FY12 Coral Reef Conservation Program Domestic Coral Reef Conservation Grants | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The FY12 Coral Reef Conservation Program Domestic Coral Reef Conservation Grants opportunity is a NOAA funding competition run under the Department of Commerce and authorized by the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000. It provides matching grants to support practical, on-the-ground coral reef conservation work in U.S. shallow-water coral reef ecosystems, including mesophotic reefs (deeper light-dependent reef habitats). The program is designed to fund projects that directly address priority threats to coral reefs and help jurisdictions carry out their reef management plans in a way that aligns with NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) national strategy.

Eligible applicants include institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, commercial organizations, and local government agencies, including Indian tribal government agencies. Awards are made as grants (not contracts), and recipients are expected to carry out conservation, management, research, monitoring, or applied projects that produce tangible outcomes for reef protection and resilience.

Geographically, the competition targets coral reef and coral-dominated bank areas in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Florida, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. portions of the Gulf of Mexico where coral-dominated banks occur. Proposals may also include the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the U.S. Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIA), but those locations are not treated as geographic priorities for this particular announcement. NOAA also notes that it will divide funding between the U.S. Pacific and Atlantic regions to preserve overall geographic balance, consistent with requirements in the Coral Reef Conservation Act.

Project proposals must fit within at least one of four required categories: fishing impacts, land-based sources of pollution, climate change, or local and emerging management issues. While the full announcement contains the detailed definitions and examples for these categories, the intent is to focus proposals on the major drivers of reef decline and on locally relevant management needs, such as reducing stressors, improving compliance and management capacity, advancing resilience-based approaches, or addressing newly identified threats. Proposed work is expected to be consistent with the CRCP National Goals and Objectives for 2010 to 2015 and or with the relevant jurisdictional coral reef management priorities developed for each state or territory.

Funding for FY 2012 was expected to total about $500,000, with an anticipated 15 awards. Individual award sizes were constrained by a minimum and maximum budget range: NOAA would not accept proposals requesting less than $30,000 or more than $100,000 under this solicitation, and the average award was expected to be around $50,000. A cost share is required: projects funded through this competition must provide a 1:1 match of non-federal funds, meaning the recipient must contribute an equal amount from eligible non-federal sources to match the federal award amount.

Key administrative details include the Funding Opportunity Number NOAA NOS OCRM 2012 2003014 and CFDA 11.482 (Coral Reef Conservation Program). The opportunity was posted on Aug 24, 2011, with a proposal deadline of Nov 1, 2011, and an archive date of Dec 1, 2011. For access issues or official questions, the listed program officer contact was Jenny Waddell at NOAA in Silver Spring, Maryland (telephone 301-713-3155).

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