Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA FS 2024 CFP
The Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program (CFP) is a competitive grant opportunity run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under State, Private and Tribal Forestry. The program is designed to help communities permanently protect private forest lands by acquiring them in fee simple and establishing them as community forests. The underlying goal is to keep important forestland from being converted to non-forest uses while ensuring the land delivers clear public value over the long term.
CFP funding supports projects that create community forests with tangible community benefits. These benefits can include public recreation opportunities, environmental gains like habitat and water resource protection, local economic benefits tied to sustainable forest stewardship, and forest-based education programs. A key requirement is that projects must provide public access; every funded project is expected to ensure the public can use and enjoy the community forest in an appropriate way consistent with conservation and management goals.
Eligible applicants fall into three main groups: local governments, federally recognized Tribal entities, and qualified conservation nonprofits. Local governments include city, township, municipal, county, or other local governmental units that have jurisdiction over local land use decisions. Tribal eligibility includes federally recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations. Eligible nonprofits must generally align with IRS requirements for conservation organizations (consistent with Internal Revenue Code section 170(h)(3)) and operate in line with one or more recognized conservation purposes. In the source listing, nonprofit eligibility is also framed as 501(c)(3) organizations other than institutions of higher education.
The program’s funding instrument is a grant, and the activity focus is natural resources (CFDA number 10.689). The listed award ceiling is $600,000 per award. The notice does not specify the total number of expected awards in the provided data, but it does confirm the program is competitive, meaning applications are evaluated against other submissions rather than funded on a first-come basis.
The application pathway runs through state or tribal channels rather than going directly from applicants to the Forest Service. Local governments and nonprofit applicants submit their applications to the State Forester in the state where the property is located. Tribal applicants submit to the equivalent Tribal government official. Applications had to be received by the State Forester or Tribal government by January 12, 2024. After that, State Foresters or Tribal officials forward eligible applications to the appropriate Forest Service Regional Office (or the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, where applicable) by February 9, 2024.
Projects must follow the legal framework established in Section 7A of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act, codified at 16 U.S.C. 2103d, as amended. In practical terms, that means proposals need to fit the program’s statutory purpose: acquiring private forest land to establish community forests that are protected from conversion, managed for conservation and community benefit, and open to the public. The opportunity is identified as USDA FS 2024 CFP, with the funding opportunity title Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program and an opportunity number of USDA FS 2024 CFP.Apply for USDA FS 2024 CFP
- The Forest Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.689.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-08-18.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-01-12. (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 $600,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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