Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA SEC OED 2018 2005455
The Environmental Literacy Grants opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number NOAA SEC OED 2018 2005455) is a discretionary federal funding program from the U.S. Department of Commerce, administered through NOAA, that aims to strengthen community resilience by improving environmental literacy among K-12 students and the broader public. At its core, the program is designed to help people understand the environmental hazards their communities face, how those hazards affect infrastructure, ecosystems, and public health, and what actions individuals and communities can take to reduce risk and recover more effectively. The emphasis is not only on awareness, but on building practical knowledge that helps communities prevent, withstand, and bounce back from disruptions tied to extreme weather and other environmental stresses.
The grant focuses on education tied to real-world hazards that many U.S. communities are already experiencing or preparing for, including severe storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding and heavy precipitation, drought, heat waves, rising temperatures, ocean acidification, and sea level rise. The opportunity frames resilience as a process that communities work through over time: identifying hazards, assessing vulnerability and risk, considering different options, prioritizing and planning, and then taking action. While this type of planning often sits with scientists, emergency managers, and municipal planners, the program is built on the idea that resilience is stronger when community members also understand the hazards and can participate meaningfully in mitigation and adaptation efforts. Projects funded under this program are expected to empower learners, including youth, to engage with resilience at both the personal and community level.
A major theme is building the kind of environmental literacy that supports sound decision-making. That means helping participants learn how human and natural systems interact, how to interpret scientific evidence and uncertainty, how places and people are connected across time and geography, and how to weigh tradeoffs and consequences in a structured way. NOAA signals that proposals should be grounded in established scientific evidence about present and future hazards and should take into account the social, economic, and ecological realities of the target region. Projects may address a single hazard or a range of hazards, as long as they are relevant to the community or communities being served.
The program also pushes applicants to tie education directly to on-the-ground resilience work already happening in states and localities. Applicants are expected to leverage and incorporate relevant state and local hazard mitigation plans and/or climate adaptation plans, and to collaborate with institutions involved in developing or implementing those plans. In practice, that means education projects should not sit in isolation; they should connect to local emergency management, planning departments, resilience offices, watershed groups, coastal programs, or similar partners who are engaged in real planning and response efforts.
From a design standpoint, projects are expected to use active learning approaches rather than passive information delivery. A defining requirement is that funded projects must utilize NOAA scientific resources, such as NOAA datasets, data access tools, data visualizations, and other NOAA physical or intellectual assets related to weather, climate, oceans, coasts, or the Great Lakes. To make that feasible and credible, NOAA strongly encourages partnerships with NOAA offices, programs, and staff or affiliates. Applicants are also encouraged to look at resilience education projects NOAA has funded since 2015 and use those lessons learned to inform proposal design, suggesting that NOAA is looking for proposals that build on proven strategies and avoid repeating earlier pitfalls.
Projects must be implemented in the United States or its territories and will typically operate at the local level, though multi-locality efforts are allowed. The subject matter must align with NOAA's mission areas (ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, weather, and climate science and stewardship) and should support one or more goals from NOAA's Next Generation Strategic Plan, including Healthy Oceans, a Weather-Ready Nation, climate adaptation and mitigation, and resilient coastal communities and economies. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates that NOAA expects to have substantial involvement during the project period compared with a standard grant.
Eligibility is limited to U.S.-based institutions of higher education; nonprofit organizations (including informal education organizations such as museums, zoos, and aquariums); K-12 public and independent schools and school systems; and state, local, and federally recognized tribal governments. Entities that cannot apply include federal agencies, for-profit organizations, foreign institutions, and individuals. The program anticipates making about six awards, with an award ceiling of $500,000. Project periods must be between 2 and 5 years, and total federal funding requests must fall between $250,000 and $500,000 across all project years.
For this specific cycle, the opportunity was created on November 7, 2017, with an original closing date of April 6, 2018. NOAA anticipated making awards by September 30, 2018, with project start dates no earlier than October 1, 2018. Additional application resources were provided through NOAA's Environmental Literacy Program website at http://www.noaa.gov/office-education/elp/grants/apply.Apply for NOAA SEC OED 2018 2005455
- The Department of Commerce in the environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Environmental Literacy Grants: Supporting the education of K-12 students and the public for community resilience" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.008.
- This funding opportunity was created on Nov 07, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 06, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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