2025 AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Funding Priorities
The FY 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Grants competition, AmeriCorps seeks to prioritize the investment of national service resources in:
- Prioritize civic engagement/social cohesion, and youth mental health;
- Education – improving student academic performance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), serving students who attend Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools, Tribal Colleges and Universities and Indigenous Urban Centers, Indigenous Teacher Preparation, and GED support programs, and programming focused on Indigenous or Tribal Data Sovereignty;
- Promote the preservation and teaching of traditional Native languages and cultural practices;
- Promote Environmental Stewardship and climate change including renewable energy and energy efficiency, building community resilience, sustainable food systems and agriculture, water/wastewater; conservation and habitat preservation; Indigenous environmental practices; Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Indigenous food sovereignty (seed saving, foraging, etc.);
- Promote Economic Opportunity - including digital skills and increased access to broadband; infrastructure/transportation assistance; financial readiness; training and access to financial resources for home buying; or college; and college access program;
- Promote Healthy Futures - providing services to historically underserved individuals both on and off reservation lands, including but not limited to people with arrest and/or conviction records, people with disabilities, people who identify as part of the two spirit LGBTQIA+ community, building trauma-informed programs, addressing issues such as Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) programs to raise awareness;
- Focus on improving the quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces, and their families by recruiting veterans, military spouses, and their older children into national service;
Please go to this link for full details: FY 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Grants | AmeriCorps
The deadline for applications to the 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Planning Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Wednesday, April 9, 2025 by 5:00 p.m. ET. AmeriCorps State and National expects that successful applicants will be notified by end of May 2025.
Funding Opportunity: Request for Applications
Climate Ready Tribes 2025
The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) is offering funding for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribes and Tribal organizations to support projects related to Tribal climate health. Designed to build capacity with AI/AN Tribes to identify, assess, and take action to mitigate climate-related health threats, this funding will provide Tribes and/or Tribal organizations with an opportunity to conduct local work related to Tribal climate health.
NIHB will provide funds for up to two sub-award to Tribes and/or Tribal organizations in amounts of up to $16,000 each. The completed application is due by 11:59 PM ET on Friday, January 24, 2025. The project period is expected to run from approximately February 1, 2025 to August 31, 2025.
All completed applications should be sent to aracz@nihb.org and should reference “Climate Ready Tribes” in the subject line. Please reach out if you have any questions. You will find the application linked below.
Strategy to Deliver Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs to Older Adults with Behavioral Health and Chronic Conditions
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2025-ACL-AOA-FPSG-0008
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to develop and implement robust statewide strategy that support the delivery and sustainability of falls prevention evidence-based programs for older adults and adults with disabilities who are at risk of social isolation and falls. The project will be person-centered, trauma informed, and culturally appropriate to meet the needs of the target population. It will require the awardee to develop partnerships and work collaboratively with organizations that serve particular populations. Goals include: Goal 1: On a statewide level, develop capacity (e.g., instructors, partnerships, and referral networks) to increase the number of older adults and adults with disabilities, identified from target population, who participate in group evidence-based falls prevention programs to empower them to reduce falls and/or their risk of falls. Goal 2: Develop and disseminate 508-compliant resources specific to grant learnings to enhance knowledge in the target population and aid in the sustainability of evidence-based falls prevention programs. The Administration on Aging (AoA), part of the Administration for Community Living (ACL), plans to award 4 cooperative agreements with a three-year project period, subject to availability of funds.
Search Results Detail | Grants.gov
Advancing Strategies to Deliver and Sustain Evidence-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs to Support Older Adult Behavioral Health
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2025-ACL-AOA-CSSG-0010
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to develop and implement multi-faceted strategies that support the delivery and sustainability of evidence-based chronic disease self-management education (CDSME) programs for older adults (age 60 and older) and individuals with disabilities with one or more behavioral health conditions and older adults and individuals with disabilities with one or more stressors that are negatively impacting their behavioral health through a statewide initiative. The two primary goals are: Goal 1: Through a statewide initiative, develop capacity (e.g., instructors, partnerships, and referral networks) to increase the number of older adults and adults with disabilities in the target population who participate in evidence-based chronic disease self-management education (CDSME) and support programs. Goal 2: Develop and disseminate 508-compliant resources specific to your grant learnings to enhance knowledge in serving the target population and aid in the sustainability of programs. Successful applicants will also be expected to (a) Increase the number of individuals who participate in evidence-based CDSME programs, while reaching the grant’s target population; (b) Increase partnerships and collaboration between the Aging and Disability Services Network, behavioral health providers, and other key organizations; and (c) Increase the knowledge of the field by developing and disseminating resources and learnings from your grant for other organizations to replicate similar projects in their communities. The Administration on Aging (AoA), part of the Administration for Community Living (ACL), plans to award 5 cooperative agreements with a three-year project period, subject to availability of funds.
