Page 29 - Demo

29 | Page December 2 0 I ssueFederal Funding OpportunitiesDept of Interior Fire Engine Funding The U.S. Department of Interior has announced funding for a pilot program to provide local governments with populations of 50,000 or less with financial assistance to acquire slip-on tanker units to establish fleets of vehicles that can be quickly converted to be operated as fire engines.Eligible applicants are: Independent school districts; State governments; City or township governments; Special district governments and County governments. Click HERE to learn more. USDA Accepting Rural Business Development Grants U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development recently announced that the Department is accepting applications for the Rural Business Development Grant program to support business opportunities and business enterprise projects in rural communities. Organizations eligible to receive funding include rural towns, communities, state agencies, authorities, nonprofits, federally recognized Tribes, public colleges and non-profit cooperatives. Funds may be used to establish business support centers or to finance job training and leadership development in rural areas. They may also be used to purchase or develop land; repair or modernize buildings; finance feasibility studies or business plans; or purchase equipment to lease to small or emerging businesses. Applications must be submitted to nearest USDA Rural Development office by 4:30 p.m. local time on Feb. 28, 2025.U.S. Forest Service Wildfire Defense GrantThe purpose of the Community Wildfire Defense Grant is to assist at-risk local communities and Indian Tribes with planning and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire. The CWDG helps communities in the wildland urban interface (WUI) implement the three goals of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy. There are two primary project types for which the grant provides funding: The development and revision of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP); The implementation of projects described in a CWPP that is less than 10 years old. Click HERE to learn more. USDA Fire Capacity Wildfire Hazard Mitigation GrantThe Community Wildfire Defense Grant program prioritizes at-risk communities that are in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard potential, are low-income, and/or have been impacted by a severe disaster, declared, designated or recognized by a government authority as having caused damage, loss or destruction to an extent and scale that an unusual or abnormal increase in wildfire risk or hazard potential to a community has occurred. The program also helps communities in the wildland urban interface meet the three goals of the%u202fNational Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy to maintain resilient landscapes, create fire-adapted communities, and improve wildfire response. Applicants are strongly encouraged to develop proposals in consultation with state or Forest Service regional cooperative fire contacts listed in the Notices of Funding Opportunity. Click HERE to learn more. National Archives Projects and Collaboration FundingThe National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks Archives Collaboratives of three or more repositories working together to make their collections more readily available for public