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Place-based opportunities listing county, city, township or special-district applicants.

249 current opportunities · showing 1–24

OPENEducation

OJJDP FY 2026 Community and Schools Youth Drug Prevention Program

Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Community and Schools Youth Drug Prevention Program. This opportunity supports states, units of local government, federally recognized Native American Tribal governments and nonprofit organizations to deliver substance use preventi

Deadline
Oct 30, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $12,000,000
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OPENJustice & Public Safety

BJA FY 2026 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA

Bureau of Justice Assistance

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA (COLD) Program. This opportunity supports prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of violent cold case crimes where a DNA profile from a suspect is already developed. This initiative aims to

Deadline
Oct 30, 2026
Funding
Up to $750,000
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OPENJustice & Public Safety

OJJDP FY 2026 Multistate Mentoring Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Multistate Mentoring Programs. This opportunity supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth populations that are at risk or high risk for delinquency, victimization, and going into the juvenile justice s

Deadline
Oct 30, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $27,200,000
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OPENJustice & Public Safety

BJA FY 2026 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative

Bureau of Justice Assistance

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative. This opportunity supports local law enforcement in rural jurisdictions to prevent, respond to, and reduce violent crime. The goal is to equip rural law enforcement agencies and prosecutors&#8

Deadline
Oct 31, 2026
Funding
Up to $2,637,041
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OPENEducation

BJA FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program

Bureau of Justice Assistance

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Students, Teachers, and Officers Prevention (STOP) School Violence Program. This opportunity supports programs to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams and/or intervention tea

Deadline
Oct 31, 2026
Funding
Up to $2,000,000
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OPENJustice & Public Safety

BJA FY 2026 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program

Bureau of Justice Assistance

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program. This opportunity strengthens the capacity of wrongful conviction review (WCR) entities and their criminal justice and victims’ services partners to more eff

Deadline
Nov 3, 2026
Funding
Up to $600,000
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OPENHealth & Medical

Clinical Observational (CO) Studies in Musculoskeletal, Rheumatic, and Skin Diseases (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

National Institutes of Health

This Clinical Observational (CO) Studies in Musculoskeletal, Rheumatic, and Skin Diseases (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PAR, was re-issued as a result of the Simplifying Review of Research Project Grant Applications [link: https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/peer-review/sim

Deadline
Nov 3, 2026
Funding
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OPENHealth & Medical

Exploratory Clinical Trial Grants in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R61 Clinical Trial Required)

National Institutes of Health

This Exploratory Clinical Trial Grants in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R61 Clinical Trial Required) PAR, a re-issue of PAR-24-035, was re-issued as a result of the Simplifying Review of Research Project Grant Applications [link: https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy

Deadline
Nov 3, 2026
Funding
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OPENGeneral Funding

Exploring and Enhancing Outdoor and Heritage Tourism in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

National Park Service

Goal: Encourage outdoor recreation and natural, historical, and cultural tourism that expands access to and awareness of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and fosters economic development of communities. ObjectivesNPS Chesapeake Gateways is offering this competitive grant opportunity to strengthen a commu

Deadline
Nov 5, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $1,000,000
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OPENEducation

Developing novel theory and methods for understanding the genetic architecture of complex human traits (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

National Institutes of Health

The goal of this NOFO is to support applications for novel theory and methods development that enable better understanding of how genetic and non-genetic factors contribute to complex trait variation across individuals, families, and populations. Approaches should be interdisciplinary drawing from t

Deadline
Nov 6, 2026
Funding
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OPENHealth & Medical

Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

National Institutes of Health

Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) along with other participating Institutes encourages submission of applications proposing to conduct secondary data analysis and integration of existing datasets and database resources, with the ultimate aim to el

Deadline
Nov 7, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $350,000
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OPENHealth & Medical

Pilot Projects to Enhance the Human Virome Program (R03 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

National Institutes of Health

The Common Fund Human Virome Program (HVP) aims to extensively and comprehensively characterize the "healthy" human virome (the collection of viruses that normally reside inside the human body without evidence of disease) and create tools, models, and methods that will enable an in-depth s

Deadline
Nov 11, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $2,000,000
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OPENHealth & Medical

NCCIH Natural Product Early Phase Clinical Trial Award (R33 Clinical Trial Required)

National Institutes of Health

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages applications for investigator-initiated, early phase, clinical trials of natural products (i.e., botanicals, dietary supplements, and probiotics), which have a strong scientific premise to justify further clinical testing. For this NOFO, natural p

Deadline
Nov 14, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $1,050,000
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OPENHealth & Medical

