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Land and Water Stewardship Grant

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This call is open to non-profits, community groups and Indigenous communities and 1 other. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: United States, Tanzania and any country. The funder accepts early-stage applicants.

Summary

This grant supports female-led initiatives to protect, reclaim, and preserve land and natural resources, with specific focus on preventing extractive industry impacts on Indigenous lands in Alaska and advancing economic and advocacy rights for Maasai women in Tanzania. Eligible applicants are women-led organizations working on land stewardship, indigenous rights protection, and climate adaptation in these geographies.

Summary by Raise Lens from the official notice · 5 Sept 2026Accurate?

About this grant

Supports female-led efforts to reclaim, preserve, and protect land, including protecting Indigenous American land in Alaska from extractive industries and empowering Maasai women and girls in Tanzania to build economic status and advocate for their rights.

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Key requirements

  • ✓Female-led or female-focused organization
  • ✓Work on land rights, land protection, or land reclamation
  • ✓Geographic focus on Indigenous lands in Alaska and/or Maasai communities in Tanzania, or broader land stewardship efforts
  • ✓Alignment with climate adaptation and/or indigenous rights protection

Frequently asked questions

Who can apply for Land and Water Stewardship?
Eligibility covers organisations in US, TZ, GLOBAL; nonprofit, community-group, indigenous-community, social-enterprise.

How this compares

  • Compared with 258 similar grants (biodiversity in United States) listed in the last 12 months.
  • Similar grants that state a value range from $3k to $100m, with a median of $478k (68 grants).
  • This is the only similar grant from this organisation listed here in the last 12 months.

Figures are computed from notices listed on Raise Lens in the same sector and country over the last 12 months.

About this sector

Biodiversity funding backs habitat restoration, species protection, protected areas and nature-positive business. It comes from environment agencies, multilateral nature funds and conservation philanthropy, often through competitive calls with defined regions. Applicants are usually asked for baseline surveys, local partners and indicators that show ecological change.

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Quick facts

Sourcefunder-discovery
EligibilityUS, TZ, GLOBAL
Org typesnonprofit, community-group, indigenous-community, social-enterprise
Last verified5 Sep 2026

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