{"id":1721,"date":"2018-01-03T15:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagbcelandtru.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1721"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:39:17","slug":"grant-directory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/landtrust\/grant-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Grant Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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$1.8M awarded<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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700+ partners<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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102 projects<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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35 states<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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613,000+ acres<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Small Grant Program impacts from 2017\u20132025. Illustrations by Jessica French, 2019 Bartels Science Illustrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small Grant Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Apply for $10K & $25K Grants<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next RFP Opens January 2027<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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How to apply for a land trust grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet the small grant awardees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Land trusts are an increasingly popular mechanism to protect private lands and potentially conserve birds and their habitats. Through fee acquisitions, voluntary conservation easements, and stewardship, land trusts have become powerful agents of land conservation and their reach continues to expand. From 2005 to 2010, more than 1,400 state, local, and national land trusts in the U.S. have more than doubled their land holdings to 47 million acres\u2014an area larger than all New England states combined and 90% of the land area protected by National Parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, we believe land trusts can help birds, and birds can benefit land trusts. To develop mutually beneficial collaborations between land trusts and the bird conservation community, the Cornell Lab\u2019s Conservation Science program launched our Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative in 2013. This initiative provides bird-related resources, tools, partnership, and funding opportunities to advance the pace and impact of land trusts\u2019 protection and stewardship efforts through birds. We aim to build the capacity of land trusts to meet their own goals and to achieve strategic bird conservation on private lands. We support land trusts in prioritizing lands for bird conservation, developing and implementing bird monitoring projects, managing habitats, developing successful funding proposals, and increasing their community support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One objective of the Cornell Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative is to provide funding to facilitate high priority, bird-focused conservation projects. Partners are encouraged to use the awarded funds to leverage additional dollars from community groups and other funding agencies, as well as create capacity to accomplish conservation goals. To meet this objective, we are launching a Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative Grant Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission:<\/strong> To advise and support land trusts and their partners with capacity building and accomplishing bird conservation on private lands through acquisition and easements prioritization, habitat management and restoration, stewardship, and community outreach.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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