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EPA-I-R1-SNEP-2024A: 2024 Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Opportunity to Advance Resilience (SOAR) Fund

Closed Closed June 7, 2024 Opportunity EPA-I-R1-SNEP-2024A ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Innovative Restoration Grants (EPA-I-R1-SNEP-2026A). Status: Closes December 11, 2026 (34 days left). It is in our archive of Environmental Protection Agency notices from 2024.

• Award ceiling$300,000
• Award floor$50,000
• Total funding$1.3 million
• Expected awards10
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Please see Section III of the funding opportunity announcement for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Geographic Programs - Southeast New England Coastal Watershed Restoration Program awards averaged $1.2 million; this notice allows up to $300,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (59% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Led by EPA Region 1, the Southeast New England Program (SNEP) is a geographically based program intended to serve as a collaborative framework for advancing ecosystem and community resiliency, protecting, and restoring water quality, habitat, and ecosystem function, and developing and applying innovative policy, science, and technology to environmental management. The program was created to help communities, Tribes, municipalities, government agencies and private organizations improve ecosystem health and build resilience to the unique water quality, habitat and climate stressors faced within southeast coastal New England watersheds, recognizing that the region’s economy and community health are vulnerable and directly tied to the health of its ecological systems. The Mission of the SOAR Fund is to improve and support the resilience of disadvantaged communities throughout the SNEP region with meaningful community involvement as it relates to the design and implementation of projects to address the anticipated effects of climate change and the historic, long-term impacts of environmental and social injustices. Through this initiative, SNEP plans to fund a host of planning, implementation, outreach, training, capacity, and staff-building projects that correspond with the goals, objectives and priorities outlined in SNEP’s Five-Year Strategic Plan.

Category: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, EPA-I-R1-SNEP-2026A, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.