NCCIH Natural Product Mid Phase Clinical Trial (R01 Clinical Trial Required)

National Institutes of Health

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages applications for investigator-initiated mid-phase clinical trials of natural products(i.e., botanicals, dietary supplements, and probiotics), which have a strong scientific premise to justify further clinical testing. For this NOFO, natural produc

Deadline
Nov 14, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $350,000
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OPENHealth & Medical

NCCIH Natural Product Early Phase Clinical Trial Phased Innovation Award (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required)

National Institutes of Health

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages applications for investigator-initiated, early phase, clinical trials of natural products (i.e., botanicals, probiotics, and products marketed as dietary supplements), which have a strong scientific premise to justify further clinical testing. For

Deadline
Nov 14, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $350,000
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OPENHealth & Medical

NIDA Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award in Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder Research (K12 Clinical Trial Optional)

National Institutes of Health

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages applications for institutional research career development (K12) programs that propose to support intensive supervised research training and career development experiences for clinician scientists (Scholars) leading to research independence in t

Deadline
Nov 14, 2026
Funding
Up to $750,000
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OPENResearch & Science

NIJ FY 2026 Research and Evaluation on Human Trafficking

National Institute of Justice

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the NIJ FY 2026 Research and Evaluation on Human Trafficking. This opportunity supports proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects to better understand, respond to, and reduce Human Trafficking in the United States in three areas: (1) p

Deadline
Nov 17, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $2,500,000
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OPENJustice & Public Safety

OJJDP FY 2026 Emergency Planning for Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities

Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Emergency Planning for Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities program. This opportunity will support the development, improvement, and/or implementation of emergency planning activities for state, Tribal, county, and local juvenil

Deadline
Nov 17, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $432,833
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OPENJustice & Public Safety

OJJDP FY 2026 Juvenile Justice System Enhancements

Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Juvenile Justice System Enhancements program. This opportunity will support states and localities to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of juvenile justice system operations by implementing targeted solutions to high-cos

Deadline
Nov 17, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $3,974,000
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OPENHealth & Medical

OJJDP FY 2026 Expanding Youth Access to Community-Based Treatment

Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Expanding Youth Access to Community-Based Treatment program. This opportunity will fund community-based treatment programs serving youth with substance use disorders (SUD) and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders

Deadline
Nov 17, 2026
Funding
Estimated total program funding: $4,000,000
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OPENClimate & Environment

Fiscal Year 2026 Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program

DOT Federal Highway Administration

The purpose of the WCPP is to provide funding to eligible entities for projects seeking to improve safety of the traveling public by reducing the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) and, in doing so, improve habitat connectivity for terrestrial and aquatic species. This NOFO will award appro

Deadline
Nov 17, 2026
Funding
Up to $80,000,000
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OPENResearch & Science

Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Small Research Grant (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)

National Institutes of Health

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to invite Small Research Grant (R21) applications that propose to study the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genetics and genomics. Applications may propose studies using either single or mixed methods. Direct involve

Deadline
Nov 17, 2026
Funding
Up to $50,000
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OPENHealth & Medical

Prevention and Intervention Approaches for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional)

National Institutes of Health

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) focuses on prevention and intervention strategies for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) throughout the lifespan. The intent of this NOFO is to support research that advances (1) prevention approaches to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure and the incidenc

Deadline
Nov 18, 2026
Funding
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OPENHealth & Medical

NCCIH Multi-Site Feasibility Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Required)

National Institutes of Health

This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for investigator-initiated clinical trials of complementary and integrative health approaches with physical and/or psychological therapeutic inputs (often called mind and body interventions) in NCCIH-designated areas of high research pri

Deadline
Nov 18, 2026
Funding
Up to $350,000
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Strong fit signals

  • The public need is documented
  • The jurisdiction can accept the award
  • Implementation ownership is clear

Requirements to verify

  • Population or geography thresholds
  • Maintenance and long-term operating costs

How to use this shortlist

Open the official notice for each candidate and build a simple go/no-go table covering legal applicant type, geography, project purpose, award range, match, registrations and submission time zone. Eliminate any program that fails a mandatory condition before spending time on narrative drafting.

Frequently asked questions

Who should use this community grants for local governments page?

Local governments and special districts. Treat the directory match as a discovery signal and confirm the controlling eligibility language on the funder's notice.

How are opportunities selected?

The page applies a fixed combination of structured applicant, focus, source, award or deadline signals to current directory records. It does not broaden the result with unrelated keywords.

Does a listing mean my organization is eligible?

No. A match helps build a shortlist; the official notice, application package and funder guidance control eligibility and allowable costs.