Tribal Wildfire Resilience Grants

• 2025 Grant Guidelines
• Apply
• Application Guide
• Press Release
• Summary of Changes
• Tribal Wildfire Resilience Workbook
• Tribal Wildfire Resilience Workbook Example
• Tribal Wildfire Resilience Example Budget
• Request Step 2 Video Interview
• Solicitation Timeline Details
• Tribal Input Roundtable Slides
• Tribal Input Roundtable Workshop
• 2024-2025 CAL FIRE Standard Grant Terms and Conditions
• Equipment Disposition Plan (blank in grant agreement, pre-approved before purchases)
• 2025 Solicitation Office Hours
• Resources from Tribal Peer-Learning Network
  • Application in Word Document Format – Useful for drafts
  • Budget Guidance & Suggestions
  • Spreadsheet to Help Build a Budget
• Planning - CEQA Flow Chart
• Implementation - CEQA Flow Chart

1. Projects must serve California Native American tribes and their communities located within the State of California.   
2. Projects must establish and/or improve wildfire resilience and/or forest health on tribal ancestral lands or prepare tribes to develop and/or increase wildfire resilience and/or forest health through planning activities.

1. Federally recognized Native American tribes
2. Non-federally recognized California Native American tribes listed on the California Tribal Contact List maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission as described in Section 65352.4 of the Government Code. 
3. Tribal-serving non-profits with documentation. 

1. Workforce Development & Business Development Grants with CAL FIRE (currently closed - solicitation expected in early 2025): business and workforce development projects that support healthy resilient forests and the people and ecosystems that depend on them. Includes wood products infrastructure, biomass process and manufacturing technology, training, and research and development.
2. Bridge Funding Opportunity Program from US Dept of Agriculture (currently closed): protects water quality with temporary bridge rental programs for portable skidder bridges, bridge mats, or other temporary water crossing structures to minimize stream bed disturbance on nonfederal and federal land.
3. Tribal Access to Emerging Private Markets for Climate Mitigation and Forest Resilience from USDA Forest Service (currently closed): Grants may support activities such as development of forest management plans, reforestation, establishment of demonstration sites, and biodiversity protection. The core purpose of the funds is to support participation in emerging private markets forest resilience, climate mitigation, water quality, carbon sequestration and more. 
4. Tribal Nature Based Solutions from California Natural Resources Agency (Applications currently closed): grants for ancestral land return, land management planning, and land management implementation.
5. Tribal Research Grant Program (Applications currently closed): grants for tribally led climate change research initiatives.
6. Tribal Capacity Building Pilot Program with Strategic Growth Council (Applications currently closed): grants and technical assistance to build staff capacity and advance climate-related work, including planning, grant writing, and project management.
7. Forest Health Grants with CAL FIRE (open through 1/15/2025): landscape scale (800+ acres) forest restoration and management projects including fuels reduction, reforestation, biomass utilization.
8. Wildfire Prevention Grants with CAL FIRE (next round expected fall 2025): Funds for projects in and near fire threatened communities to improve public health and safety.
9. California Grants Portal: Searchable website listing all State of CA grant and loan programs.

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FBA Free Technical Assistance for Tribes

• California Natural Resources Agency programs in Tribal Affairs and Climate Resilience, and Tribal Nature-Based Solutions
• Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs
• Tribal Youth Nature-Based Solutions Conservation Corps
• California Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force