Forwarded from Amy Hardy, IMA Chair

Hello IMA Members,

Sylvia Clark passed along this information for grant money for wildfire community preparedness day projects. This might be of interest to many of you…

Have a great Friday,   Amy

From: Clark, Sylvia G -FS [mailto:sgclark@nullfs.fed.us]

Subject: FW: ANNOUNCEMENT: Wildfire Community Preparedness Day Project Awards

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is awarding sixty-five $500 project funding awards for implementing projects that reduce wildfire risk or post-fire impacts for the 2015 Wildfire Community Preparedness Day (Saturday, May 2, 2015). Project funding awards are open to everyone – potential applicants include individuals, neighborhoods, youth groups, homeowner associations, civic organizations, fire departments, park/open space and forestry agencies; it is not a requirement that applicants be part of an active Firewise Community/USA®.

Applying for a project funding award is easy and takes only a few minutes to complete.  Provide a short overview of the project that will be implemented on May 2 describing the activity’s benefits, who the participants will be, the city and state where it will occur and details on how the project funding will be used on Wildfire Community Preparedness Day, Saturday, May 2, 2015. Applications will be accepted thru March 5, 2015 at 11:59pm ET. Apply here.

Your project description and entry form must be uploaded to SnapApp at www.WildfirePrepDay.org/contest or through the contest tab on NFPA’s Firewise Facebook page atwww.facebook.com/Firewise. All entries will be available to the public for viewing and for voting. Encourage friends, family, colleagues and neighbors to vote for your project idea through the app on the campaign landing page or NFPA’s Firewise Facebook page.

An NFPA panel will review applications and select 65 project award recipients.  Winners will be announced Monday, March 10, 2015. View the official rules for the project funding awards here.

Example projects from the 2014 Wildfire Community Preparedness Day can be found here.

Sylvia Clark

Boulder District Ranger, USFS