Funding-Native
Plant Conservation Initiative; July 1, 2009
Sponsor: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
(NFWF)
Deadline: July 1, 2009 (pre-proposal)
The
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is
soliciting proposals for the 2009 Native Plant Conservation Initiative (NPCI)
grants cycle. The NPCI grant program is conducted in cooperation with the Plant
Conservation Alliance (PCA), a partnership between the Foundation, ten federal
agencies, and more than 270 non-governmental organizations. PCA provides a
framework and strategy for linking resources and expertise in developing a
coordinated national approach to the conservation of native plants. Since
1995, the NPCI grant program has funded multi-stakeholder projects that focus on
the conservation of native plants and pollinators under any of the following 6
focal areas: conservation, education, restoration, research, sustainability,
and data linkages.
Project
selection criteria:
Proposals must meet the minimum eligibility requirements, as described in the
request for proposals. There is a strong preference for
"on-the-ground" projects that provide plant conservation benefit
according to the priorities established by one or more of the funding federal
agencies and to the Plant Conservation Alliance strategies for plant
conservation.
In
addition, proposals are evaluated on the following criteria:
·
Focus: In 2009, NPCI is particularly
interested in projects that focus on the effects of climate change as it
pertains to the conservation, education, restoration, research, sustainability,
and creating data linkages that facilitate North American native plant
conservation in the 21st century
·
Scope: Projects that benefit multiple
species, achieve a variety of resource management objectives, and/or lead to
revised management practices that reduce the causes of habitat degradation. A
special emphasis is placed on larger projects that demonstrate a
landscape-level approach and produce lasting, broad-based results on the
ground.
·
Conservation
Need: Projects that
demonstrate a critical conservation need, are
identified as high priority, and/or work to conserve an area documented for
unique biodiversity or containing a special-status species.
·
Innovation: Projects that encourage public involvement, develop new technologies that can be applied
successfully elsewhere, and/or teach proven habitat restoration methodologies
by example.
·
Leverage: Projects that highly leverage the
funds requested under this RFP with non-federal funds (i.e., exceeding the
minimum 1:1 federal/non-federal requirement), in the form of cash and/or
contributed goods and services.
·
Partnerships: Projects that involve multiple
federal, tribal, state, and local governments; corporations; private landowners;
communities; and/or non-profit groups.
Staff
Representative:
Ellen
Gabel
Program
Director, National Wildlife Refuge Programs
For
more information, see
http://www.nfwf.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Charter_Programs_List&TEMPLATE=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=12592