The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Branch of Tribal Community Resilience Annual Awards Program provides funding to federally recognized Tribal Nations and authorized Tribal organizations to support Tribal community resilience.
The Tribal Community Resilience Annual Awards Program supports both planning and implementation projects, including extreme weather adaptation planning, community-led relocation, managed retreat, protect-in-place efforts, ocean and coastal management, and habitat restoration and adaptation.
How the Annual Awards Program Works
The Tribal Community Resilience Annual Awards Program is a funding program open to federally recognized Tribes and authorized Tribal organizations. The program is divided into categories which fund different types of projects.
Most categories are competitively awarded. This means that project proposals are ranked by the Branch of Tribal Community Resilience and external subject-matter experts based on published scoring criteria. The highest-ranking project proposals are then awarded funding.
Community Resilience Projects Benefit Tribal Communities
The Tribal Community Resilience Annual Awards Program seeks to help Tribes tackle severe environmental threats to their homelands.
Since the program’s inception, TCR has distributed over 1,050 awards totaling more than $240 million. Awards have funded planning efforts and project implementation for over 290 Tribes and Tribal organizations.
Annual Awards Program funds have supported a variety of projects to meet the diverse needs of Tribal communities. In 2023, the Annual Awards Program supported:
- Extreme weather adaptation planning;
- Relocation planning and implementation;
- Community resilient and sustainable housing construction,
- Community resilient infrastructure construction for electricity, water, and geothermal heating;
- Wildfire fuels reduction;
- Greenhouse construction for increased food security of traditional foods;
- Erosion mitigation;
- Fishery restoration;
- Improved wildlife monitoring;
- Youth programming; and more!
You can learn more about Tribes' and Tribal organizations' previously funded projects on the Tribal Community Resilience Annual Awards Dashboard.
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