West Sound Watersheds Community Salmon Fund
Deadline: Wednesday, August
27th, 2008.
Background
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the Salmon
Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) have established the West Sound Watersheds
Community Salmon Fund to stimulate smaller-scale, voluntary action by
landowners, community groups, and businesses to support salmon recovery
on private property within the West Sound Watersheds Lead Entity.
Projects on public property will be considered if they have excellent
community involvement and can serve as a model for similar efforts on
private property. Grants will be jointly selected by NFWF and the
West Sound Watersheds Lead Entity, and administered by NFWF.
Goals
The goals of the West Sound Watersheds Community Salmon Fund are
to:
- Fund habitat protection and restoration projects that have a
substantial benefit to watershed health and are consistent with local
salmon recovery plans. For more information about your local
salmon recovery plan, please contact Kathleen Peters (KPeters@co.kitsap.wa.us), West Sound
Watersheds Lead Entity Coordinator at (360) 337-4679.
- Encourage landowners, business owners, and community groups to
become engaged in salmon habitat conservation and stewardship.
- Stimulate creativity and leadership among various constituencies to
address conservation needs, especially farmers, rural forest landowners,
suburban homeowners, businesses, and industries.
Eligible Costs
The Community Salmon Fund will award grants of up to $75,000. The
program's primary focus is smaller-scale, community-based restoration
projects that reflect the goals of local recovery strategies.
Requests for funds to complement large-scale restoration projects (such
as SRFB proposals) will not be considered. The following are examples of
eligible costs:
- Restoration of habitat within and along salmon-bearing rivers,
streams, and the marine nearshore.
- Project design and development that is anticipated to lead to an
on-the-ground restoration project within 18 months.
In addition, the following new project categories are eligible for
funding under this round of the West Sound Watersheds Community Salmon
Fund:
- Creative partnerships for salmon recovery that address the eventual
implementation of restoration work.
- Examples of eligible projects under this category include:
coordinating a farmers’ group interested in riparian restoration,
organizing salmon workshops with streamside businesses, or doing
targeted outreach to neighborhood groups to explore local restoration
options. The goal of these activities is to engage new communities
in salmon recovery and enlist prospective landowners willing to
participate in on-the-ground restoration work.
- Maintenance of previously awarded Community Salmon Fund projects.
- Grantees of projects funded under previous CSF rounds are encouraged
to apply for funds to conduct on-site maintenance of CSF-funded project
activities and deliverables.
Applicants interested in submitting a proposal under one of these new
categories are asked to contact Brian Ferrasci-O’Malley (bferrasci-omalley@evergreenfc.com) at (206)
691-0700 prior to submitting an application.
Note: Full fee acquisition, less-than-fee acquisition,
free-standing educational projects not associated with eventual
restoration activities, mitigation or corrective actions, general
planning and feasibility studies, and legal or lobbying efforts are
ineligible costs under this program.
Applicants
Applicants may be non-profits, educational institutions, tribes,
community groups, business associations, RFEGs, conservation districts
or local governments. Community groups without non-profit tax status
will need to secure an eligible financial sponsor. Successful applicants
will:
- Have excellent connections and high credibility with communities
that live and work along salmon-bearing waterways.
- Have a history of successfully implemented conservation or
restoration projects or initiated projects with target communities.
- Demonstrate innovative and creative solutions to conservation
problems.
- Develop other partnerships to sustain their recovery and restoration
initiatives.
- Demonstrate the capacity to maintain the habitat values of the
project site.
Application Process and Schedule
Applications for the West Sound Watersheds Community Salmon Fund are
due August 27th, 2008. Applicants will be notified of
the results by November 17th, 2008. Please note: Funded projects must be completed by
September 30th, 2010.
The West Sound Watersheds Community Salmon Fund uses NFWF’s
online application interface: EasyGrants. To start an application,
please click on the following link: http://www.nfwf.org/easygrants. New
users to the system will be prompted to register before starting their
application. Once you have started an application, you can save it
and return at a later point to complete it, up until the application
deadline. Please be sure to disable the pop-up blocker on your
Internet browser prior to beginning the application process.
A technical team made up of regional experts familiar with salmon
recovery needs, techniques and the local communities will review
proposals based on technical merit, potential benefit to the community,
and cost-effectiveness. Projects will be selected for funding
jointly by NFWF and the West Sound Watersheds Lead Entity.
Preference will be given to proposals that:
- Address priorities identified in the local recovery plan;
- Address salmon habitat restoration on private property;
- Have excellent salmon benefits and high visibility;
- Engage community groups as project sponsors and/or hosts;
- Include a location, project type, or community partner that is
under-represented in salmon recovery efforts;
- Have a high likelihood of being self-sustaining after the grant
period;
- Include significant match from other sources (at least 50% of the
total grant request in cash or in-kind contributions; i.e. for an
application requesting $30,000 of CSF funds, an applicant would be
expected to document at least $15,000 of matching funds, for a total
project cost of $45,000). Match funds may be cash or in-kind from the
applicant or partners, and must be non-federal.
Further Information
For more information about the Community Salmon Fund application
process, contact Brian Ferrasci-O’Malley with Evergreen Funding
Consultants (bferrasci-omalley@evergreenfc.com) at (206)
691-0700. For information about local salmon recovery priorities, please
contact Kathleen Peters (KPeters@co.kitsap.wa.us), West Sound Watersheds Lead
Entity Coordinator at (360) 337-4679. This document and a link to the
application form are available at http://www.communitysalmonfund.org.
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