2025 Member Collective Grant Cycle

2025 Member Collective Grant Cycle is sponsored by Conservation Alliance. Supports nonprofit organizations working to protect wild places for their habitat and recreation values.

Member Collective Grants - The Conservation Alliance Member Collective grants are designed to give each member company the opportunity to help steer significant funds to impactful conservation efforts across North America.

Through these grants, TCA and its members support a wide range of conservation actions, including public lands designation, private land protection, and ecosystem restoration, that impact communities, local economies, wildlife, and outdoor spaces. The Member Collective grants process begins through an inquiry and recommendation phase.

Member companies can help identify eligible organizations that are playing an important role in protecting critical landscapes. Interested applicants may also submit an inquiry form directly to TCA. Selected organizations will then be invited to submit a grant application for up to $50,000.

After careful internal vetting by TCA’s staff and board, member company employees vote on their top projects to help decide on final awards. Grants are awarded for a 12-month term. If you have questions about grant-making at The Conservation Alliance, please contact Kim Paymaster, Grant Program Director: kim@conservationalliance.

com . Open Inquiry/Recommendation Call: March 2 – April 10, 2026 TCA members and interested applicants may complete the relevant recommendation/inquiry form to help identify potential projects that meet our funding criteria and priority areas. TCA’s Grant Director will reach out to eligible applicants to discuss projects in more detail.

Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application. Application Period: April 27 – May 15, 2026 Select applicants will be invited to submit an application through TCA’s online portal system. Application Review: May 18 – June 26, 2026 TCA staff and board will review all applications using the funding criteria and priorities listed below.

Staff may contact applicants with requests for additional information if needed. A subset of projects that best meet our funding criteria are selected to be placed on a ballot for our member company employees to vote. Member Voting: July 6 – July 31, 2026 All member company employees are invited to learn about the subset of projects that were placed on the ballot.

They can then vote for their top 10 projects. Each company’s votes are tallied to one ballot each. Grant Announcements: August 2026 The following eligibility criteria ensure all grant applications received align with TCA’s grant making objectives and priorities.

Please contact us if you have questions about your organization’s eligibility. Applications are welcome from local and national nonprofit organizations, Tribes, and groups with fiscal sponsorship. TCA does not provide funding for individuals.

Organization/group and project must be located in North America. Projects must seek to achieve one of the following goals: Establish long-term protection for land and/or water in their efforts to foster a planet where natural places, wildlife, and people thrive together. Protection efforts include private land acquisitions/easements, federal-level efforts to conserve land and water, and landscape scale restoration efforts.

Support management processes and planning, particularly on landscapes that TCA and its partners have helped protect, that promote the climate resiliency and biodiversity of protected areas. TCA’s vision of a successful conservation movement is one that has local support and is driven forward by a coalition that lifts up local voices and partners with diverse stakeholders at the local, regional, and national levels.

We seek to support organizations that have a written or demonstrated commitment to elevating justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in their work. TCA will prioritize conservation projects/applications that: Advance TCA’s Conservation Strategy . Please note that the majority of funding for Priority Campaigns will not occur through the Member Collective cycle – please contact our team if you have any questions.

Measurably mitigate the impacts of climate change and protect biodiversity Increase connectivity to other protected lands Are led by or increase engagement opportunities for historically marginalized communities, based on race, ethnicity, or national origin, with a particular focus on indigenous-led initiatives Aim to improve long-term and sustainable economic impacts for local communities Expand outdoor recreation opportunities and/or access to nature in an effort to help create connections to and a sense of belonging in the landscape Have bipartisan support, if applicable Incorporate efforts to mobilize / engage local communities, if applicable Types of projects that are unlikely to receive TCA funding are those with a primary focus on: State and local level legislative or administrative campaigns General stewardship (e.g., trail maintenance, trash cleanup, conservation corps projects) Applications to fund the same group for a second project Outdoor or environmental education Conferences, event sponsorships, or film festivals Production of a film, podcast, or other media product Participation grants to get people outside Only in special cases do we fund more than one group working on a campaign – this is typically reserved for TCA Priority Campaigns By Drew Simmons As the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the country, the Long Trail attracts thousands of hikers each year to travel the spine of Vermont’s Green Mountains from Massachusetts to the Canadian border.

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