Weekly Grant Round-Up
The Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Grant Program funds planning and construction projects that strengthen surface transportation systems to be more resilient to natural hazards. This includes climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters. Eligible transportation systems include highways, public transit, ports, and intercity passenger rail infrastructure. Grants are divided into four categories:
Planning grants fund resilience or evacuation planning, developing data tools, and other design elements necessary to create a "Resilience Improvement Plan."
Resilience Improvement grants fortify existing surface transportation assets to withstand natural disasters.
Community Resilience and Evacuation Route grants strengthen a community's evacuation routes, making them more effective during natural disasters.
At-Risk Coastal Infrastructure grants strengthen, stabilize, harden, elevate, relocate, or otherwise enhance the resilience of highway and non-rail infrastructure.
For fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the US DOT awarded $829.6 million in PROTECT grant funds to 80 projects. For fiscal years 2024-2026, they will award up to $876 million to support even more multi-year projects. There is a 20% match required for non-planning grants.
Applications are due February 24th, 2025.
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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) eMobility Grant Program provides funding for electric, shared-use transportation solutions that improve the mobility of residents in low-to-moderate-income communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution. Successful eMobility projects are based on transportation needs identified by the communities they serve, with an emphasis on safety, reliability, convenience, and affordability, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants.
Previous awards include $104,000 to go towards electric shuttles to fill transportation gaps in Woodbridge, as well as $7.5 million for developing an all-electric car share service in the state.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
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The Alfred N. Sanzari Family Foundation Grant Program supports nonprofit organizations in Northern New Jersey. This program prioritizes organizations that focus on patient care and Parkinson's disease, education programs, services that help disadvantaged populations, and programs that help women and children in need.
Awards for this program generally range between $500 to $10,000, and applications are due February 28, 2025.
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