Other Grant Opportunities
Deadline:
03/01/25Cornell Lab Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative
https://www.birds.cornell.edu/landtrust/ Cornell Lab Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative
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OtherRange:
$10,000 - $25,000Size:
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Education, Environmental, Recreation, Stewardship, WildlifeThrough its annual grant program, the Cornell Lab’s Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative helps accelerate and amplify land stewardship and bird conservation on private lands. Funding is awarded to projects across two categories:
- Capacity and Partnership (up to $10,000)
- Projects should build land trust capacity by teaching or demonstrating how birds can enhance such things as strategic planning, habitat management, and mission fulfillment of land trusts and/or facilitate mutually beneficial collaborations and partnerships with the bird conservation community. Accredited and non-accredited land trusts and conservation organizations partnering with land trusts are welcome to apply.
- Management and Restoration (up to $25,000)
- Projects should actively manage, restore, and/or steward land in a way that enhances habitat and promotes bird conservation, with special emphasis on priority species or those identified in State Wildlife Action Plans. Applicant organization should either be an accredited land trust or partnering with an accredited land trust.