Funding Opportunities
Open Funding Opportunities: ​​​​​​
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2025: Workforce Development for the Energy Transition, Gulf Research Program Grants
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program (GRP) is seeking applications for sustainable, data-driven, industry-engaged projects that will provide education and training opportunities to students ages 16-25 and ready participants to become part of the future energy workforce. This funding opportunity is open to applicants from educational institutions, non-profit organizations, state and local governments, and tribal entities working in the U.S. Gulf States. The applicants should demonstrate how they will partner with local employers and industry associations to use data and evidence to identify skill gaps and labor market needs, design relevant curricula and credentials, and provide education, training, job placement, and/or retention services to participants that will enable those participants to acquire the skills and credentials necessary to join the future energy workforce. A total of $3M is available for this funding opportunity. Applicants must request between $100,000 and $750,000 for projects, commensurate with the scope of work, that are between 1 and 3 years in duration.
Application deadline: June 25, 2025
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The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF)
NCF seeks to connect with innovative partners and change makers who are driving impact. NCF seeks to learn from, work with, and support organizations that share their commitment to advancing racial, economic, and environmental justice (REEJ). NCF offers two types of funding opportunities: grants and PRIs. Successful grant and PRI proposals will align with NCF’s interconnected goals of REEJ focus areas. NCF anticipates awarding six to eight new grants per REEJ focus area with a focus on initiatives in the US South.
Closing June 30, 2025.
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NCDEQ Water Resources Development Program Flood Resiliency Grants
NC Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ), Division of Mitigation Services (DMS) is developing the North Carolina Flood Resiliency Blueprint, a state flood planning process to increase community resiliency to flooding throughout the state's river basins. NCDEQ Division of Water Resources (DWR) has been allocated a portion of Blueprint funding to offer cost-share grants for projects that reduce flooding or increase flood resiliency. These projects must be located within one of the following six river basins: Cape Fear, French Broad, Lumber, Neuse, Tar Pamlico and White Oak.
Closing June 30, 2025.
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Local Environmental Impact Programs, Duke Energy Foundation
Duke Energy Foundation is accepting grant applications from eligible organizations for a $25,000 grant. Successful applications will describe the local environmental impact program and how the organization will use the funds. Examples of potential proposals include:
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Projects strengthening thriving natural environments, including access to green space, in historically underserved communities.
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Resiliency projects that prepare communities for and mitigate against the effects of climate change.
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Environmental projects supporting land conservation; clean water; and biodiversity of plant and animal species.
Applications due June 30, 2025.
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Earth Rising Foundation Grants
Grants range from $200 to $20,000 to promote bold, bottom-up action on climate change. We fund projects in a range of focus areas: Indigenous voices, regenerative agriculture, climate intersections, sustainable visions, and youth activism. All funds must be disbursed through an existing US-based nonprofit.
Deadline: June 30, 2025
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Enduring Impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability - National Geographic Society
This funding opportunity seeks projects focused on the archaeology of sustainable communities and landscapes in changing climates. Proposals for both research and conservation projects will be considered. Competitive projects will have positive, measurable, and sustainable benefits that may include strengthening community land tenure or resource rights, empowering connections with traditional foodways and other heritage, and/or helping to support transmission of ecological knowledge and practices. The braiding of archaeological research and the knowledge systems of local, Indigenous, and descendant communities has produced many fruitful collaborations over recent years. As such, strong applications should comprise teams who have appropriate networks and technical expertise. Up to $50,000 will be awarded per project.
Applications Due: July 1, 2025
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Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration: 2026 REPI Challenge Request for Proposals
The 2026 REPI Challenge will focus on safeguarding strategic missions across the United States and its territories to restore trust in the military, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence. This year, the REPI Program may provide up to $20 million in funding for activities in the vicinity of DOD installations and ranges that support the 10 U.S. Code (U.S.C.) § 2684a, 10 U.S.C. § 2679, and 16 U.S.C. § 670c-1 statutory authorities by preventing land use conflicts (including unwanted foreign investment), alleviating environmental restrictions, and enhancing military installation resilience.
Eligible applicants vary depending on the authority being leveraged for a REPI project, but they may include states, local governments, Indian Tribes, private organizations through cost-sharing agreements, and heads of Federal departments and agencies through interagency agreements. Applicants for the 2026 REPI Challenge must demonstrate how the project will preserve readiness and defense capabilities, protect our warriors’ access to open testing and training areas, and reduce risks to critical infrastructure across defense communities.
