Elevate Vermont – Matching Grant

The Invest DSM Commercial Grant Program provides Des Moines commercial property owners and small businesses with matching grants of up to $50,000 to fund deferred maintenance, repairs, code compliance upgrades, and facade improvements. Administered by Invest DSM, a nonprofit partnership between the City of Des Moines and Polk County focused on revitalizing select Des Moines neighborhoods, the program is available to property owners and business owners (whether they own or lease their space) located within one of Invest DSM's designated Special Investment Districts. The grant operates as a dollar-for-dollar match covering half of project expenses up to $50,000 per retail bay, with an additional matching grant of up to $10,000 available to cover pre-development costs such as architectural drawings, project feasibility studies, environmental studies, and interior or window display design assistance. For external aesthetic improvements like signage, window displays, and facade work, applicants who collaborate with one of Invest DSM's artists on a custom design can receive 70 percent of those costs covered. Eligible uses include facade, signage, and awning updates, roof, window, and door replacement or repair, major systems and code compliance upgrades, public art such as murals, exterior site improvements like patios, concrete work, landscaping, and parking lot repaving, and energy-efficiency upgrades including solar and wind installation. Applicants must be current on all municipal and county dues, fees, and taxes. In addition to grant funds, recipients also receive one-on-one consultation, advice, and technical support from Invest DSM specialists throughout the entire project.

The Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) encourages grant applications aimed at developing, characterizing, or improving research models of human health and diseases; developing biology based new approach methodologies (NAMs) applicable to human health and diseases; or improving access to information about or generated from the use of models of human disease. The models, including NAMs, and related biological materials developed must be broadly applicable to the scientific interests of two or more NIH Institutes or Centers (ICs) and must evaluate diseases and processes that impact multiple organ systems in order to align with the ORIP"s NIH-wide mission and programs. Applications must describe the need for and the potential impact of the proposed resources on the research community across a range of scientific disciplines supported by multiple NIH ICs. Applications to develop models that relate strictly to a specific disease or a select area of research or that do not have a broad impact on the NIH-wide research community will not be accepted. Projects that predominantly address the research interests of one NIH IC but are only peripherally related to the research interests of other ICs will also not be accepted, if submitted in response to this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO).

The objective of the Façade Improvement Grant (FIG) program is to restore, sustain, and improve commercial properties located within the City of Newport News. The FIG program provides matching grant funds, up to a maximum of $20,000, to assist with eligible façade improvements on properties citywide that are used for commercial, industrial, office or mixed-use purposes.

The Miami-Dade County Small Business Grant Program provides funding to small for-profit businesses located within the county to help cover the cost of equipment, supplies, inventory, advertising and marketing, building liability insurance, security systems, and minor renovations. Administered by Miami-Dade County's Office of Management and Budget, the program is structured around the county's 13 commission districts, with each district running its own version of the grant. Core program eligibility is consistent countywide — applicants must operate a for-profit, non-chain business with a physical address in the relevant district, and home-based businesses are welcome to apply — but specific funding amounts, application windows, and additional eligibility criteria vary by district. Applicants should review the guidelines for their specific commission district to confirm program details.

The New Mexico Healthy Food Financing Fund (HFFF) provides grants of $50,000, $100,000, or $150,000 (with a smaller $20,000 grant plus technical assistance available to applicants not selected for a primary award) to food retailers, food processors, food hubs and distributors, cooperatives, farmers, ranchers, Tribal nations, and nonprofit organizations across New Mexico to strengthen the state's food and agricultural supply chain and expand food security for New Mexicans. Administered by the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) through its Food, Hunger, and Agriculture Program, the fund awards competitive grants each fiscal year across five project categories: Food Retail (grocery stores, cooperatives, mobile grocery projects, farmers' markets), Processing and Value-Added Products (staple foods including meat, fruit, vegetables, dairy, and grain), Aggregation, Distribution, and Transportation (food hubs, cold and dry storage), New Mexico Grown Production (farmers, ranchers, cooperatives, nonprofit production, hydroponic and aquaponic operations), and Climate-Smart Pre-Production (regenerative soil inputs such as compost, biochar, or microbial inoculants, innovative water irrigation systems, and solar systems). Eligible applicants include political subdivisions of the state, Indian nations, Tribes, and pueblos, for-profit business enterprises (including corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, public benefit corporations, and social enterprises), cooperatively owned businesses, tax-exempt nonprofit corporations, and small farmers and ranchers with gross cash farm income under $250,000 (production applicants must be NM Grown Approved Suppliers or in the process of obtaining that certification). Priority is given to projects that increase food access for historically under-resourced communities, address workforce development through job creation and retention in the food and agricultural supply chain, strengthen and diversify in-state market channel access for small and mid-scale food and agricultural operations, advance food safe storage, distribution, and transportation in regional food supply chain networks, or support the implementation of regenerative agricultural practices. Eligible costs include predevelopment work (business plans, market analysis, site plans, architectural and engineering designs, feasibility studies), brick-and-mortar facility development (construction, renovations, property improvements), capital needs (equipment, supplies, furnishings, technology), and other costs such as marketing, websites, business process upgrades, and training or certifications, with research and development eligible only for climate-smart pre-production projects. Staffing and payroll costs, real estate transactions and land acquisitions, non-durable goods, charitable food projects such as food banks and food pantries, purely experiential or educational projects, restaurants primarily focused on selling prepared hot foods, and entities seeking to lend or regrant the award funds are not eligible.