Community Navigators III. Information Sources for Grants and Agreements

This table  is from this site.

There was an excellent webinar organized by The Watershed Center that had all kinds of useful information about FS grants and agreements.

They rounded up this information and links. The webinars are recorded and the one I watched (the second one) was very informative. I still have some questions, so if others have questions let me know and I will ask around until I get an answer.

Thank you for registering for the “Forest Service Grants and Agreements 101” webinar hosted by the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, the Watershed Research and Training Center, and Coalitions and Collaboratives. This was the second webinar in a three-part series about Forest Service grants, agreements, and partnerships. Click here to view recordings of our first and second sessions and to register for our third session:

• Grants & Agreements: People and Processes – Thursday, August 15th, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time / 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time.

If you were able to attend the webinar, please take a few minutes to respond to this short survey to provide feedback on the session and suggestions for future training offerings.

If you missed the webinar or would like to view it again, you can watch the recording on our YouTube page. That page also includes a recording of our first webinar, “Understanding and Navigating the U.S. Forest Service.” We are still preparing PDFs of the presentation and will share that as soon as we’re able.

Below are resources provided during the webinar

• Links to all webinar host organizations

  • The Watershed Research and Training Center

  • Fire Adapted Communities Network

  • Coalitions and Collaboratives

• Community Navigator initiative resources

  • The Watershed Center’s Community Navigator landing page provides access to our community navigator assistance request form, newsletter sign up, funding opportunities and resource library.

  • The U.S. Forest Service’s Community Navigators landing page

  • Other Community Navigator partners

    • Coalitions and Collaboratives 

    • First Nations Development Institute

    • Hispanic Access Foundation

    • American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association

    • Federation of Southern Cooperative

• Forest Service Office of Grants and Agreements, Outreach and Partnership Engagement Branch contact information – for USFS grants and agreements assistance

  • Email address: [email protected] (for inquiries about partnership opportunities)

  • Link to schedule a consultation:  https://outlook.office365.com/book/ForestServiceGrantsAgreements@usdagcc.onmicrosoft.com/

  • Website: www.fs.usda.gov/working-with-us/grants

• Resources to learn more about Forest Service programs, authorities, and agreements

  • The Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition’s Ideas to Action guidebook

  • Several webinars hosted by the National Forest Foundation that cover various agreements and authorities and how they are used

  •  A crosswalk of grants, cooperative agreements and contracts, providing a straightforward comparison of their similarities and differences

  • Forest Service Agreements decision tree 

• Information about specific agreements and authorities

  • The Wyden Authority: Allows the Forest Service to enter into cooperative agreements with willing Federal, tribal, State and local governments, private and nonprofit entities and landowners for the protection, restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat, and other resources on public or private land, the reduction of risk from natural disaster where public safety is threatened, or a combination thereof or both that benefit these resources within the watershed. The authority can be used in conjunction with certain authorities to expand restoration initiatives beyond the National Forest System boundaries, when appropriate. This summary reviews Wyden Authority and other cross-boundary tools

  • Stewardship Agreements: Overview of stewardship agreements from the National Forest Foundation

  • Good Neighbor Authority: RVCC’s Use of Good Neighbor Authority Across the West 

  • Tribal Forest Protection Act and 638 Agreements

    • More information about these tools can be found at www.itcnet.org/issues_projects/issues_2/tfpa/tfpareports.html

    • The First Nations Development Institute has several webinars about co-stewardship and Tribal partnerships: https://www.firstnations.org/webinars/stewarding-native-lands-webinars/

    • A recent webinar hosted by the National Forest Foundation covered these authorities: “Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: Utilizing TFPA & 638 Contracting to Achieve Landscape Restoration” Goals: https://vimeo.com/992363974

• Match

  • Official Forest Service guidance about the 2022 match waiver/reduction policy 

• Our Community Navigators factsheet about getting registered on Grants.gov and SAM.gov, two key platforms to access and be eligible for federal funding opportunities:

• USFS Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act funding opportunities that are implemented through grants and cooperative agreements

  • Forest Landowner Support

  • Urban and Community Forestry

  • Wood Innovations

  • Community Wildfire Defense Grant