Pre-proposals due July 3, 2025
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State Economic and Infrastructure Development (SEID) Grant Program, Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
This grant cycle will fund projects that revitalize and transform communities, spurring economic development in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Eligible projects include public infrastructure projects categorized as basic public, telecommunications and transportation, and projects to support basic health care, access to affordable housing, business and workforce development, resource conservation and preservation, tourism and recreation.
Full Application Release Date: June 20, 2025
Full Application Deadline: July 18, 2025
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These grants support general operating cost or specific projects and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization. Grant announcements occur approximately four months after the deadline. Priorities: regenerative and organic farming, food production workers’ health and safety, climate justice, healthy food access, inclusive outdoor access, indoors and outdoors safe from pollution. Typical grants range from $5,000 - $50,000 and last for one year.
Applications due August 1, 2025. ​
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Ocean Exchange Neptune Awards 2025
Awards ($100,000 each) will be given to the solutions that advance our understanding of the ocean and help minimize our impact on these resources, even while using them for human benefit, resulting in more resilient bodies of water including healthy marine life and coastlines. The Neptune Awards are broad based and cover all maritime, blue economy, ocean environmental, and coastal resiliency topics, as well as data gathering and analysis.
Applications due August 1, 2025.
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Planning projects: Applications accepted June 1 - Aug. 1, 2025.
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Communities that have yet to perform a vulnerability assessment pursuant to statutory requirements will be prioritized for funding.
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Projects will be funded with Fiscal Year 2025-26 funds.
Implementation projects to be included in the Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan: Applications accepted July 1 - Sept. 1, 2025.
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Local governments are eligible to apply for implementation project funding after conducting a vulnerability assessment, evaluation, report, or other similar document that demonstrates a risk of flooding or risks due to sea level rise to a critical asset or the project area. The Comprehensive Statewide Flood Vulnerability and Sea Level Rise Assessment may also be used to demonstrate this risk.
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Projects will be funded with Fiscal Year 2026-27 funds.
The Resilient Florida Program includes a selection of grants that are available to counties, municipalities, special districts with specific responsibilities and regional resilience entities. To effectively address the impacts of flooding and sea level rise that the state faces, eligible applicants may receive funding assistance to analyze and plan for vulnerabilities, as well as implement projects for adaptation and mitigation.
Regional resilience entities: please contact Resilience@FloridaDEP.gov for more information on how to apply.
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TD Charitable Foundation Regional Grants
Founded in 2002, the TD Charitable Foundation endeavors to be a responsible corporate citizen through its mission to support, respect and improve the quality of life in the diverse communities we serve. We primarily fund programs aligned to one or more of the four drivers of our corporate citizenship platform, the TD Ready Commitment, with special consideration given to those that benefit historically underserved communities and low-to-moderate income people.
Drivers of the TD Ready Commitment:
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Financial Security
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Vibrant Planet
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Connected Communities
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Better Health
Next Application Deadlines: August 1, 2025
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Climate + Health Excellent Centers (CHEX) Award
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund announces the Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers award. This is a new institutional research and training opportunity that will help institutions bridge the gaps between fields that will have important roles to play in understanding the impacts of climate change on human health and diminishing their effects. This grant will support new discovery toward defining the health impacts of climate change, developing potential interventions, translating discovery science into practical application, and outward-facing work that can help public understanding of Climate + Health or strengthen connections between research and communities whose health has been harmed by climate change. New institutional awards of up to $10,000,000.
Proposals due August 7, 2025​​​
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Bay Mini-Grants - Tampa Bay Estuary Program
Bay Mini-Grants are competitive awards that fund environmental restoration and education projects in the Tampa Bay watershed with a focus on community-led initiatives. This funding program stimulates environmental stewardship and science literacy among those who live, work, and play around Tampa Bay.
The maximum award is $5,000 per project. Schools, nonprofits, businesses, and governments are eligible to apply.
Deadline: September 10, 2025
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2025 Port Infrastructure Development Program
PIDP assists in funding eligible projects for the purpose of improving the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to ports.
Eligible Applicants are:
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A State;
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A political subdivision of a State, or a local government
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A public agency or publicly chartered authority established by 1 or more
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A special purpose district with a transportation function;
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An Indian Tribe, or a consortium of Indian Tribes;
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A multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities described above;
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A lead entity described above jointly with a private entity or group of private entities, including the owners or operators of a facility, or collection of facilities at a port.
