Dear [firstname],

We are excited to share our first monthly grants newsletter as we work to connect in-district county and local governments, community organizations, and various stakeholders with the many federal funding opportunities that exist.

Information on open grants posted within the past month can be found here, with subsections of grants related to arts and culture, children and education, specific communities, criminal justice, education, energy, the environment, fire and disaster management, food and agriculture, government, housing, information technology, infrastructure, pipelines and hazardous materials, public health, science and research, water, the workforce, and miscellaneous grants. The grants are grouped by category, then ordered by deadline.

As part of the President Biden administration's Investing in America Initiative, the Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, and Environmental Protection Agency are beginning to allocate more federal grant money from the American Rescue Plan Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the Inflation Reduction Act to address areas ranging from state and community energy programs to environmental justice, cybersecurity for utilities to environmental cleanup and water investments. These investments are both included in the links above, and more are expected to be announced in the coming future.

The EPA has recently announced its Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (TCTACs) Program, which offers free grant writing and research assistance to organizations applying to grants with an environmental justice tie-in. The EPA recently announced its first 17 nationwide TCTAC locations here, and they expect to announce a regional TCTAC partner located in Denver in the near future for Colorado groups to be able to take advantage of the program. Created specifically based on community feedback about the many barriers to creating competitive grant applications for smaller community organizations and over-burdened local governments, the TCTAC program is meant to help make the grant writing process more accessible to all interested parties.

If you know someone who would like to be added to our monthly grants newsletter, they can sign up for the newsletter here or contact our grants program manager, David Clark, directly at david.clark@mail.house.gov. Please reach out to David with any questions or if you would like our office to keep an eye out for federal funding in specific areas.

Sincerely,