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 | Monitoring the Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Program's Socioeconomic Impacts in the Northeast(VA,ME) | Abt Associates Inc. | Northeast including: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia | $1,519,346.94 |
| 2016 | Conducting Ecological Monitoring of Hurricane Sandy Aquatic Connectivity Sites (CT, MA, MD, NJ, RI) | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Region 5 | Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island | $2,882,849.77 |
| 2016 | Optimizing a Technique for Detecting and Monitoring Polar Bear Dens in the Arctic Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (AK) | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Our experimental sites will be located on the North Slope of Alaska. Effort will be concentrated in and around oil fields. We have received a Certificate of Authorization (COA) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) flight missions in this area. | $129,118.00 |
| 2016 | Desecheo Island (PR) Seabird Restoration - II | Island Conservation | Desecheo Island (286 acres), a National Wildlife Refuge managed by USFWS, is located 21km west of Puerto Rico and is part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. | $110,000.00 |
| 2016 | Viewing Albatrosses From Space: Using Satellite Imagery To Count Nesting Birds (HI) | Oregon State University | Study sites will include albatross colonies in Hawaii (Midway Atoll and Oahu) and Japan (Torishima and the Senakaku Islands). Digital image processing will occur at Oregon State University’s main campus in Corvallis and the Hatfield Marine Science Center. | $119,604.59 |
| 2016 | Agricultural Land Easement Program (MT) | Prickly Pear Land Trust | Montana has 9 million acres of core sage grouse habitat and 24 million acres of general sage grouse habitat. Montana land trusts in the Bitterroot Valley and greater Gallatin and Missoula areas have consistently received NRCS funding for soils and grasslands conservation projects. Focal work would b | $120,110.53 |
| 2016 | Maheras Gentry Native Island Restoration and Youth Education (MI) | The Greening of Detroit | The Greening of Detroit's proposed project location is Maheras Gentry Park, a City of Detroit park located on the waterfront of the Detroit River in Wayne County, Michigan. The project location at completion will serve as a unique bird habitat and outdoor classroom in an otherwise urban environment. | $45,086.91 |
| 2016 | Community Stewardship of San Pablo Bay Watersheds (CA) | The Watershed Project | Projects will take place on Rheem Creek in San Pablo and San Pablo Creek in El Sobrante, at a total of four sites: San Pablo Creek behind the El Sobrante Library in El Sobrante Wilkie Creek behind De Anza High School in Richmond Rheem Creek in Wanlass Park in San Pablo Rheem Creek on the Co |
$54,733.00 |
| 2016 | Sustainable Hmong Farming in Minnesota | Hmong American Farmers Association | The HAFA Farm is located at 20385 Coates Blvd., Vermillion Township, MN 55033. More specifically, the Farm sits at the southern quadrants of Coates Blvd. (which is Highway 52 S) and 200th Street. The Farm also borders the Vermillion River on the western side. HAFA's offices are in St. Paul, MN. | $70,000.00 |
| 2016 | Nest Camera: Bird Life in a Wilderness Metropolis (MA) | Friends of Monomoy, Inc. | Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge stretches for eight miles off the elbow of Cape Cod, MA forming the barrier islands of North and South Monomoy. The total size of the refuge is 7,604 acres, of which 3,244 acres are designated Wilderness. A 40-acre unit on Morris Island houses the visitor's center. | $7,581.37 |