[Calclg-l] Passing along potential grant opportunities

[Nelson, Marie]

Home Depot Foundation Invites Applications for Awards of

         Excellence for Affordable Housing Built Responsibly

 

 Deadline: March 31, 2008 (Letters of Inquiry)

 

 Now in its fourth year, the Home Depot Foundation's  (
http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/ ) Awards of Excellence  for
Affordable Housing Built Responsibly program seeks to identify,
recognize, and showcase the outstanding and innovative  work of
nonprofit housing development corporations engaged in  green
building/healthy home construction and rehabilitation. 

 The awards program is designed to share with local, state, and national
stakeholders the exemplary accomplishments of the non-profit sector in
combining affordable housing construction with the guiding principles of
green home building so that low- and  moderate-income families have
access to quality housing they can  afford to own, operate, and
maintain.

 

 Projects eligible for award consideration must have been developed by a
501(c)(3) organization and completed and placed in  service between
January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2007. Homeownership projects must
contain at least five units that were sold to families earning 80
percent or less of the area median income.  Rental projects must contain
at least twenty units, with at least 80 percent of the units occupied by
families earning 80 percent or less of area median income. Group home
and transitional housing projects are not eligible for award
consideration.

 

 There are two award categories, homeownership and rental. Within each
category, five grants will be awarded: $75,000 to the winning project,
$25,000 to the second most competitive project, and three Honorable
Mention grants of $2,500 each.

 

 For complete application guidelines, see the Home Depot Foundation Web
site.

 

 RFP Link: 

 http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10011607/homedepotfound

 

 

U.S. Green Building Council Commits Additional $1 Million to

         Fund Green Building Research

 

 Deadline: March 6, 2008 (Pre-proposal Submissions)

 

 The U.S. Green Building Council ( http://www.usgbc.org/ ), a  nonprofit
membership organization whose vision is a sustainable  built environment
within a generation, has doubled its funding  commitment for green
building research grants to be awarded in 2008 to a total of $2 million.
Of the additional $1 million in grants, $500,000 has been allocated for
K-12 school facility research related to occupant impacts.

 

 The Green Building Research Fund was created to spur research that will
advance sustainable building practices and encourage market
transformation.

 

 Matching funds from other sources are encouraged in order to maximize
the potential of USGBC's contribution toward filling critical research
gaps. The research will result in knowledge, policies, technologies, and
tools that have an immediate and positive impact on sustainable building
development, design, construction, and operation.

 

 A portfolio of projects will be selected. Several grants will be
awarded in two general ranges: $50,000 to $150,000, and  $150,000 to
$250,000 (total one-time, non-renewable grant distributed throughout the
project timeline). A quarter ($500,000) of the $2 million total is
reserved for K-12 school research relating to occupant impacts.

 

 Academic, nonprofit, and other research institutions are the primary
recipient audience for the grants. For-profit entities are permitted to
apply but are strongly encouraged to partner with academic or nonprofit
institutions and must clearly  describe public versus private benefits.

 

 Grant pre-proposals will be accepted from February 12 through March 6,
2008. Selected applicants will be asked to submit comprehensive
proposals for the final phase of the selection process.

 

 Visit the Green Building Council Web site for the Request for Proposals
and application procedures.

 

 RFP Link: 

 http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10011608/usgbc