The Rural Utilities Service is announcing the acceptance of applications under the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Grant Program for 2024.
Donor Name: Rural Utilities Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/02/2024
Size of the Grant: $4,000,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Agency encourages applicants to consider projects that will advance the following key priorities:
- Assisting rural communities recover economically through more and better market opportunities and through improved infrastructure;
- Ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to Rural Development (RD) programs and benefits from RD funded projects; and
- Reducing climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through economic support to rural communities.
The purpose of SWM Grant Program is designed to assist communities by awarding grant funding to qualified organizations that provide technical assistance and training. The SWM Grant Program funds can be used to help reduce or eliminate the pollution of water resources and improve planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas.
Funding Information
Dependent upon 2024 appropriations. Funding is anticipated to be approximately $4,000,000.
Performance Period
October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025
Eligibility Criteria
- Entities eligible for grants must either be:
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- Private nonprofit organizations with tax exempt status designated by the Internal Revenue Service. A nonprofit organization is defined as any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that:
- Is operated primarily for scientific, education, service, charitable, or similar purposes in the public interest.
- Is not organized primarily for profit.
- Uses its net proceeds to maintain, improve, and/or expand its operations.
- Public bodies.
- Federally acknowledged or State-recognized Native American tribe or group.
- Academic institutions.
- Private nonprofit organizations with tax exempt status designated by the Internal Revenue Service. A nonprofit organization is defined as any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that:
- Entities must be legally established and located within a state
- Organizations must be incorporated by December 31 of the year the application period occurs to be eligible for funds.
- Private businesses, Federal agencies, and individuals are ineligible for these grants.
- Applicants must also have the proven ability; background; experience, as evidenced by the organization’s satisfactory completion of project(s) similar to those proposed; legal authority; and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to associations as provided. To meet the requirement of actual capacity, an applicant must either:
- Have the necessary resources to provide technical assistance and/or training to associations in rural areas through its staff, or
- Be assisted by an affiliate or member organization which has such background and experience and which agrees, in writing, that it will provide the assistance, or
- Contract with a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed assistance.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.