Search Results Detail | Grants.gov
BJA FY25 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program
Funding Opportunity Number: O-BJA-2025-172294
This funding opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to support cross-system collaboration between criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, community-based organizations that provide reentry services, and community-based behavioral health providers. The goal is to improve clinical stabilization pretrial, during confinement, and support continuity of care and recovery during the transition to the community through clinical and other evidence-based activities or services for individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders. In addition, this funding seeks to minimize the potential for experiencing crisis and improve recovery outcomes for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders who are currently involved with the criminal or juvenile justice systems or reentering the community from these systems.
https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2025-172294
BEAD grant application open now; state matching funds also available
The Washington State Broadband Office opened the application period on Nov. 12 for $1.2 billion in federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funding intended to bridge the digital divide in Washington by bringing high-speed internet to everyone.
An additional $300 million in state matching funds will be available to local governments and federally recognized tribes.
Eligibility
The BEAD program is open to:
- Units of local government, including but not limited to ports and public utility districts
- Federally recognized tribes
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nonprofit cooperative organizations
- Public private partnership
- Private companies
- Public or private utilities
Application information
- View the Notice of Funding Opportunity document (PDF)
- Go to the ZoomGrants portal to apply
- Information about BEAD funding and more is available on the Commerce Internet For All website.
Funding timeline
The first 60-day round of applications closes in January, and further application rounds may follow. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will review applications in May and June 2025, and the Broadband Office is expected to announce Washington's BEAD projects following NTIA approval sometime next summer.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Upcoming 2025 Funding Opportunities to Support Fathers and Families
The Healthy Marriage (HM), Responsible Fatherhood (RF), and Tribal TANF-Child Welfare (TTCW) Coordination programs provide $150 million per year in discretionary grants (as well as other activities such as contracts and research and evaluation) to strengthen families, promote responsible parenting, and improve family economic stability.
Click here to learn more about these programs.
The Kurt Grinnell Aquaculture Scholarship Foundation (KGASF) is actively soliciting scholarship applications at this time.
To qualify, students or prospective students must be:
- an enrolled Member of a Tribe or First Nation, or a Member of a Metis, Inuit, Alaska or Hawaiian Native group; and
- be enrolled to study at a university, community college or a technical or trade institution.
In addition, students should be pursuing or planning to pursue a degree or certificate focused on:
- aquaculture;
- fisheries;
- natural resource management; or
- a field closely related to the above subjects, and
- must have a demonstrated interest in aquaculture.
More information on the focus or our awards is found here: https://kurtgrinnellscholarship.org/scholarship-eligibility/. Applicants must follow the instructions on the KGASF website where more information is available: https://kurtgrinnellscholarship.org/scholarship-application-2/.
FAFSA Now Available for 2025-26 Applicants
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has announced that the 2025-26 FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is now available. Applications typically open on October 1 for people wanting to start college the next fall. This year the application was delayed as DOE carried out a series of beta tests to mitigate problems experienced during the 2024-25 FAFSA cycle.
In Washington State, there are two ways to apply for financial aid for college or career training. U.S. citizens and eligible non-citizens can apply for federal and state aid with the FAFSA. People who can't file the FAFSA due to immigration status can apply only for state aid with the WASFA (Washington Application for State Financial Aid), as can people from mixed-status families who prefer not to file the federal form. Both FAFSA and WASFA are pathways for Washington State residents to apply for Washington College Grant (WA Grant) and other financial aid.
The 2025-26 WASFA will be available in early December. More information and resources for Washington financial aid applicants will be available at that time.