Opportunity Information: Apply for F18AS00089
The Western Hemisphere Program (Caribbean Regional Program), Funding Opportunity Number F18AS00089, is a discretionary grant and cooperative agreement opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of the Interior through the Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). It sits within CFDA 15.640 and is designed to support on-the-ground and capacity-building efforts that advance conservation priorities in the Caribbean, especially in places known for high biodiversity value. The core purpose of the USFWS Caribbean Program is to conserve species, habitats, and the ecological processes that keep ecosystems functioning across broader landscapes, rather than focusing only on isolated sites or single-species actions.
This opportunity is geared toward environmental and natural resource work, with the funding activity categories also listing employment, labor, and training, which signals that proposals can include practical workforce development or training components tied to conservation outcomes. In other words, projects are expected to contribute to conservation directly, but they may also be structured to strengthen skills, local expertise, and institutional capacity that make conservation more sustainable over time.
Eligible applicants include a range of education and nonprofit organizations: public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education). This eligibility mix indicates the program is open both to academic-led initiatives (such as research, monitoring, applied science, and student training tied to real management needs) and to nonprofit-led initiatives (such as habitat restoration, community engagement, species recovery actions, and conservation planning), including organizations that may be locally based and not structured as a U.S. 501(c)(3).
For the 2018 cycle reflected in the notice, the opportunity was created on March 26, 2018, with an original application closing date of May 10, 2018. The maximum funding amount (award ceiling) was listed as $90,000 per award, and the program anticipated making approximately 15 awards. Taken together, that suggests a relatively competitive, small-to-mid-sized grant program intended to fund multiple targeted projects across the region rather than a few large, multi-year efforts.
Overall, this grant opportunity supports practical conservation work in the Caribbean with an emphasis on protecting biodiversity-rich landscapes and the natural systems that sustain wildlife and habitats. Applicants that can clearly connect their activities to measurable conservation benefits, demonstrate strong partnerships or local relevance, and show how their work strengthens long-term ecological resilience and conservation capacity are the types of efforts that typically align well with a program framed around species, habitats, and ecological processes at landscape scale.Apply for F18AS00089
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the employment, labor and training, environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Western Hemisphere Program (Caribbean Regional Program)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.640.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 26, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 10, 2018 05/10/2018. (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 $90,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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