2020 Partners for Fisheries Monitoring Program | F19AS00022

Opportunity Information: Apply for F19AS00022

The 2020 Partners for Fisheries Monitoring Program (Funding Opportunity Number F19AS00022) is a competitive, discretionary grant offered by the Department of the Interior through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Subsistence Management (OSM). It is designed to strengthen Alaska Native and rural participation in Federal subsistence management by helping eligible organizations build the staff capacity and community connections needed to engage meaningfully in subsistence fisheries monitoring and related decision-making processes. The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically means recipients should expect an active federal role in shaping, coordinating, or supporting project activities as the work proceeds.

At its core, the program focuses on increasing the ability of Alaska Native and rural nonprofit organizations to contribute to and participate in Federal subsistence management by funding key positions and project capacity. The opportunity specifically emphasizes support for biologists, social scientists, and outreach/educator roles. These funded staff positions are intended to improve local and regional involvement in monitoring efforts, facilitate community-informed data collection and interpretation, and strengthen communication between local communities and federal subsistence management structures. The overall goal is not only to generate useful monitoring information, but also to ensure that Alaska Native and rural perspectives, knowledge systems, and priorities are more effectively represented in federal subsistence management discussions and processes.

A second major emphasis is creating practical, hands-on pathways for local rural students to engage with subsistence resource monitoring and management. The program supports activities such as science camps and paid internships, aiming to connect students with real-world monitoring work and build longer-term interest and skills in fisheries science, resource stewardship, and management. This workforce and youth development component is meant to reinforce community capacity over time by giving rural students direct exposure to scientific approaches, field methods, and the role of monitoring in sustaining subsistence resources.

Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, other Native American tribal organizations, and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations (other than higher education institutions). The funding activity categories associated with the opportunity span education, natural resources, science and technology, and other research and development-related work, reflecting the program’s blend of applied monitoring, community outreach, and training or educational activities.

The opportunity was created on October 17, 2018, with an original closing date of January 31, 2019. OSM anticipated making about six awards, with an award ceiling of $167,000 per award. Overall, this program targets capacity-building in Alaska Native and rural organizations by supporting professional staffing and community-centered monitoring and education efforts that directly enhance engagement in Federal subsistence fisheries management.

• The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the education, natural resources, other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification), science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "2020 Partners for Fisheries Monitoring Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.636.
• This funding opportunity was created on Oct 17, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 31, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $167,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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