Acres For America Website Deadline: June 1st, 2012 (pre-proposal); August 1st, 2012 (full proposal) Description: Acres for America is National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s premiere land conservation program, and was established to provide urgently needed funding for projects that conserve large, landscape-level areas that are important habitat for fish, wildlife, and plants through acquisition of …
christensenfund.org Deadline: Preproposal submission window: August 1st – September 30, 2012 Description: The Christensen Fund’s strategy in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico supports innovative Indigenous and local communities of farmers and pastoralists, ranchers and fishers and their allies to strengthen and celebrate local food systems connected to biodiverse land and seascapes. Their grants help …
AZ Partners for Fish and Wildlife Website Deadline: Rolling Description: This program of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service focuses on protecting, restoring, and enhancing wetland and streamside (riparian) habitats that will benefit Federal trust species, federally listed threatened and endangered species, waterfowl, shorebirds and migratory songbirds. The Service will provide technical and financial assistance …
Patagonia Foundation Website Deadline: April and August; rolling (if applying directly to a local store) Description: The Patagonia Foundation supports small, grassroots activist organizations with provocative direct-action agendas, working on multi-pronged campaigns to preserve and protect our environment. They help local groups working to protect local habitat, and think the individual battles to protect a …
Wilburforce Foundation Website Deadlines: Contact a staff member before submitting a proposal. Description: Wilburforce Foundation protects wildlife habitat in Western North America by actively supporting organizations and leaders advancing conservation solutions. Wilburforce Foundation uses conservation science to identify specific priority regions in which we will fund, including Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. These regions correspond with …
Website Deadline: 2 April 2012 Description: The TogetherGreen Innovation Grants Program supports creative and ambitious projects that engage diverse communities and find innovative solutions to environmental challenges. Each year, TogetherGreen grants fund projects that (1) conserve or restore habitat and protect species, improve water quality or quantity, and reduce the threat of global warming; (2) …
Website Deadline: 2 May 2011 Description: The Conservation Leadership program seeks to recognize and nurture individuals from across the country who is contributing to environmental conservation and restoration. Each year 40 promising and proven leaders will receive professional development opportunities, a $10,000 grant to help support an innovative Conservation Action Project, and an opportunity to …
Website Deadline: July 2, 2012 Description: The NFF Matching Awards Program (MAP) provides matching funds for direct on‐the‐ground and citizen‐based monitoring projects benefiting America’s National Forests and Grasslands. Successful projects will support the major strategic initiatives and current priorities of the NFF and the U.S. Forest Service. Priority will be given to action-oriented projects that …
Website Deadline: 30 September 2012; 15 January 2013; 31 May 2013 Description: The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to give the next generation of environmental stewards an active understanding and love for the natural world in which they live. Our unique program of funding and supporting hands-on environmental projects is designed to encourage innovative …
Website Deadline: TBA (generally June) Description: The Ramsar Small Grants Fund is intended to assist developing countries and those with economies in transition in implementing the Convention and to support the conservation and wise use of wetland resources, with a strong human and social dimension. Funds may also be used to provide emergency management assistance for …
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