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Health
Description: This opportunity supports public safety efforts to reduce deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism, who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments. This program provides funding to law enforcement, other public safety agencies, and health care agencies to implement locative technologies that track missing individuals. It also provides funding to such agencies and partnering nonprofit organizations to develop or operate programs to prevent wandering, increase safety for vulnerable individuals, and facilitate rescues.
Eligibility: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, and Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized), Independent school districts, Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and Private institutions of higher education, and nonprofits.
Application Due Date: October 13, 2026
FY 2027 Service Area Competition (SAC)
Description: The FY 2027 Health Center Program Service Area Competition (SAC) funding improves the health of medically underserved communities and populations by providing grants to support the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality preventive and primary health care services in the United States and its territories.
Eligibility: County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments, Public and Indian housing authorities, Nonprofits
Application Due Date: October 19, 2026
Education & Workforce Development
Engineering Research Initiation
Description: The NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG) seeks to build engineering research capacity across the nation by investing in new academic investigators who have yet to receive sufficient research funding from Federal Agencies. The Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) program will support new investigators as they initiate their research programs and advance in their careers as researchers, educators, and innovators.
Eligibility: Individuals who hold a doctoral degree in a field supported by NSF and hold an appointment at an ERI-eligible institution (see posting for additional information).
Application Due Date: October 9, 2026
Description: The Mathematical Biology Program supports research in all areas of mathematical sciences with relevance to the biological sciences. Successful proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, biological relevance and significance, and strong integration between mathematics and biology.
Eligibility: Unrestricted, see posting for additional information
Due Date: October 14, 2026
Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development Grant
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support expanding career opportunities in the drinking water and wastewater utility sector and elevating public awareness about jobs in the water workforce. Efforts should aim for measurable results and clearly show tangible benefits for water systems and communities. Examples include training individuals through an apprenticeship program and placing them into water sector jobs, training individuals for industry accreditation, and developing collaborations with community colleges, technical schools, utilities to address the water utility employment needs.
Eligibility: Institutions of Higher Education, Public works departments and agencies, Nonprofit organizations
Due Date: October 15, 2026
Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program (Department of Agriculture)
Description: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) program encourages innovative teaching, education, or related community development proposals with the potential to impact and become models for other institutions at the regional or national level. Applications may propose, as part of a formal education and teaching program, that students gain experience with an applied research and community outreach activity.
Departmental Research and Development Priorities: Increasing Profitability of Farmers and Ranchers, Expanding Markets and Creating New Uses of U.S. Agricultural Products, Protecting the Integrity of American Agriculture from Invasive Species, Promoting Soil Health to Regenerate Long-Term Productivity of Land, Improving Human Health through Precision Nutrition and Food Quality.
Eligibility: Applications may only be submitted by Hispanic-Serving Institutions. (Each primary applicant will be required to demonstrate or certify that it is an eligible institution under the HSI Education Grants Program.)
Application Due Date: December 03, 2026
Transportation
Description: The intent of the PROTECT Competitive Grant Program is to fund projects to improve the resilience of the surface transportation system, including highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail. Program goals include protecting: surface transportation assets by making them more resilient; communities through resilience improvements and strategies that allow for the continued operation or rapid recovery of surface transportation systems; coastal infrastructure; and natural infrastructure that protects and enhances surface transportation assets.
Eligibility: County governments, Federally recognized Native American tribal governments, Special district governments, State governments, City or township governments
Application Due Date: October 9, 2026
Prioritization Process Pilot Program (PPPP) Competitive Grant Program
Description: The primary goal of PPPP is to fund the development and implementation of a transparent, publicly accessible prioritization process for short-range and long-range transportation planning. The program mandates a data-driven approach to evaluate and select projects that improve safety, access, system condition, and reliability.
Eligibility: Metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) that serve a census delineated urban area with a population of over 200,000, State governments
Application Due Date: October 30, 2026
Law Enforcement
BJA FY 2026 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program—Local Formula
Description: This opportunity will provide formula funding to eligible units of local government to support hiring additional personnel and/or purchase equipment, supplies, contractual support, training, technical assistance, and information systems for criminal justice or civil proceedings, including other program areas (see posting for additional information).
Eligibility: County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), Other units of local government
Application Due Date: October 16, 2026
BJA FY 2026 Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Program
Description: This opportunity supports states and units of local government, including tribal governments that perform law enforcement functions, in creating and expanding efforts to protect the safety and security of federal judges by preventing the release of covered information about at-risk individuals and their immediate family members to ensure federal judges are able to administer justice fairly without fear of personal reprisal from individuals affected by the decisions they make in the course of carrying out their public duties.
Eligibility: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), Other state or units of local government
Application Due Date: October 22, 2026
BJA FY 2026 Crisis Response Training Program
Description: This opportunity supports state, local, and tribal governments, law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities, probation and parole departments, and sheriffs’ offices in developing, implementing, or expanding crisis response training programs that enhance public safety, officer safety, and operational effectiveness by improving law enforcement responses to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions (including mental health and substance use disorders), intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DDs), physical disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries.
Eligibility: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American Tribal governments, Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and Private institutions of higher education, see posting for additional eligibility information.
Application Due Date: October 13, 2026
FY 2026 Veterans Treatment Court Program
Description: This opportunity supports the implementation and enhancement of veterans’ treatment court (VTC) operations to reduce the use of opioids, stimulants, and other substances, including alcohol, by high-risk/high-need veterans in the criminal justice system.
Eligibility: Special district governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments
Application Due Date: October 29, 2026
Environment
FY26 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Youth Conservation Corps
Description: This program’s projects provide opportunities to gain work experience in public lands and natural resources management. Through their BLM experience, youth gain an appreciation for public lands, learn about natural resource management careers, and become the next generation of public lands stewards. The BLM Youth Program helps the agency accomplish projects across all program areas in support of the BLM"s multiple-use mission.
Eligibility: Private institutions of higher education, public and state institutions of higher education, city or township governments, special district governments, Nonprofits, and Others (see posting for additional information).
Application Due Date: October 16, 2026