Fiscal Year 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is open through March 8 at 5:00 p.m. AFG funds needed resources to equip and train emergency personnel, enhance efficiencies, and support community resilience.
Interested applicants can review the application checklist, AFG Cost-Share Calculator, AFG Narrative Development Toolkit, and AFG FAQs. Please reach out to your Member of Congress for a letter of support.
Eligible applicants include:
A fire department is an agency or organization having a formally recognized arrangement with a state, local, tribal or territorial authority (city, county, parish, fire district, township, town or other governing body) to provide fire suppression to a population within a geographically fixed primary first due response area.
Nonaffiliated EMS organizations is an agency or organization that is a public or private nonprofit emergency medical service entity providing medical transport that is not affiliated with a hospital and does not serve a geographic area in which emergency medical services are adequately provided by a fire department. FEMA considers the following as hospitals under the AFG Program:
- Clinics
- Medical centers
- Medical colleges or universities
- Infirmaries
- Surgery centers
- Any other institution, association, or foundation providing medical, surgical or psychiatric care and/or treatment for the sick or injured.
Applicants must have a log in for the FEMA GO grants management system, as well as an active System for Award Management (SAM) Registration at SAM.gov.
Please reach out with questions to the FEMA help desk at 1-866-274-0960 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday or email firegrants@fema.dhs.gov. You can also reach out to Alvin Mathew, FEMA Region 2 alvin.mathew@fema.dhs.gov.
Contact: Paul Penna, Senior Legislative Analyst, ppenna@njlm.org, 609-695-3481, x110.