Deadline: 27-Sep-22
The Department of Commerce is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2022 Coastal Habitat Restoration and Resilience Grants for Underserved Communities to support opportunities for underserved communities, tribes, and/or tribal entities to meaningfully engage in coastal habitat restoration activities.
Through this funding opportunity, NOAA intends to support capacity building and restoration project activities that have the greatest potential to lead to habitat restoration that enhances resilience of underserved communities in marine, estuarine, coastal, and Great Lakes areas.
This funding opportunity will invest in building organizational capacity and supporting restoration activities that benefit underserved communities and enhance their resilience to climate hazards. Capacity building may include (but is not limited to) participation in municipal or regional-scale resilience planning, project planning and feasibility studies, stakeholder engagement, proposal development for future funding, and outreach and education.
Priorities
Proposals may include:
- Capacity building, which may include participation in municipal or regional-scale resilience planning, project planning and feasibility studies, stakeholder engagement, proposal development for future funding, and outreach and education; and/or
- Restoration project activities, including for demonstration projects, which may include engineering and design, permitting, on-the-ground restoration, and preand post-project implementation monitoring.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $10,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $75,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- State governments
- County governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- As part of their applications, applicants must demonstrate their status as, or connection to, an underserved community. This status or connection will be reviewed by NOAA as part of the initial eligibility review, and through the application merit review process. NOAA will validate the applicant’s description against publicly available demographic and economic data.
- A partnership with an underserved community may involve proposed subawards, contracts, informal collaboration, or other engagement with, or approval of, one or more underserved communities, including tribes or tribal entities. The application will be evaluated based on the strength of the partnership with the underserved community or communities.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=341531