{"id":50494,"date":"2023-05-24T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=50494"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:39:42","slug":"us-hospitals-animal-shelters-energy-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=50494","title":{"rendered":"US hospitals, animal shelters, and more awarded $45M to boost their energy efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Biden administration has announced $45 million in grants to help nonprofits improve their buildings\u2019 energy efficiency.<\/p>\n

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Applications are open<\/a>\u00a0to 501(c)(3) status nonprofits for the\u00a0Renew America\u2019s Nonprofits<\/a>\u00a0grant, which is authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.<\/p>\n

501(c)(3) status is a federal designation awarded by the IRS, and there are around 1.5 million 501(c)(3) nonprofits in the US, including everything from libraries, community centers, and hospitals to places of worship, animal shelters, museums, youth sports leagues, food banks, and more.<\/p>\n

Nonprofits employ the third-largest workforce in the US economy \u2013 more than 12.4 million people. They also operate more than 500,000 facilities, mostly in commercial spaces, where efficiency improvements could reduce energy use by up to 30%. Most nonprofits operate on annual budgets of less than $500,000, so energy savings could potentially build organizational and community resiliency and increase their service capacities.<\/p>\n

The competitive grant program is a first-of-its-kind engagement between the US Department of Energy and the nonprofit sector, and it\u2019s going to use an aggregation model to distribute and manage the grant money. DOE will award between 5 and 15 larger grants to nonprofits interested in serving as Prime Recipients or program leads. Prime Recipients will award grant funds and provide technical assistance to Subrecipients for energy efficiency upgrades. In other words, it\u2019s a \u201cnonprofits-supporting-nonprofits\u201d<\/a> model.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, hundreds of nonprofit facilities are expected to be represented across these project bundles, and DOE\u2019s program is particularly aiming to benefit historically disadvantaged communities.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said:<\/p>\n

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Nonprofits promote social cohesion, public health, creativity, and innovation \u2014 all of which are essential to strong and resilient communities.<\/p>\n

With this funding, DOE is helping nonprofits amplify their impacts. Every dollar saved is a dollar that can be reinvested in crucial community services, all while helping us achieve President Biden\u2019s goal of a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All nonprofits interested in participating in the Renew America\u2019s Nonprofits grant are encouraged to\u00a0join the Teaming List<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Biden administration has announced $45 million in grants to help nonprofits improve their buildings\u2019 energy efficiency. Applications are open\u00a0to 501(c)(3) status nonprofits for the\u00a0Renew America\u2019s Nonprofits\u00a0grant, which is authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. 501(c)(3) status is a federal designation awarded by the IRS, and there are around 1.5 million 501(c)(3) nonprofits in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}