Current Opportunities

• 2017 Healthy Watersheds Consortium Grant Program:

  The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) seeks applications for the 2017 Healthy Watersheds Consortium Grant Program. This opportunity closes February 1, 2017, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. Proposals received after this time may not be considered.

  The Healthy Watersheds Consortium Grant Program goal is to accelerate strategic protection of healthy, freshwater ecosystems and their watersheds. Therefore, the primary focus for applicants should be protection and stewardship of the landscape that comprises the watershed, rather than restoration of degraded habitats or projects with a strictly water quality improvement outcome. This goal will be achieved by:

  • Developing funding mechanisms, plans, or other strategies to implement large-scale watershed protection, source water protection, green infrastructure, or related landscape conservation objectives;
  • Building the sustainable organizational infrastructure, social support, and long-term funding commitments necessary to implement large-scale protection of healthy watersheds; and
  • Supporting innovative or catalytic projects that may accelerate funding for or implementation of watershed protection efforts, or broadly advance this field of practice.
  (Closing Date: 02/01/2017)

Grant Opportunities

• The Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund is a partnership between the Bay Program and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to strategically invest in conservation actions to restore the Bay. Grant opportunities include Small Watershed Grants, Targeted Watershed Grants, Conservation Innovation Grants and Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants.
• NOAA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) grants support Chesapeake watershed environmental education programs and professional development for teachers on Bay-related environmental topics.
• The Chesapeake Bay Trust offers nine individual grant programs to support Chesapeake restoration and protection activities in Maryland.
• The U.S. EPA lists RFPs, tools and funding opportunities for watershed protection projects by watershed organizations and state and local governments.
• NOAA Restoration Center grants provide funding to restore habitat for coastal and anadromous fisheries.