Closed · NOAA-SEC-OED-2022-2006995 · CFDA 11.008 · Discretionary
Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing community resilience to extreme weather & climate change
Federal grant opportunity posted by Department of Commerce, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $250K-$500K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- March 17, 2022
- Close date
- 12
- Expected awards
The verdict
Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing community resilience to extreme weather & climate change is a closed discretionary listing from Department of Commerce that offered $250,000 -- $500,000 across 12 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 898 other opportunities from Department of Commerce.
- $250K-$500K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 12
- expected awards
- 11.008
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing co… is closed (last close March 17, 2022). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Department of Commerce still indexes 898 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed March 17, 2022
Est. Total Funding
$5,000,000
Expected Awards
12
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The goal of this funding opportunity is for communities to have sufficient collective environmental literacy to take actions that build resilience to extreme weather and climate change in ways that contribute to community health, social cohesion, and socio-economic equity. These communities will be composed of children, youth, and adults who participate in formal and/or informal education experiences that develop their knowledge, skills, and confidence to: 1) reason about the ways that human and natural systems interact globally and locally, including the acknowledgement of disproportionately distributed vulnerabilities; 2) participate in civic processes; and 3) incorporate scientific information, cultural knowledge, and diverse community values. Efforts to build environmental literacy should ultimately aim to reduce risks from current and future environmental hazards through climate-smart and inclusive decision making and long-term stewardship of healthy ecosystems, all the while promoting a low-carbon economy. Projects should demonstrate how they will engage children, youth, and/or adults to build these capabilities, particularly through active and social learning, during the award period. Projects should leverage and incorporate relevant state and local resilience plans and collaborate with individuals and institutions that are involved in efforts to develop or implement those plans. Projects may focus on a single location or multiple locations and a single type of environmental hazard or a range of hazards that impact a community or communities. Projects will be based on the established scientific evidence about current and future extreme weather and climate change hazards facing communities and should consider relevant socioeconomic, cultural, and ecological factors in the targeted location(s). Particular attention should be paid to community members that have greater exposure to, and fewer resources to deal with, extreme weather and/or climate change impacts. Projects should support diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate justice in all aspects of the project.
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · NOAA-SEC-OED-2022-2006995
Grants.gov marks Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing co… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Environment · Natural Resources · Science and Technology / R&D (ENV;NR;ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the Department of Commerce book (689 peers, 77% of 899).
- Code 25
- Others (see official listing text)
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Agency Contact
You can contact the Environmental Literacy Program grants team at oed.grants@noaa.gov. For further information about the NOAA Office of Education, please visit the office website at http://www.noaa.gov/office-education.
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