CARE Opens 2023 Grant Cycle

Dalton, GA, June 14, 2023-Carpet America Recovery Effort’s (CARE) California Carpet Stewardship Program has opened its annual cycles of capital improvements and product testing grants to advance post-consumer carpet (PCC) collection, recycling and end-product manufacturing. 

The Capital Improvement Grant Program Cycle 6Awill provide funding for capital improvements that will establish, increase, improve and enhance additional California-generated post‑consumer carpet (collection, reuse, recycling and/or utilization of recycled-content product manufacturing. This Cycle will accept requests up to $500,000 per project and will prefer California-based entities. Applications are due on August 1, and projects must reach completion by December 31, 2025. Visit CARE’s grants webpage for full details about project requirements, preferred projects and the application process.

The Product Development/Testing Grant Program Cycle 5B will provide funding for activities that focus on product testing, research and development and similar market development activities to improve and enhance post‑consumer carpet (PCC) recycling and utilization of recycled PCC-content product manufacturing. This Cycle will accept requests up to $50,000 per project and will prefer California-based entities. Applications are due on August 1, and projects must reach completion by December 31, 2024. Visit CARE’s grants webpage for full details about project requirements, preferred projects and the application process.

The Program’s Cycle 5M, Micro Grants for Collection/Reuse (up to $15,000 per project), is still open to California-based entities until further notice; interested parties may apply through CARE’s easy-to-use online grant application form.