Oak Woodlands Conservation

Grantor:: Wildlife Conservation Board
Portal ID:: 10295
Status:: Active
Opportunity Type:: Grant
Last Updated:: May 10, 2022, 1:51 pm
Categories:: Environment & Water

Details

Purpose:

The Oak Woodlands Conservation Program offers landowners, conservation organizations, cities and counties, an opportunity to obtain funding for projects designed to conserve and restore California's oak woodlands. While the Program is statewide in nature, it provides opportunities to address oak woodland issues on a regional priority basis.

Description:

The Program is designed to help local efforts achieve oak woodland protection. More importantly, this Program provides a mechanism to bring ranchers and conservationists together in a manner that allows both to achieve that which is so valued - sustainable ranch and farming operations and healthy oak woodlands.

Eligibility Requirements

Eligible Applicants:

Nonprofit
Public Agency
Tribal Government

Eligible Geographies:

Statewide

Matching Funding Requirement:

Cost share is not required but may be beneficial, in particular to complete a larger project. Applications with higher proportions of secured cost share contribution towards total project cost will score more points through the “Cost Share” application evaluation criterion.

Important Dates

The date (and time, where applicable) by which all applications must be submitted to the grantmaker. Time listed as “00:00” equates to midnight.: Ongoing
The date on which the grantor expects to announce the recipient(s) of the grant.: Continuous
The length of time during which the grant money must be utilized.: 1 year from board

Funding Details

The total projected dollar amount of the grant.: $15,000,000
A single grant opportunity may represent one or many awards. Some grantors may know in advance the exact number of awards to be given. Others may indicate a range. Some may wish to and wait until the application period closes before determining how many awards to offer; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.: Dependent
Grant opportunities representing multiple awards may offer awards in the same amount or in varied amounts. Some may wish to wait until the application period closes before determining per-award amounts; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.: Dependent

Certain grants require that the recipient(s) provide a letter of intent.

Yes ( see Description for details )

Certain grants require that the recipient(s) be able to fully or partially match the grant award amount with another funding source.

The funding source allocated to fund the grant. It may be either State or Federal (or a combination of both), and be tied to a specific piece of legislation, a proposition, or a bond number.

State

The manner in which the grant funding will be delivered to the awardee. Funding methods include reimbursements (where the recipient spends out-of-pocket and is reimbursed by the grantor) and advances (where the recipient spends received grant funds directly).

Advances & Reimbursement(s)

How to Apply

State agencies/departments recommend you read the full grant guidelines before applying.

Grant guidelines

Resources

For questions about this grant, contact:: Joe Navari, 1-916-926-2546, joseph.navari@wildlife.ca.gov