The Northern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Site Cooperative has released a request for project ideas for community projects that would increase resilience to sea-level rise and future flooding. This funding opportunity is open to coastal communities, local governments and municipalities, tribes, regional councils/commissions or other groups working on behalf of communities located between the Pearl River and Suwannee River.
Example project ideas include, but are not limited to, a campaign to increase awareness of future flooding risks, data collection to fill knowledge gaps for resilient actions, economic studies on the benefits of future flood adaptation and updating Unified Development Codes or other ordinances/plans to account for future flooding.
This Resilience to Future Flooding project has $240,000 that will be dispersed between four projects. Ideally, proposed project ideas will range from $40,000-$60,000, and a 39.2% match is required. Projects requiring environmental review will not be funded.
The deadline for submissions is May 24. Assistance is available to help formulate project ideas, find partners and complete submissions. The full request for project ideas and additional project information is available online. Interested communities may contact Mikaela Heming, the project coordinator, at 228-546-1023 or [email protected], for assistance.