Opportunity Title:
Conservation Technical Assistance: Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI) Cooperative Agreements
Funder/Agency:
Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Opportunity Number:
USDA-NRCS-NHQ-ST-24-NOFO0001313
Description:
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) delivers conservation solutions so agricultural producers can protect natural resources and feed a growing world. NRCS provides leadership and funding to ensure that all programs and services are made accessible to all customers, fairly and equitably, with emphasis on reaching historically underserved farmers and ranchers and Native American tribal governments and organizations. NRCS is committed to advancing equity, justice, and equal opportunity to ensure equitable access to programs and services available on private agricultural and forest lands.
The goal of this funding opportunity is for NRCS, in collaboration with a diverse set of partners, including historically underserved farmers and ranchers and their organizations, to expand the delivery of conservation technical assistance to support grazing planning and conservation practice implementation and monitoring, conferences and other education, demonstrations, producer networks, workforce training, research and outreach projects to improve agricultural resilience.
FY 2024 GLCI funding supports the Conservation Technical Assistance: Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI) Cooperative Agreements. GLCI also supports NRCS technical assistance for grazing, as well as the National Grazing Lands Coalition to help state grazing coalitions form and persist with participation from historically underserved producers and Native American tribal governments and organizations.
Eligibility:
Native American tribal governments & organizations
Nonprofits
Farmer or rancher organizations
State and local conservation governmental agencies
Agricultural Extension Services
Land grant universities
Award Details:
Total Amount Available:
$22,000,000
Maximum Award:
$1,000,000
Minimum Award:
$100,000
Deadline:
Applications Due May 26, 2024
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