NAWCA U.S. Small Grants (DOI)

• Published date: 03 September 2020
• Date: 03 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31279

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Grants alert (cont.)

Weather Program Oce Research Programs

(DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration seeks applications

for the Weather Program Office Research Programs

announcement or weather, air quality and earth-system

modeling and observations research reecting multiple

science objectives spanning time scales from hours

to seasons, and from weather and water observations

and earth system modeling to social, behavioral and

economic science.

Deadline: Nov. 18, 2020.

Funds: $7.75 million total for up to 32 awards ranging

from $100,000 to $500,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations; nonprot organizations; and state, local

and Native American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: DOC said there will be three grant competitions:

(1) Joint Technology Transfer Initiative, (2) Observations,

and (3) Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Funding will support new weather, water, climate,

earth system and air quality observing and forecasting

applications, including improved analysis techniques,

better statistical or dynamic forecast models and

techniques, and communication of that information to

better inform the public.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-OAR-

WPO-2021-2006592

NOAA RESTORE Science Program (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration seeks applications for

the NOAA RESTORE Science Program announcement

to scope and design a research project that informs a

specic Gulf of Mexico natural resource management

decision.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Sept. 29, 2020; proposals,

Dec. 15, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $2.5 million and approximately

20 projects may be funded ranging from $25,000 to

$125,000 over 12 months.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations; nonprot organizations; state, local and

Native American tribal governments; and U.S. territories;

among others.

Areas: DOC said the scoping phase begins during the

development of the proposal and should be iterative

throughout the project as new information is gained.

Applicants must describe what specic activities

and steps they have taken and will continue to take

to accomplish two objectives for the scoping phase:

developing a shared understanding of the resource

management decision among the natural resource

managers and researchers comprising the project team;

and maintaining relationships among them. For the

design phase, applicants should propose the specic

activities and steps they will take to: formulate research

questions and determine the methods for addressing

them, identify approaches for developing their research

ndings into products for informing the natural resource

management decision and select strategies and

processes for how the ndings and products will be

transferred to a resource manager or management

body and applied to the natural resource management

decision.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-NOS-

NCCOS-2021-2006590

Resident Opportunity and Self-Suciency

Program (HUD)

Scope: The Department of Housing and Urban

Development seeks applications for the Resident

Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Program

announcement to help residents of public and Native

American housing make progress toward economic and

housing self-sufficiency by removing the educational,

professional and health barriers.

Deadline: Nov. 19, 2020.

Funds: $35 million total for 120 awards ranging from

$100,000 to $717,000.

Eligibility: Nonprot organizations and Native American

tribal governments, among others.

Areas: HUD said self-sufficiency is dened as an

individual’s ability to support their household by

maintaining nancial, housing and personal/family

stability. To achieve self-sufficiency, an individual moves

along a continuum toward economic independence

and stability; such movement is facilitated by the

achievement of individual educational, professional and

health-related goals.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FR-6400-N-05

NAWCA U.S. Small Grants (DOI)

Scope: The Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service seeks applications for the NAWCA U.S.

Small Grants announcement to support public-private

partnerships carrying out projects in the United States

that further the goals of the North American Wetlands

Conservation Act.

Deadline: Oct. 15, 2020.

Funds: $3 million total for awards ranging from $1,000

to $100,000.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOI said the U.S. Small Grants Program projects

must involve only long-term protection, restoration,

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