Deadline: 22-Apr-22
The Network for Landscape Conservation is pleased to announce the 2022 funding round of the Landscape Conservation Catalyst Fund.
The Catalyst Fund strives to accelerate the pace and practice of collaborative landscape conservation across the United States by investing in Landscape Conservation Partnerships. The Fund couples financial support (through a competitive grant program) with capacity-building support (through in-depth Peer Learning) to catalyze Partnerships to achieve long-term conservation goals. A portion of the Fund is reserved specifically to advance Indigenous landscape conservation priorities.
Purpose
The Fund makes strategic investments in strengthening the collaborative infrastructure and coordination capacity of place-based, community-grounded Landscape Conservation Partnerships—building in landscapes across the country the enduring collaborative capacity that is necessary to achieve bigger, better, and more durable conservation and stewardship over the long term.
Fund Parameters
Landscape Conservation Partnerships: The Catalyst Fund focuses its investments on Landscape Conservation Partnerships that reflect the following characteristics:
- Place-based: Focuses on a geographically explicit landscape.
- Long-term Conservation Purpose: Pursues a long-term and multi-issue conservation vision and purpose, with clearly identified conservation goals and outcomes that encompass people and nature.
- Collaboratively Governed: Embraces collaborative leadership that ensures participation in decisions from a breadth of partners.
- Community-grounded and Inclusive: Engages a breadth of stakeholders on the landscape, and bridges sectors, interests, and cultures to find common ground.
- Informed: Uses ecological, cultural, traditional, and/or social information to guide its work and build a shared foundation of knowledge.
Landscape Conservation Partnerships
The Catalyst Fund focuses its investments on Landscape Conservation Partnerships that reflect the following characteristics:
- Place-based:
- Focuses on a geographically explicit landscape.
- Long-term Conservation Purpose:
- Pursues a long-term and multi-issue conservation vision and purpose, with clearly identified conservation goals and outcomes that encompass people and nature.
- Collaboratively Governed:
- Embraces collaborative leadership that ensures participation in decisions from a breadth of partners.
- Community-grounded and Inclusive:
- Engages a breadth of stakeholders on the landscape, and bridges sectors, interests, and cultures to find common ground.
- Informed:
- Uses ecological, cultural, traditional, and/or social information to guide its work and build a shared foundation of knowledge.
Funding Information
- Approximately $335,000 is available for grant making in 2022, with 13-16 grant awards anticipated.
- Applicants may request one- or two-year grants of up to $25,000 in total.
Additional Information:
- Grant funds can be used for Partnership coordination roles and/or for costs associated with other collaborative process activities such as convenings, communications, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning and conservation prioritization.
- Funding cannot be used for direct project implementation such as trail building, land management activities, or the acquisition of land or conservation easements. Funding also cannot be used for academic research; capital campaigns or capital improvements; office equipment; or political lobbying.
Eligibility Criteria
- They invite partnerships led by Indigenous peoples, organizations, and communities working to advance Indigenous landscape conservation priorities to apply.
- Indigenous-led Partnerships may focus wholly on sovereign tribal lands and/or on conserving Indigenous interests, territories, and rights across a broader landscape.
- Applicants must be U.S.-based non-profit organizations with IRS 501(c) (3) status. Indigenous-led Partnership applicants in the American West are also eligible to apply directly as Tribal Nations or under IRS Code, Section 7871. For Landscape Conservation Partnerships without formal IRS status, another organization may apply on behalf of a Partnership.
- Previous grant recipients are not currently eligible to reapply for additional grant support.
For more information, visit https://landscapeconservation.org/catalyst-fund/
