Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources is seeking applications for its Cooperative Weed Management Area Program.
Donor Name: Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/23/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Details:
Cooperative Weed Management Areas are partnerships of federal, state, and local government agencies along with tribes, individual landowners, and various other interested groups that manage noxious weeds or invasive plants in a defined area.
Funding Information
- Newly developing CWMAs/CISMAs or groups where more than one county are combined as part of existing CWMAs/CISMAs may request up to $20,000.
- Existing groups may request up to $15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- As the CWMA Program is a State Cost-share Program, SWCDs are the only eligible applicants. Other organizations may consider applying in partnership with SWCDs to help develop and run the Cooperative WeedManagement Area project.
- Newly developing and existing CWMAs and CISMAs (Cooperative Invasive Species Management Areas) are eligible for this RFP.
- Newly developing CWMAs/CISMAs or groups where more than one county are combined as part of existing CWMAs/CISMAs may request up to $20,000
- Grants for existing groups will be $15,000
- SWCDs are eligible to receive grant funds if they are working under a current water management plan that has been state-approved and locally adopted when the BWSR Board authorizes the grant awards.
- Proposals from applicants that were previously awarded CWMA Funds will be considered during the review process for applications submitted in response to this RFP. However, applicants that have expended less than50% of previous award(s) at the time of this application will need to demonstrate the organizational capacity to finalize current projects and complete new projects concurrently.
- A minimum non-state match equal to at least 25% of the amount requested and/or received is required. The match must be cash or in-kind cash value of goods, materials, and services directly attributed to project accomplishments.
- Applicants are required to fill out a project budget summarizing proposed activities and expenditures including proposed actual technical and administrative costs. Applicants may propose using more than 20% of the grant funds for technical and administrative costs as provided in Section 2.2. of the Erosion Control and Water Management Program Policy.
- Proposals must include one image file (.jpg, .tiff, .png) as an Application Image in eLINK. General attachments will not show up as a part of the application report in eLINK.
For more information, visit Cooperative Weed Management Area Program.
