Federal Grants beginning with the letters U-Z
All Federal Grants beginning with the letters U-Z are listed below. Click a letter to jump to the letter you're interested in.
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Education Grant Program
To provide assistance to colleges and universities in support of courses, studies, training, curricula, and disciplines relevant to nuclear safety, security, environmental protection, or any other field that the Commission determines to be critical...
U.s. Geological Survey-research and Data Acquisition
To support research in any field of study that helps fulfill the U.S. Geological Survey's mission, to collect, organize, interpret, and publish geological, topographic, biologic, and hydrologic information. This information consists of maps,...
U.s. Merchant Marine Academy
To train merchant marine officers.
U.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Minority Serving Institutions Program (msip)
To fund minority serving programs and activities, projects, symposiums, and training for the exchange and transfer of knowledge and skills relevant to nuclear safety, security, environmental protection, or any other fields the Commission deems...
U.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Program
This Scholarship and Fellowship program allows students to pursue an education in science, engineering, or another field of study that the Commission determines is in a critical skill area related to its regulatory mission. Recipients need to be...
U.s. Repatriation
To provide temporary assistance, care, and treatment for individuals after their return to the United States from travel in a foreign country due to physical or mental illness, destitution, or because of war, the threat of war, or a similar crisis.
Unaccompanied Alien Children Program
To develop plans and policies to coordinate and implement care and placement services for unaccompanied alien children who are in Federal custody by reason of their immigration status.
Unallied Industry Projects
To provide grants and cooperative agreements for biological, economic, sociological, public policy, and other research and administration projects to benefit U.S. fisheries industries and contribute to the economic and social welfare of the Nation;...
Unallied Management Projects
Projects provide economic, sociological, public policy, and other information needed by Federal and State natural resource administrators for conserving and managing fishery resources and protected species and their environment in Federal, State,...
Unallied Science Program
To provide grants and cooperative agreements of biological, socio-economic and physical science research on the stocks of fishery and protected resources of the United States and their environment that will contribute to their optimal management for...
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs
The Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program issues awards to institutions of higher education and public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations. The purpose of the awards is to: (1) Assist institutions of higher...
Undergraduate Scholarship Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
To provide service-conditioned scholarships to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who agree to pursue undergraduate education at accredited institutions. Individuals must pursue a course of academic study which prepares them for professions...
Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program
To provide grants to nonprofit education organizations that are established to research, display, interpret and collect artifacts relating to the history of the underground railroad.
Undersea Research
To place man safely undersea to conduct research in support of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and national science requirements.
Unemployment Insurance
To administer this program of unemployment insurance for eligible workers through Federal and State cooperation; to administer payment of trade adjustment assistance; disaster unemployment assistance; unemployment compensation for Federal employees...
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights
To protect and facilitate the smooth and prompt reemployment of members of the uniformed services (to include National Guard and Reserves) following performance of qualifying military service. Also, to prohibit discrimination in employment and...
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
To provide funds for grants to States for the implementation of universal newborn hearing screening prior to hospital discharge with linkage to a medical home, and diagnostic evaluation and enrollment in a program of early intervention.
Universities Rebuilding America Program - Community Design
To provide funds to schools of architecture, urban planning and design, or construction at accredited two- and four-year colleges and universities to establish and operate partnerships with and for communities affected by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita...
University Centers for Excellence In Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service
To defray the cost of administration and operation of programs that: (1) Provide interdisciplinary training for personnel concerned with developmental disabilities; (2) demonstrate community service activities that include training and technical...
University Coal Research
To improve scientific and technical understanding of the chemistry and physics involved in the conversion and utilization of coal. The primary objective is to fund long-term, high-risk, meritorious fundamental research for the advancement of science...
University Nuclear Science and Reactor Support
To provide financial support for research design, analysis, and assessments in science and technology in fields related to nuclear energy.
University Transportation Centers
To provide grants to nonprofit institutions of higher learning for the purpose of establishing and operating university transportation centers that conduct research, education, and technology transfer programs addressing regional and national...
University Transportation Centers Program
To provide grants to nonprofit institutions of higher learning for the purpose of establishing and operating university transportation centers that conduct research, education and technology transfer programs concerning regional and national...
Unresolved Indian Hunting and Fishing Rights
To assist tribes in clarifying and defining their off-reservation hunting and fishing rights.
