North Bay Forest Improvement Program (NBFIP) - Wildfire Mitigation
Funding Amount
$76,000 (OAEC award example)
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Overview
Award Type: Incentive dollars/partial payments to landowners for forest stewardship projects
Geographic Scope: North Bay area, California (Sonoma County)
Focus Areas:
- Hazardous fuel reduction
- Forest health promotion
- Wildfire risk reduction
- Forest stewardship projects
Example Award: OAEC received $76,000 in July 2021 for 41 acres of on-site forest stewardship projects
Project Components:
- Tree thinning and limbing
- Fire ladder prevention (preventing fire from climbing into canopy)
- Habitat pile construction
- Prescribed burns in prairie grasslands
- Lopping and scattering of hazardous materials
Partner Opportunities:
Landowners can combine NBFIP funds with matching funds from:
- Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
- Conservation Incentive Contracts
What Occidental Arts and Ecology Center actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990 filing, 2020 — the most recent filing with itemized grants
- Grants in 2020
- 3
- Total given
- $64K
- Median grant
- $5,000
- Range
- $100–$59K
- By dollars: California 100%. Top recipient cities: Berkeley, CA; Oakland, CA; Sebastopol, CA.
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Fields of Work
- Environment
- Environmental conservation
- Disaster relief
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