Funding

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

$2.28 Million in Grants from Delaware River Restoration Fund

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced 13 grant awards totaling $2.28 million for water quality restoration and habitat conservation in targeted regions throughout the Delaware River watershed.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Sonoran Joint Venture Awards Grants to Seven Projects in 2017

The Sonoran Joint Venture recently selected its finalists for the 2017 SJV Awards Program. The objective of the SJV Awards Program is to support the investigation and conservation of birds and their habitats within SJV boundaries by providing funds through a competitive program.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Migratory Birds to Benefit from Nearly $18 Million in Funding

Thanks to the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA), however, our migrating birds will benefit to the tune of $18 million in federal and matching funds.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Grant Will Support Delta Waterfowl's Drone Research

A $10,000 grant from the DSC Foundation, a charitable arm of the Dallas Safari Club, will fund Delta Waterfowl studies aiming to use drone technology to find over-water nesting ducks such as canvasbacks, monitor densities of waterfowl predators, and detect the nests of upland-nesting birds such as mallards, pintails, teal, pheasants, songbirds and piping plovers.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Grants Will Benefit Hundreds of Bird Species in 31 Projects

The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA) provides critical funding each year for bird conservation and research throughout the Western Hemisphere and is the only source of federal funding solely dedicated to the conservation of our shared migratory bird heritage.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Funding Available for Canadian Bird Research and Conservation Projects

Bird Studies Canada is now accepting applications to the James L. Baillie Memorial Fund for Bird Research and Preservation (the Baillie Fund) for the 2017 grant cycle.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Apply Now for Mini-Grants to Support Community Events

Organizations planning community events are invited to apply for a mini-grant from from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. These grants, which usually range from $100 to $750, are distributed through the Lab's Celebrate Urban Birds project.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

WildLife Guards Program Receives $35,000 Grant

Audubon Connecticut was honored to be one of 25 grant award recipients of the Long Island Sound Futures Fund (LISFF)—with a generous matching grant of $35,000 going towards the Audubon WildLife Guards (WLG), a coastal stewardship and youth conservation training program.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

NFWF Approves $370 Million for Gulf Coast Restoration

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) this week announced that is has approved nearly $370 million from its Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (GEBF) to fund 24 projects in the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Interior, USDA Announce More Than $47 Million in Investments

The U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture have announced more than $47 million in investments to help water districts and producers on private working lands better conserve water resources across the West.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Chesapeake Bay Region Receives $1M Through 2016 REPI Challenge

The Chesapeake Conservancy has announced the Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded $1 million to help conserve lands located within the newly designated Naval Air Station Patuxent River and Atlantic Test Ranges Sentinel Landscape in Southern Maryland and along the Nanticoke River.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Nearly $49 Million in Grants to Protect Waterfowl, Other Bird Species

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced $48.8 million in grants have been approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, which provides the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners the ability to purchase, lease or otherwise conserve more than 275,000 acres of wetland and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, shorebirds and other birds across North America.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

FWS Announces Annual Distribution of Excise Tax at $1.1Billion

The keystone of annual funding for state wildlife agencies was put into place on March 6, 2016 with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's distribution of $1.1 billion in revenues generated by the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration acts.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

National Science Foundation Grants $10 Millon to eBird

The eBird program has received a big boost for its online global bird tracking website. The National Science Foundation awarded the program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society $10 million over five years.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Migratory Birds Get $3.8 Million Boost from Feds

Migratory birds throughout the Western Hemisphere will benefit from $3.8 million in grants for 27 collaborative conservation projects across the Americas, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced May 11.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Crane Foundation Receives Disney Conservation Grants

The International Crane Foundation (ICF) has been awarded two $25,000 grants from the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund (DWCF), which recognize ICF's efforts to protect critical habitats for threatened cranes while engaging local communities in Vietnam and South Africa.

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