U.S. and one of the few focused solely on organic.
The fund provides a way for Organic Valley farmers to address the…
Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing (DESC)
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
13 Sep 2024
$2,000,000USD
The goal of the Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing (DESC) program is to address the substantial environmental impacts that computing has through its entire lifecycle from design and manufacturing, through deployment into operation, and finally into reuse, recycling, and disposal.…
Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
17 Sep 2024
see record
This solicitation will support projects that tackle these grand challenges using a convergent research model that seamlessly integrates fundamental knowledge and expertise from the fields of chemical process, transport, and biological science and engineering with that of the sustainability and…
Environmental Education and Stewardship Grants
Dominion Foundation
30 Sep 2024
$50,000USD
The Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation considers grant requests that focus on specific, short-term projects that promise measurable results to improve the environment. The projects should support one or more of the following priorities:
- Educating K-12 students and the public about environmental…
FY2021 to FY2024 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
30 Sep 2024
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As an agency with responsibilities for maintaining and improving the viability of marine and coastal ecosystems, for delivering valuable weather, climate, and water information and services, for understanding the science and consequences of climate change, and for supporting the global commerce and…
Conservation Grants
SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Conservation Fund
Unspecified
$25,000USD
The Fund's mission is to work with purpose and passion on behalf of wildlife and habitats worldwide, encouraging sustainable solutions through support of species research, animal rescue and rehabilitation and conservation education.
The Fund has 4 major areas of focus: species research, habitat…
Environmental Sustainability
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Continuous
see record
The Environmental Sustainability program is part of the Environmental Engineering and Sustainability cluster together with 1) the Environmental Engineering program and 2) the Nanoscale Interactions program. The goal of the Environmental Sustainability program is to promote sustainable engineered…
Rapid Ocean Conservation (ROC) Grants Program (ROC Small Grants)
Waitt Foundation
Continuous
$20,000USD
ROC Grants provide small grants with a quick turnaround time for solutions to emerging conservation issues. This complements the Waitt Foundation's existing major grants program and is responsive to conservation opportunities, supports higher-risk ideas at a low financial cost, and engages with…

Published: Nov 7, 2023 4:06pm

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