Apply for a PNM Reduce Your Use Grant

Application closed

Applications for 2011 Reduce Your Use Grants are no longer being accepted.

Submission deadline was April 15, 2011 at 5 p.m. MDT.

Online application

Applicants must complete:

• Eligibility questionnaire
  • Tax-exempt, charitable 501(c)(3) organization
  • PNM business electric customer
  • Organization's focus meets funding guidelines
• Three-part online application
  • Primary contact information
  • Organization information
  • Grant proposal information

All applications must be submitted online.

Grant proposal

Tell us how your non-profit will use a Reduce Your Use Grant up to $5,000 to save energy and promote energy-efficiency throughout your community. You must provide a:

• Grant summary including:
  • Proposed ways to achieve greater energy efficiency
  • What activities/actions are planned to meet the stated goals
  • Project timeline
  • Total cost of the project

  Haven't decided on a project yet?

  Get some ideas on how you could use a Reduce Your Use Grant to improve the energy efficiency of your facility

• Community awareness statement including:
  • How you will use your organization's energy-efficiency successes to educate your clients, volunteers, and others about the importance of saving energy.
• What you will do to encourage others to take similar energy conservation measures.
  
  
• Outcome statement
  • Evaluation of the results
    
    
• Don't forget to electronically attach the optional project narrative to the grant application before submitting.

PNM Fund resources are limited; please take time to determine if your proposal fits our funding guidelines, before you submit an application.

• Applications for 2011 are no longer being accepted. The submission deadline was April 15, at 5 p.m. MDT.

Application instructions
Reduce Your Use Grants general information
Funding guidelines. What's funded, what's not?
Tips for writing a successful grant
Contact us if you still have questions

One application per non-profit organization, per grant cycle will be considered for funding by the PNM Fund. Each grant recipient is required to submit a final report showing the expenditure of PNM Fund funds and the results of the grant proposal. Maximum grant award is $5,000. The PNM Fund reserves the right to deny any request.