Fall is a busy season for our Georgia Energy Cities as they prepare future projects, plan capital improvements, and identify priorities for the coming year. To help support those efforts, ECG’s Office of Economic & Community Development has compiled this month’s list of available grants and funding opportunities.

These resources can help advance community and economic development goals, support existing industries, improve infrastructure, and create opportunities for growth.

Our featured grants and funding opportunity for September come from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

US Environmental Protection Agency
Brownfield Job Training Grants
Type: Grant
Deadline: 9/23/2026

The objective of the Brownfields Job Training Program is to recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of solid and hazardous waste-impacted communities. This funding is intended to equip individuals with the skills needed to obtain full-time, sustainable employment. This program promotes the facilitation of activities related to assessment, cleanup, or preparation of contaminated sites, including brownfields, for reuse, while simultaneously building a local workforce with the skills needed to perform remediation work that is supportive of environmental protection and environmental health and safety.

A critical part of EPA’s Brownfields Job Training program is to further sustainable community revitalization by ensuring that all residents living in communities historically affected by economic disinvestment, health disparities, and disproportionate and adverse exposures to environmental contamination, which may include low-income, sensitive populations, Tribal, and Indigenous communities, have an opportunity to reap the benefits of revitalization and environmental cleanup. Brownfields Job Training Grants provide funding to attract, train, and retain a skilled local workforce by prioritizing unemployed and underemployed residents of communities impacted by a variety of waste facilities, blighted properties, and contaminated sites.

https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/fiscal-year-2027-brownfields-job-training-grants