Programs that fund invasive species management and research activities in Arizona
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Funding programs identified below were active granting entities at the time Arizona’s Invasive Species Plan was published. Keep in mind agency and non-governmental organization names, priorities, proposal submission dates, matching contributions, budgets and therefore grant amounts change. Likewise, website URL’s do not remain constant; therefore if the link does not work, search the web by program name or sponsoring organization.
Also note that the following list is in alphabetical order by grant program name, which is the first line of each entry; granting agency or organization is the second line of each entry.
-- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.
Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service - USDA
This program contains opportunities for support of research, education
and extension. Priority area number 4 is titled Renewable Energy,
Natural Resources and Environment and includes funding for projects
that focus on biology of weedy and invasive plant and animal species of
economic importance to agriculture and have direct obvious relevance to
the elimination, management or control of invasive species in
agroecosystems, which includes cropping systems, managed forests,
conservation lands, or rangeland. Successful applications will
establish links between fundamental biological or ecological
relationships and invasive species management plans and strategies;
these links will result from measuring impact of exotic and invasive
species on agroecosystem function and services.
-- Arizona Community Philanthropy and
Partnerships.
Arizona
Community Foundation
The Arizona Community Foundation and its 13 Affiliates are a statewide
philanthropy and partnership of donors, volunteers, staff, nonprofit
organizations and the community working together to empower and align
philanthropic interests with community needs and build a legacy of
giving. No specific mention of invasive species was found in the online
discussion of this grant source.
-- Arizona Community Tree Council Challenge
Grants.
Arizona
Community Tree Council
Grants are provided for projects that are directed at improving the
long term health and care of the urban forest, or those that initiate
new urban forestry projects in Arizona communities. These grants are
available to communities, schools and non-profit organizations. No
specific mention of invasive species was found in the online discussion
of this grant source, but urban natural resource management is
specifically mentioned.
-- Arizona State Parks Grant Opportunities:
Heritage Fund, Land and Water Conservation Fund, State Lake Improvement
Fund & Growing Smarter Find.
Arizona State Parks
These programs target a very specific clientele and are limited to
mostly local, regional, state or tribal government entities who desire
park acquisition or development funding for outdoor recreational
facilities. Habitat protection and preservation projects are not major
recipients of these funds. No specific mention of invasive species was
found in information documents describing these programs.
-- Arizona Water Protection Fund.
Arizona
Department of Water Resources
In 1994 the Arizona legislature created a Water Protection Fund
administered by a 15-member Commission. The Fund is earmarked for
supporting projects that will enhance riparian areas. Authorizing
legislation calls for "a coordinated effort for the restoration and
conservation of the water resources of this state. This policy is
designed to allow the people of this state to prosper while protecting
and restoring this state's rivers and streams and associated riparian
habitats, including fish and wildlife resources that are dependent on
these important habitats."
-- BASF Invasive Plant Control Matching Grant
Program.
Cooperative
BASF ProVM Group
ProVM will provide grants up to $20,000 as non-federal matching funds
for on-the-ground programs that include herbicide use for control of
terrestrial and aquatic invasive plants. BASF funds are specifically to
support customers that use BASF brand herbicides in an integrated
vegetation management program. BASF funding is to be utilized as
non-federal match for state, federal or foundation grants.
-- Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in
Agro-ecosystems – National Research Initiative.
Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service - USDA
The goal of the program is to provide ecological and economically
rational strategies for management, control, or elimination of weedy or
invasive species.
-- Center for Invasive Plant Management –
National Research Initiative.
This is a 501 (c) 3 corporation
A self-funded, educational-nonprofit organization based at Montana
State University-Bozeman; CIPM staff work in partnership with county,
state, and federal agencies, tribes, nongovernmental organizations,
private industry, commodity groups, and academic institutions. One
aspect of their education/awareness goal is compiling and updating an
extensive list of funding sources for invasive plant activities
including Federal Government | Wildlife & Conservation Groups |
Foundations | States | Corporations | General Sources; however, many of
these grantors have specific limitations concerning (1) geographic
locations where they fund projects, (2) organisms for which they will
provide money and (3) organizations they will support.
-- Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Newspaper
of the nonprofit world
The Web site offers the complete contents of the latest issue, an
archive of past issues and articles published since October 1997, and
two issues' worth of the most recent grant listings -- all fully
searchable. NOTE: access to the grant listings requires a paid
subscription.
-- Conservation Innovation Grant Program (CIG).
Natural Resources Conservation Serv. (NRCS) -
USDA
NRCS requests applications for CIG grants to stimulate development and
adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies. CIG
funds projects targeting innovative on-the-ground conservation,
including pilot projects and field demonstrations. Proposals must
address one of four categories. Category one is Natural Resources
Concerns. Subcategories Grazing Land, Forest Health and Wildlife
Habitat all specifically list invasive species as acceptable subtopic
concerns.
-- Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Program.
Animal & Plant Health Inspect. Serv. –
Plant Protect. & Quarantine - USDA
The Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) is a combined effort by
Federal and State agricultural organizations to conduct surveillance,
detection, and monitoring of agricultural crop pests and biological
control agents. USDA APHIS PPQ provides national and regional
coordination, funding, and technical support for Federal and
cooperative survey projects. Currently all State Survey Coordinators
are employees of their respective State Land Grant University or State
Department of Agriculture. Various committees prepare multiyear plans
with many goals and objectives to meet the needs and wants of the
research, extension, regulatory, federal land management, and
commercial sectors.
-- Cooperative Conservation Partnership
Initiative.
Natural
Resources Conservation Service - USDA
The Conservation Partnership Initiative (CPI) is a voluntary program
established to foster conservation partnerships that focus technical
and financial resources on conservation priorities in watersheds and
airsheds of special significance. Under CPI, funds are awarded to State
and local governments and agencies; Indian tribes; and non-governmental
organizations that have a history of working with agricultural
producers.
NOTE: The only funded projects list on webpage are through 2005.
-- Cooperative Weed Management in Arizona’s
Forested Areas.
Arizona State Forestry Division
Provides funds for management of invasive plants/weeds on state and
private lands for the purpose of protecting forest health. A primary
goal of the program is to increase local capacity to manage and prevent
noxious weeds in Arizona’s forests and woodlands through Cooperative
Weed Management Areas. Projects should involve invasive species found
on the Arizona Noxious Weed list.
-- Cooperative Forest Stewardship Program.
U.S. Forest Service - USDA
Provides funds for invasive plants/weeds (including weed management
activities), plant pathogens/diseases and insects on state and private
forested land. Eligible entities include cooperative weed management
areas, states, privately owned forest lands and non-profit
organizations.
-- Critical Issues Funding Opportunities.
Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service - USDA
CSREES actively seeks projects needing funds to conduct work against
emerging and new plant and animal pests and diseases (critical issues).
This program is designed to provide one-time seed funding to support
initial work on emergency pest problems requiring immediate attention
until additional longer term resources can be acquired. Since new pest
and disease introductions are a dynamic phenomenon, new requests for
applications can be issued several times a year. An example of a 2008
critical issue topic was “Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder”.
-- Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
Natural Resources Conservation Service - USDA
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) was reauthorized in
the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Farm Bill) to
provide a voluntary conservation program for farmers and ranchers that
promotes agricultural production and environmental quality as
compatible national goals. EQIP offers financial and technical help to
assist eligible participants install or implement structural and
management practices on eligible agricultural land.
-- Forest Health Grants --- Western States
Wildland Urban Interface (SFA) Grant Program.
Arizona State Forestry Division
The SFA grant program focuses on hazard fuel reduction, information and
education, and community and homeowner action and is available to
homeowner groups and others. This portion of the National Fire Plan was
developed to assist interface communities manage the unique hazards
they find around them. Long-term solutions to interface challenges
require informing and educating people who live in these areas about
what they and their local organizations can do to mitigate these
hazards.
-- Forest Service Pesticide Impact Assessment
Program.
U.S. Forest Service - USDA
The mission of FS-PIAP is to support studies that develop use and
effects data for priority forestry pesticides. FS-PIAP studies generate
data and findings in support of continued registration by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency of forestry uses for pesticides.
-- Foundation Center.
Center's
mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge
about U.S. philanthropy
The Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on
philanthropy, connecting nonprofits, and the grant-makers supporting
them, to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center
maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. foundation grantors
and their grants — a robust, accessible knowledge bank for non-profit
organizations. NOTE: a paid subscription is required to access the
online directory.
-- Grand Challenges in Global Health.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Awards
Grand Challenges Explorations will foster innovation in global health
research and expand the pipeline of ideas that merit further
exploration. Initial grants will be awarded multiple times per year at
approximately $100,000 each. Fourteen Grand Challenges serve 7
long-term goals to improve health in the developing world. Invasive
species are not specified as a research topic. However, control of
insect vectors is one long term goal that might serve as a possible
funding source for human health research relating to non-native disease
bearing organisms.
-- Horticultural Research Institute Grants.
American
Nursery and Landscape Association
HRI strives to fund research that specifically deals with problems
affecting American Nursery and Landscape industries. HRI-supported
projects focus on significant problems, regulatory issues or emerging
opportunities in the nursery and landscape industry, encourage
environmentally responsible management practices, increase nursery crop
producers' business or financial expertise or improve and expand the
market for plant material. Pest management is specified as a topic of
interest and includes invasive plant problems, exotic insects and
foreign disease organisms.
