ESRI's Conservation Program (ECP) grants may be useful to colleagues in the Remote Sensing group.

It looks like ArcGIS.com subscriptions are now available as an ECP grant option, entitling qualifying non-profit organizations, programs and individuals who are active in public service and nature conservation to free hosted web map services and 1-click cloud publishing from desktop.  

Other listed grant options from ESRI are here, including image processing software, online and cloud accounts, books, classes and user conference passes.

The grant request form is online here.