Unsolicited Grant Program
To provide support for education and training, research, and public information on international peace and conflict resolution.
Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs
To authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to provide cost sharing for the endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins.
Upper Mississippi River System Long Term Resource Monitoring Program
The mission of the LTRMP is to provide decision makers with information needed to maintain the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) as a sustainable large river ecosystem given its multiple- use character. Congress has declared the UMRS to be both...
Urban and Community Forestry Program
To plan for, establish, manage and protect trees, forests, green spaces and related resources in and adjacent to cities and towns to improve urban livability; to link governmental, private, and grassroots organizations and resources to address...
Urban Areas Security Initiative
To enhance local governments' ability to prepare for and respond to threat or incidents of terrorism.
Urban Indian Health Services
To provide health-related services to Urban Indians including: (1) Alcohol and substance abuse prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and education; (2) mental health needs assessment and services; (3) health promotion and disease prevention...
Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program
To provide Federal grants to local governments for the rehabilitation of recreation areas and facilities, demonstration of innovative approaches to improve park system management and recreation opportunities, and development of improved recreation...
Us Refugee Admissions Program
Initial reception and placement program for refugees approved for admission in the United States. Program objectives include: 1) arranging for the refugees, resettlement by ensuring that approved refugees are offered appropriate assistance during...
Usaid Development Partnerships for University Cooperation and Development
The purpose of the program is to support and advance the achievement of USAID's strategic objectives through the application of higher education resources, talents and expertise.
Usaid Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas
The Foreign Assistance Program works to support long-term and equitable economic growth and advance U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and democracy, conflict prevention and...
Used Energy-related Laboratory Equipment Grants
To assist United States institutions of higher education in equipping their science and engineering laboratories for energy-related research and/or instructional purposes.
Va Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program
To assist public and nonprofit private entities in establishing new programs and service centers to furnish supportive services and supportive housing for homeless veterans through grants that may be used to acquire, renovate or alter facilities,...
Value-added Producer Grants
To assist eligible independent agricultural commodity producers, agricultural producer groups, farmer and rancher cooperatives, and majority-controlled producer-based businesses in developing strategies and business plans to further refine or...
Very Low to Moderate Income Housing Loans
To assist very low, low-income, and moderate-income households to obtain modest, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for use as a permanent residence in rural areas.
Very Low-income Housing Repair Loans and Grants
To give very low-income rural homeowners an opportunity to make essential repairs to their homes to make them safe and to remove health hazards to the family or the community. (Note: 7CFR 3550 states: "Section 504 loans and grants are intended to...
Vessel Hull Design Protection Service
To administer the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act of 1998; to examine and decide the acceptability of all applications and identifying material for registration of claims of protection; to establish by regulation the fees for filing of...
Veteran's Preference In Federal Employment
To provide assistance to preference eligible individuals who believe that their rights under veterans' preference statutes and regulations have been violated. Recognizing their sacrifice, Congress enacted laws to prevent veterans seeking Federal...
Veterans Compensation for Service-connected Disability
To compensate veterans for disabilities incurred or aggravated during military service according to the average impairment in earning capacity such disability would cause in civilian occupations.
Veterans Dental Care
To provide dental services.
Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-connected Death
To compensate surviving spouses, children and parents for the death of any veteran who died because of a service-connected disability, or while in the active military, naval or air service.
Veterans Domiciliary Care
To provide the least intensive level of inpatient care for ambulatory veterans disabled by age or illness who are not in need of more acute hospitalization and who do not need the skilled nursing services provided in nursing homes. To rehabilitate...
Veterans Entrepreneurial Training and Counseling
To provide long term training, counseling, and mentoring to benefit small business concerns and potential small business concerns owned and controlled by eligible veterans. Eligible veterans means (A) A veteran who is entitled to compensation (or...
Veterans Home Based Primary Care
To provide primary health care in the home, through a VA interdisciplinary team, to homebound and often bedridden eligible veterans whose caregivers are capable and willing to assist in their care.
Veterans Housing-direct Loans for Certain Disabled Veterans
To provide veterans who are eligible for a Specially Adapted Housing grant with loan directly from the VA in certain circumstances.
Veterans Housing-guaranteed and Insured Loans
To assist veterans, certain service personnel, and certain unmarried surviving spouses of veterans, in obtaining credit for the purchase, construction or improvement of homes on more liberal terms than are generally available to non-veterans.
