Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM) – Urban and Community Forestry in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry, is pleased to offer the Community Challenge Grant program.
Donor Name: Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management
State: Arizona
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/20/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Community Challenge Grant Program focuses on activities to encourage and promote citizen involvement in supporting long-term and sustainable urban and community forestry programs at the local level.
Community Challenge Grants are intended for promoting and enhancing the quality of Arizona’s urban and community forests. The program aims to fund projects that might not otherwise be funded through existing budgets, and research project funding is intended as “seed-grants” because of the limited funding available. All proposed projects should be designed to improve the long-term health and care of the urban forest, or initiate new urban forestry projects in Arizona communities.
Project Categories
- Category 1 – Information and Education
- Category 2 – Planning
- Planning or management document development (e.g., Street-tree Master Plan, Urban Forest Strategic Management Plan)
- Tree ordinance development or revision
- Efforts toward becoming an approved Tree City USA community
- Community forest management or shade master plans
- Urban Forestry Board or commission development
- Category 3 – Community and Natural Resources Management
- Asset Management (that includes urban trees)
- Tree inventories (including protocol development)
- Canopy inventories (including protocol development)
- Category 4 – Maintenance
- Hazard tree evaluation, removal, and replacement
- Contract pruning using the International Society of Arboriculture standards
- Tree and sidewalk conflict resolution with an emphasis on tree-preservation
- Risk Management programs
- Category 5 – Demonstration Projects
- Technology transfer
- Tree habitat implementation and restoration projects
- Market-driven Forest Fire Hazard Reduction in urban-rural interface areas
- Category 6 – Climate Change Resiliency
- Strategies that build urban forest resiliency
- Urban forest vulnerability mapping (related to drought, flooding, and other climate change impacts)
- Category 7 – Assessment
- Expansion of existing assessments intended to improve understanding of tree growth and maintenance, tree physiology and morphology, and species adaptations in Arizona.
- Projects that further explain the role of urban trees in human health, conserving energy, and mitigating the urban heat island.
Funding Information
- Est. Total Program Funding: $230,000.00
- Award Maximum: $60,000.00
- Award Minimum: $15,000.00
- Typical Granting Range: $20,000.00 – $50,000.00
Grant Period
All projects selected for funding should be completed within one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Units of local government (counties, municipalities, cities, towns, and townships)
- Tribal governments
- Non-profit organizations with 501(c)3 status
- Public educational institutions.
For more information, visit DFFM.
