National Sea Grant Office Grant for Coastal Disaster Preparedness

The National Sea Grant College Program champions diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by recruiting, retaining, and preparing a diverse workforce, and proactively engaging and serving the diverse populations of coastal communities. Sea Grant is committed to building inclusive research, extension, communication, and education programs that serve people with unique backgrounds, circumstances, needs, perspectives, and ways of thinking. We encourage Sea Grant program applications to reflect diverse participation with regards to age, race, ethnicities, national origins, gender identities, sexual orientations, disabilities, cultures, religions, citizenship types, marital statuses, education levels, job classifications, veteran status types, income, and socioeconomic status.

This opportunity is only open to existing institutional Sea Grant programs.

The National Sea Grant College Program was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966 (amended in 2020, Public Law 116-221) to support leveraged federal and state partnerships that harness the intellectual capacity of the nation’s universities and research institutions to solve problems and generate opportunities in coastal communities.

The National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) anticipates that approximately $600,000 in FY 2024 federal funds will be available to individual Sea Grant programs in order to support innovative all-hazard preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives for coastal communities.

Applications to this opportunity should propose projects that do the following:

• Address a disaster preparedness gap or need of an underserved or vulnerable coastal community;
• Enable coastal communities to reduce disaster impacts and reach recovery more quickly; and
• Feature innovative techniques, ideas, or solutions.

This document sets out requirements for submitting to NOAA-OAR-SG-2024-24113.