Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NRCS AR CIG 22 NOFO0001181
The FY 22 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) State Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) designed to push conservation forward by supporting new and creative ideas that can work in real-world agricultural settings. The central aim is to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies that fit alongside agricultural production, rather than competing with it. In practice, this means NRCS is looking for projects that test or demonstrate better ways to conserve soil, water, air, and other natural resources while farms, ranches, and private forest lands continue to operate and produce.
CIG is oriented toward applied innovation with a strong emphasis on results that can be used by others. Funded projects are expected to lead to the transfer of conservation technologies, management systems, and innovative approaches into the hands of agricultural producers, into government technical manuals and guides, or into the private sector where they can be scaled and adopted more widely. The program commonly supports pilot projects, field demonstrations, and on-farm conservation research. The notice defines on-farm conservation research specifically as an investigation that answers a clear, applied conservation question using a statistically valid design and farm-scale equipment on working lands such as farms, ranches, or private forestlands. That definition signals that NRCS wants projects that are both scientifically sound and grounded in practical, operational conditions.
This particular opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number: USDA NRCS AR CIG 22 NOFO0001181; CFDA: 10.912) lists an award ceiling of $75,000. While the listing does not provide a total program funding amount in the provided text, it does indicate the program anticipated making awards (the exact number is not shown in the source data excerpt). The original application closing date for this FY 22 posting was June 8, 2022, and the opportunity was created on April 8, 2022.
Eligibility is broad and includes many types of applicants across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Eligible applicants include state, county, and local governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled colleges and universities; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status; individuals; for-profit organizations other than small businesses; small businesses; and other entities. This wide eligibility reflects the program's goal of getting practical innovations from many different sources, including researchers, producer-facing organizations, local governments, and private companies.
The application rules allow a single organization to submit more than one application as long as each is for a different project or a meaningfully different approach. If an applicant submits a revised or corrected application after an earlier submission, NRCS will consider only the last version submitted before the deadline. Awards made under this notice are issued to a single entity rather than to a collective group as a shared award. If a project is presented as a partnership or similar grouping, the applicant must clearly describe how the partnership is structured and how the parties relate to one another. In most cases, the relationship should be reflected formally as an awardee/sub-awardee arrangement, with one main recipient responsible for the grant and any partners participating through subawards or other defined roles.
Overall, this opportunity is best understood as seed funding for field-ready conservation innovation: small to mid-sized projects that test, demonstrate, and validate new conservation practices, technologies, or market-based approaches in agricultural contexts, with the explicit expectation that successful results can be transferred and adopted beyond the initial project sites.Apply for USDA NRCS AR CIG 22 NOFO0001181
- The Natural Resources Conservation Service in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 22 Conservation Innovation Grants State Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.912.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2022-04-08.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-06-08. (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 $75,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, 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, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Individuals, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.
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