It is anticipated that roughly $500 million in funding will be available for the FY 2025 funding opportunity.
Deadline: September 10, 2025
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Ocean Exchange 2025 Collegiate Call for Solutions
If you're working on a breakthrough idea that supports ocean or coastal resilience, apply for a chance to pitch at Ocean Exchange’s event in Ft. Lauderdale, Oct 26–28, and win one of three $10,000 awards. Open to undergraduate, graduate, and recent grads from a recognized postsecondary educational institution in North America. Register here.
Deadline: Sept 17, 2025
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National Sea Grant Law Center 2024-2027 Program Development Funds
The National Sea Grant Law Center (Law Center) is accepting proposals for small-scale research projects that seek to address timely or pressing legal questions related to ocean, coastal, or Great Lakes law. This funding is intended to support emerging research needs or innovative pilot research projects that may eventually develop into larger, full scale research projects. They are also intended to help a Sea Grant program build legal capacity by generating legal research findings that can be incorporated into extension, education, and communication programming. Requests for Program Development (PD) funds are limited to a maximum request of $10,000 and a one-year project period.
LOIs for one-year projects will be accepted on a rolling basis through August 1, 2026.
Full proposals for one-year projects will be accepted on a rolling basis through October 1, 2026.
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Applications accepted on a rolling basis: ​
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Community Disaster Resilience Fund (Spin Global)
The Community Disaster Resilience Fund exists to mobilize private capital towards public benefit projects that significantly reduce exposure to threats and hazards while increasing economic opportunities, especially for underserved and historically marginalized populations. We are working with private and public entities to make generational investments in community resilience measured by their social and economic impacts. The Community Disaster Resilience Fund is directing private equity and pension fund investments toward infrastructure projects with a minimum value of $100 million up to $50 Billion USD. We are currently seeking project applications from entities with an Investment Grade Rating (IGR) of Baa3 or BBB- or above by Moody's. Our initial areas of interest include energy, communications, transportation, and water projects. The Fund seeks projects that will both reduce risk to disasters and enhance economic opportunities in underserved and marginalized communities through private-public partnership.
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The Duke Energy Foundation is focused on strengthening and uplifting communities with grant funding. The foundation accepts grant applications for $20,000 and less throughout the year on a rolling basis for the following focus areas: Vibrant Economies, Climate Resiliency, Opportunity and Inclusion.
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The Civic Foundation awards grants to small, local nonprofits committed to North Carolinians with the goal of making a deeper impact on community-based charities that meet specific needs of their neighbors. They focus on areas of health care, housing, human services and hunger. Up to $25,000 may be awarded each quarter.
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National Grants - Ben & Jerry's Foundation
The National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO) offers two-year unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small (budgets under $350,000), constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories. The broad goals of this grant program are to further social and environmental justice, with the primary purpose to support local leadership and grassroots organizing activities.
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We support efforts that strengthen the ability of communities to determine their own economic, environmental and social well-being, and that help people control those forces that affect their lives. These efforts may:
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promote economic justice and development through community organizing, coalition building and policy reform efforts;
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work to prevent the disposal of toxics in communities, and to link environmental issues with economic and social justice;
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link community-based economic and environmental justice organizing to national and international reform efforts.
The Foundation provides grants for general support, projects, and collaborative efforts. We also welcome innovative proposals designed to build the capacity of social change organizations working in our areas of interest. Priority is given to organizations with annual budgets of under $1 million.
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Small Business Infrastructure Grant Program | NC Commerce
Local governments in North Carolina located in areas impacted by Hurricane Helene can apply for grants from the new Small Business Infrastructure Grant Program (SmBIZ), a $55 million dollar fund designed to rebuild the damaged infrastructure that small businesses rely on to operate and thrive.
Timeline: there will be a continuously open grant window, with first awards announced June 30, 2025.
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One SC Fund: Disaster Response
The One SC Fund is now accepting grant applications from nonprofits to support Hurricane Helene relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts.
The One SC Fund provides grants to nonprofits to fund disaster relief, recovery and rebuilding assistance programs from state-declared emergencies. Organizations may request up to $25,000.When applications are open, they are reviewed on a rolling basis. Declinations are sent via email. All organizations receiving an award have six months to expense grant funds.​
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Conservation - Richard King Mellon Foundation
Our application portal is open and accepting grant applications for funding through its Conservation program. All applicants should apply using the General Application. Applications may be submitted on a rolling basis.