-- Invasive Species – Funding Opportunities.
Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service - USDA
CSREES is actively engaged in the battle against invasive species
through leadership in the implementation of the National Invasive
Species Management Plan and funding from Section 406 Pest Management
Programs and others in the National Research Initiative (NRI) Program.
-- Invasive Species Research, Technical
Assistance, Prevention and Control.
U.S. Dept. of Agric. funding programs summary
(Jan07; PDF 112 KB)
(Jan2007; PDF 112KB) This workbook contains basic information on
programs in USDA that could be used to fund invasive species related
projects. This list should be a helpful place to start a search for
resources for invasive species activities but by no means represents
the complete universe of potential invasive species funding
opportunities.
-- Legacy Resource Management Program.
U.S. Dept. of Defense
Invasive species also can adversely affect military readiness and
create fire and safety hazards. We will invest in habitat enhancement,
particularly through control of exotic pests and promotion of natural
species, to minimize disturbance of natural landscapes and increase
vegetative cover, thereby controlling a growing threat to environmental
security and improving training conditions. We will also invest in
efforts to institutionalize Early Detection and Rapid Response methods
within DOD.
-- Multistate Conservation Grant Program. ----
fish/bird/mammal focus.
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (Association) and the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) work cooperatively together to
manage the Multistate Conservation Grant Program (MSCGP). Projects must
benefit sport fish, wild birds, and/or wild mammals; and must benefit
at least 26 states, a majority of states in a USFWS region, or Regional
Associations.
-- National Science Foundation Program Areas
That May Accept Invasive Species Proposals: (1) Dynamics of Coupled
Natural and Human Systems, (2) Ecological Biology, and (3) Long Term
Research in Environmental Biology.
U.S. National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation provides research and education funds
in most fields of science and engineering. It does this through grants,
and cooperative agreements to more than 2,000 colleges, universities,
K-12 school systems, businesses, informal science organizations and
other research organizations throughout the United States. The
Foundation accounts for about one-fourth of federal support to academic
institutions for basic research. No specific mention of invasive
species was found in the online discussion any program areas of this
grant source.
-- Natural Resource Assistance Grants.
U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service – U.S. Dept. of Interior
The Fish and Wildlife Service administers a variety of natural resource
assistance grants to governmental, public and private organizations,
groups and individuals.
-- North American Wetlands Conservation Act.
U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service – U.S. Dept. of Interior
The North American Wetlands Conservation Act ( NAWCA) of 1989 provides
matching grants to organizations and individuals who have developed
partnerships to carry out wetlands conservation projects in the United
States, Canada, and Mexico for the benefit of wetlands-associated
migratory birds and other wildlife.
-- Organismal and Population Biology of
Arthropods and Nematodes.
Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service - USDA
Our ability to respond to and recover from pests and diseases that
threaten our food supply has recently assumed paramount importance.
Fundamental knowledge is needed to form the basis of novel management
strategies for pests, which will lead to better utilization of
beneficial species.
-- Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program.
Environmental Protection Agency
These grants support pollution prevention projects that are important
to and complement ongoing efforts in the EPA regional offices. Invasive
species control research that reduce pesticide use qualify for this
program.
-- Pesticides: Grants and Partnerships.
Environmental Protection Agency
A significant amount of pesticide environmental work is conducted by
EPA through grant programs and partnerships with states, tribes,
universities, companies, nonprofit organizations and community groups.
This site serves as a starting point for accessing information about
EPA grant funding programs.
-- Plant Health Programs.
Animal & Plant Health Inspect. Serv. –
Plant Protect. & Quarantine - USDA
APHIS safeguards agriculture and natural resources from the risks
associated with the entry, establishment, or spread of animal and plant
pests and noxious weeds to ensure an abundant, high-quality, and varied
food supply. PPQ responds to many new introductions of plant pests to
eradicate, suppress, or contain them through various programs in
cooperation with state departments of agriculture and other government
agencies. PPQ works cooperatively with plant protection organizations;
Federal, State, tribal, and local agencies; universities; industries;
and private entities in developing and implementing science-based
framework designed to provide optimum protection against invasive pests
and diseases.
-- Program of Research on the Economics of
Invasive Species Management.
Economic Research Service -- USDA
PREISM focuses on economic issues related to exotic pests of crop,
forest, and range land (such as insects, weeds, and disease-causing
pathogens), and foreign livestock, poultry, and zoonotic diseases
(transmittable between animals and humans); also exotic pests and
foreign diseases affecting public lands, ecosystems, and urban systems.
