The Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation is looking for new ways to help save Florida wildlife. They are currently accepting applications for their Accelerating Connections Award. This awards up to $2 million in grants for innovative projects to protect and conserve the Florida Wildlife Corridor. The grants will be awarded to up to five winning proposals. Applications are open to all industries and will focus on innovative approaches and solutions.
Anyone can help save Florida wildlife
“We’ve made great strides in the effort to conserve the Florida Wildlife Corridor, particularly in the last year, but we want to move even faster,” said Mallory Dimmitt, CEO of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation. “These grants are designed to support fresh perspectives and generate solutions for achieving ambitious but reachable goals in the next decade.”
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The Corridor Foundation is open to a range of ideas, including novel approaches to finding willing landowners or exploring new ways to leverage donations for land protection, to establishing a new capital market scheme. All applications must meet the below criteria:
- Implementation of a new mechanism, tool, method, activity, or collaboration that achieves lasting land conservation within the Florida Wildlife Corridor.
- Evidence of long-term sustainability, as far as both the conservation outcomes and the process created.
- A scalable approach. Activities must be replicable to secure new conservation on tens of thousands of acres of Corridor lands per year.
- A focus on engineering conservation in the high-urgency areas of the Corridor—i.e., those most vulnerable to development by 2030.
Further, projects that include underrepresented communities in the conservation sphere will be looked on favorably.
Sumbit letters of interest at the Corridor Foundation’s website until July 1, 2022. Upon review, a subset of applicants will be invited to apply in mid-August.
What is the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation?
The Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation seeks to bring partners and people together to accomplish the shared goal of permanently connecting, protecting, and restoring the Corridor. Inspired by the journey of a bear called M34, Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation is known for their visual storytelling of expeditions into the Corridor.
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