The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

 

Funding

The Tribal Climate Change Funding Guide is intended to provide up-to-date information on grants, programs and plans that may assist tribes in addressing climate change through a broad range of sectors. We will update this guide regularly, so please check back often. If you have questions or updates for this guide, email: kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com. Please note that for entries that are accepting applications continuously, the grant deadline column will list "12/31/2024" as the grant deadline. This ensures that those grants will appear immediately after those grants with a set deadline.

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2025 Coastal Resilience Program 3/5/2025

2025 Coastal Resilience Program. Letters of Intent Due: March 5, 2025, by 5 p.m. CST. The National Sea Grant Law Center’s funding opportunities seek to promote the growth and development of Sea Grant legal programming and build the capacity of individual Sea Grant programs to address legal issues in their states.* Eligible applicants, including Sea Grant Programs, universities, government agencies, and non-profits, are invited to apply for funding to research the effectiveness of laws and policies related to coastal resilience. Details about the program and the full RFP are available on our Funding Opportunities webpage.

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Glacier National Park Conservancy – Jerry O'Neal Research Fellowship for work in Glacier National Park. 3/19/2025

Glacier National Park Conservancy – Jerry O'Neal Research Fellowship for work in Glacier National Park. Applications Due: March 19, 2025.  The fellowship aims to provide educational assistance for students seeking to understand natural and cultural resource issues and how these interact with human values. Special consideration will be given to proposals that address the following: natural resource issues such as aquatic ecology, terrestrial ecology, fire ecology, invasive plants, and climate change; cultural resource issues, such as history and architectural studies, cultural landscape reports, ethnographic research, and archeology; social science that informs resource management about a natural or cultural topic and/or that addresses visitor impacts to park resources. Competition is open to graduate students or superior upper division undergraduate students at universities and colleges in the CESU Network.  Applicants may request up to $7500. https://www.umt.edu/cooperative-ecosystem-studies/files/announcements/2025-gnpc_oneal_announcement.pdf

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