Project Grant ED19HDQ0200065

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Program awarded a $1,250,000 Project Grant to Co Enterprise Fund, LLC (doing business as Colorado Enterprise Fund) to invest in and build the capacity of this certified CDFI. The CDFI Program, under CFDA Number 21.020, aims to promote economic revitalization and community development through targeted investments in CDFIs that serve low-income, Native American, and economically disadvantaged populations....

The Colorado Department of Agriculture was awarded a $24,999,998 project grant from the USDA Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office to expand markets for climate-smart beef and eleven cropping systems including corn and grains through the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program. This program aims to increase adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon. Under this award, the Colorado Department of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant, awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), is focused on developing novel soil organic matter (SOM) amendment techniques to improve nutrient supply, sustain agriculture, and provide long-term, deep soil carbon sequestration to combat climate change. The $274,390 award to Earthen Carbon LLC aims to: 1) demonstrate viable integration of the SOM...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to identify early indicators of success in building rural innovation ecosystems that promote long-term community economic development and well-being. The Center On Rural Innovation Inc., a non-profit organization focused on rural economic development, will lead this 2-year research project using a mixed-methods approach. Key activities include: 1)...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $11,158,273 Cooperative Agreement grant under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to the Colorado School of Mines. The primary objective of this award, titled the "Commercial Carbon TerraVault III (CTV III) CO2 Storage Project", is to provide a safe, effective, and commercial-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) storage solution in the greater San Francisco and Sacramento area....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award to Vitidore, Inc. for $248,912 will fund the development of a machine learning-based software modeling system to quantify soil carbon sequestration and other agronomic metrics associated with a hybrid perennial grass cover crop used in specialty crop farming systems. The prototype software system aims to enable third-party verification of high-quality carbon offsets, provide feedback on important...

This $920,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) will support a range of forest management and conservation activities in Colorado. The grant, awarded to Colorado State University (CSU), will fund projects focused on developing genetically improved tree seeds and seedlings, producing and distributing tree seedlings for reforestation, undertaking landscape restoration initiatives, mitigating...

This $988,237 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to build an inclusive research ecosystem to support the Vermont economy. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: E-CORE RII: THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INITIATIVE FOR THE VERMONT ECONOMY" (STRIVE), is led by Bennington College Corporation, a private non-profit educational institution, in collaboration with Bennington College and the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) Program (CFDA 47.084) to Mvmnt-X, Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Menlo Park, CA. The project aims to develop new optical methods and illumination techniques to improve the productivity of microalgae cultivation systems for the capture of carbon dioxide and other pollutants generated by agricultural...

This $3,751,595 federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), supports a feasibility study for a regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) hub in the Pueblo region of Colorado. The overall objective is to evaluate the potential to capture and store at least 1 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually, with an initial capacity of at least 50,000 metric tons. The study will be executed in two phases...