Opportunity Title:
EmPower Massachusetts Grants
Funder/Agency:
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
Description:
EmPower Massachusetts offers multiple stages of investment in communities and community-based organizations so that they can explore, develop, and implement program models or projects that provide access to the benefits of clean energy for previously underserved populations. This MassCEC program crowd-sources new and innovative ideas, then helps put them into action. EmPower offers funding to meet the following goals:
Build organizational capacity & explore innovative solutions ($5,000 to $50,000 grants)
Implement solutions ($50,000 to $300,000 grants)
This opportunity includes two types of grants:
Innovation and Capacity-Building Grants are "seed" funding for the exploration of innovative ideas for potential program models or projects, including the opportunity to build community or organizational capacity.
Implementation Grants provide funding to implement community-based programs or projects that increase the access to the benefits of clean energy to and/or reduce energy burden on previously underserved population priority groups.
Eligibility:
Community-based organizations (CBOs), non-profits, and individuals
Federally Recognized and State-Acknowledged Tribes
Municipalities (including those with municipal electric departments/companies)*
Clean energy installers/implementers*
Financial institutions*
*All applicants that do not have a history of working with Priority Groups must apply with at least one partner that does
Deadline:
Rolling through April 3, 2024, with three priority deadlines:October 18, 2023, January 18, 2024, and April 3, 2024
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