Veterans Housing-manufactured Home Loans
To assist veterans, servicepersons, and certain unmarried surviving spouses of veterans in obtaining credit for the purchase of a manufactured home on more liberal terms than are available to non-veterans.
Veterans Information and Assistance
To provide all necessary information and assistance to potential claimants and other interested parties about veterans benefits and to provide locations within each State where this assistance can be obtained.
Veterans Medical Care Benefits
To provide outpatient medical services, hospital care, medicines and supplies to eligible veterans in receipt of VA health care.
Veterans Nursing Home Care
To accommodate eligible veterans who are not acutely ill and not in need of hospital care, but who require skilled nursing care, related medical services, supportive personal care, and individual adjustment services (including social, divers ional,...
Veterans Prescription Service
To provide eligible veterans and certain dependents and survivors of veterans with prescription drugs and expendable medical supplies from VA pharmacies upon presentation of prescription(s) from a VA provider or VA authorized provider.
Veterans Prosthetic Appliances
To provide, through purchase and/or fabrication, prosthetic and related appliances, equipment and services to disabled veterans so that they may live and work as productive citizens.
Veterans Rehabilitation-alcohol and Drug Dependence
To provide medical, social, vocational and rehabilitation therapies to eligible alcohol and drug dependent veterans.
Veterans State Adult Day Health Care
To provide a community-based program designed to meet the needs of adults with impairments through individual plans of care. This type of structured, comprehensive, nonresidential program provides a variety of health, social, and related support...
Veterans State Domiciliary Care
To provide financial assistance to States furnishing domiciliary care to eligible veterans in State Veterans' Homes which meet the standards prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans State Hospital Care
To provide financial assistance to States furnishing hospital care to eligible veterans in State veterans' homes which meet the standards prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans State Nursing Home Care
To provide financial assistance to States furnishing nursing home care to eligible veterans in State Veterans' Homes which meet the standards prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans' Employment Program
To develop programs to meet the employment and training needs of service-connected disabled veterans, veterans who have significant barriers to employment, veterans who served on active duty in the armed forces during a war or in a campaign or...
Victims of Child Abuse
To develop model technical assistance and training programs to improve the courts' handling of child abuse and neglect cases to facilitate the adoption of laws to protect children against the potential second assault of the courtroom proceeding; to...
Violence against Women Act Court Training and Improvement Grants
To improve court responses to adult and youth domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Violence against Women Discretionary Grants for Indian Tribal Governments
To assist Indian tribal governments to develop and strengthen effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat violent crimes against women, and to develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving violent crimes against...
Violence against Women Formula Grants
To assist States, Indian tribal governments, tribal courts, State and local courts, and units of local government to develop and strengthen effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat violent crimes against women, and to develop...
Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth In Sentencing Incentive Grants
To provide funds to individual States and States organized as regional compacts to build or expand 1) correctional facilities to increase the bed capacity for the confinement of Part 1 violent offenders; 2) temporary or permanent correctional...
Vision Research
To support eye and vision research projects that address the leading causes of blindness and impaired vision in the U.S. These include retinal diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration; corneal diseases; cataract; glaucoma;...
Visitor Facility Enhancements - Vehicle Pullouts, Interpretive Trails, and Kiosks
To encourage partnerships with interested parties to enhance wildlife viewing opportunities for the public. Projects must conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife and plants for the continuing benefit of the American people.
Vital Statistics Re-engineering Program. Federal Agency
The purpose of this Program is to improve the timeliness, quality and sustainability of the de-centralized vital statistics system by adopting nationally-developed, consensus standards and guidelines and by actively working with states to...
Vocational and Educational Counseling for Servicemembers and Veterans
To offer vocational and educational counseling to servicemembers within 180 days of their projected discharge or release from active duty and to veterans within 1 year from the date of their discharge or release from active duty.
Vocational Education-basic Grants to States
To develop more fully the academic, vocational, and technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in vocational and technical programs.
Vocational Education-indians Set-aside
To make grants to or enter into contracts with Indian tribes, tribal organizations and Alaska Native entities to plan, conduct, and administer programs or portions of programs authorized by and consistent with the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and...
Vocational Education-national Centers for Career and Technical Education
To provide support for the National Center for Research in Career and Technical Education.
