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Asian Development Bank

Supports clean energy investments in ADB developing member countries through grants for project preparation, capacity building, and policy reform.

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Provides grants for project preparation and technical assistance to support infrastructure development across Asia. Focus on connectivity, sustainable cities, and clean energy.

European Commission - LIFE2027

Alleviating household energy poverty in Europe. Call: LIFE Clean Energy Transition. Programme: LIFE2027. Open call from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

Autodesk Foundation

Donated Autodesk design and engineering software for nonprofits (budget under $10M) advancing clean energy, resilient communities, and the environment.

Barr Foundation

Funds clean energy transition and climate resilience in New England.

Barr Foundation

Advances climate solutions in New England through clean energy, transportation, and climate resilience. Supports policy, innovation, and implementation.

Bezos Earth Fund

Part of a $10B commitment to fight climate change and protect nature. Funds clean energy, conservation, food systems transformation, and climate justice.

BINGHAMTON REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

This project will help residents understand how the energy systems in their homes work, provide guidance to navigate energy improvement programs, advocate for themselves with the utility, and provide an understanding of clean energy career opportunities.

BINGHAMTON REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

Binghamton Community Power Phase II: Empowering Residents of Environmental Justice Neighborhoods with Knowledge about their Home�s Energy Systems and Tools to Advocate With Officials and Utilities. This project will help residents understand how the energy systems in their homes work, provide guidance to navigate energy improvement programs, advocate for themselves with the utility, and provide an understanding of clean energy career opportunities.

BINGHAMTON REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

This project will help residents understand how the energy systems in their homes work, provide guidance to navigate energy improvement programs, advocate for themselves with the utility, and provide an understanding of clean energy career opportunities.

BINGHAMTON REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

Binghamton Community Power Phase II: Empowering Residents of Environmental Justice Neighborhoods with Knowledge about their Home�s Energy Systems and Tools to Advocate With Officials and Utilities. This project will help residents understand how the energy systems in their homes work, provide guidance to navigate energy improvement programs, advocate for themselves with the utility, and provide an understanding of clean energy career opportunities.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Supports coal phase-out, clean energy adoption, ocean conservation, and sustainable cities. Major funder of Beyond Carbon and the Sierra Club.

European Commission - LIFE2027

BUILD UP Skills - National Platforms on energy efficiency skills for the clean energy transition. Call: LIFE Clean Energy Transition. Programme: LIFE2027. Open call from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

California Energy Commission

The Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program funds research, development, and demonstration of clean energy technologies to benefit electricity ratepayers and advance California's energy goals.

2100 Project

Our nonprofit is partnering with two student clubs at the Foster School of Business to organize a UW-wide case competition that will help promote clean buildings. Commercial buildings in Seattle will have to make major energy upgrades in the coming years to comply with new legislation. There is a major gap in outreach and communications, particularly for underserved property owners. We are challenging students from all backgrounds to come up with market ready innovations related to clean buildings outreach and communications. This project will be completed by July 29, 2022.

NYSERDA

Provides funding to eligible clean energy businesses, organizations, and local municipalities hiring interns to perform meaningful work in the clean energy sector.

NYSERDA

Provides funding for creation and/or expand the capacity of direct entry pre-apprenticeship and registered apprenticeship programs as a pathway to high-quality, family supporting jobs.

NYSERDA

Provides funding for employers to train workers for good-paying jobs created across the state in the clean energy economy, and NYSERDA has prioritized these workforce training investments to serve historically Disadvantaged Communities and Priority Populations including individuals that are low income, veterans, disabled, formerly incarcerated, and residents of environmental justice communities.

NYSERDA

Provides funding for professional development training and mentoring for 15-month, full-time fellowships, to work within entitiesthat advance climate justice and/or clean energy priorities in the New York City boroughs of the Bronx and Queens.

Colorado New Energy Improvement District

The New Energy Improvement District provides PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing to Colorado commercial and residential property owners for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and water conservation improvements.

