Applications are now being accepted for the RCPP Classic Regional Conservation Partnership Program.
Donor Name: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/24/2026
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The RCPP promotes the coordination of NRCS conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions to expand the ability to address on-farm, watershed, and regional natural resource concerns. Through the RCPP, NRCS seeks to co-invest with partners to implement projects that provide solutions to conservation challenges thereby measurably improving the resource concerns they seek to address. RCPP promotes collaboration with partners, stakeholders, and various communities, which is paramount to achieving equity in NRCS programs and services.
Goals
- The RCPP follows a partner-driven approach to conservation that funds solutions to natural resource challenges on agricultural land. The following are the three key principles of RCPP.
- Impact. RCPP proposals must include effective and compelling solutions that address one or more natural resource concerns to help solve natural resource challenges. Assessing economic and other non-environmental
impacts is optional and should only be included if they can be measured and modeled. Partners are responsible for evaluating a project’s impact and results. - Partner Contributions. Partners are responsible for identifying any combination of cash and in-kind contributions to leverage NRCS’s RCPP investments to support or benefit project area producer contracts. Partner contributions are evaluated based on their share of project costs and the expertise to achieve project goals.
- Partnerships and Management. Partners must have the experience and ability necessary to manage the partnership and project, reach out to producers, and assess environmental impacts.
Funding Information
The maximum RCPP funding available for a single project selected under this announcement is $10 million, including both FA and TA. The minimum funding amount for an RCPP project is $250,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Entities that are classified as one of the following organizational types can serve as an eligible RCPP partner:
- An agricultural or silvicultural producer association or other group of producers;
- A state or unit of local government;
- An Indian tribe;
- A farmer cooperative;
- A water district, irrigation district, acequia, rural water district or association, or other organization with specific water delivery authority to agricultural producers on agricultural land;
- A municipal water or wastewater treatment entity;
- An institution of higher education;
- An organization, or entity with an established history of working cooperatively with producers on agricultural land (as determined by NRCS)to address:
- Local conservation priorities related to agricultural production, wildlife habitat development, or nonindustrial private forest land management; or
- Critical watershed-scale soil erosion, water quality, sediment reduction, or other natural resource issues;
- An entity, such as an Indian tribe, state government, local government, or a non- governmental organization, that has a farmland or grassland protection program that purchases agricultural land easements as defined in
- A conservation district.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
