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USDA-FS-UCF-010-2024: 2024 National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Cost Share Grant Program

Closed Closed March 21, 2024 Opportunity USDA-FS-UCF-010-2024 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Forest Service notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Award floor$100,000
• Total funding$1.0 million
• Expected awards3
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments and tribes.

This is a specific request to conduct a national inventory and assessment of urban nurseries across the country. Local project request are not eligible and we encourage local requests to contact their State Forestry agency's urban forestry program manager.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Urban and Community Forestry Program awards averaged $294,511; this notice allows up to $1.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (53% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

TO APPLY USE LINK BELOW " TO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION" TO TAKE APPLICANTS TO THE ON LINE GRANT APPLICATION WEBSITE AND A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE FULL NOTICE OF FUNDING OPORTUNITY (NOFO) Urban forests provide trees for people, where they live, work, and play. These natural resources, on public and private property, contribute to quality of life, support community development, green infrastructure, and provide a wealth of benefits to cities and towns. The USDA Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry (U&CF) Program is the only dedicated urban forest program in the federal government. It is a technical, financial, and educational assistance program that delivers nature-based solutions to more than 84 percent of Americans. The program works to restore, sustain, and manage more than 140 million acres of urban and community forest lands for the benefit of communities across the United States and its Territories. Healthy urban & community forests and green infrastructure are not only critical to all our nation’s forests, but research and studies have also shown that our urban and community forests are essential to the economic, environmental, physical, and mental well-being of our citizens. According to the National Ten Year Urban and Community Forestry Action Plan (2016-2026), (Action Plan) urban and community stewardship has made progress over the last decade to address the health of urban and community forests. For example, sixty (60%) percent of cities are utilizing new and emerging tools to assist propagation, planting, management, maintenance, and stewardship. CATEGORY: Urban and Community Forestry Climate-Resilient Tree Nurseries This year’s category addresses components of Goal 4 and Goal 5 in the Ten-Year Action Plan: Goal 4 Strategy A: Action 1: Increase the biodiversity, health, and resilience of trees in urban and community forests. Goal 5 Strategy A: Support the use of more locally grown, regionally adapted, insect and pest-resistant, and diverse native or site-appropriate species. Action 1: Facilitate funding to promote planting higher quality trees in urban forests with less emphasis on the quantity of trees planted (such as the published International Society of Arboriculture guidelines). In order to address these goals and strategies we need to know what urban tree species are available for purchase that are suitable for urban conditions and potentially withstand climate change impacts.

Category: Agriculture, Environment, Natural Resources, Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

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