Opportunity Information: Apply for W9127N2020002
This funding opportunity is a discretionary cooperative agreement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Portland District, focused on improving stewardship of USACE-managed lands in Oregon's Willamette Valley while building a skilled restoration workforce and strengthening local environmental education. The project is centered on restoring and managing native prairie landscapes and associated wildlife habitat at the southern Willamette Valley Lakes, with the broader goal of helping USACE meet its environmental stewardship responsibilities under federal conservation and recreation management authority (33 U.S.C. 2339).
The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning USACE expects an active partnership rather than a simple pass-through grant. The selected partner will carry out hands-on land stewardship and ecological restoration work on USACE property, using small crews and field-based practices. A major emphasis is on "botanically sophisticated" restoration, which signals that the work is not limited to basic planting or invasive removal, but requires strong plant identification skills and a nuanced understanding of native flora, habitat needs, and restoration design. Participants are expected to gain real experience in identifying local plant communities, planning restoration actions, and implementing those actions on the ground, including project development and coordination.
A defining feature of the opportunity is its combined workforce-training and community-outreach mission. The recipient organization is expected to provide education and training to a diverse pool of participants, including young professionals, veterans, displaced workers, college students, and other community members. Training topics are framed around ecological restoration design and implementation, as well as community involvement, suggesting the program should teach both technical field skills (for example, plant identification, site prep, planting, monitoring, and adaptive management) and the practical skills needed to engage stakeholders and support restoration projects in a public-facing setting.
In addition to training adult and early-career participants, the project must include outreach to local primary schools in a way that directly supports natural resource goals. Specifically, the partner is expected to create opportunities for local elementary-aged students to produce and install native plant materials at restoration sites. That implies some combination of school-based native plant growing activities (such as propagation or nursery-style programs) paired with supervised installation events that connect classroom learning to real habitat restoration outcomes on USACE land.
Eligibility is limited to a non-federal public entity or a non-profit entity that serves the local community and has demonstrated experience in land stewardship and restoration using small crews. The applicant also needs the capacity to train participants to identify the elements of local flora and to run or manage native plant growing and planting programs that function as environmental education in local primary schools. In other words, USACE is looking for an organization that can do credible ecological fieldwork, can teach botany and restoration in a structured way, and can safely and effectively coordinate youth-oriented plant propagation and planting experiences.
Key administrative details include the opportunity number W9127N2020002 and CFDA 12.010 under the Department of Defense, USACE Portland District. USACE anticipated a single award with an award ceiling of $40,000. The posting dates indicate it was created on August 19, 2020 with an original closing date of September 18, 2020, and it was framed as a single, targeted partnership to deliver both habitat results and workforce and school engagement outcomes in the Willamette Valley restoration context.Apply for W9127N2020002
- The Department of Defense, USACE Portland District in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Natural Resource Management (NRM) Education and Training of Botanically Sophisticated Restoration Workers; Outreach to Local schools to Benefit Natural Resource Goals" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.010.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 19, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 18, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $40,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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