Grants & RFPs

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with technical analysis and programmatic evaluation support related to water quality modeling and monitoring and spatial systems to manage, analyze, and map environmental data. The project assists the partners in meeting their restoration and protection goals and in increasing the transfer of scientific understanding to the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling, monitoring, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities. The recipient will support modeling, monitoring, and GIS programs needed to explain and communicate the health of and changes in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.

Closing Date: October 30, 2023

This RFA is seeking one recipient to support the Chesapeake Bay Program’s mission of expanding and accelerating the implementation of nutrient and sediment load reduction practices and technologies throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The successful applicant will supply staff who have significant, in-depth academic and/or professional experience in analysis and evaluation of stormwater data and technical program implementation in support of the most cost-effective, efficient, and targeted nutrient, sediment, and chemical contaminant reduction actions.

Closing Date: October 26, 2023

The purpose of the Landscape Scale Restoration competitive grant program is to encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority rural forest landscapes. This program supports high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in science-based restoration strategies.

Closing Date: December 15, 2023

The purpose of the Landscape Scale Restoration competitive grant program is to encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority rural forest landscapes. This program supports, high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in each State Forest Action Plan or equivalent restoration strategy.

Closing Date: November 30, 2023

The National Park Service Chesapeake Gateways Program (NPS Chesapeake Gateways) offers competitive grant opportunities to advance the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 within the full 41-million-acre Chesapeake Bay watershed!

Closing Date: November 3, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency seeks applications from eligible recipients to support Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) efforts to connect with diverse and underserved audiences throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed through public forums, targeted outreach campaigns, conferences, social media, and other methods that will accelerate conservation action through local efforts informed and supported by Bay program information and partner resources. The recipient will raise visibility and awareness of the mission and activities of the CBP as a national and international leader in multi-agency ecosystem restoration and maintenance efforts; and develop, support, and implement initiatives that increase the capacity of the CBP and its partners to undertake more action, secure additional funding, and coordinate expanded outreach and engagement efforts to these communities with the ultimate goal of achieving more local waterway benefits while contributing to Bay-wide goals and outcomes.

Closing Date: October 9, 2023