Project Grant 1561346

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954) provides $626,384 to the Center for Plant Conservation, Inc. to support rare plant species conservation efforts in the Intermountain West region. The project aims to assemble ex situ plant collections from wild populations, creating seed and gene banks as well as botanical garden living collections. These off-site conservation efforts are intended to support...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Montgomery Botanical Center, Inc. $471,518 on September 1, 2026, under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to preserve and organize over 7,500 dried leaf samples held in its collections. The recipient will catalog, inventory, and register the leaf samples and house them in a permanent repository equipped with museum-quality cabinets and environmental monitoring. Montgomery Botanical Center will hire a collections assistant to support...

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden will receive $330,058 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to conduct a database modernization and integration initiative documenting its 1,500-type living collection of California native plants. The Garden will hire a living collections curator and integrate three existing collection databases, completing a comprehensive inventory. It will migrate, validate, and reconcile...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954) will provide $3,355,000.00 to the Center for Plant Conservation, Inc. to further the mission of the National Park Service in natural and cultural resource conservation, protection, and environmental sustainability. The agreement will leverage the organization's expansive network of botanical professionals to collect and propagate plant materials such as seeds,...

The Atlanta Botanical Garden, Inc. received a $504,280 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The award supports the development and delivery of a region-specific training program designed to build conservation workforce capacity across climate-vulnerable areas of the southeastern continental United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The...

Federal Grant Award Summary Desert Botanical Garden Inc. received a $432,452 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The award funds establishment of a cryobiorepository and conservation cryobank for endangered cactus and agave species to address biodiversity loss and climate change impacts in arid regions. Key deliverables include acquisition of a fusion...

The Denver Botanic Gardens received a $520,561 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to advance the long-term care and protection of alpine plants and ecosystems in North America. The three-year project, running from September 2024 to August 2027, will involve a cross-departmental team of experts in seed conservation, plant conservation science, and scientific data management, working in collaboration with public...

This $482,583 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden to curate and digitize the Sherwin Carlquist collection and create an Extended Specimen Network. The collection, held at the Garden's herbarium and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas library, contains over 191,000 objects from Dr. Carlquist's 30-year botanical research career. The project will preserve these important collections,...

The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Inc. was awarded a $340,500 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) program. The grant will fund the rehousing and storage of the Lora M. Robins Library collections and archives, which include botanical illustrations, herbarium specimens, rare books, and other materials. Project activities will involve installing a compact storage system with closed storage for rare books,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) provides $673,655 over 10 years to support the identification of climate-resilient plant translocations and maintain ex situ collections for future translocations in Hawaii. The key objectives are to: 1) provide propagules for experimental plant translocations, and 2) conduct research on cryopreservation techniques to enable long-term storage of...