This year the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council has revised its grant categories and process to the Forest Service’s National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Cost Share Grant Program. They anticipate $855,000 in funding. Pre-proposals and Full proposals selected from the pre-proposals will be required.

There are three Innovation Grant categories based on one of the Council’s identified priority areas.

• Trees and Climate Change,
• Trees and Public Health, and
• Trees and Economic Development

http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/nucfac