Other Grant Opportunities

National Household Wasted Food Prevention Project

The National Household Wasted Food Prevention Project (NHWFPP)— led by a coalition between World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ad Council, ReFED, United States Composting Council and Institute for Local Self Reliance, is accepting grant applications to fund projects that create behavior change interventions aimed at preventing household wasted food.

The Official RFA can be found at grants.endingwastedfood.org. 

Eligible applicants include nonprofits, tribal and local governments, U.S. territories and states, and higher education institutions.

The NHWFPP will develop, launch, and implement a coordinated, nationwide effort to reduce wasted food in households by 10% per capita nationally and by 20% per capita in communities supported through grants until 2030. To this end, two grant opportunities are now available:

  • Innovator Grants ($75K–$300K): Support focused creative, locally tailored strategies to motivate target audiences to prevent wasted food.
  • Catalyst Grants ($300K–$750K): Support larger-scale projects to implement household wasted food prevention strategies across a variety of communities. 

WWF will award around 15 or more grants focused on wasted food prevention — helping households buy, store, prepare, and use food in ways that prevent food from being thrown in the trash. 

This initiative will target parents of children under 18, and young adults ages 18 to 35. 

Applications are due September 1.  To learn more:

➡ Visit the landing page: grants.endingwastedfood.org

➡ Join the info webinar: Thursday, May 28, 2-3 PM ET —tinyurl.com/RFAwebinarEWF 

Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation

BRACE Community Improvement Grant

The purpose of the BRACE Grant Program is to reduce litter, blight, and illegal dumping on public property and encourage code enforcement efforts. Funded through the Solid Waste Trust Fund (SWTF), the grant program is designed to prioritize assistance for communities to address these challenges. Learn more by visiting this link.

Glass Recycling Foundation Grants

The Glass Recycling Foundation (GRF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The GRF’s mission is to promote the preservation of the environment through supporting and promoting effective glass recycling efforts. The GRF is dedicated to increasing material recovery and connecting glass generators with end markets. The GRF’s grant program is intended to increase glass recovery and diversion from landfills, and to connect glass generators with end-markets and is available to nonprofit entities, municipal, county, city, and state governments, glass collectors, material recovery facilities, and manufacturers.

Please visit https://www.glassrecyclingfoundation.org/grants or email [email protected] for questions questions. 

The Recycling Partnership Grant Opportunities

The Recycling Partnership (TRP) is a leading, national force dedicated to improving recycling. TRP provides resources, reports, and grant opportunities to local governments. 

Current grant opportunities include:

Residential Curbside Recycling Grant

The Residential Curbside Recycling Cart Grant Program presents communities with the opportunity to apply for grant funding to convert bin or bag based curbside recycling programs to carts or to implement new cart-based curbside recycling programs. Applications for funding are accepted on an ongoing and continuous basis, and communities that receive funding for carts will also be offered financial and technical assistance in support of recycling education and outreach.

Several local governments in Georgia are recipients of grant funding from TRP.

Federal Government Grant Opportunities

Federal grant opportunities can be searched at Grants.gov.

Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Communities

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $275,000,000 total from Fiscal Year 2022 to Fiscal Year 2026 for grants authorized under the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. Projects funded through the funding opportunity will:

  • Implement the “building a circular economy for all strategy series.”
  • Improve local post-consumer materials management programs, including municipal recycling.
  • Make improvements to local waste management systems.

The entities eligible to apply for the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Communities are political subdivisions of states and territories. EPA considers counties, cities, towns, parishes, and similar units of governments that have executive and legislative functions to be political subdivisions of states and territories.

Learn more at: https://www.epa.gov/infrastructure/solid-waste-infrastructure-recycling-grants-communities

Grant opportunities specific to environmental education can be found at EEinGeorgia.org.

Grant Opportunities through EPD

The Recycling and Waste Diversion (RWD) grant program provides funding to local governments only to support waste reduction and recycling. 

The Scrap Tire Abatement Reimbursement (STAR) program provides funding to local governments only to aid scrap tire clean up.

The Tire Products (Tire) Grant provides funding to local governments only for projects that incorporate scrap tire-derived products into paving, trail, and playground surfaces or that identify innovative uses for these products through research.

There are grants offered through GA EPD in other branches. Click here for more details.