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while protecting environmentally sensitive areas. These grants
can also be used for disaster recovery, resilience planning, and
economic development planning.
• Florida Job Growth Grant Fund: This is an economic
development program focused on promoting public
infrastructure and workforce training across the state.
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Proposals are reviewed by DEO and Enterprise Florida and
selected by the Governor to meet the demand for workforce or
infrastructure needs in the community they are awarded to.
• Competitive Florida Partnership Grant: Competitive Florida
Partnership grants offer small and rural cities, along with
regional planning councils, the ability to create an asset-based
economic development strategy through innovative planning
and development.
Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
• Florida Recreation Development Assistance Program: FRDAP
is a competitive, reimbursement grant program that offers
assistance for acquisition or development of land for public
outdoor recreation. County governments, municipalities, and
other legally constituted local governmental entities with the
responsibility of providing outdoor recreation sites and
facilities for the public are all eligible for this program.
• Florida Forever: Florida Forever is the State’s conservation and
recreation land acquisition program and serves as a blueprint
for conserving natural resources, thereby renewing Florida’s
commitment to conserve natural and cultural heritage.
o Parks and Open Space Florida Forever Grant Program:
The Parks and Open Space Florida Forever Grant
Program helps communities meet the challenges
associated with growth, supports viable community
development, and protects natural resources and open
space. This program receives 21% of the Florida Forever
appropriation.
• Land and Water Conservation Fund: This is a federal
competitive program that provides grants for the acquisition or
development of land for public outdoor recreation. Eligible
participants include Florida municipalities, county
governments, and any other legally constituted local
government entities that maintain outdoor recreational sites
and facilities for the public.
• Recreation Trails Program: RTP is another federally funded
competitive grant program through DEP that offers financial
assistance to city, county, state, or federal governments or
organizations for the development of recreational trails,
trailheads, and trailside facilities.
• Resilient Florida: The Resilient Florida program is a selection
of different grants available to counties, water management
districts, flood control districts, and regional resilience entities.
Eligible entities may receive funding to analyze and plan for
vulnerabilities and implement projects for adaptation and
mitigation.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Community Facilities Direct Loan and Grant Program: This
program provides affordable funding in the form of lowinterest direct loans or grant awards to purchase, construct,
and/or improve essential community facilities, purchase
equipment, and pay related expenses. Public bodies and
community-based nonprofits within rural areas (outside of
Census defined urban areas) are eligible.
• Economic Impact Initiatives Grants: These grants provide
funding assistance for the development of essential community
facilities in rural communities with extreme unemployment
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and economic depression. Eligible entities include public
bodies, non-profits, and federally recognized tribes.
• Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program: This
program offers funding for rural projects through local utility
organizations. USDA provides zero-interest loans or grants to
create RLF programs to local utilities to pass through to local
businesses for projects to create and retain employment in local
areas. Eligible entities include nonprofit utilities, former Rural
Utilities Service borrowers, and current Rural Development
Electric or Telecommunication Programs borrowers.
• Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants: This
program assists eligible communities in preparing for or
recovering from an emergency that threatens the availability of
safe, reliable drinking water. Eligible entities include most state
and local governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, and
federally recognized tribes.
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Brownfield Assessment Grant: Brownfield Assessment Grants
provide funding for the recipient to inventory, characterize,
assess, conduct planning activities, develop site-specific
cleanup plans, and conduct community involvement related to
brownfield sites.
• Environmental Justice Small Grants Program: This program
supports communities working on solutions to local
environmental and public health issues. It focuses on helping
communities understand and address exposure to multiple
environmental issues and risks. Eligible entities include most
non-profits, U.S. territories, and tribal governments and
organizations.
Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
• Transportation Alternative Grants: This program focuses on
funding a variety of small-scale transportation projects such as
pedestrian and bicycle facilities, recreational trails, safe routes
to school projects, community improvements such as historic
preservation and vegetation management, and environmental
mitigation related to stormwater and habitat connectivity.
• Commuter Assistance Funds: Florida’s Commuter Assistance