Project Grant 720BHA23GR00118

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $119,900 Project Grant under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to the Asociacion Civil Para La Gestion Del Agua En Cuencas Agua C (AGUA-C) in Peru. The grant supports AGUA-C's efforts to improve livelihoods by managing natural resources and strengthening a women-led enterprise. Specifically, the funding is used to establish water reservoirs based on ancestral practices, restore landscapes, and produce agave and other native...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $449,842 to Arizona State University (ASU) to empower diverse cohorts of undergraduate and graduate students to conduct interdisciplinary, community-based water resources research in the Vilcanota Urubamba Basin in Peru. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Training and empowering three diverse student cohorts from Rutgers...

This $145,159 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) will support the research project "BUILDING RESILIENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES, CLIMATE ANOMALIES, AND RISK MITIGATION ON THE NORTH COAST OF PERU, 1100 BCE-PRESENT." The project aims to investigate how archaeological dams, diversion canals, and reservoirs on the North Coast of Peru create refugia on the landscape during flood events...

This $1,100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program supports an innovative research collaboration between New Mexico State University (NMSU) and local stakeholders in northern New Mexico. The goal is to enhance the resilience of traditional acequia irrigation systems and associated socio-environmental systems to climate change and other emerging challenges. The project employs a convergence research approach that integrates...

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $124,500 project grant to the Asociacion De Productores Agropecuarios Conservacionistas De Huamanpata (APACHU) to support fish farming and processing in Peru under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) federal grant program. APACHU will expand its fish hatchery and manufacturing of fish feed from locally-sourced fruits and vegetables while adding value through processing fish into frozen fillets. This community-led effort aims to...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Treepeople, Inc. under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) on May 21, 2025. The grant will fund the development of the Santa Clara River Watershed Regional Climate Collaborative, a new watershed group focused on addressing climate change impacts in the Santa Clara River watershed in Southern California. The collaborative will create a strategic watershed restoration plan to address issues of invasive riparian...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $299,835 Project Grant to the Hermit's Peak Watershed Alliance under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to support watershed restoration planning and implementation in New Mexico. The funding will address critically needed restoration projects in the Upper Gallinas River, Lower Mora River, and Sapello River watersheds, which have experienced significant degradation from 175 years of human use and the 2022 Hermits Peak Calf Canyon...

This $1,069,948.82 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) will enable Protectores De Cuencas, Inc. (PDC), a minority-owned non-profit organization, to collaborate with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources to restore 107 acres of coastal wetlands in the Punta Tuna Natural Reserve. The project will remove debris, reestablish...

This $650,920 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079), aims to investigate the vulnerabilities of community-managed water systems to climate change impacts and identify opportunities to strengthen their resilience. The project will focus on five climate-vulnerable locations globally, including indigenous communities in Kenya, South Sudan, Norway, Canada, and Alaska. Through a combination of climate scenario...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554), will fund capacity-building and implementation activities to increase the health and resilience of the Upper Yellowstone and Shields River watersheds in Montana. The $299,533 award to Montana Freshwater Partners, Inc. will support: 1) formalizing the Park County Water Initiative to coordinate stakeholder collaboration; 2) developing a website to house prioritized...