The Southwest Border Resource Protection Program (SWBRPP) provides financial assistance to National Park Service (NPS) units, as well as educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, tribes, and local and state agencies to improve resource stewardship, achieve international cooperation, provide meaningful interpretation and conduct scientific research, which will lead to increased appreciation and understanding of the shared natural and cultural heritage along the international border with Mexico.
Donor Name: National Park Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Several National Parks located along the U.S. border with Mexico have recently experienced serious resource damage due to illegal cross border activities including drug traffickers and undocumented persons traversing the parks. Other national park units within the desert southwest have also experienced impacts to their natural and cultural resources. Thousands of miles of unauthorized roads and trails have been created, major ecological processes and the migration patterns of wildlife have been disrupted, important historic sites have been vandalized, and archaeological sites have been looted. Program funding is available for conducting scientific research and monitoring of species, as well as conservation, interpretation and preservation projects designed to help protect and preserve natural and cultural resources located near or along the international border.
The projects and activities will be individually authorized by separate awards, with each project or activity having a separate work plan and budget developed cooperatively between the NPS and the cooperator. Project categories include:
- Research & Monitoring
- Cultural Resource examples:
- Identification, research, and evaluation of archeological and historic sites
- National Register of Historic Places nominations
- National Historic Landmark nominations
- Natural Resource examples:
- Wildlife habitat management
- Inventory and monitoring of invasive plants and animals
- Impacts from climate change to endangered species
- Assessments of the effects of border activities on threatened and endangered species
- Cultural Resource examples:
- Conservation & Preservation
- Cultural Resource examples:
- Stabilization, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic structures, archeological sites, trails and landscapes
- Conservation of collections
- Natural Resource examples:
- Reestablishment of natural processes and ecological systems
- Monitoring of resource damage caused by human developments
- Protection and conservation endangered and threatened species
- Integrated pest management planning
- Restoration of native wildlife and vegetation, including removal of exotic species
- Cultural Resource examples:
- Interpretation, Education & Tourism
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: ($275,000.00).
- An estimated range of $10,000 to $55,000 of funding is anticipated for each award.
Grant Period
April 1, 2026 – December 31, 2027.
Eligibility Criteria
In accordance with 54 USC §101702(a), §101702(b), and §101703, this funding opportunity is limited to educational institutions, non-profit organizations, state and local governments and tribal governments. For profit organizations, foreign organizations, and governments outside the United States and its territories are not eligible to apply.
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Special district governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
