I just got the unfortunate news today that a fairly substantial grant pre-proposal I submitted to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is not being waved in for a full proposal. Damn it!NFWF has historically offered funding for one-year projects up to $50,000. We've been doing quite well over the past few years at securing these grants. But for 2008, NFWF launched a new funding category for their coral reef conservation programs that allowed for multi-year projects (up to three years) and up to $300,000. I submitted a pre-proposal that builds on our previous multi-year conservation investments along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. With the required 1:1 federal match, the project was about half-a-million dollars over three years.
It's great to see funders like NFWF ramp-up their funding and recognize that conservation is an ongoing investment and takes time to build capacity and meaningful results. I'll just have to work on an even more killer proposal for next year.
2 comments:
Sorry about the rejection. I've had a very light blogging week because we're preparing a pre-proposal for NFWF. Unlike you, we have yet to pry any $ out of them. This time for sure!!
best of luck on your grant, doug!
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