Funding Opportunities
Grants.gov is the website used by federal agencies to announce and process grant opportunities. Announcements for continuing and grant programs including any amendments are posted on Grants.gov.
The Office for Coastal Management’s competitive grant announcements can be found on Grants.gov by searching under the following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CDFA) numbers:
- 11.419 – Coastal Zone Management Administration (Projects of Special Merit, Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program, NERR Collaborative Science Program)
- 11.420 – Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves
- 11.473 – Office for Coastal Management (Bay Watershed Education and Training, Great Lakes Areas of Concern Land Acquisition, Regional Coastal Resilience)
- 11.482 – Coral Reef Conservation Program
Table 1.0: Open or Recent NOAA Grant Announcements
| Grant Opportunities | Federal Funding Opportunity Announcements (posted on Grants.gov) |
Dates of Interest | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letters of Intent | Proposal Deadline | Earliest Start Date | ||
| Office for Coastal Management – NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program | FY17 Coral Reef Conservation Program, Domestic Coral Reef Conservation Grants (PDF, 117KB) | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, January 11, 2017 |
July 1, 2017 |
| Office for Coastal Management – Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves | National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Land Acquisition and Construction Program for Fiscal Year 2017 (PDF, 61KB) | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, February 3, 2017 |
July 1, 2017 |
| Office for Coastal Management – NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program | FY17-18 CRCP State and Territorial Coral Reef Conservation Cooperative Agreements (PDF, 93KB) | Pre-applications 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, October 20, 2016 | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, February 16, 2017 |
July 1, 2017 |
| NOAA-wide announcement. This announcement relates to all NOAA line agencies and may be of interest to partners who work with NOAA grant programs. | FY2016 to FY2017 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (PDF, 53KB). The notice requests proposals for special projects and programs associated with NOAA's strategic plan and mission goals. This broad agency announcement is a mechanism to encourage research, education and outreach, innovative projects, or sponsorships that are not addressed through NOAA competitive discretionary programs. It is not a mechanism for awarding congressionally directed funds. Funds have not yet been appropriated for any proposed activities in this notice. | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, September 30, 2017 |
If found meritorious, generally 3 to 6 months after submission |
Table 2.0: Archive of selected NOAA competitive federal funding opportunities (FFOs).
Information about NOAA Office for Coastal Management grants (pdf)
Guidance for first-time Grants.gov users (pdf)