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National Coastal Resilience Fund
National Coastal Resilience Fund
Restored coastal ecosystems provide valuable habitat for fish and wildlife. These same wetlands, dunes, and coral reefs also offer flood protection for coastal communities by lessening wave energy and absorbing excess waters.
This approach is at the heart of this competitive grants program, a partnership between NOAA, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and other governmental and private sector partners. Funded projects cover the spectrum of nature-based infrastructure efforts, and include project planning, design, and implementation. Background information about the program can be found on the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's website.
2022
On December 6, 2022, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA announced $136 million to fund 88 projects under the 2022 National Coastal Resilience Fund using funds from their annual appropriations and funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The projects will restore, increase, and strengthen natural infrastructure—the landscapes that help absorb the impacts of storms and floods—to ultimately protect coastal communities from storm and flooding impacts and enhance fish and wildlife habitat. The total investment, including grants announced earlier this year, as well as non-federal match, is $241 million.
Project descriptions and additional information can be found here.
2022 Emergency Coastal Resilience Fund
On June 6, 2022, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA announced awards totalling $25.2 million for coastal resilience projects.
The projects will increase the resilience of coastal communities within federally-declared disaster areas impacted by hurricanes and wildfires in 2020 and 2021. The grants will leverage $4.9 million in additional funding to generate a total conservation impact of $30.1 million.
Project descriptions and additional information can be found here.
2021
- 49 projects funded.
- $39.5 million in funding from this program.
- Total investment, including non-federal match from grantees: $97.8 million.
- Program partners: NOAA, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf of Mexico Division, U.S. Department of Defense, AT&T, Shell, TransRe, and Occidental.
- Read the project descriptions for more information.
2020
- 46 projects funded.
- $37 million in funding from this program.
- Total investment, including non-federal match from grantees: $92 million.
- Program partners: NOAA, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf of Mexico Division, U.S. Department of Defense, AT&T, Shell, TransRe.
- Read the project descriptions for more information.
2020 Emergency Coastal Resilience Fund
Special competition for areas that received presidential disaster declarations due to Hurricanes Florence and Michael, Typhoon Yutu, and the coastal California wildfires in 2018.
- 27 projects funded.
- $48.5 million in funding from this program.
- Total investment, including non-federal match from grantees: $116 million.
- Read the project descriptions for more information.
2019
- 44 projects funded.
- $29.3 million in funding from this program.
- Total investment, including non-federal match from grantees: $89 million.
- Program partners: NOAA, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Shell, TransRe.
- Read the project descriptions for more information.
2018
- 35 projects funded.
- $28.9 million in funding for projects through the program.
- Total investment, including non-federal match from grantees: $67 million.
- Program partners: NOAA, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Shell, TransRe.
- Read the project descriptions for more information.
NOTE: For information about a previous program, the NOAA Coastal Resilience Grants Program, please visit this webpage.