U.S. National Science Foundation

TheCombustion and Fire Systemsprogram is part of the Transport Phenomena cluster, which also includes 1) theFluid Dynamicsprogram; 2) theParticulate and Multiphase Processesprogram; and 3) theThermal Transport Processesprogram. The goal of theCombustion and Fire Systemsprogram is to<span>create new knowledge to support advances in clean energy, climate change mitigation, a cleaner environment and public safety.</span> The program endeavors to createfundamental scientific knowledge that is needed for safe, clean and useful combustion applications and for mitigating the effects of fire.The program aims to identify and understand the controlling basic principles and to use that knowledge to create predictive capabilities for designing and optimizing practical combustion devices and understanding fire. Important outcomesfor this program include: <ul type="disc"> <li>broad-based tools &mdash; experimental, theoretical, andcomputational &mdash; that can be applied to a variety of problems in combustion technologies and fire;</li> <li>science and technology for clean and efficient generation of power;</li> <li>discoveries that enable clean environments (for example, by reduction in combustion-generated pollutants); and</li> <li>enhanced public safety and climate change mitigation through research on wildland and building fire growth, inhibition, and suppression.</li> </ul> Research areas of interest for this program include: <ul type="disc"> <li>Basic combustion science: Combustion of gas, liquid, and solid fuels over abroad range of temperatures, pressures, and compositions; combustion at supercritical conditions; advanced propulsion concepts; flame synthesis ofmaterials; integration of fuel design and combustion; control of reaction pathways; development of chemical kinetics models, analytical and numerical predictive methods, and advanced diagnostic tools.</li> <li>Combustionscience related to clean energy: Increasing efficiency and reducing pollution; production and use of renewable and/or carbon-free fuels; biomass pyrolysis, gasification, and oxidation; technologies such as oxy-fuel combustion and chemical looping combustion for carbon capture.</li> <li>Fireprevention: Improved understanding of building and wildland fires to prevent their spread, inhibit their growth, and suppress them; prediction and mitigation of fires in the wildland-urban interface.</li> <li>Turbulence-chemistry interactions:Fundamental understanding of turbulent flow interactions with finite-rate chemical kinetic pathways at high Reynolds and Karlovitz number conditions, including but not limited to: (1) fundamental experiments to generate physico-chemical data to reduce theuncertainty of combustion chemistry and turbulent combustion models; (2)spatially/temporally well-resolved, multi-scale/multi-physics computations;novel approaches of developing embedded multi-scale direct numericalsimulation (DNS) of complex geometries and data-assimilations forincorporating measured data from the state-of-art in situ diagnostic approaches; (3) other innovative approaches on development and validation of predictive computational methods. NOTE: This is an NSF-AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) joint funding area. Proposals will be jointly reviewed by NSF and AFOSR using the NSF merit reviewprocess.Actual funding format and agency split for an award(depending on availabilityof funds) will be determined after the proposal selection process. The AFOSR program that participates in this initiative is the program on Energy, Combustion, and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics.</li> </ul> Innovative proposals outside of these specific interest areas may be considered.However, prior to submission, it is recommended that the Principal Investigator contact the program director to avoid the possibility of the proposal being returned without review. <div> <div id="_com_1"> INFORMATION COMMON TO MOST CBET PROGRAMS </div> </div> Proposals should address the novelty and/or<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/about/transformative_research/faq.jsp">potentially transformative nature</a>of the proposed work compared to previous work in the field.Also, it is important to address why the proposed work is important in terms of engineering science, as well as to also project the potential impact on society and/or industry of success in the research.The novelty or potentially transformative nature of the research should be included, as a minimum, in the Project Summary of each proposal. The duration of unsolicited proposal awards in CBET is generally up to three years. Single-investigator award budgets typically include support for one graduate student (or equivalent) and up to one month of PI time per year(awards for multiple investigator projects are typically larger). Proposal budgets that are much larger than typical should be discussed with the program director prior to submission. Proposers can view budget amounts and other information from recent awards made by this program via the &ldquo;What Has Been Funded (Recent Awards Made Through This Program, with Abstracts)&rdquo; link towards the bottom of this page. Faculty Early Career Development(CAREER)program proposals are strongly encouraged.Award duration is five years.The submission deadline for Engineering CAREER proposals is in July every year. Learn more in the<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214">CAREER program description</a>. Proposals for Conferences, Workshops, and Supplements: PIs are strongly encouraged to discuss their requests with the program director before submission of the proposal. Grants forRapid Response Research(RAPID)andEArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research(EAGER)are also considered when appropriate.Please note that proposals of these types must be discussed with the program director before submission.Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)proposals that integrate fundamental research with translational results and are consistent with the application areas of interest to each program are also encouraged. Please note that RAPID, EAGER, and GOALI proposals can be submitted anytime during the year. Details about RAPID, EAGER, and GOALI are available in the Proposal &amp; Award Policies &amp; Procedures Guide (PAPPG), Part 1, Chapter II, Section E: Types of Proposals. Compliance: Proposals that are not compliant with the<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg">Proposal &amp; Award Policies &amp; Procedures Guide (PAPPG)</a>will be returned without review.

