Provider
Allen Family Philanthropies
Application Deadline
Letters of Intent are due by 3:00pm EST on January 15, 2026
Summary
The foundation is particularly interested in U.S.-based projects consisting of diverse teams of scientists, practitioners, and key stakeholders (e.g., community members, landowners, state land managers, etc.) to co-develop, test, and deploy science and technology solutions addressing barriers to Natural Climate Solution (NCS) implementation. A total of $10M will be available to fund 6-7 projects (each lasting up to 3 years in duration) via this Request for Proposals (RFP).
For this RFP, the foundation is particularly interested in projects that develop, test, and deploy science and technology solutions for overcoming NCS implementation barriers recently identified by Brumberg et al. (2025) and Kroeger et al. (2025). These studies identified eight types of barriers: 1) material inputs, 2) finance, 3) markets, 4) adverse NCS impacts, 5) knowledge, 6) social and behavioral, 7) rules and laws, and 8) governments and organizations. The foundation believes that the collaborative development of generalizable science and technology solutions to overcome these barriers will be critical for NCS to meet their mitigation potential.
Common Eligible Projects
The Foundation is not evaluating proposals based on the number of proposed NCS pathways or barriers. The Foundation is broadly interested in creative solutions to accelerating NCS implementation in the U.S.
NCS Pathways:
- Avoided forest conversion
- Climate smart forestry
- Forest plantation management
- Forest fire management
- Urban canopy cover
- Reforestation
- Avoided freshwater wetland impacts
- Freshwater wetland restoration
More Information
https://www.allenphilanthropies.org/accelerating-ncs-rfp
