
Brownfield Funding
Funds help supercharge the community’s ability to assess and clean up brownfield properties.
Funds help supercharge the community’s ability to assess and clean up brownfield properties.
These grants are provided on a bi-yearly basis (every other year). For more information click here.
Rural Development Business Programs Funding is available for projects intended to help improve the quality of life in rural communities by enhancing economic opportunities and ensuring self-sustainability for generations to come. There are programs available for renewable energy, food supply chain, biodiesel, and various agriculture-related projects. For a listing of these programs, click here
Rural Innovation Stronger Economy Grant Program The Rural Innovation Stronger Economy (RISE) Grant Program offers grant assistance to create and augment high-wage jobs, accelerate the formation of new businesses, support industry clusters and maximize the use of local productive assets in eligible low-income rural areas. For more information click here
Rural Business Development Grants This program is designed to provide technical assistance and training for small rural businesses. Small means that the business has fewer than 50 new workers and less than $1 million in gross revenue. For more information click here
Business Industry Loan Guarantee This program bolsters the availability of private credit by guaranteeing loans for rural businesses.
Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area and does not include private, commercial or business undertakings. For more information click here
Community Facilities Technical Assistance and Training Grant The Technical Assistance and/or training will assist communities, Indian Tribes, and Nonprofit Corporations to identify and plan for community facility needs that exist in their area. Once those needs have been identified, the Grantee can assist in identifying public and private resources to finance those identified community facility needs. For more information click here
Rural Community Development Initiative Grants (RCDI) RCDI grants are awarded to help non-profit housing and community development organizations, low-income rural communities and federally recognized tribes support housing, community facilities and community and economic development projects in rural areas. For more information click here
Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program This program provides loan guarantees up to $250 million to assist in the development, construction, and retrofitting of new and emerging technologies. These technologies are: advanced biofuels, renewable chemicals and biobased products. For more information click here
Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans & Grants The program provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. For more information click here
Multifamily Housing Programs Multifamily Housing assists rural property owners through loans, loan guarantees, and grants that enable owners to develop and rehabilitate properties for low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals and families as well as domestic farm laborers. For a listing of these programs, click here
Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants This program helps eligible communities prepare, or recover from, an emergency (chemical spill, pathogens, flooding, etc.) that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water. For more information click here
NJEDA Brownfields Impact Fund - The Brownfields Impact Fund is a pilot program that will provide $800,000 in funding for loans to private developers, and loans and/or grants to public sector and non-profit entities to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites, assisting with the return of these vacant and underutilized properties to public benefit. Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Brownfields Impact Fund has been posted on the NJEDA website. The link to the online application for the Brownfields Impact Fund is available on the NJEDA webpage: https://www.njeda.com/brownfieldsimpactfund/
NJEDA Brownfields Planning and Assessment Services - Free Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, Preliminary Assessments, Site Investigations and/or Remedial Investigations provided through NJEDA-selected contractor, funded through the USEPA. For more information click here
NEW! NJ Asset Activation Planning Grant - This program will award grants of up to $50,000 to public, private, or non-profit entities, for early-stage planning and analysis that will demonstrate viability of projects that activate under-utilized public assets that benefit their communities and the regional economy. For more information click here
NEW! - NJEDA Brownfields Redevelopment Incentive Program - This program for the private sector offers 50-60% tax credits on remediation costs for redevelopment projects, up to $8 million. For more information click here.
For more information - https://www.njib.gov/njeit
This resource is a comprehensive list of all federal funding available for brownfield projects (most recent available)
2021 Brownfields Federal Programs GuideSuccessful brownfields revitalization doesn’t just happen. It’s planned for.
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