U.S. National Science Foundation

The Combustion and Fire Systems program is part of the Transport Phenomena cluster, which also includes 1) the Fluid Dynamics program; 2) the Particulate and Multiphase Processes program; and 3) the Thermal Transport Processes program. The goal of the Combustion and Fire Systems program is to create new knowledge to support advances in clean energy, climate change mitigation, a cleaner environment and public safety. The program endeavors to create fundamental scientific knowledge that is needed for safe, clean and useful combustion applications and for mitigating the effects of fire. The program aims to identify and understand the controlling basic principles and to use that knowledge to create predictive capabilities for designing and optimizing practical combustion devices and understanding fire. Important outcomes for this program include: broad-based tools experimental, theoretical, and computational that can be applied to a variety of problems in combustion technologies and fire; science and technology for clean and efficient generation of power; discoveries that enable clean environments (for example, by reduction in combustion-generated pollutants); and enhanced public safety and climate change mitigation through research on wildland and building fire growth, inhibition, and suppression. Research areas of interest for this program include: Basic combustion science: Combustion of gas, liquid, and solid fuels over a broad range of temperatures, pressures, and compositions; combustion at supercritical conditions; advanced propulsion concepts; flame synthesis of materials; integration of fuel design and combustion; control of reaction pathways; development of chemical kinetics models, analytical and numerical predictive methods, and advanced diagnostic tools. Combustion science related to clean energy: Increasing efficiency and reducing pollution; production and use of renewable and/or carbon-free fuels; biomass pyrolysis, gasification, and oxidation; technologies such as oxy-fuel combustion and chemical looping combustion for carbon capture. Fire prevention: Improved understanding of building and wildland fires to prevent their spread, inhibit their growth, and suppress them; prediction and mitigation of fires in the wildland-urban interface. Turbulence-chemistry interactions: Fundamental understanding of turbulent flow interactions with finite-rate chemical kinetic pathways at high Reynolds and Karlovitz number conditions, including but not limited to: (1) fundamental experiments to generate physico-chemical data to reduce the uncertainty of combustion chemistry and turbulent combustion models; (2) spatially/temporally well-resolved, multi-scale/multi-physics computations; novel approaches of developing embedded multi-scale direct numerical simulation (DNS) of complex geometries and data-assimilations for incorporating measured data from the state-of-art in situ diagnostic approaches; (3) other innovative approaches on development and validation of predictive computational methods. NOTE: This is an NSF-AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) joint funding area. Proposals will be jointly reviewed by NSF and AFOSR using the NSF merit review process. Actual funding format and agency split for an award (depending on availability of funds) will be determined after the proposal selection process. The AFOSR program that participates in this initiative is the program on Energy, Combustion, and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics. Innovative proposals outside of these specific interest areas may be considered. However, prior to submission, it is recommended that the Principal Investigator contact the program director to avoid the possibility of the proposal being returned without review. INFORMATION COMMON TO MOST CBET PROGRAMS Proposals should address the novelty and/or potentially transformative nature of the proposed work compared to previous work in the field. Also, it is important to address why the proposed work is important in terms of engineering science, as well as to also project the potential impact on society and/or industry of success in the research. The novelty or potentially transformative nature of the research should be included, as a minimum, in the Project Summary of each proposal. The duration of unsolicited proposal awards in CBET is generally up to three years. Single-investigator award budgets typically include support for one graduate student (or equivalent) and up to one month of PI time per year (awards for multiple investigator projects are typically larger). Proposal budgets that are much larger than typical should be discussed with the program director prior to submission. Proposers can view budget amounts and other information from recent awards made by this program via the What Has Been Funded (Recent Awards Made Through This Program, with Abstracts) link towards the bottom of this page. Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program proposals are strongly encouraged. Award duration is five years. The submission deadline for Engineering CAREER proposals is in July every year. Learn more in the CAREER program description. Proposals for Conferences, Workshops, and Supplements: PIs are strongly encouraged to discuss their requests with the program director before submission of the proposal. Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) are also considered when appropriate. Please note that proposals of these types must be discussed with the program director before submission. Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) proposals that integrate fundamental research with translational results and are consistent with the application areas of interest to each program are also encouraged. Please note that RAPID, EAGER, and GOALI proposals can be submitted anytime during the year. Details about RAPID, EAGER, and GOALI are available in the Proposal &amp; Award Policies &amp; Procedures Guide (PAPPG), Part 1, Chapter II, Section E: Types of Proposals. Compliance: Proposals that are not compliant with the Proposal &amp; Award Policies &amp; Procedures Guide (PAPPG) will be returned without review.

Consolidated Edison Foundation

Supports clean energy education, STEM programs, and environmental sustainability in the greater New York City area.

Geological Survey

The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Western Fisheries Research Center in partnership with the Grand Canyon Science Center and Wetland and Aquatic Research Center solicits technical assistance from a CESU partner to: a) integrate a novel road network model into an existing invasive quagga and zebra mussel risk assessment model for Washington State; and b) expand that model to establish a standardized risk assessment for golden mussels in California. This new optimization framework will be designed to identify ideal locations for mitigation interventions like watercraft inspection and decontamination (WID) stations and "clean-drain-dry" information campaigns. This work will leverage a collaborative multi-year effort that developed standardized risk assessment models in the Missouri and Columbia river basins (Raymond et al. 2024 and 2026). This risk-based approach is being done as part of a call to action by state and federal resource managers in Washington State and California. USGS staff will provide model development guidance, assist with gathering needed datasets, and will help facilitate relationships with state and federal resource management partners. This work supports the President's Executive Order 14154 Unleashing American Energy (January 20, 2025 and adjoining Interior Secretarial Order 3418 -Unleashing American Energy (February 3, 2025) as well as Executive Order 14156 - Declaring a National Energy Emergency (January 20, 2025) by protecting numerous hydro-electric facilities and ensuring reliable energy is readily accessible. It protects new water delivery infrastructure investments associated with Executive Order 14181 - Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas (January 24, 2025). It also ensures that the "Gold Standard of Science" (Executive Order 14303- Restoring Gold Standard Science (May 23, 2025) is being applied to issues of significant economic, safety, and security importance to the nation.