Nonprofit organizations that provide energy-saving “weatherization” services to homes are set to get a major financial benefit via the federal economic-stimulus package, which sets energy efficiency and the creation of green jobs as major priorities, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Local governments, as well as private organizations, are jockeying for grants to provide energy audits and make weatherizing repairs, particularly for low-income families. Some states are asking charities to compete for some or all of their funds from the federal Weatherization Assistance Program.

Sheltering Arms Senior Services, a Houston charity that took in $350,000 last year, could get $22.2 million over two years and increase tenfold the number of homes it weatherizes annually.

For more on this and other parts of the economic-stimulus package that could benefit charities, see The Chronicle’s coverage.

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