The Nature Conservancy is pleased to announce a fifth round of funding available in New York through the Climate Resilience Grant Program.
Donor Name: The Nature Conservancy
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/07/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The program supports conservation and climate adaptation projects, including land protection, led by local organizations, with the goal of increasing resilience to climate change for people and nature. Program grants will help local organizations with fee and easement acquisitions of lands that connect with important floodplains and shorelines that mitigate flooding and erosion. The grants will also provide funding for organizational capacity-building, planning and strategy development. They will prioritize projects that include engagement with and benefits to local communities, particularly in underserved and frontline communities.
Project Types
The Climate Resilience Grant Program invites applications for two types of projects:
- Projects that strengthen an organization’s planning, capacity or strategy initiatives that will ultimately lead to actions that will help make species, habitats and communities more resilient to climate change.
- Projects that result in the permanent fee or easement acquisition of lands that contain or intersect with floodplains; coastal sediment sources and natural, protective infrastructure like beaches and dunes; or tidal marshes and marsh migration corridors.
Funding Information
Grants up to $50,000 will support conservation and climate adaptation projects.
Eligible Project Expenses
- Planning, Capacity and Strategy Projects
- Consultant fees related to plan development and protection strategies
- Partner participation, coordination and outreach efforts for regional or landscape-level conservation
- Training on equitable conservation strategies, community engagement or facilitated learning about diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in your organization
- Developing tools that advance or improve collaborative conservation
- GIS training course fees, software licenses and hardware
- Operational costs (e.g., staff salaries and travel expenses associated with a qualifying project)
- Community engagement costs related to project (meeting venue, supplies, travel, facilitation, etc.)
- Match funding
- Indirect costs (not to exceed 20% of the total grant amount)
- Land Acquisition Projects
- Capital costs
- Project development (surveys, title search, environmental assessments, etc.)
- Stewardship and legal defense funds
- Community engagement costs related to project (meeting venue, supplies, travel, facilitation, etc.)
- Match funding
- Legal support
- Technical support (e.g., hiring GIS or natural inventory consultants)
- Operational costs (e.g., staff salaries and travel expenses associated with an eligible project)
- Indirect costs (not to exceed 20% of the total grant amount).
Eligibility Criteria
The program is open to all non-profit 501(c)(3) conservation and community organizations, municipalities, State or Federally Recognized Tribal Nations, and local and state agencies that operate in New York State.
For more information, visit The Nature Conservancy.