Vocational Education-occupational and Employment Information State Grants
To promote improved career and education decision making by individuals.
Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Veterans
To provide all services and assistance necessary to enable service-disabled veterans and service persons hospitalized or receiving outpatient medical care services or treatment for a service- connected disability pending discharge to get and keep a...
Vocational Training and Rehabilitation for Vietnam Veterans' Children with Spina Bifida or Other Covered Birth Defects
To provide vocational training and rehabilitation to certain children born with spina bifida or other covered birth defects who are children of Vietnam veterans.
Vocational Training for Certain Veterans Receiving Va Pension
To assist new pension recipients to resume and maintain gainful employment by providing vocational training and other services.
Voluntary Public School Choice
To provide parents, particularly parents whose children attend low-performing public schools, with greater choice for their children's education.
Volunteers In Service to America
To supplement efforts of private, nonprofit organizations and Federal, State, and local government agencies to eliminate poverty and poverty-related problems by enabling persons from all walks of life and all age groups to perform meaningful and...
Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities - Grants to States
Grants are awarded to: 1) make polling places, including the path of travel, entrances, exits, and voting areas of each polling facility, accessible to individuals with the full-range of disabilities (e.g., blindness or visual impairment, deafness...
Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities-grants for Protection and Advocacy Systems
Grants are awarded to: 1) support training and evaluation in the use of voting systems and technologies by individuals with disabilities, and 2) provide training and technical assistance for nonvisual access.
Vulnerability Assessments and Related Security Improvements at Large Drinking Water Utilities
EPA's funding priority is to provide grant assistance to large (regularly serving 100,000 people or more) publicly-owned community drinking water systems, for up to $115,000 to each eligible utility to develop/revise a vulnerability assessment...
Vulnerability Assessments and Related Security Improvements at Large Privately-owned Community Drinking Water Utilities
To provide grant assistance to large (regularly serving 100,000 people or more) privately-owned community drinking water systems, for up to $115,000 to each eligible utility to develop/revise a vulnerability assessment (V/A), emergency...
Wage and Hour Standards
To provide standards protecting wages of working persons by requiring a minimum hourly wage rate and overtime pay, or prevailing hourly wage rates, fringe benefits and overtime pay under the Government Contract Acts. Additional standards apply to...
Wastewater Operator Training Grant Program (technical Assistance)
To substantially enhance the proficiency of personnel engaged in the operations and maintenance of treatment works and related activities by financing pilot programs. Funding Priority: Grant funds are primarily for on-site technical assistance to...
Water 2025
The goal of Water 2025 is to prevent crises and conflict over water in the western United States. The Challenge Grant Program is designed to contribute to this goal by providing 50% funding for projects that will conserve water, increase water use...
Water and Waste Disposal Loans and Grants (section 306c)
Provide water and waste disposal facilities and services to low income rural communities whose residents face significant health risks.
Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities
To provide basic human amenities, alleviate health hazards and promote the orderly growth of the rural areas of the nation by meeting the need for new and improved rural water and waste disposal facilities.
Water Bank Program
To conserve surface waters; preserve and improve the Nation's Wetlands; increase migratory waterfowl habitat in nesting, breeding and feeding areas in the U.S.; and secure environmental benefits for the Nation.
Water Conservation Field Services Program (wcfsp)
The goal of the Water Conservation Field Services Program (WCFSP) is to actively encourage water conservation and efficient use of water supplies on Federal Reclamation projects, assist water districts with their responsibility to develop water...
Water Desalination Research and Development Program
The Water Desalination Act of 1996 is based on the fundamental need in the United States and world-wide for additional sources of high quality water. Therefore, the primary objective of the program is to develop more cost-effective, technologically...
Water Pollution Control-state and Interstate Program Support
To assist States (including territories, the District of Columbia, and Indian Tribes qualified under CWA Section 518(e)), and interstate agencies in establishing and maintaining adequate measures for prevention and control of surface and ground...
Water Protection Grants to the States
To provide grant assistance to the States, Tribes, Territories, and possessions of the United States to support technical assistance, training, and communication activities on critical water infrastructure protection efforts that include work with...
Water Quality Cooperative Agreements
To assist States, Indian Tribes, interstate agencies, and other public or nonprofit organizations in developing, implementing, and demonstrating innovative approaches relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of...
