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 – National Estuarine Research Reserve System | National Estuarine Research Reserve System Land Acquisition and Construction Program for Fiscal Year 2022 | N/A | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, February 11, 2022 | July 1, 2022 |
| Office for Coastal Management – NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program | Coral Reef Conservation Program Domestic Capacity-Building Partnerships | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, December 10, 2021 | 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, February 11, 2022 | October 1, 2022 |
| Office for Coastal Management – Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Hawaii Program | 2022 Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Hawaii Program | N/A | 5:59 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HST) / 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, February 25, 2022 | 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 of 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)