The Wildlife Conservation Society is pleased to announce a new round of grantmaking through its Climate Adaptation Fund. This program supports projects that advance learning and scale effective climate adaptation interventions to help wildlife, ecosystems, and the people who value and depend on them. The Climate Adaptation Fund is made possible through the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Donor Name: Wildlife Conservation Society
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: U.S Territories
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/08/2022
Size of the Grant: $50,000 to $300,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The WCS Climate Adaptation Fund (“the Fund”) strives to increase the pace and scale of impact in adaptation for wildlife and ecosystems by increasing innovation, accelerating learning, and mainstreaming proven adaptation approaches.
Categories
The WCS Climate Adaptation Fund will provide up to $2.5 million in competitive grants in 2022. Awards will be made to non-profit conservation organizations applying for one of two grant categories:
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Adaptation Implementation projects that apply innovative approaches to conservation actions designed to help wildlife and ecosystems adapt to climate change. These projects must include a monitoring plan to inform adaptive management decisions and evaluate progress towards project outcomes.
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Adaptation Mainstreaming projects that work to facilitate the conditions necessary to increase the uptake of an adaptation approach with known benefits.
Priorities
- Adaptation Implementation projects must take an innovative approach to implement conservation actions designed to anticipate and respond to projected or observed climate change impacts to maximize the long-term success of their conservation work. We define innovation broadly, including but not limited to introducing new techniques, tools, concepts, or partnerships that increase climate adaptation benefits. Supported projects aim to sustain dynamic ecological processes, landscape functionality, and species assemblages, as opposed to single-species or historical conditions that may not be possible to maintain in a changing climate. Implementation projects must include a monitoring plan to inform adaptive management decisions and evaluate progress towards project outcomes.
- Adaptation Mainstreaming projects must be designed to increase the uptake of a demonstrated adaptation approach. Adaptation approaches previously funded by a Climate Adaptation Fund implementation grant are eligible to apply for a mainstreaming grant; also eligible are adaptation approaches and organizations that have not been previously supported by a grant from the Fund. This grant category is intended to support projects that will address social, political, regulatory, economic, market, or other factors that are barriers or opportunities for increasing the adoption of an adaptation approach. Mainstreaming projects should enable others to replicate the focal adaptation approach; these grants are not intended for applicant organizations to directly replicate their own on-the-ground work at larger scales
Funding Information
- Adaptation Implementation projects: $50,000 to $300,000 per project
- Adaptation Mainstreaming projects: $50,000 to $100,000 per project
Grant Duration
- Implementation Adaptation projects: 2-3 years.
- Mainstreaming Adaptation projects: 1-2 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S.-based non-profit conservation organizations with approved IRS 501(c)(3) status. U.S.-based non-profit conservation organizations without an approved IRS 501(c)(3) status may apply through a 501(c)(3) organization as a fiscal sponsor.
- Organizations proposing adaptation projects within the 50 U.S. states, commonwealths, and territories.
- Organizations proposing adaptation projects in terrestrial, inland aquatic, or coastal aquatic systems.
For more information, visit WCS Climate Adaptation Fund.
