The Delaware Coastal Programs (DCP) of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control announces availability grant funding to support projects and activities that improve local and regional capacity to conserve, manage, and promote the incorporation of coastal management issues into local planning and implementation activities throughout Delaware. The year’s grant will focus on those activities and planning efforts that assist sea level rise adaptation planning, the reduction of coastal hazard-related impacts, increasing local or regional coastal resiliency and/or natural resource management issues.
With these competitive grants, the DCP will provide financial and technical assistance to local and state governments and non-profit organizations to increase Delaware’s coastal resiliency through coastal hazards and sea level rise adaptation planning.
Applicants are encouraged to correspond with staff from the DCP to ensure grant projects meet the specified criteria, and to develop a cooperative working relationship to be continued throughout the duration of grant projects for any successful project proposals that are awarded funding.
Submissions are due no later than 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010
For more information about the Natural Resource Management Assistance Grant Program, applicants are encouraged to contact staff members listed below to discuss potential proposals at the Delaware Coastal Programs Office:
and by phone: (302) 739-9283.
