Opportunities

Please join NPS Chesapeake Gateways for a new opportunity—the Leader Academy for Gateways Communities in Cambridge, MD in February 2025! 

Join us for the region's foremost solar + land use event's return to the Richmond Marriott April 28-30 with three days and nights of high impact educational programming and exceptional networking at the 2025 Virginia Solar Summit! Co-hosted again with the Virginia Department of Energy, and brought to you by a Governor's Environmental Excellence Award gold medalist, Nevados, attendees can expect another comprehensive, collaborative, constructive, and extremely substantive solar energy development event, now in its sixth edition.

The “Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities” program was recently released with a deadline of December 12. The Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program provides TA to selected communities to address the community’s needs and interests. The program is geared toward communities that are relatively new to environmentally sustainable approaches but have a basic understanding of smart growth principles and how they could apply locally.

Do you need funding for your community Environmental Justice project? Join the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative in Washington, D.C., Wheeling, WV, or Charleston, WV for information about new grant opportunities!

The Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative targets federal resources to help communities and regions that have been affected by job losses in coal mining, coal power plant operations, and coal-related supply chain industries due to the changing economics of America’s energy production.

ARC’s Area Development program relies on a flexible “bottom up” approach to economic development, empowering Appalachian communities to work with their state governments to design impactful investment opportunities supporting our mission and investment priorities.

Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE) is ARC’s multi-state initiative that aims to drive large-scale, regional economic transformation through collaborative projects. With the additional funding provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), ARC launched ARISE to strengthen Appalachian business and industry, and to grow and support the development of new opportunities across multiple states.

RCAP oversees a number of environment-focused technical assistance and training programs as part of its mission to help rural and tribal communities build resilience, sustainability and improve quality of life. Through these efforts, RCAP builds local capacity to ensure these small, rural and tribal communities have safe, affordable and reliable access to drinking water, wastewater and solid waste disposal to protect public and environmental health. This key infrastructure is the foundation on which these communities can then build to more broadly innovate and thrive.

What does this program do?