Deadline: 31-Mar-22
The Cinnabar Foundation is inviting applications for its General Operating grant program for unrestricted funds that enable an organization to carry out its mission.
They are intended to underwrite an organization’s administrative and infrastructure costs, assist with strategic financial and organizational capacity, and/or help maintain core programs and essential staff.
Conservation Program Areas
The Cinnabar Foundation supports a wide variety of organizations and special projects within the following Conservation Program Areas:
- Community Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture
- Promote community-based natural resource collaboration
- Enhance sustainable agriculture and ranching practices that preserve open space, wildlife habitat and corridors
- Conservation Education & Research
- Expand environmental awareness
- Grow the next generation ecological knowledge
- Support citizen science, field work and wilderness stewardship
- Environmental Advocacy
- Build awareness and take action on local, state and regional issues
- Prevent or mitigate irresponsible natural resource extraction
- Build a constitution that supports a clean and healthy environment
- Private Land Conservation
- Protect wildlife habitat and migration corridors
- Preserve strategic open space and agricultural lands
- Public Lands (access, advocacy, stewardship, wildlife habitat)
- Preserve, steward, protect and advocate on behalf of public lands
- Protect wildlife habitat and migration corridors
- Preserve and maintain public access
- Water Quality and Fisheries
- Preserve, protect, restore and advocate on behalf of clean water and fisheries
- Preserve and maintain public access.
Funding Priorities
Priority will be given to proposals that effectively address:
- Stewardship of Public Lands
- Land Use on Public and Private Lands
- Protecting Open Space and Wildlife Habitat from Subdivision and Development
- Maintaining or Restoring Landscape and Habitat Connectivity
- Indiscriminate Natural Resource Extraction
- Air and Water Quality and Quantity (water)
- Community Support and Advocacy for Sound Conservation and Environmental Policies
Funding Information
Applicants seeking Special Project support are advised that grant amounts will not exceed 50% of the total project budget, or $15,000, whichever is less.
Priority Projects
- Priority for Special Project Grants will be given to projects that align with the Cinnabar Foundation’s priorities and advance the Foundation’s strategic vision and conservation goals.
- Prior to making application, organizations are encouraged to review the Cinnabar Foundation’s Funding Priorities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be established, well managed 501(c)(3) organizations — or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal agent. If the latter, a letter from the fiscal agent confirming sponsorship of the project and 501(c)(3) status must accompany the application.
- Applicants must operate effective programs that serve Montana or the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
- Organizations that are offered a Special Project Grant must provide a 1:1 challenge match. This requires the organization to raise an equal amount of funding from other sources in order to claim its Cinnabar award. This must be a cash match — “in-kind” services will not qualify as meeting the match.
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For more information, visit https://www.thecinnabarfoundation.org/general-operating-grants.html
