Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA SEC OED 2020 2006190
The Environmental Literacy Grants: Supporting the education of K-12 students and the public for community resilience opportunity (NOAA SEC OED 2020 2006190) is a discretionary NOAA grant program under the U.S. Department of Commerce that funds education-focused projects designed to help communities better understand and respond to extreme weather and other environmental hazards. The central purpose is to build environmental literacy among K-12 students and the broader public so people can recognize the risks their communities face, understand how those risks are changing over time, and take part in practical efforts that strengthen local resilience.
A key theme of this program is that resilience depends on more than awareness. NOAA is looking for projects that develop real capability within a community through both formal and informal learning experiences. That means helping participants build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to think clearly about how human and natural systems interact at local and global scales, including an explicit recognition that vulnerabilities and impacts are not evenly distributed across populations. It also means preparing people to participate in scientific and civic processes (for example, contributing to local planning conversations, understanding risk information, or engaging with decision-making pathways), and to weigh scientific uncertainty alongside cultural knowledge and diverse community values when choices have to be made.
Projects are expected to actively engage community members rather than relying mainly on passive outreach. The solicitation emphasizes active learning approaches during the award period and encourages applicants to show, in concrete terms, how learners and community members will be involved. Proposals should connect to real-world resilience work by leveraging relevant state and local hazard mitigation and/or adaptation plans and collaborating with the people and institutions responsible for creating or implementing those plans. Projects can focus on one place or multiple places, and they can address a single hazard (such as flooding, hurricanes, drought, wildfire smoke, heat, coastal erosion, or harmful algal blooms) or a suite of hazards affecting a community, as long as the work is grounded in established scientific evidence about current and future conditions and reflects local socioeconomic and ecological realities. Particular attention is expected for groups with higher exposure and fewer resources to prepare for, respond to, and recover from hazards.
Because this is a NOAA program, every project must clearly align with NOAA's mission areas, specifically ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, weather, and/or climate science and stewardship. A non-negotiable requirement is that projects must use NOAA resources in a meaningful way, such as NOAA scientific datasets, data access tools, visualizations, or other NOAA physical and intellectual assets. To make that feasible and credible, NOAA strongly encourages applicants to partner with relevant NOAA offices, programs, staff, or affiliates. Applicants are also encouraged to integrate citizen science tools when it makes sense for the project goals, which can help connect learning to local data collection and community problem-solving.
The opportunity is structured around two priorities. Priority 1 funds new projects located in NOAA-defined Southern and Western U.S. regions. The Southern Region includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Western Region includes Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, the Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Priority 2 supports the evolution or scaling of projects that were previously funded under the program's 2015-2016 competitions (NOAA-SEC-OED-2015-2004408 and NOAA-SEC-OED-2016-2004737), and those Priority 2 efforts must be implemented in the United States or its territories.
Eligibility is limited to a defined set of applicant types: institutions of higher education; K-12 public and independent schools and school systems; nonprofits (including community-based organizations and informal education institutions like museums, zoos, and aquariums); state and local government agencies; and federally recognized Indian tribal governments within the United States. For-profit organizations, foreign institutions, and individuals cannot apply as the primary applicant, but they are allowed to participate as partners. Federal agencies are also not eligible to receive funds directly under this announcement, though they may participate as project partners.
Awards are made as cooperative agreements, which typically means NOAA expects a more substantial level of programmatic involvement than a standard grant. The anticipated number of awards is eight, with an award ceiling of $500,000. Project periods must be between two and five years. For Priority 1 (new projects in the Southern and Western Regions), applicants must request between $250,000 and $500,000 total in NOAA federal funds across all project years (including direct and indirect costs). For Priority 2 (evolving prior 2015-2016 projects), the allowable range is $100,000 to $500,000 total across all years (including direct and indirect costs).
The notice was created October 15, 2019, with an original application closing date of March 26, 2020. NOAA anticipated making selections by September 30, 2020, with project start dates no earlier than October 1, 2020. Additional application resources and guidance were provided through NOAA's environmental literacy program page at http://www.noaa.gov/office-education/elp/grants/apply.Apply for NOAA SEC OED 2020 2006190
- The Department of Commerce in the environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Environmental Literacy Grants: Supporting the education of K-12 students and the public for community resilience" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.008.
- This funding opportunity was created on Oct 15, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 26, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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