Pacific Birds partnered with Chris Swenson of the USFWS and Afsheen Siddiqi of DOFAW to host an informational webinar on the National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants opportunity.
Butch Haase of the Molokaʻi Land Trust (MLT), and Sara Bowen of Mālama Hulēʻia (MH) also joined to talk about their experience of applying for, and implementing, this grant. While the webinar focused on Hawaiʻi, partners from other regions may also find this information useful.
Topics covered included:
- Grant program overview
- Process and timeline
- Maximizing application scores
- Is your project ready to fund?
- Contacts who can help
- After a grant is awarded
- Lessons learned from past grants
- DLNR / subgrantee perspectives (MLT and MH)
- Discussion – questions and project ideas
