Capacity Grants
The IWJV has developed a new Capacity Grants Program to provide an opportunity for JV partners organized through the IWJV’s 11 State Steering Committees to strategically deliver partnership-based bird habitat conservation. Our goal is to help our broad IWJV partnership acquire the capacity to put the right people in the right places to initiate projects and programs for habitat conservation through access to significant funding from other programs (Farm Bill, NAWCA, etc).
Successful capacity grants will result in sustainable conservation partnerships organized around focus areas, priority habitats, promising funding sources (e.g., Farm Bill programs), or community-based coalitions. These conservation partnerships, once supported with IWJV funds, work to strengthen partners’ infrastructure and expand their ability to contribute to IWJV habitat objectives.