Collaborative Capacity Program - Standard Grant: Tribal Applicants

The National Forest Foundation’s Collaborative Capacity Program offers financial support to enhance collaboration among local communities and partners, focusing on improving wildfire resilience and forest health. Grants range from $10,001 to $75,000, with a 20% cash or in-kind match requirement. The program aims to foster long-term stewardship outcomes for National Forest System lands, ensuring benefits to both forests and local economies through collaborative efforts.

Collaborative Capacity Program - Standard Grant: Tribal Applicants
The National Forest Foundation’s Collaborative Capacity Program financial awards provide resources to support collaborative activities that increase wildfire resilience, recreation opportunities, forest health, and rural economies. Eligible efforts must describe how investments in collaboration will support a long-term strategy for achieving stewardship outcomes and how these outcomes benefit National Forest System lands.
Purpose
The CCP financial awards aim to increase and improve the capacity for collaboration among local communities, tribes, other strategic partners, and the Forest Service to achieve long-term forest stewardship outcomes that benefit National Forests and Grasslands. Collaborative forest stewardship efforts in all stages of their development require capacity support of some kind, and the specific capacity needed will vary depending on the area of focus, existing resources, relationships, and skill sets. For example, these financial awards may assist with startup costs for a collaborative in a specific landscape and writing a strategic plan for the collaborative over the next five years. Alternatively, financial awards may help expand the scale and impact of existing collaborative efforts by providing stipends to participants or funding for coordination or facilitation support.
While the CCP’s financial awards do not directly support on-the-ground project implementation, the outcomes proposed by applicants must aim to provide meaningful benefits to forests and grasslands currently managed by the USDA Forest Service as part of the National Forest System.
Funding
Award Amount: $20,000 - $50,000 Number of Awards: ~10-15 awards Matching Requirements: 20% non-federal cash or in-kind match is required