 The North Carolina
Green Business
Fund Program
2007-2008 Solicitation
The Board is pleased to
announce the publication of a Notice of Solicitation
for
Grant Applications under the North Carolina
Green Business Fund Program for
FY2008.
Solicitation |
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Information |
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The
NORTH CAROLINA GREEN BUSINESS FUND (the
“Program”) is a grant award program authorized
by the N.C. General Assembly during the
2006-2007 Legislative Session. Under this
Program, grant awards may be made to North
Carolina organizations in support of
competitively assessed projects focused on
the following three Priority Areas:
- Development of the biofuels industry
in the State.
- Development of the green building
industry in the State, and
- Attraction and leverage of private
sector investments and entrepreneurial
growth in environmentally conscious
clean technology and renewable energy
products and businesses.
The North Carolina Board of Science and
Technology (the “Board”), a Division of the
Department of Commerce, through its
Executive Director, has been charged with
developing, administering and directing the
Program. Pursuant to North Carolina Session Law
2007-323, including §143B-437.4 through §143B-437.8 of the North Carolina General
Statutes, The North Carolina Board of
Science and Technology approved final
Guidelines
covering the application and review process for the
Program in January 2008. The North Carolina
Board of Science and Technology, through
its Executive Director, administers
this Program in the manner set forth
in the
Guidelines. The Guidelines describe
the structure and administration of
the Program.
The North Carolina Green Business
Fund is designed to award funds to
North Carolina small for-profit and
non-profit businesses, and State and
local governmental entities, to
encourage the development and
commercialization of promising green
technologies
(Please Note: Specific
solicitations may limit eligibility
to a subset of entities; please read
solicitations carefully for
eligibility requirements). This Program is
designed to encourage the
development of commercial
innovations and applications in the
following three designated priority
areas:
- The development of the biofuels
industry in North Carolina. Grants made
in this category may target projects
that maximize the development,
production, distribution, retail
infrastructure, and consumer purchase of
biofuels and workforce development in
these areas.
- The development of the green
building industry in North Carolina.
Grants made in this category may target
the development of environmentally
conscious and energy efficient green
building processes, including but not
limited to supporting the installation,
certification, or distribution of green
building materials; energy audits;
marketing and sales of green building
technology in North Carolina; and
workforce development for green building
processes.
- Attracting and leveraging private
sector investment and entrepreneurial
growth in environmentally conscious
clean technologies and renewable energy
products and businesses. Grants in this
category may target renewable energy
deployment; biomass energy projects;
waste reclamation for energy;
liquefaction; implementation of
innovative energy efficiency
technologies; clean distributed
generation infrastructure improvements;
and other promising technologies.
The
FY2007-2008 Program Solicitation is
now available for download.
North Carolina Green Business Fund
Program Solicitation - FY 2007-2008
(1.2MB)
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Submission Dates:
February 1, 2008, through April 30, 2008
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Application Deadline
5:00pm, April 30, 2008
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Funding Levels:
Up
to a maximum of $100,000,
subject to eligibility, funding
availability, and other
requirements.
Please
Note: During the FY 2007-2008
Solicitation, eligible applicants are
limited to businesses with fewer than one
hundred (100) employees.
Submissions for the North Carolina Green Business Fund 2008-01 Solitictation are now closed. (April 30th, 5:00 pm).
All Program reports under this Solicitation
must be submitted electronically through
our sciGrants website.
Under the terms of the Grant
Agreement under which awards are
made under this program, an
Interim Progress Report is
required when an invoice is
submitted by a Grantee at project
mid-point in accordance with the
payment schedule outlined in the
Grant Agreement, and at a minimum,
every six months after receipt of
the Award, regardless of the Award
disbursement schedule, until
submission of the Final Report. The
Board, in its discretion, may
require these reports more
frequently.
Submitting Reports: If your
application is approved for funding, you
will be required to submit all reports
through the sciGrants system. If Match
Funds are awarded to your Organization,
links to all of the reports will
automatically appear under your login
account in the system. Links to required
Reports will not appear until your
Application has been processed and funding
has been awarded.
In addition, all Recipients that receive,
use, or expend a Grant Award within the
Recipient’s fiscal year must comply with all
applicable State Grant Compliance Reporting
Requirements, as described in the
Solicitation and Guidelines .
These require that the Recipient file the
specific information described in the
Solicitation with the Board within six (6)
months after the end of the Recipient’s
fiscal year in which a Grant
Award, was received. In satisfying this
requirement, all Recipients must use the
reporting forms developed by the Office of
State Budget and Management and of the
Office of the State Auditor, and submit
electronic versions of these forms through
our sciGrants website. The
Solicitation provides information on these
forms.
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the contact information below.
The North Carolina Board of Science
& Technology
ATTN: R.V. Rikard, Green Business Fund Grant Administrator
301 N. Wilmington Street
1326 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1326
E-mail:
ncbst@nccommerce.com or rvrikard@nccommerce.com
(Subject line: FY0708 Green Business Fund
Solicitation)
Phone: 919-716-0110
Fax: 919-733-8356
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