Grants Library
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation supports vital conservation projects across the United States and its territories. Please search our grants library for additional information on individual grants.
| Year | Name | Organization | Location | Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Chesapeake Land & Water Initiative (DE, MD, NY, PA, VA, WV) | Land Trust Alliance, Inc. | The entire 64,000 Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The LWI does have initial focal areas targeting the following sub-watersheds: Lower Susquehanna; Upper Susquehanna; Upper Potomac;Juniata; Shenandoah; Rapidan and Rappahannock; and Eastern Shore. | $199,999.91 |
| 2016 | Accelerating Use of Constructed Wetlands as a Nutrient-Removal Solution in Agricultural Watersheds (IL) | The Wetlands Initiative | Initially focused in the Big Bureau Creek subwatershed in north-central Illinois, which includes portions of Bureau, Lee, and LaSalle Counties. The project is anticipated to expand to the Vermilion-Illinois River Watershed (centered on Livingston County) and to at least one other Illinois watershed. | $120,001.99 |
| 2016 | Building Community Awareness of the Positive Role of Industry Investments in Conservation (PA) | Center for Aquatic Sciences | Philadelphia Metro Area, Pennsylvania | $24,171.10 |
| 2016 | Expanding the Channeled Scablands Cooperative Weed Management Area for Greater Sage Grouse (WA) | Lincoln County Conservation District | Project will be conducted within the boundaries of the Channeled Scablands CWMA within portions of Spokane, Lincoln and Whitman Counties in Washington state. The CWMA boundary will be extended north to include portions of Lincoln County that contain several 1000 acres of sage grouse habitat. | $74,901.74 |
| 2016 | Deploying CD3 Cleaning Stations with National Clean Drain Dry Initiative | Wildlife Forever | Locations are as follows Lake Washington Lake Minnetonka, Independence Lake, Forest Lake, Big Sandy Lake and Lake Washington boat launches were strategically selected to span urban-rural geography, AIS infestation level of clean to infested lakes,and to target boater demographics. |
$151,006.80 |
| 2016 | Gillies Creek Green Infrastructure Plan for Richmond, VA | Skeo Solutions | The project will be within the City of Richmond, Virginia in the Gillies Creek Watershed, which includes residents of the underserved Fulton, Montrose Heights, Montrose, and Church Hill neighborhoods. | $48,507.91 |
| 2016 | Evaluating Beach and Dune Resilience Restoration in the Mid-Atlantic (DE, NJ, NY) | National Park Service | Delaware, New Jersey, and New York | $784,264.00 |
| 2016 | Monitoring Shorebirds in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (AK) - II | Manomet, Inc. | The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge is one of the highest density shorebird nesting areas in the North American arctic, but landscape scale surveys have never been conducted there. We propose to survey the entire Refuge, including all federal lands suitable for shorebirds. | $95,394.70 |
| 2016 | Shorebirds in Alaska Native Cultures: Subsistence Harvest Estimates and Local and Traditional Knowledge | Alaska Department of Fish and Game | Shorebird harvest estimates will be provided for the whole state of Alaska, with emphasis on the Yukon-Kuskokwim region. Ethnographic research and outreach activities will occur in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region in western Alaska. | $68,489.38 |
| 2016 | Georgia Shorebird Alliance Red Knot, American Oystercatcher and Whimbrel Conservation Efforts | Georgia Department of Natural Resources | Work will take place at a number of locations from Tybee Island in the North to Cumberland Island in the south. Focal areas include St Catherine's, Little St Simons and Little Cumberland Islands, Gould’s Inlet, Little Tybee Natural Area and a number of offshore bars and spits. | $72,317.81 |