Water Quality Management Planning
To assist States (including territories and the District of Columbia), Regional Public Comprehensive Planning Organizations (RPCPOs) and Interstate Organizations (IOs) in carrying out water quality management (WQM) planning. States are encouraged to...
Water Reclamation and Reuse Program
This Title gives Reclamation general authority to conduct appraisal and feasibility studies on water reclamation and reuse projects. It also provides general authority for research and demonstration programs to test water reclamation and reuse...
Water Resources on Indian Lands
To assist Indian tribes in the management, planning, and development of their water and related land resources.
Water Security Training and Technical Assistance Grant Program
The objective of this grant program is to improve drinking water system security through the use of training and technical assistance. Funding Priority: EPA's funding priority is to provide grant assistance to eligible non-profit organizations...
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention
To provide technical and financial assistance in carrying out works of improvement to protect, develop, and utilize the land and water resources in small watersheds.
Watershed Rehabilitation Program
To provide technical and financial assistance to rehabilitate dams originally constructed with assistance of USDA Watershed Programs. Rehabilitation must extend the life of the dam and meet applicable safety and performance standards. Priority is...
Watershed Surveys and Planning
To provide planning assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies for the development of coordinated water and related land resources programs in watersheds and river basins. Priority will be given to studies which: (1) Contribute to achieving...
Weather and Air Quality Research
To develop the knowledge required to establish a predictive capability for short and long-term climate and air quality fluctuations and trends. To develop the base of scientific knowledge for better informed decisions.
Weatherization Assistance for Low-income Persons
To insulate the dwellings of low-income persons, particularly the elderly, persons with disabilities, families with children, high residential energy users, and households with a high energy burden, in order to conserve needed energy and to aid...
Weights and Measures Service
To provide leadership and technical resources to assure the accuracy of the quantities and quantity representations in all commercial transactions in the United States, to promote a uniform national weights and measures system, to promote...
Welfare Reform Research, Evaluations and National Studies
To support research on the benefits, effects, and costs of different welfare reform interventions; to fund studies such as on the effects of different programs on welfare dependency, illegitimacy, teen pregnancy, employment rates, child well-being,...
Welfare-to-work Grants to Federally Recognized Tribes and Alaska Natives
To assist Federally-recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native regional nonprofit corporations to move hard-to-employ welfare recipients into lasting unsubsidized jobs and family self-sufficiency.
Welfare-to-work Grants to States and Localities
The Welfare-to-Work Grants program was designed to assist States and localities to help move hard-to-employ welfare recipients, certain noncustodial parents, certain former foster care recipients, and low-income custodial parents into lasting...
Wetland Program Development Grants
To assist State, tribal, local government(S/T/LG) agencies, and interstate/intertribal entities build capacity to protect, manage and restore wetlands. Under the Wetlands Program Grant Competition, EPA has identified three program emphasis areas for...
Wetland Program Grants - State/tribal Environmental Outcome Wetland Demonstration Program
To assist State and Tribal government agencies protect, manage, and restore wetlands. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2005: This program will fund assistance agreements for demonstration projects that propose to demonstrate the extent to which the...
Wetlands Reserve Program
To restore and protect farmed wetlands, prior converted wetlands, wetlands farmed under natural condition, certain riparian areas, and eligible buffer areas for landowners who have eligible land on which they agree to enter into a permanent or...
Wholesale Market Development
To increase overall food marketing efficiency, thereby lowering the cost of marketing food through technical assistance to States and municipalities interested in creating or upgrading markets and marketing facilities.
Wia Adult Program
To provide workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by the participants. This aims to improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare...
Wia Dislocated Workers
To provide workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by the participants. This aims to reemploy dislocated workers, improve the quality of the...
Wia Incentive Grants-section 503 Grants to States
To carry out innovative programs consistent with the purposes of Title I of WIA (Workforce Investment Systems), Title II of WIA (Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), 20 U.S.C. 9201 et seq.), the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied...
Wia Youth Activities
To design, with States and local communities, a revitalized, workforce investment system that will help low income youth between the ages of 14 and 21 acquire the educational and occupational skills, training and support needed to achieve academic...
Wic Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (fmnp)
(1) To provide fresh, nutritious unprepared produce (such as fruits and vegetables) to low-income, at-risk women, infants, and children from farmers' markets; and (2) to expand the awareness and use of farmers' markets and increase sales at such...
