Deadline: 30-May-22
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced potential availability of cooperative agreements for the purpose of leveraging NRCS resources, addressing local natural resource issues, encouraging collaboration and developing state- and community-level conservation leadership in Nebraska.
Purpose
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The purpose of Conservation Collaboration Cooperative Agreements is to leverage NRCS and partner resources to:
- Assist communities and groups to build and strengthen local food projects that provide healthy food and economic opportunities.
- Improve urban conservation – messaging, training, and delivery of conservation in urban areas.
- Improve soil health.
- Improve landscape performance in dealing with water quantity issues; either excess or inadequate, and downstream impacts.
- Improve water quality.
- Improve habitat for local wildlife species of concern.
- Improve the environmental and economic performance of working agricultural lands.
- Improve the use and effectiveness of new technologies in agriculture.
Funding Information
- Federal Funding Floor and Ceiling Amounts: The estimated funding floor for this opportunity is $50,000, and the estimated funding ceiling is $2,000,000.
- Start Dates and Performance Periods: Projects may be between one and three years in duration. Applicants should plan their projects based on a project start date of September 1, 2022.
- Number of Awards: The agency expects to make up to 10 award(s).
Activities
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The agency will be substantially involved in the work performed under the agreement and will undertake activities such as the following:
- Authority to suspend work if specifications or work statements are not met.
- Review and approval of one stage of work before another may begin.
- Review and approval of substantive provisions of proposed sub-grants or contracts beyond existing Federal policy.
- NRCS and recipient collaboration or joint participation.
- Project monitoring to permit specified kinds of direction or redirection of the work because of interrelationships with and impacts on other projects.
- Highly prescriptive NRCS requirements that limit recipient discretion.
- Review and approval of key personnel.
- Direct NRCS operational involvement or participation during the activity.
Eligible Projects
Emphasis will be placed on projects that:
- Build technical capacity to implement Farm Bill Conservation Programs.
- Build technical capacity of NRCS and partner field conservation employees.
- Build the capacity of local partners to develop and implement effective projects.
- Leverage non-Federal and non-government resources to achieve positive natural resources conservation outcomes.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339405
