Resources for
reefs
Funding
: Feb 2 – Mar 13, 2026
training & technical assistance
Living Shoreline Planning Series
The Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) invite coastal communities, Tribes, and non-profit organizations from across New England to apply for the Living Shoreline Planning Series, which will offer free training and technical assistance to help guide you and your team through the process of identifying and developing a conceptual design for a living shoreline. These projects will be designed to reduce erosion and coastal flooding and increase resilience with co-benefits like improving habitat and public access to coastal resources. The training and technical assistance are intended to build capacity towards designing, permitting, and implementing living shoreline projects in New England and ensure your community or organization is well positioned to secure funding to advance the project beyond the conceptual design phase.
Up to 10 applicants from across New England will be selected to participate in the Living Shoreline Planning Series, which will consist of five online learning-facilitation sessions and one in-person site visit. The Living Shoreline Planning Series is open for applications from any coastal municipality, Tribe, or non-profit organization located within New England.
Funding
: Feb 2 – Mar 13, 2026
training & technical assistance
Living Shoreline Planning Series
The Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) invite coastal communities, Tribes, and non-profit organizations from across New England to apply for the Living Shoreline Planning Series, which will offer free training and technical assistance to help guide you and your team through the process of identifying and developing a conceptual design for a living shoreline. These projects will be designed to reduce erosion and coastal flooding and increase resilience with co-benefits like improving habitat and public access to coastal resources. The training and technical assistance are intended to build capacity towards designing, permitting, and implementing living shoreline projects in New England and ensure your community or organization is well positioned to secure funding to advance the project beyond the conceptual design phase.
Funding
: Oct 23 – Nov 21, 2025
$200,000-500,000
National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program
The National Estuary Program (NEP) Watersheds Grant Program is a nationally competitive grants addressing the most pressing threats to estuarine health within the 28 NEP boundary areas. This program is offered through Restore America’s Estuaries, with funding from the U.S. EPA.
Program priorities include: 1) Habitat loss (wetlands, seagrass, mangroves, reefs), 2) Coastal resilience and sea level rise, 3) Nutrient pollution, 4) Stormwater impacts and erosion, and 5) Invasive species and marine mammal mortalities.
Funding
: Oct 23 – Nov 21, 2025
$200,000-500,000
National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program
The National Estuary Program (NEP) Watersheds Grant Program is a nationally competitive grants addressing the most pressing threats to estuarine health within the 28 NEP boundary areas. This program is offered through Restore America’s Estuaries, with funding from the U.S. EPA.
$200,000-500,000
National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program
The NEP Coastal Watersheds Grant Program is a nationally competitive grants program designed to support projects that address urgent and challenging issues threatening the well-being of estuaries within the 28 NEP boundary areas.
This grant program funds projects aimed at addressing the following Congressionally-set priorities: • Loss of key habitats resulting in significant impacts on fisheries and water quality such as seagrass, mangroves, tidal and freshwater wetlands, forested wetlands, kelp beds, shellfish beds, and coral reefs; • Coastal resilience and extreme weather events including flooding and coastal erosion related to sea level rise, changing precipitation, warmer waters, or salt marsh, seagrass, or wetland degradation or loss and accelerated land loss; • Impacts of nutrients and warmer water temperatures on aquatic life and ecosystems, including low dissolved oxygen conditions in estuarine waters; • Stormwater runoff which not only can erode stream banks but can carry nutrients, sediment, and trash into rivers and streams that flow into estuaries; • Recurring harmful algae blooms; • Unusual or unexplained marine mammal mortalities; and • Proliferation or invasion of species that limit recreational uses, threaten wastewater systems, or cause other ecosystem damage.
$200,000-500,000
National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program
The NEP Coastal Watersheds Grant Program is a nationally competitive grants program designed to support projects that address urgent and challenging issues threatening the well-being of estuaries within the 28 NEP boundary areas.