Wic Grants to States (wgs)
To provide grants to WIC State agencies for Electronic Benefit Transfer projects and pilots to explore the feasibility both technical and financial of providing WIC benefits electronically. To provide grants to WIC State agencies and Indian Tribal...
Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management
The goal of the Wild Horses and Burro Resource Management program is to achieve and maintain healthy, viable wild horse and burro populations on the public lands.
Wildland Urban Interface Community and Rural Fire Assistance
To implement the National Fire Plan and assist communities at risk from catastrophic wildland fires by providing assistance in the following areas: Provide community programs that develop local capability including; assessment and planning,...
Wildlife Conservation and Restoration
To provide financial to States, Commonwealths and territories under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to plan and implement projects for benefit of a diverse array of wildlife and associated habitats, including species that are not...
Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program
This program was created to develop upland wildlife habitat, wetland wildlife habitat, threatened and endangered species habitat, fish habitat and other types of wildlife habitat.
Wildlife Restoration
To support activities that restore, conserve, manage, or enhance populations of wild birds and mammals and the provision of public use of these resources; and to support activities having as their purpose the education of hunters and archers in the...
Wildlife Services
To reduce damage caused by mammals and birds and those mammal and bird species that are reservoirs for zoonotic diseases, (except for urban rodent control through control and research activities). Wherever feasible, humane methods will be...
Wildlife Without Borders - Latin America and the Caribbean
To address the management of fish, plant, and wildlife resources in the Western Hemisphere. Of particular interest are projects that strengthen the capacity of Latin American and Caribbean countries to conserve and use sustainably their biological...
Wildlife Without Borders - Mexico
To address the conservation and sustainable use of Mexico's wildlife and plant resources by providing financial resources for projects of organizations working to strengthen Mexico's capacity to conserve and use sustainably it's biological...
Wildlife Without Borders-africa Program
To strengthen the ability of African institutions to manage and conserve species, habitats, and ecological process for the benefit of the people of Afican and the world. Of particular interests are projects that build the human and institutional...
Women's Bureau
To provide input in the development of policies and programs affecting the employment of women; to expand training and employment opportunities for women and promote their entry into better paying jobs, especially in high technology and...
Women's Business Ownership Assistance
To fund private, nonprofit organizations to assist, through training and counseling, small business concerns owned and controlled by women, and to remove, in so far as possible, the discriminatory barriers that are encountered by women in accessing...
Women's Educational Equity Act Program
(1) To promote gender equity in education in the United States; (2) to promote equity in education for women and girls who suffer from multiple forms of discrimination based on sex, race, ethnic origin, limited-English proficiency, disability, or...
Wood Education and Resource Center (werc)
To provide funds, on a cost-share basis, for projects that focus on enhancing opportunities for sustained forest products production for primary and secondary hardwood industries located in the eastern hardwood forest region. In order to maintain...
Wood In Transportation Program
To provide funds, on a cost share basis, for the construction of demonstration modern timber bridges and modern timber bridge technology transfer projects. Primary focus is to assist in the development and commercialization of new technologies that...
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships In the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was established by Congress to symbolize and strengthen "the fruitful relationship between the world of learning and the world of public affairs." It aims, in a strictly nonpartisan fashion, to...
Work Incentives Grant
To support the development of the One-Stop system infrastructure with the objective of achieving model, seamless and comprehensive services for people with disabilities, thereby increasing their employment, retention, earning capacity and...
Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program (wotc) and Welfare-to-work Tax Credit (wtwtc)
The two tax credits were designed to help individuals from 10 target groups who consistently have faced significant barriers to employment move from economic dependency to self-sufficiency by encouraging businesses in the private sector to hire...
Sorry, no federal grants available beginning with the letter "X".
Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project (ybrwep)
Within the Yakima River Basin: (1) to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife through improved water management; improved instream flows; improved water quality; protection, creation and enhancement of wetlands; and by other appropriate...
Youth Opportunity Grants
To increase the long-term employment of youth who livein empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and high poverty areas. Youth Opportunity Grants concentrate extensive resources in high- poverty areas in order to bring about community-wide...
Youthbuild
Grant funds will be used to provide disadvantaged youth with: the education and employment skills necessary to achieve economic self sufficiency in occupations in high demand and postsecondary education and training opportunities; opportunities for...
Sorry, no federal grants available beginning with the letter "Z".
