The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency under the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is announcing potential availability of grant 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: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/28/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
The goals and objectives of this program are:
- Use climate-smart management and sound science to enhance the health and productivity of agricultural lands.
- Restore, protect, and conserve watersheds to ensure clean, abundant, and continuous provision of water resources.
- Increase carbon sequestration, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and economic opportunities (and develop low-carbon energy solutions).
- Foster agricultural innovation.
- Increase food security through assistance and access to nutritious and affordable food
- Foster a culture of civil rights, diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, transparency, and accountability.
- Establish a customer-centric, inclusive, high-performing workforce that is representative of America and the communities they serve.
Emphasis will be placed on projects that:
- Increase equity and new customer participation in farm bill conservation programs.
- Build technical capacity to implement farm bill conservation programs including climate smart practices.
- Build technical capacity of NRCS and partner field conservation employees.
- Build the capacity of local partners to develop and implement effective projects.
- Leverage non-Federal and non-government resources to achieve positive natural resources conservation outcomes.
- Build and support urban ag and small-scale farming opportunities and access to technical and financial assistance
Funding Information
- The Federal funding agency expects to award approximately $1,000,000.00.
- The estimated funding floor for this opportunity is $20,000, and the estimated funding ceiling is $1,000,000.
Project Period
Projects may be between 1 and 4 years in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- 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
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.