BIA’s Tribal Climate Resilience Annual Awards Program provides assistance for both planning and implementation activities, encompassing activities such as climate adaptation planning, community-driven relocation, partial relocation, ocean and coastal management, and habitat restoration and adaptation initiatives.

	Does not require a cost share or matching funds
	Supports nature-based solutions

Application cycle: July 17, 2024 – October 18, 2024.

Summary: The Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR) Annual Awards Program supports tribes as they prepare for flooding’s impacts on tribal treaty and trust resources, economies, infrastructure, and human health and safety. Awards will also support projects that ensure tribal participation in ocean and coastal (including the Great Lakes) cooperative planning and projects for ecological health, resilience, community safety and health, and economic security for present and future generations. In 2023, the Burns Paiute Tribe received $242,500 in funding to build a climate resilient bridge after it was damaged in a recent flash flood and debris slide event.

Eligible applicants: Federally-recognized Tribes and Tribal organizations.

Eligible activities: Applicants can submit multiple application packages for each funding category and could be awarded funding under all three categories.

• Category 1 — Planning: data collection and analysis; feasibility studies; climate adaptation planning; relocation, managed retreat, and protect-in-place (RMP) plans; natural or cultural resource management plans for ocean, coastal, forest, fire, rangeland, or wetlands management; hazard/emergency response or mitigation plans; training and workshops; capacity building through internships/climate staffing or program development; youth engagement.
• Category 2 — Implementation: Execution and construction of projects identified by official planning documents, such as Tribal climate adaptation plans, natural resource plans, hazard mitigation plans, and ecological restoration plans.
• Category 3 — Relocation, Managed Retreat, Protect-in-Place (RMP) Staff Salary: Funding for staff positions, for Tribes with limited existing staff capacity and facing imminent RMP threats due to climate impacts, to focus on development of community planning documents, climate adaptation strategies, implementation actions, community engagement, coordination with federal and other partners, emergency response plans or mitigation, and implementation of RMP actions.

Funding: $120 million is available in FY24 to support Tribal climate resilience.

• Category 1 — Planning: $250,000 maximum; competitive funding.
• Category 2 — Implementation: $4,000,000 maximum; competitive funding.
• Category 3 — Relocation, Managed Retreat, Protect-in-Place (RMP) Staff Salary: $150,000/year for three years maximum; non-competitive funding.

Cost share: N/A; TCR funds can be used to meet cost share requirements for other federal and non-federal funding opportunities.

Application process: 

• For more information on this grant opportunity, visit the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ website, review the TCR request for proposals, or contact your TCR regional coordinator. Funding priority will be given to those Tribes who have not received a TCR award in excess of $100,000 in previous years.