The Network for Landscape Conservation (the Network) is pleased to release the 2023 Request for Proposals for the Catalyst Fund, which is made possible through the generous support of the Doris Duke Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Donor Name: Network for Landscape Conservation
State: Selected States
Counties: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/21/2023
Size of the Grant: $25,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The purpose of the Catalyst Fund is to accelerate the pace and practice of collaborative landscape conservation and stewardship across the United States. The Fund makes strategic investments in strengthening the collaborative capacity of place-based, community-grounded Landscape Conservation Partnerships. These investments are intended to better position Partnerships to achieve long-term conservation and stewardship success, building in landscapes across the country the enduring collaborative capacity needed to address systems-level challenges like the interwoven biodiversity, climate, and environmental injustice crises.
Grant requests should focus on strengthening collaborative capacity. Collaborative capacity can be understood as those elements that allow groups of partners to be capable of functioning effectively across organizations/entities to achieve a shared purpose.
Funding Information
Applicants may request a one- or two-year grant, but regardless of grant period the maximum funding request is $25,000. Approximately $335,000 in funding is available in 2023 for grantmaking, with 13-15 grant awards anticipated.
Funds can be used for supporting Partnership coordination staffing and/or for costs associated with other collaborative process activities such as convenings, communications, partner and community engagement, governance development, 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; or political lobbying.
Eligibility Criteria
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.
For the purposes of this RFP, the American West is defined to include the following states: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Note: applicants from Hawaii are not included in the American West definition but are still eligible to apply under 501(c)(3) status.
For more information, visit Catalyst Fund.
