OpportunityTitle: Multistate Conservation Grant (MSCG) Program
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or a State or group of States, for the purpose of carrying out the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. The State governments&#8217; designation refers to Agencies with lead management responsibility for fish and wildlife resources in each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia (Sport Fish Restoration only), Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, or a group of these agencies.  Eligible proposals must benefit:    A majority of States.   A majority (over 50%) of the States in a U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service Region. Please list the Regions and States in each Region that will benefit (use State abbreviations).  A majority (over 50%) of the States belonging to a regional association of State fish and wildlife agencies (click each of the Associations for the state members,&#160; WAFWA, MAFWA, NEAFWA, SEAFWA). Please indicate the regional fish and wildlife association that will benefit and list each region&apos;s States.    Any nongovernmental organization that applies for a grant&#160;shall submit with the application a certification that the organization will not use the grant funds to fund, in whole or in part, any activity of the organization that promotes or encourages opposition to the regulated hunting or trapping of wildlife, to recreational shooting activities, or to the regulated taking of fish.&#160;
Description: The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) and the Service work cooperatively to manage T-MSGCP and R3-MSGCP. Administratively, both programs will function similarly, with AFWA providing the Service with a priority list of projects to be considered for award and the Service administering the program and managing the awards. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) provides application guidance for both competitive programs. Eligible grant proposals are shared with the AFWA National Grants Committee (NGC) for review and ranking to aid in the selection process. Proposals must address eligible activities in one or more of the selected AFWA Strategic Priorities to be considered. Strategic Priorities are annually selected by AFWA to establish the State fish and wildlife agencies&apos; (States) conservation priorities (under T-MSCGP) or national recruitment priorities (under R3-MSCGP), and they are used to guide proposal development and grant selection for the programs. The primary goal of both programs is to provide grant funds to address regional or national priority needs of the States and their partners that are beyond the scope and capabilities of a single State. Projects selected and awarded are annually published in the Federal Register. Lists of past awards are also available from the Service and AFWA (see Section G, Federal Awarding Agency Contacts). Recipients awarded under T-MSCGP may use the funds for sport fisheries and wildlife management including research projects, boating access development, hunter safety and education, aquatic education, fish and wildlife habitat improvements, and other purposes consistent with the enabling legislation. Recipients awarded under the R3-MSCGP can only use the funds for making hunter recruitment and recreational shooter recruitment projects that promote a national hunting and shooting sport recruitment program, including related communication and outreach activities.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: lori_bennett@fws.gov
GrantorContactText: Lori Bennett&lt;br/&gt;lori_bennett@fws.gov
CloseDateExplanation: Applying for funding through the T-MSCGP and R3-MSCGP&#160;requires a two-part process that is managed in partnership with AFWA. Please specify which program you are applying for in your application. In part one, applicants submit their Initial Proposal by May 18, 2022 for review. Initial Proposal requirements and deadline (May 18, 2022) information is available from the AFWA MSCGP webpage. Initial Proposals are required to address one or more of the AFWA Strategic Priorities listed within this webpage. Applicants must submit the Initial Proposals through the AFWA MSCGP portal. In part two, AFWA will invite&#160;the best Initial Proposals to submit a Final Proposal package through the AFWA MSCGP portal as well as through GrantSolutions.&#160; These sites have&#160;all required Federal grant forms.  Full grant proposals will only be considered for funding if the applicant&#160;submits an initial proposal by the deadline of May 18, 2022, AFWA invites the applicant&#160;to submit a full proposal for the relevant project, and the applicant submits the full grant proposal for the relevant project by the deadline of July 19, 2022 to both the AFWA MSCGP portal as well as GrantSolutions.