Flood Resilience Funding Opportunities Database

The Funding Opportunities tab allows users to interactively filter and view the DCR-maintained funding opportunity living database. The Coastal Resilience Web Explorer  User Portal  also allows stakeholders to submit updates and additions to the database on a rolling basis. 

The Funding Opportunities tab includes an interactive Funding Opportunities Table opportunities and a collapsible panel on the left with Filters. 

Funding Opportunities Table

The table includes the following information about each opportunity. 

• Funding Source: The entity name providing the funding opportunity. In most cases, this is the same as the administering office. 
• Name: The name of the funding opportunity. 
• Description: A brief description of the funding opportunity and its objectives. 
• Funding Maximum: The maximum amount of funding available through the opportunity. 
• Match/Cost Share: The applicant cost-share requirements. While some opportunities may have no requirements, others are represented by a decimal value (0.5 = 50% match required). 
• Proposal Deadline: The deadline for proposal application or if applications are accepted on a rolling basis. 
• Learn More: this button opens a pop-up screen with additional funding opportunity details: 
  • Funding Type: The funding source’s organization type (e.g. local, state, federal, foundation). 
  • Purpose: Provides a description of the purpose and objectives of the funding opportunity, including types of projects that are desired to be funded. 
  • Eligible Applicants: Information to explain applicant eligibility requirements. 
  • Category: Identifies whether the opportunity funds Projects and/or Initiatives.
  • Class: The types of projects or initiatives eligible for funding. . 
  • Website: A URL link where interested applicants can read more about the opportunity and how to apply. 
  • Send an Email: A link to email the funding opportunity's designated point of contact. 
  • Funding Notes: Provides any additional information of importance about the funding opportunity. 
  • Geographic Focal Area: Identifies whether the opportunity scoring and/or eligibility uses a geographic area of focus. Required opportunities limit eligibility to a geographic focal area; Preferred opportunities give priority to applications which benefit a geographic focal area. Opportunities with No in this field do not have a relevant geographic focal area.  

Funding Filters

The Filters panel on the left side of the tab allows users to adjust the results appearing in the Funding Opportunities Table based on attributes of interest.  

Users already familiar with information about a funding source of interest can search for keywords that would appear in the opportunity name or funding source name.  

Users can also filter results using the following fields: 

• Eligible Entity: one or more applicant type(s) that the funding opportunity supports. 
• Administering Office: the name of the entity soliciting applications and managing awards.  
• Project Type: the project or initiative type that funding source will support. These options correspond to the second level of the classification hierarchies between class and subtypes found in  CRMP Phase I Appendix G .
• Funding Maximum Range: the funding range(s) the opportunity will support.
• Proposal Deadline: the last available deadline to submit a proposal for an opportunity. Not all opportunities in the database are actively seeking applications. Some applications do not have a deadline, which means that applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• Geographic Focal Area: whether there is a preferred or required geographic area of interest for the funding opportunity.