Catalyst Fund RFP 2023
Network for Landscape Conservation
The Catalyst Fund strives to accelerate the pace and practice of collaborative landscape conservation and stewardship across the United States by investing in Landscape Conservation Partnerships. The Fund couples financial support (through a competitive grant program) with capacity-building support (through in-depth Peer Learning) to catalyze Partnership efforts to achieve long-term conservation goals. A portion of the Fund is reserved specifically to advance Indigenous landscape conservation and stewardship priorities.
Grant requests should focus on strengthening collaborative capacity. Collaborative capacity can be understood as those elements that allow groups of partners to be capable of functioning effectively across organizations/entities to achieve a shared purpose.
Funds can be used for supporting Partnership coordination staffing and/or for costs associated with other collaborative process activities such as convenings, communications, partner and community engagement, governance development, and strategic planning and conservation prioritization. Funding cannot be used for direct project implementation such as trail building, land management activities, or the acquisition of land or conservation easements. Funding also cannot be used for academic research; capital campaigns or capital improvements; or political lobbying.
A portion of the Catalyst Fund is dedicated to supporting Indigenous leadership in landscape conservation and stewardship. We invite partnerships that are led by Indigenous peoples, organizations, and/or communities and are working to advance Indigenous landscape conservation and stewardship priorities to apply. Indigenous-led Partnerships may focus wholly on sovereign tribal lands and/or on conserving and stewarding Indigenous interests, territories, and rights across a broader landscape.
