Funding / Funding Opportunities
Funding Opportunities
The Office for Coastal Management’s competitive grant announcements can be found on Grants.gov by searching under the following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CDFA) numbers:
- 11.419 – Coastal Zone Management Administration (Projects of Special Merit, Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program, NERR Collaborative Science Program)
- 11.420 – Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves
- 11.473 – Office for Coastal Management (Coastal Resilience, Bay Watershed Education and Training, Great Lakes Areas of Concern Land Acquisition)
- 11.482 – Coral Reef Conservation Program
Table 1.0: Open or Recent NOAA Grant Announcements
| Grant Opportunities | Federal Funding Opportunity Announcements (posted on Grants.gov) |
Dates of Interest | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letters of Intent or Pre-applications | Proposal Deadline | Earliest Start Date | ||
| Office for Coastal Management – NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program | FY22-23 CRCP International Coral Reef Conservation Grants and Cooperative Agreements | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, December 1, 2021 | October 1, 2022 |
| Office for Coastal Management – National Coastal Zone Management Program | Coastal Zone Management Projects of Special Merit Competition – Fiscal Year 2022 | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, December 3, 2021 | October 1, 2022 |
| Office for Coastal Management – National Estuarine Research Reserve System | Fiscal Year 2022 – FY2023 Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowships for the National Estuarine Research Reserve System | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, December 10, 2021 | August 1, 2022 |
| NOAA-wide announcement | FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The notice requests proposals for special projects and programs associated with NOAA's strategic plan and mission goals. This broad agency announcement is a mechanism to encourage research, education and outreach, innovative projects, or sponsorships that are not addressed through NOAA competitive discretionary programs. It is not a mechanism for awarding congressionally directed funds. Funding for potential projects in this notice is contingent upon the availability Fiscal Year 2021-2023 appropriations. | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, May 15, 2022 | October 1, 2022 |
All deadlines are 11:59 p.m. Eastern time unless noted
Table 2.0: Archive of selected NOAA competitive federal funding opportunities (FFOs).
Information about NOAA Office for Coastal Management grants (pdf)
Guidance for first-time Grants.gov users (pdf)