Open Space Institute and the Land Trust Alliance are pleased to announce the 2024 Land and Climate Grant Program.
Donor Name: Open Space Institute
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The program aims to support and build the capacity of land trusts and other groups that conserve and steward land to integrate climate change into land protection and management decisions.
The program will support the development of climate-informed land conservation, stewardship, policy, or communications plans that address one or more of the following issues habitat resilience, carbon mitigation, renewable energy siting or community adaptation to climate impacts such as stronger storms, flooding, drought, fire or extreme heat.
Projects should achieve one or more of the following deliverables:
- Land protection plans
- Incorporate climate science into new or existing strategic conservation plans that target land protection for climate adaptation or mitigation.
- Management plans
- Incorporate climate science into land stewardship or management plans to address adaptation and/or mitigation strategies.
- Communications plans
- Develop a comprehensive climate communication strategy that promotes the adaptation and mitigation goals of the organization and its conservation or stewardship plans.
- Renewable Energy Siting Plans
- Develop a plan, decision matrix and/or policies to guide organizational engagement with renewable energy siting on conservation lands and/or in service areas.
Funding Information
- Through the program, Land Trust Alliance and Open Space Institute will award $200,000 to support projects in the 2024 grant round.
- Projects must begin in 2024 and be completed by Dec. 1, 2025.
Eligible Use of Grant Funds
The grants may be used to cover costs associated with the development of strategic conservation plans or land management plans as described above and/or to develop internal policies, procedures, and communications in support of this work. Eligible costs include, but are not limited to staff time, travel, graphic design, printing, mailing, indirect costs (up to 15%) and project consultants.
Eligibility Criteria
Land Trust Alliance Grants
- Land Trust Alliance member land trusts and Affiliate state land trust associations are eligible to apply.
- Applicants must have been a qualified organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code for at least two years, or, in the case of affiliate member state land trust associations, have an established fiduciary meeting this qualification.
- Applicants must be a current member in good standing of the Land Trust Alliance.
- Preference is given to accredited land trusts and organizations with a board-approved plan to pursue accreditation.
- Geographic eligibility: Nation-wide.
Open Space Institute
- The following entities are eligible to apply for Open Space Institute grants:
- 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organizations or organizations that otherwise fulfill a similar not-for-profit charitable purpose
- State or federally recognized Tribes
- Open Space Institute will consider applications from the following regions and states:
- Northern New England: Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine
- Delaware River Watershed: Portions of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
- Open Space Institute will award grants to support land conservation and land stewardship plans that address climate resilience with a preference for projects that integrate forest carbon and/or mitigation of flood hazard or other climate impacts to communities.
For more information, visit Open Space Institute.
