Provides financial support to qualified lenders whose loan applicants want to establish, reopen, expand, or improve a sawmill or other wood processing facility that process ecosystem restoration byproducts from USDA Forest Service National Forest System lands.

Projects are sought that will positively impact the Endowment’s three focus areas—markets, communities, and forests. Financing is provided through impact investing, the concept that strategically invested capital can achieve both a social outcome and a financial return. A second round of impact investing opportunities is anticipated January 2025, with proposals due March 16, 2025.

The purpose of the Department of Agriculture’s Community Wildfire Defense Grant is to assist at-risk local communities with planning and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire. The Act prioritizes at-risk communities in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard potential, are low-income, and/or have been impacted by a severe disaster.

Deadline: February 28, 2025

The purpose of the Department of Agriculture’s Community Wildfire Defense Grant is to assist at-risk local Indian tribes with planning and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire. The Act prioritizes at-risk communities in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard potential, are low-income, and/or have been impacted by a severe disaster.

Deadline: February 28, 2025

This Department of the Interior grant focuses on efforts that inform and promote forest and woodland health, sustainable forest management, fire resiliency, biomass utilization for bioenergy, habitat conservation needs, and insect, disease and fire recovery on public lands.

Deadline: February 12, 2025

A portal for climate and clean energy funding opportunities.

Program providing guidance and support for cities interested in developing mass timber accelerator programs.

Grant program providing funding for wood energy systems or innovative wood product manufacturing facilities.

Grant program incentivizing the expansion of U.S. wood products market and wood energy markets to support forest systems and other forest lands.

Competition requesting proposals for educational/institutional buildings in the U.S.