The Foundation’s Conservation program has four investment areas: habitat conservation; stewardship; activation; and sustainable communities. The Foundation uses innovative financial approaches across all four investment areas, including program-related investments (PRIs) and other mechanisms to maximize the impact of its funding.
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Truist Foundation Western NC Recovery and Resiliency Fund - Center for Disaster Philanthropy
CDP will address medium- and long-term needs to help strengthen the region’s housing and small businesses. Our grantmaking will be guided by our assessment of damages, systemic marginalization, community capacity and unmet needs to support the area’s equitable recovery.
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Rapid Response to Extreme Weather Events Across Food and Agricultural Systems funding by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Applications must be submitted within 45 days of an extreme weather event and disaster. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a continuous basis.
Glenn W. Bailey Foundation: Grant funding for projects that support educational opportunities for STEM learning (including college/university programs) and “innovative environmental projects.”
Accepts Letters of Intent on a monthly basis.
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The Rural Water Loan Fund (RWLF) is a funding program specifically designed to meet the unique needs of small water and wastewater utilities. The RWLF provides low-cost loans for short-term repair costs, small capital projects, or pre-development costs associated with larger projects. The RWLF was established through a grant from the USDA/RUS, and repaid funds used to replenish the fund and make new loans. Disaster recovery or other emergency loans are available. Loan amounts may not exceed $200,000 or 75% of the total project cost, whichever is less.​
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Natural Hazards Center
Quick Response Research Award Program
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Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for its initiative focused on climate change and its effects on workers and work. We encourage freelance and staff journalists with ambitious enterprise and strong in-depth reporting ideas to apply for Pulitzer Center support to cover the intersection of labor and climate in their communities.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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Funding Databases: ​​​
Flood Funding Finder from the American Flood Coalition: An interactive website to simplify the complex federal grants system and to help communities identify and prioritize opportunities to fund flood resilience. ​​
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Georgia Department Of Natural Resources Division: Grant Opportunities
Stay up to date on current and future grant opportunities available through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
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​Local Infrastructure Hub Funding Pathfinder Tool and Grant Search
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Nature-Based Solutions Funding Database
National Wildlife Federation’s interactive database for communities interested in pursuing federal funding and/or technical assistance for nature-based solutions.
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Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS) Funding Opportunities
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The EPA’s Water Finance Clearinghouse has two searchable databases: Funds and Resources. The Funds database contains potential funding sources for water infrastructure. The Resources database contains resources such as reports, case studies, and webinars about financing mechanisms and approaches that can help communities access capital to meet their water infrastructure needs. The Clearinghouse also hosts Water Finance learning modules which provide information on different financing sources and funding topics related to water infrastructure investments.​
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NC Resilience Exchange Funding Database
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Grant Writing Assistance and Funding Resources:
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​BIL, IRA, and ARPA Funding Resources for States - The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS)
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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Resources from NOAA) webpage contains information, announcements, and resources related to investments funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).
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EPA
Climate Resilience and Adaptation Funding Toolbox
The Climate Resilience and Adaptation Funding Toolbox contains resources to help EPA’s funding applicants and recipients make climate-informed investments.
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Funding and Financing Coastal Resilience (NOAA Office for Coastal Management)
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Funding for Climate Justice: This site was created to help the climate justice movement in the U.S. better understand federal funding opportunities and relevant movement resources. This website also serves as a hub for information on legal, technical, financial, and other resources to protect climate funding from clawbacks and communities from harm. Among the publicly available resources we have collected and summarized, you will find comprehensive overviews of what funding is at risk, trackers on federal orders and actions as well as trackers for movement litigation initiatives, hubs for locating retracted federal data, and recommendations for how to protect your organization and your funding legally.
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Grant Proposal Development Resources (NOAA Office for Coastal Management )
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Hometown Strong Rural Grants Program
The Hometown Strong Rural Grants team focuses on getting federal dollars into rural communities and providing the capacity, training, and finance planning support these communities need in order to be successful in federal funding. We provide direct, free-of-charge grantwriting support to rural towns, counties, and regions to increase federal funding for projects within North Carolina, offering a comprehensive approach to long-term financial planning through grant strategies that leverage federal, state, and private funds.
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Inflation Reduction Act (Resources from NOAA) webpage contains information, announcements, and resources related to investments funded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
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Resources for Assistance and Technical Training in Region 4 on Environmental Justice
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