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 (Coastal Resilience, Bay Watershed Education and Training, Great Lakes Areas of Concern Land Acquisition)
- 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 or Pre-applications | Proposal Deadline | Earliest Start Date | ||
| Office for Coastal Management – National Coastal Zone Management Program | CZM Projects of Special Merit Competition - FY2021 | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, January 15, 2021 | October 1, 2021 |
| Office for Coastal Management – NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program | FY21-22 CRCP State and Territorial Coral Reef Conservation Cooperative Agreements | August 27, 2020 Pre-application, 11:59 p.m. Eastern time October 8, 2020 |
February 11, 2021 | July 1, 2021 |
| Office for Coastal Management – National Estuarine Research Reserve System | National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Land Acquisition and Construction Program for Fiscal Year 2021 | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, February 12, 2021 | July 1, 2021 |
| NOAA-wide announcement | FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). 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. Funding for potential projects in this notice is contingent upon the availability Fiscal Year 2021-2023 appropriations. | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, May 15, 2021 | October 1, 2021 |
All deadlines are 11:59 p.m. Eastern time unless noted.
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)