Wildfire Resilience Initiative Grant
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This call is open to non-profits, registered charities and research institutions and 3 others. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: United States. The funder accepts early-stage applicants.
This grant supports projects that reduce wildfire risk and build community and ecosystem resilience across the western United States. Eligible applicants include nonprofits, research institutions, and community organizations working on land management, conservation, and climate adaptation in fire-prone regions.
About this grant
The Wildfire Resilience Initiative, run by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Environmental Conservation programme, addresses the growing threat of extreme wildfire across Western North America. After roughly a century of fire exclusion, ecosystems and communities face hotter, drier seasons, ecosystem fragmentation, historic clear-cutting, pathogens and invasive species, sprawl at the wildland-urban interface, and more human-caused ignitions. The page notes that the annual area burned by forest fires in the western United States has increased tenfold over the past half-century and that models project a doubling of mean annual forest-fire area by 2050 relative to 1991-2020, assuming constant fuels. The initiative's stated aim is to shift the role fire plays in Western North American landscapes, from an unwanted, destructive threat to a vitalizing element of healthy, fire-adapted ecosystems. Its impact statement focuses on enabling beneficial fire and reducing vulnerability to extreme wildfire to safeguard ecosystems and resilient fire-prone communities. The page reports grants to date totalling $89,649,508, with the first award in January 2019. It references a State of FireTech annual update and a grantee convening report, indicating attention to technology and grantee learning. The page does not itemise specific funded activities or a call for proposals in the extracted text.
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Key requirements
- ✓Work must focus on wildfire risk reduction and resilience in the western United States
- ✓Projects should address both community resilience and ecosystem health
- ✓Land management and conservation approaches are prioritized
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- Who can apply for Wildfire Resilience Initiative?
- Eligibility covers organisations in US; nonprofit, charity, research-institution, university, community-group, local-authority.
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