Every Move (Environmental Sustainability Strategy funding for Sport England partners)

Infrastructure State Revolving Fund (ISRF) Program is sponsored by Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank. IBank's ISRF Loan Fund program provides low-cost, direct loans to local governments and nonprofits sponsored by public agencies for a wide variety of public infrastructure and economic expansion projects (excluding housing) that improve and sustain communities, helping individuals and families thrive. We focus on small and mid-/moderate-sized local governments and special districts — including those in underserved regions and communities. ISRF loans can fund a wide variety of projects – including water and wastewater treatment plant upgrades or construction, venue or airport construction, or street repair and upgrades. ISRF financing is available in amounts ranging from $1 million to $65 million with loan terms for the useful life of the project up to 30 years. With IBank You: • Save time — We conduct a preliminary review process and provide feedback before inviting you to apply. • Can submit applications any time of the year. We accept applications continuously, and because we issue our own bonds to generate funds, we do not run out of funding. • If approved, can receive funds within 45 to 90 days of IBank board approval.• Receive low, competitive, fixed-interest rates up to 30 years. We are AAA rated, and we pass our low borrowing costs (through bonds) to you. • Don’t have to compete against others — No scoring mechanisms, we operate on a first-come, first-served basis.• Get transparency every step of the way — No surprises We are experts in municipal lending and our loan team values access to opportunity, diversity, and inclusion and truly cares about connecting city and other local governments to the low-cost financing they need to make their important public infrastructure and economic expansion projects a reality. Eligible Projects: Include, but are not limited to: City streets County highways State highways Drainage, water supply and flood control Educational facilities Environmental mitigation measures Goods movement-related infrastructure Housing-related infrastructure Parks and recreational facilities Port facilities Power and communications facilities Public transit Sewage collection and treatment Solid waste collection and disposal Water treatment and distribution Defense conversion Public safety facilities Military infrastructure Economic development facilities Eligible Costs for Financing Include: • All or any part of the cost of construction, renovation, and acquisition of all lands, structures, real or personal property.• Rights, rights of way, franchises, licenses, easements, and interests acquired or used for a project.• The cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which the buildings or structures may be moved.• The cost of machinery, and equipment.• Provisions for working capital.• Other expenses necessary or incidental to determining the feasibility of any project or incidental to the construction, acquisition, or financing of any project.• The cost of architectural, engineering, financial and legal services, plans, specifications, estimates, and administrative expenses.• Interest prior to, during, and for a period after, completion of construction, renovation, or acquisition, as determined by the IBank.• Reserves for principal and interest and for extensions, enlargements, additions, replacement, renovations, and improvements.

Foundational Research in Robotics is NSF's core robotics program and the primary federal home for embodied intelligence research that is not defense-directed. Its definition of a robot is worth quoting because it functions as the eligibility test: intelligence embodied in an engineered construct, with the ability to process information, sense, plan, and move within or substantially alter its working environment. Every proposal must clear three specific bars - it must focus on a robot or a class of robots, it must endow robots with new capabilities or significantly enhance existing ones, and it must address a fundamental gap in robotics research. NSF is explicit and unusually blunt about the consequence: projects that are better suited to other NSF programs may be declined without review. That is the single most important operational fact about FRR. It sits in a deliberately drawn boundary with NSF's Robust Intelligence program, which funds foundational AI but explicitly does not fund robotics and redirects robotics proposals to FRR; conversely, an AI-heavy proposal that uses a robot as a demonstration vehicle rather than advancing robotics science will be sent the other way. Getting that framing right before writing is more consequential than any other single decision. The program is jointly managed by the CISE and ENG directorates, which is why it accommodates both learning-and-perception-led and mechanism-and-control-led work, and it encourages meaningful experimental validation on a physical platform - a real differentiator from purely simulation-based programmes. FRR accepts full proposals at any time, with no submission window, under program description PD 20-144Y. Eligibility is unrestricted as to entity type. NSF program officers explicitly recommend pre-submission consultation, and given the no-deadline structure and the without-review declination risk, that conversation is the highest-value step an applicant can take.

Infrastructure State Revolving Fund (ISRF) Program is sponsored by Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank. IBank's ISRF Loan Fund program provides low-cost, direct loans to local governments and nonprofits sponsored by public agencies for a wide variety of public infrastructure and economic expansion projects (excluding housing) that improve and sustain communities, helping individuals and families thrive. We focus on small and mid-/moderate-sized local governments and special districts — including those in underserved regions and communities. ISRF loans can fund a wide variety of projects – including water and wastewater treatment plant upgrades or construction, venue or airport construction, or street repair and upgrades. ISRF financing is available in amounts ranging from $1 million to $65 million with loan terms for the useful life of the project up to 30 years. With IBank You: • Save time — We conduct a preliminary review process and provide feedback before inviting you to apply. • Can submit applications any time of the year. We accept applications continuously, and because we issue our own bonds to generate funds, we do not run out of funding. • If approved, can receive funds within 45 to 90 days of IBank board approval.• Receive low, competitive, fixed-interest rates up to 30 years. We are AAA rated, and we pass our low borrowing costs (through bonds) to you. • Don’t have to compete against others — No scoring mechanisms, we operate on a first-come, first-served basis.• Get transparency every step of the way — No surprises We are experts in municipal lending and our loan team values access to opportunity, diversity, and inclusion and truly cares about connecting city and other local governments to the low-cost financing they need to make their important public infrastructure and economic expansion projects a reality. Eligible Projects: Include, but are not limited to: City streets County highways State highways Drainage, water supply and flood control Educational facilities Environmental mitigation measures Goods movement-related infrastructure Housing-related infrastructure Parks and recreational facilities Port facilities Power and communications facilities Public transit Sewage collection and treatment Solid waste collection and disposal Water treatment and distribution Defense conversion Public safety facilities Military infrastructure Economic development facilities Eligible Costs for Financing Include: • All or any part of the cost of construction, renovation, and acquisition of all lands, structures, real or personal property.• Rights, rights of way, franchises, licenses, easements, and interests acquired or used for a project.• The cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which the buildings or structures may be moved.• The cost of machinery, and equipment.• Provisions for working capital.• Other expenses necessary or incidental to determining the feasibility of any project or incidental to the construction, acquisition, or financing of any project.• The cost of architectural, engineering, financial and legal services, plans, specifications, estimates, and administrative expenses.• Interest prior to, during, and for a period after, completion of construction, renovation, or acquisition, as determined by the IBank.• Reserves for principal and interest and for extensions, enlargements, additions, replacement, renovations, and improvements.