Energy Industry Experts Offer Grant Writing Training and Grant
Development Services to Help Partners Access Growing Funding
Streams
DETROIT, April 29,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- One of the most respected
program management firms in the American energy industry, Solutions
for Energy Efficient Logistics LLC (SEEL), today announced a new
initiative to help organizations successfully access major energy
and environmental project funding streams that are beginning to
flow across the country.
"Our newest offerings build on SEEL's
real-world successes helping small nonprofit organizations access
grant funding," explained Scott Alan
Davis, vice president of inclusion and economic development
for SEEL.
Known as the SEEL Learning Institute, these new programs and
offerings leverage SEEL's 15 years of institutional expertise in
designing and managing programs that help government agencies,
utilities and other corporate funders, nonprofits and other
stakeholders meet energy and environmental program targets and
achieve their strategic goals.
The SEEL Learning Institute's first program is the Grant Writing
Workshop, where participants will learn best practices and
effective techniques for program development, budgeting and
evaluation, grant management and effective partnership management.
It is open to nonprofits, for-profit corporations, government
agencies or any other kind of organization that seeks to improve
its ability to access grant funding in the energy and environmental
space.
The first Grant Writing Workshop will take place on May 17, 2024 in Detroit. The first virtual class is being
offered on June 21st. For more
information or to register, visit
http://www.SEELLLC.com/GrantWriting.
SEEL is also making its experts available on a contract basis to
design and produce proposal packages for federal, state, private,
corporate or foundation grants. These services are offered by
opportunity and with a range of supports and fees to meet
organizations' specific needs.
"Our newest offerings build on SEEL's real-world successes
helping small nonprofit organizations access grant funding,"
explained Scott Alan Davis, vice
president of inclusion and economic development for SEEL. "We
piloted our Grant Writing training program in Illinois last year, with the support of a
utility partner there that wanted to help community-based
organizations in their service area participate in programs funded
by that state's Climate and Equitable Jobs Act of 2021. Of the
eight groups in our first Grant Writing classes there, five of them
report having successfully applied for grants since completing the
program."
According to the White House, the Inflation Reduction Act alone
contains 119 funding programs related to clean energy, climate
mitigation and resilience, agriculture, and conservation-related
programs. These initiatives are spread across a wide variety of
federal agencies including the Departments of Agriculture,
Commerce, Energy, Homeland Security, Housing & Urban
Development, Interior and Transportation, as well as the
Environmental Protection Agency, General Services Administration,
Council on Environmental Quality and even the U.S. Post Office.
Other federal and state laws, as well as initiatives by
for-profit and nonprofit utilities and grantmaking foundations
across the country, offer thousands of other opportunities for
program funding. Many of these programs offer specific
opportunities for initiatives that focus on serving low-income,
ethnic minority or other underserved communities, which SEEL has
expertise in engaging as a nationally certified minority business
enterprise (MBE) service-disabled, veteran-owned (DVBE) energy
efficiency program implementation contractor.
"The federal government, state governments and the energy
industry are recognizing that achieving our national energy and
environmental goals requires engagement with the entire breadth and
depth of diverse communities that make up our nation," said Dr.
E'Lois Thomas, president of SEEL. "That makes it more important
than ever that we help organizations that are rooted in those
communities to step forward and connect with the agencies and other
funders who are trying to improve equity, inclusion and
environmental justice across our country."
SEEL, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this month, is known
and respected throughout America's energy industry for its work in
program management, workforce development and other areas. SEEL and
its leadership team have received many high-profile awards and
recognitions, including being named the National Minority Supplier
Development Council's Supplier of the Year in 2019. Its energy
industry-specific honors include the 2018 Prime Supplier Leadership
Award and 2021 Business Diversity Award from the Edison Electric
Institute, the trade association for the nation's investor-owned
electric utilities.
About SEEL
SEEL, LLC (Solutions for Energy Efficient Logistics) is an
award-winning implementation contractor that builds and grows
energy efficiency programs across the U.S. Founded on the
principles of efficiency, innovation, sustainability, and
community, SEEL facilitates the strategies, training and services
that allow utility industry leaders, small and commercial
businesses, and residential communities to work together to achieve
clean energy goals that benefit all. Founded in 2009, SEEL is
headquartered in Detroit, Mich.
and operates offices in Michigan,
Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky and elsewhere across the country. For
more information, visit http://www.SEELLC.com.
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