New Funding Opportunity from the Greater New Orleans Foundation: Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund
Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund
The Greater New Orleans Foundation is calling for proposals from organizations working on developing longer-term strategies for repairing the individual lives, communities and industries affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The Foundation will make $400,000 in grants through this fund.
The fund is intended to develop and promote strategies leading to changes in policy, law and practice that will facilitate long-term recovery. The two primary goals of the fund are:
- Sharing and implementation of best practices learned by commercial fishers and charter boat operators from across the country who have dealt with similar crises.
- Supporting long-term solutions to the problems caused by the oil spill.
This could include, for example:
- Creation of a more resilient commercial fishing industry that is better able to respond to crises, through introduction of new technologies and/or practices.
- Development of a way to organize and represent the diversity of the region's fishers, transcending the barriers that have traditionally divided them.
- Development of laws/policies of direct benefit to those whose income is derived from water-related activities interrupted by the spill.
- Job training opportunities for fishers and charter boat workers unable to work in their chosen vocations.
The fund will not make grants for films or documentaries, nor for art projects.
All applications must be based in the Foundation's 13-parish service area. Applicants must show collaboration with commercial fishing organizations and/or populations in affected communities. Guidelines are available here.
The deadline for application is Tuesday, November 30, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. EST. All applications must be submitted electronically.
