Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA NMFS HCPO 2023 2007599
The Fiscal Year 2023 NOAA Chesapeake B-WET Program - School District Programming grant is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Commerce (NOAA) designed to strengthen K-12 environmental education across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The program focuses on supporting locally relevant, hands-on learning that connects students to real watershed issues in their own communities. The central aim is to build student understanding of, and long-term stewardship for, the Chesapeake Bay and the wider network of local rivers, streams, and habitats that feed into it, while also advancing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement environmental literacy goal and the NOAA Education Strategic Plan.
At the heart of this opportunity are Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs), which combine classroom learning with outdoor, field-based experiences. Rather than being a one-time field trip, an MWEE is structured around a learning progression where students identify and define an environmental issue, participate in field investigations or outdoor experiences tied to that issue, analyze what they observed and learned, draw conclusions, and then take part in an environmental action project. This full cycle is meant to help students connect scientific concepts to real conditions in their watershed and develop the skills and motivation to act on environmental challenges.
The announcement emphasizes two program priorities, listed without ranking. The first priority is implementing MWEEs in school districts, essentially funding the actual delivery of these experiential learning sequences to K-12 students. The second priority is supporting school district capacity for environmental literacy, which targets the systems and capabilities districts need to sustain high-quality watershed education over time. Capacity-focused work can include strengthening district planning, improving integration of watershed learning into curricula, expanding staff expertise, or building partnerships and infrastructure that make MWEEs a regular part of student learning rather than a special project that ends when the grant period ends.
Funding is provided through cooperative agreements, indicating that NOAA may expect an ongoing, collaborative relationship with awardees during the project period rather than a purely hands-off grant. The opportunity is listed under CFDA (Assistance Listing) 11.457 and falls within program themes that include environment, natural resources, science and technology, and related research and development. NOAA anticipated making around six awards, with an award ceiling of $100,000 per project. The funding opportunity was created on November 2, 2022, and had an original application deadline of February 10, 2023. Eligibility is described broadly as "Others" with additional details referenced in the full notice, which typically means applicants should consult the eligibility section of the official announcement for the exact list of allowable applicant types.
This specific announcement is aimed at school district programming, and it also notes that a separate, distinct B-WET funding announcement exists for Regional Environmental Literacy Capacity Building on Grants.gov. In practical terms, that means applicants needed to choose the announcement that best matched their role and project focus: this one for district-centered implementation and district capacity work, and the other for broader regional capacity-building efforts.Apply for NOAA NMFS HCPO 2023 2007599
- The Department of Commerce in the business and commerce, environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year 2023 NOAA Chesapeake B-WET Program - School District Programming" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.457.
- This funding opportunity was created on Nov 02, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 10, 2023. (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 $100,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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