Opportunity Title:
2024 National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Cost Share Grant Program
Funder/Agency:
Department of Agriculture
Opportunity Number:
USDA-FS-UCF-010-2024
Description:
The USDA Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry (U&CF) Program is the only dedicated urban forest program in the federal government. It is a technical, financial, and educational assistance program that delivers nature-based solutions to more than 84 percent of Americans. The program works to restore, sustain, and manage more than 140 million acres of urban and community forest lands for the benefit of communities across the United States and its Territories. Healthy urban & community forests and green infrastructure are not only critical to all our nation’s forests, but research and studies have also shown that our urban and community forests are essential to the economic, environmental, physical, and mental well-being of our citizens.
CATEGORY: Urban and Community Forestry Climate-Resilient Tree Nurseries
This year’s category addresses components of Goal 4 and Goal 5 in the Ten-Year Action Plan:
Goal 4 Strategy A: Action 1: Increase the biodiversity, health, and resilience of trees in urban and community forests.
Goal 5 Strategy A: Support the use of more locally grown, regionally adapted, insect and pest-resistant, and diverse native or site-appropriate species. Action 1: Facilitate funding to promote planting higher quality trees in urban forests with less emphasis on the quantity of trees planted (such as the published International Society of Arboriculture guidelines).
In order to address these goals and strategies we need to know what urban tree species are available for purchase that are suitable for urban conditions and potentially withstand climate change impacts.
The Forest Service is seeking an entity to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the existing RNGR nursery inventory. This may include additional inventories to identify new nurseries that can provide suitable urban and community forestry nursery stock, document urban tree species availability and / or public requests for desired suitable tree species from urban cities and communities across the country and U.S. Territories.
Eligibility:
Private institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Special district governments
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
County governments
State governments
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
City or township governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Award Details:
Total Amount Available:
$1,000,000
Maximum Award:
$1,000,000
Minimum Award:
$100,000
Deadline:
February 29, 2024
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