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Wildlife Conservation Grants: Call for Proposals

The Wildlife Diversity Program is offering grants to support implementation of the 2012 Texas Conservation Action Plan (TCAP), to prevent the need to list, promote recovery and enable conservation of rare species and communities in greatest need.

Proposals following the guidelines below will be accepted through December 3, 2012, 5:00 PM CST. To be considered for the award, proposal must be received by the deadline electronically to tcap@tpwd.state.tx.us. A PDF of this call for proposals and guidelines for submittal can be downloaded below. A set of specific funding priorities have been established for various taxa. Proposals that significantly address the needs of TCAP Species of Greatest Need and Rare Plant Communities (other than those detailed by taxa below) or a listed Conservation Action found in one or more of the Ecoregion Handbooks will also be considered.

Award calls and emails will be completed the week of December 28, 2012; contract processing will begin as soon as award contact has been confirmed. It is our intention to have executed contracts for all funds by mid-January; however, no work funded by these grants may begin prior to executed (signed by both parties) contract (see also Compliance section in this announcement). Once awards are contracted, a list of selected projects will be posted to this web page.

This is a rare funding opportunity, most of this funding must be spent by August 31, 2013. Some multi-year projects could be awarded, but will depend on continuing fund availability and the effectiveness of the projects awarded this round. You should plan to submit work up through August 31, 2013, and segment your proposal and budget for work up to and beyond that date.

TCAP implementation activities and these conservation grants will be part of a larger effort to track our incremental conservation progress and report out to our partners and the public how we are doing. To that end, the toolkit in Measuring the Effectiveness of State Wildlife Grants is strongly recommended to define conservation projects, target audiences and partners, identify desired step-wise intermediate results, and collect the “right” data to report conservation achievements.

Proposal Forms