The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency under the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is announcing 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.
Donor Name: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
State: Nebraska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/08/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
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. (Ex. Measuring outcomes, developing technical resources, etc.)
- Improve watershed performance in dealing with water quantity issues; either excess or inadequate, and downstream impacts.
- Improve water quality. (Ex. Measuring outcomes, developing technical resources, etc.)
- Improve habitat for local wildlife species of concern.
- Improve the conservation of natural resources and the economic performance of working agricultural lands.
- Improve the use and effectiveness of new technologies in agriculture
- Expand outreach to promote conservation opportunities to new customers through the Farm Bill programs.
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 new capacity of local partners to develop and implement effective projects.
- Leverage non-Federal and non-government resources to achieve positive natural resources conservation outcomes.
Proposed projects must be performed in Nebraska or Central Region.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $50,000
Project Period
Projects may be between 1 and 3 years in duration. Applicants should plan their projects based on an estimated project start date of September 01, 2023.
Eligible Applicants
Eligibility for this opportunity is limited to the following entity types:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State‐controlled institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
