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The 11th Hour Project

Funds climate and clean energy advocacy, sustainable food, and human rights.

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.

American Clean Power Association

Supports wind energy research, workforce training, and community benefit programs.

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

Supports clean energy research, deployment, and policy to accelerate the global energy transition.

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.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Campaign to close all remaining coal plants and halt new gas plants in the US, supporting clean energy transition.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

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

New York Power Authority (NYPA)

As part of NYPA's funding of its workforce training incentives is the renewable energy field, NYPA is supporting the Bronx Economic Development Corporation. The funds will support a pilot program aimed to equip Bronx-based college students with the exposure and training necessary to take advantage of opportunities in the clean energy industry.

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.

California Infrastructure & Economic Development Bank

Financing and grants for technology infrastructure, clean energy innovation, and economic development projects.

U.S. National Science Foundation

The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions (MSIs) as defined in this solicitation s Eligibility section, through effective integration of education and research. The CREST program, composed of the CREST Centers, the CREST Postdoctoral Research Program, and the projects supported by this CREST-RISE solicitation, promotes the development of new knowledge, enhancements of the research productivity of individual faculty and postdoctoral scholars, and an expanded presence of research doctoral students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, especially those from underrepresented groups. CREST-RISE is the component of the CREST program that supports the expansion of institutional research capacity by increasing the strength of institutional graduate programs and the successful production of research doctoral students, especially those from groups underrepresented in STEM. The CREST-RISE component supports STEM research doctoral programs in all NSF supported areas and encourages proposals in areas of national interest, such as artificial intelligence, data science and analytics; advanced materials, manufacturing, robotics; cybersecurity; plant genetics/agricultural technologies; quantum information sciences; nanotechnology, semiconductors/microelectronics technologies; climate change and clean energy. CREST-RISE projects must have a direct connection to the long-term plans of the host department(s) and the institution s strategic plan and mission. Project plans should emphasize activities designed to increase the production of research doctoral students, especially those underrepresented in STEM as well as expand institutional research capacity. The goals of CREST-RISE are to increase: 1) the number of STEM research doctoral programs at MSIs (as defined in the Eligibility section), 2) the number of STEM research doctoral students graduating from MSIs, especially those from groups underrepresented in STEM, and 3) institutional research capacity to increase doctoral students graduation rates.To achieve these goals, the CREST-RISE program includes three tracks as follows: CREST-RISE STEM Doctoral Programs Support Initiative (CREST-RISE DPSI) CREST-RISE Research Advancement and Development (CREST-RISE RAD) CREST-RISE Equipment & Instrumentation (CREST-RISE E&I)

CIFF

One of the largest climate funders globally at $400M/year, supporting clean energy, deforestation, and climate finance.

Clean Energy States Alliance

Supports state-level clean energy programs and inter-state collaboration.

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.

Government of British Columbia

CleanBC provides grants for clean energy, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, and emission reduction projects in British Columbia.

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.

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.