-- Pulling Together Initiative.
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
The Pulling Together Initiative (PTI) provides support on a competitive
basis for the formation of local Weed Management Area (WMA)
partnerships. These partnerships engage federal resource agencies,
state and local governments, private landowners, and other interested
parties in developing long-term weed management projects within the
scope of an integrated pest management strategy. A one-to-one match of
non-federal dollars is required for each federal dollar awarded.
-- Regional Geographic Initiatives.
Environmental
Protection Agency
Provides up to 4 years of "seed money" for projects that address a high
health or ecosystem risk (such as those associated with aquatic
invasive species) and have significant potential for risk reduction.
-- Tamarisk Coalition.
A non-profit 501 (c) (3) whose mission is to
provide education, technical assistance, and coordinating support for
the restoration of riparian lands
The Tamarisk Coalition has summarized 178 grants that might be
appropriate for addressing tamarisk issues and riparian restoration.
The tables, in a PDF format, can be obtained by sending an e-mail
request to cduncan@tamariskcoalition.org. Many of the grant sources
limit their awards to states other than Arizona.
-- United States Government Grant Summary
Document.
E-Grants Initiative, --- U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
Grants.gov was established as a governmental resource named the
E-Grants Initiative, part of the President's 2002 Fiscal Year
Management Agenda to improve government services to the public. The
concept has its origins in the Federal Financial Assistance Management
Improvement Act of 1999, also known as Public Law 106-107 . Today,
Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant
programs and provides access to approximately $400 billion in annual
awards.
-- Urban Forest Funding Opportunity.
National
Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council
Urban and community trees and forests are vital parts of America's
infrastructure and essential to the well-being of our individual human
health and welfare. National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory
Council members work to improve America's communities by recommending
policies which include: encourage greatly expanded research into the
problems of urban trees, forests and the environment, and assure
widespread distribution of results of research in useful and relevant
formats.
-- Water Resources Research National Competitive
Grants Program.
U.S.
Geological Survey & National Institutes for Water Resources
This grant program focus is water problems and issues of a regional or
interstate nature beyond those of concern only to a single state; the
2009 request forproposals does not specifically mention invasive
species research or abatement as priority problems; however specified
priorities include (1) methods to enhance long-term reliability of
water supplies, (2) effectiveness of best management practices in
sustaining urban and rural; raw water supply quality and (3) management
options for preserving or enhancing water availability under drought or
flood conditions. If encroachment by a foreign pest can be shown to
harm water quality, water supply reliability or availability, then this
program may be a funding source. A one-to-one match of non-federal
dollars is required for each federal dollar awarded.
-- Water Quality Improvement Grant Program.
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Water Quality
Improvement Grant (WQIG) Program allocates money for implementation of
nonpoint source management and watershed protection. ADEQ uses federal
funds to implement on-the-ground water quality improvement projects to
control nonpoint source pollution. Nonpoint source pollution occurs
when rainfall, snowmelt or irrigation runs over land or through the
ground, picks up pollutants and deposits them into rivers, lakes and
coastal waters or introduces them into ground water. Agriculture,
forestry, grazing, septic systems, recreational boating, urban runoff,
construction, physical changes to stream channels and habitat
degradation are potential sources of nonpoint source pollution.
Invasive species are not specifically noted as being a form of
pollution or causing non-point pollution.
-- Wetlands Program Development Grants.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9
Wetland Program Development Grants (WPDGs) provide eligible applicants
an opportunity to conduct projects that promote the coordination and
acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training,
demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects,
extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of water pollution. No
specific mention of invasive species as a form of pollution was found
in the online discussion of this grant source.
-- Wetlands Reserve Program.
Natural
Resources Conservation Service, USDA
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides
technical and financial support to help landowners with their wetland
restoration efforts. The NRCS goal is to achieve the greatest wetland
functions and values, along with optimum wildlife habitat, on every
acre enrolled in the program.
-- Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program.
Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA
Through WHIP, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service provides
both technical assistance and up to 75 percent cost-share assistance to
establish and improve fish and wildlife habitat. WHIP agreements
between NRCS and the participant (land owner) generally last from 5 to
10 years from the date the agreement is signed.
-- Wildlife Services -- Wildlife Damage Program.
Animal & Plant Health Inspect. Serv.,
USDA
Provides Federal leadership and expertise to resolve wildlife conflicts
and create a balance that allows people and wildlife to coexist
peacefully. Health and safety hazards can exist due to interactions
between wildlife and humans (or other animals). Aviation safety,
wildlife diseases affecting animals or humans, and other similar
threats in urban locations are within the domain of this program.