Clean Energy Career Pathway Program
Application Deadline: Sept. 30, 2025
Grant Description: Provides funding directly to eligible recipients to support the planning and implementation of a Clean Energy Career Pathway. Programs will include coursework, field experiences and work-based learning designed to prepare students for entrance into careers focusing on electric vehicles. This funding opportunity seeks qualified, eligible public or private educational institutions at the secondary and post-secondary level that will work with the Local Workforce Innovation Areas and employers to recruit students into clean energy fields and create pathways encompassing technical and employability skills with dual credit options.
Equitable Energy Future Grant Program
Application Deadline: Dec. 31, 2025
Grant Description: The funding is intended to address barriers to project, community and business development in justice-impacted communities caused by a lack of available capital.
Community Solar Energy Sovereignty Grant Program
Application Deadline: Dec. 31, 2025
Grant Description: Supports pre-development and development of community solar projects that promote community ownership and energy sovereignty.
Illinois Returning Residents Clean Jobs Program (CEJA)
Application Deadline: Rolling
Grant Description: Delivers clean jobs training in Illinois Department of Corrections facilities to individuals within 36 months of their release to prepare them to work in clean energy and related sector jobs upon release. The program will provide classroom instruction and hands-on learning opportunities, utilizing a standard Clean Jobs Curriculum Framework, connect program graduates with potential employers in the clean energy industry, and address participant needs
Application Deadline: General announcement open with no specific due dates for applications
Grant Description: DCEO will make $15 million available to Illinois-based businesses and organizations seeking competitive federal grants. This match program will encourage more applicants to apply for federal grant opportunities, provide critical assistance to meet the minimum match eligibility requirements, and increase the competitiveness of applications.
Illinois Reproductive Health Facilities Capital Grant Program
Grant Description: This opportunity will support reproductive health care providers in Illinois that are experiencing increased demand for their services. Projects could include improvements and repairs, new construction, security upgrades, and equipment to increase capacity and enhance safety. This includes the purchase of vehicles for mobile care units. Facilities must provide or plan to provide abortion care as defined in the Illinois Reproductive Health Act.
Deadline: Rolling through 2024, or until funds are depleted
FY 2024 and FY 2025 Continuum of Care Competition and Renewal or Replacement of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Grants
FY 2025 (FR-6800-N-25)
Application Deadline: Aug. 29, 2025
Grant Description: Promotes a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness. Provides funding for efforts by nonprofit organizations, state governments, local governments, instrumentalities of state and local governments, and more to quickly re-house homeless individuals, families, persons fleeing domestic violence, and youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness. Has a goal of promoting access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless; and to optimize self-sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness.
Funding: $3.5 billion total with an award floor of $2,500 and award ceiling of $15 million; there is an expected number of 8,500 awards.
Eligibility: Click on grant link to view full list.
Projects of National Significance: Empowering Individuals
FY 2025 (HHS-2025-ACL-AOD-DNSD-0061) Note: This is a forecasted opportunity.
Estimated Application Deadline: July 30, 2025
Grant Description: Funding will create opportunities for individuals to directly and fully contribute to, and participate in, all facets of community life, including employment, and will support the development of national and state policies that reinforce and promote the self-determination, independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion in all facets of community life.
Funding: $1,875,000 total with a floor of $300,000 and award ceiling of $375,000
Eligibility: Click on grant link to view full list.
Climate Smart Humanities Organizations
FY 2025 (20240912-CLI)
Application Deadline: Sept. 17, 2025
Grant Description: This program strengthens the institutional base of the humanities by funding operational assessments and strategic planning efforts to sustain and protect historical, cultural, educational, intellectual, and physical assets from the risks of climate change. Projects will result in a climate action, resilience, or adaptation plan including detailed assessments, measurable actions, and expected outcomes.
Funding: Estimated $2,500,000
Eligibility: Click on grant link to view full list.
Contraceptive Development Research Center
FY 2025 (RFA-HD-26-004)
Estimated Application Deadline: Nov. 12, 2025
Grant Description: Supports the creation of a Contraceptive Development Research Center to advance innovative, multidisciplinary research on new or improved contraceptive methods for both men and women. Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity, the Center will also support translational studies to bridge pre-clinical and clinical phases, increasing the potential for clinical success. Additionally, the Center will serve as a national resource to train and mentor early-stage investigators pursuing careers in contraceptive research.
Funding: Currently not listed
Eligibility: Public and state controlled institutions of higher education, state governments, city or township governments, small businesses, nonprofits, private institutions of higher education, independent school districts, Native American tribal governments and more.
Statewide Consumer Network Program
FY 2025 (SM-25-005) Note: This is a forecasted opportunity.
Estimated Application Deadline: Not set yet, estimated grant post date is Dec. 14, 2024
Grant Description: The purpose of this program is to strengthen the capacity of statewide mental health peer-led organizations to partner with state efforts to improve mental health support system and related services for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) or serious emotional disturbance (SED) as agents of transformation.
Funding: Estimated $1.1 million
Eligibility: Click on grant link to view full list.
Strategic Prevention Framework – Partnerships for Success for Communities, Local Governments, Universities, Colleges, and Tribes/Tribal Organizations
FY 2025 (SP-25-002) Note: This is a forecasted opportunity.
Estimated Application Deadline: Not set yet, estimated grant post date is Jan. 15, 2025
Grant Description: The purpose of this program is to help reduce the onset and progression of substance misuse and its related problems by supporting the development and delivery of community-based substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion services.
Funding: Estimated $13.4 million
Eligibility: Limited to domestic public or private, nonprofit entities, including community-based organizations, federally recognized tribes, tribal organizations, local governments, and institutions of higher education.
