The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has made considerable amounts of funding available to businesses and individuals working on green and renewable energy projects.
But just how much of the $787 billion recovery package is dedicated to grants? And where can green entrepreneurs and small business owners find and apply for these federal stimulus funds?
Here are some key details on locating grant money for green projects and applying for funding.
According to one official website, $275 billion of total federal stimulus funding is designated for contracts, grants and loans.
To date, the government has awarded around $137 billion to businesses, organizations, education institutions and entrepreneurs focused on developing green collar jobs or conducting clean energy technology research.
One of the most valuable resources for finding and applying to federal stimulus grants is through the government grants website. This online directory features information on the government’s “26 grant-making agencies,” including those increasingly associated with the country’s green workforce, including: the Environmental Protection Agency (awards millions in environmental education and environmental justice grants); the Department of Labor (recently sponsored a nationwide four-grant competition for renewable energy projects); the Department of Agriculture (funded 69 initiatives to clean and improve the country’s water supply and ecosystems); the Department of Energy (provides renewable energy incentives across the country through its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy).
2 comments:
im trying to get the GREEN grant info and the grant about getting computers for non profits but your links come up with errors. any way of getting that info?
also- thank you for creating such a informative blog with a concentration of info. :)
Thank you for commenting on my blog.
If you click on a link and it take you to my nonclient page, it simply means that you are not a client and I will not be able to provide you with more specific information because you are not a client.
However this doesn't mean that the information is not accessible, you just have to be able to go online and find the information yourself.
Good luck to you.
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