July 10 | Community Wildfire Grants: Ask an Expert (Virtual Session)

About:

Hosted by Living With Fire, this session offers an opportunity to learn about wildfire grants available to communities, ask questions, and receive expert advice on your grant proposals.

Speaker: Donald Lovejoy, Community Wildfire Defense Grant Coordinator at the Nevada Division of Forestry.

Resources that we used and referenced during the workshop:

• Link to the recorded session: https://youtu.be/AMYC9pdZ7Ns
• Donald Lovejoy’s email: dLovejoy@forestry.nv.gov
• Funding opportunities on Nevada Division of Forestry grants page: https://forestry.nv.gov/grants
• Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program: https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/fire/grants/cwdg
• Independent Sector, tool for calculating the value of volunteer time for grant match funding https://independentsector.org/resource/value-of-volunteer-time/
• Fire Adapted Communities Coordinators:
  • Tahoe:
    Michelle McLean,
    Fire Adapted Communities Program Coordinator
    Tahoe Resource Conservation District
    mmclean@tahoercd.org
    (714) 822-9601
  • Nevada:
    Nikhil Narkhede
    Fire Adapted Nevada Partnership Coordinator
    Nevada Division of Forestry
    n.narkhede@forestry.nv.gov
    775-684-2519