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This an actually quiet week, and I’m not surprised. We’re now fewer than two weeks from the end of the fiscal year. The federal grants officials who need to draft and bless new grantmakings are busy trying to get all of this year’s grantmaking done before the cash expires on September 30. I imagine states on similar fiscal years are in the same place.

I do have one addition this week—a forest service grant while doing a double check.

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2026 National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Cost Share Grant Program (October 12) (NEW)

Who can get it? Governments and housing authorities

Total funding? $1 million

Award ceiling? $200,000

Award floor? $750,000

These dollars support projects that use discarded wood—including through pruning and elimination of trees with disease—into useful products, including through workforce development efforts and stipends.

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