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Indiana Climate and Democracy Catalyst Fund is sponsored by The Indianapolis Foundation (in collaboration with local and regional funders including Crown Family Philanthropies, McKnight Foundation, McKinney Family Foundation, and Herbert Simon Family Foundation). This fund supports community-led solutions that strengthen environmental resilience, civic participation, and local leadership, prioritizing grassroots and emerging organizations in Indiana. It aims to accelerate environmental equity, decarbonization, and an inclusive democracy. The fund supports nonprofit staff, new or existing programs/projects, consultants, technical assistance, and convening/collaboration.
Humanity AI is a $500 million, five-year coalition initiative launched in October 2025 by ten major U.S. foundations to ensure that people, communities, and the public interest shape how artificial intelligence is built and deployed. The initiative funds work across five priority areas: Democracy (protecting rights and freedoms in an AI era), Education (AI centered on student interests and access), Humanities and Culture (protecting creators, intellectual property, and cultural production), Labor and Economy (using AI to enhance rather than replace workers), and Security (safety standards in AI deployment). A forthcoming 2026 open call of approximately $10 million is designed specifically to bring new voices into AI policy and deployment conversations, with explicit priority for organizations in the U.S. heartland, the South, and rural communities historically underrepresented in tech philanthropy. Inaugural grantees announced in May 2026 include organizations working on AI literacy, labor protections, community AI governance, and creative-sector rights.
After pulling the program from grants.gov in February 2025, FHWA reopened PROTECT with FY2024, FY2025 and FY2026 funds merged — $787 million, a 25 percent rural set-aside, a cost-share ladder you cannot climb in six weeks, and a new priority for converting bike and bus lanes back to general traffic.
Read articleUSDA's Rural Decentralized Water Systems Grant funds nonprofits to capitalize a revolving loan fund for household wells and septic systems: 1 percent fixed, 20-year terms, $15,000 maximum per household. The application window closes September 30, 2026. The program is chronically under-subscribed for one structural reason — the 10 percent priority-point contribution cannot be in-kind. Here is the full instrument analysis and what it takes to win.
Read articleThe Rural Health Care Program's Third Further Notice hit the Federal Register on August 31, 2026. It proposes killing cost studies, publishing an eligible services list, setting application processing deadlines, and eliminating the Healthcare Connect Fund annual report. What it conspicuously does not propose is any change to the $744.2 million cap that the whole proceeding says is under strain.
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