Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA NOS OCM 2023 2008068
The Inflation Reduction Act: NOAA Climate Resilience Regional Challenge is a Department of Commerce funding opportunity run through NOAA (CFDA 11.473) that aims to significantly improve how U.S. coastal regions prepare for, withstand, and recover from weather and climate impacts. The core intent is not just to fund isolated projects, but to drive more coordinated, regional-scale resilience work that protects coastal communities, ecosystems, and the local economies tied to them. It is offered as a discretionary cooperative agreement, which typically signals that NOAA expects to stay actively involved through collaboration, technical input, and ongoing coordination during the award period rather than acting as a hands-off funder.
The program is structured around two tracks, and applicants to either track are expected to build their proposals around several shared priorities. The first priority is risk reduction, meaning the funded work should clearly reduce real-world risk to people, infrastructure, ecosystems, and economic activity from climate-driven threats such as drought, extreme heat, sea level rise, flooding, wildfires, and other future climate hazards. In Track One, the emphasis is on understanding and using risk information: applicants are expected to assess relevant climate and weather risks and then apply that information to identify, plan, and design future adaptation actions. In Track Two, the emphasis shifts more toward doing and delivering: applicants propose a complementary package of adaptation actions, generally described as about three to eight actions that work together to reduce risk by improving preparedness, reducing exposure, and/or strengthening recovery. NOAA is explicit that these actions can be nature-based (like living shorelines or wetland restoration) and can also be hybrid approaches that combine green and traditional gray infrastructure. Importantly, NOAA is looking for projects that generate co-benefits and reduce multiple stressors at the same time, such as improving public health outcomes, lowering pollution burdens, enhancing habitat and other environmental benefits, and expanding equitable access to safe parks, natural areas, and waterways. Applications are also expected to include clear, defensible metrics that demonstrate risk reduction, so proposals need more than general statements of benefit; they should specify how progress and outcomes will be measured.
A second major priority is regional coordination and collaboration. NOAA is pushing applicants to present an integrated and ambitious but realistic regional vision and to show that the work is not confined to a single jurisdiction acting alone. Proposals should demonstrate that the right mix of entities is meaningfully engaged across the region, which may include states, counties, cities, and Tribes. The intent is to align around shared needs and challenges that cannot be fully addressed by one community in isolation, and to coordinate strategies that operate at both local and regional scales. NOAA also emphasizes public engagement as a practical requirement, not a nice add-on, so successful projects are expected to involve communities in shaping the work and to build durable working relationships between governments and the people they serve.
A third priority is equity and inclusion. NOAA is signaling that resilience investments should be designed with, not just for, marginalized, underserved, and underrepresented communities, with a focus on co-development so that benefits are not captured mainly by already-resourced groups. The opportunity explicitly calls out Tribes, tribal priorities, and Indigenous knowledge, indicating that proposals should respect and incorporate tribal perspectives and expertise where relevant, and should demonstrate that Indigenous and tribal partners are engaged in a way that is substantive and appropriate.
The fourth priority is enduring capacity, which is about leaving behind sustained readiness and capability after the grant period ends. NOAA wants projects that build lasting regional capacity to keep adapting as climate conditions change, including workforce capabilities and institutional capacity. This includes strengthening community-based organizations and ensuring that historically underserved communities have the skills, staffing pathways, relationships, and tools to continue resilience work beyond the award. NOAA also expects successful applicants to think beyond their own geography by sharing information and transferring lessons learned so that other regions can replicate or adapt effective approaches.
From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number NOAA NOS OCM 2023 2008068) was posted June 20, 2023, with an original closing date of August 21, 2023. The award ceiling is listed as $2,000,000, and NOAA anticipated making around 45 awards. Eligibility is described broadly in the notice as "Others" with additional eligibility detail referenced in the full announcement, which suggests multiple entity types may be eligible depending on the specific criteria and partnership structure. NOAA also notes that, besides how well proposals address the stated priorities, it will evaluate applications using standard review factors such as technical merit, applicant qualifications, the reasonableness of project costs, and the quality of outreach and engagement, with specific criteria and weighting outlined in the funding notice.
Overall, this program is designed to move regions from planning to real, measurable resilience outcomes by combining strong risk analysis, coordinated regional partnerships, equity-centered co-development, and durable capacity building, with a clear expectation that funded work will be trackable through metrics and transferable through knowledge sharing. More program details and context are available through NOAA at https://coast.noaa.gov/funding/ira/resilience-challenge/.Apply for NOAA NOS OCM 2023 2008068
- The Department of Commerce in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Inflation Reduction Act: NOAA Climate Resilience Regional Challenge" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.473.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 20, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 21, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 45 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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