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Grant and Funding Resources


Community Flood Preparedness Fund

The fund was established to provide support for regions and localities across Virginia to reduce the impacts of flooding, including flooding driven by climate change.

Resilient Virginia Revolving Loan Fund

The Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund was established in 2022 to aid communities and property owners impacted by flooding.

Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund

The Fund grants help dam owners and Virginia localities enhance public safety and reduce the risk of dam failures and property damage from flooding.

Planning and Recreation Resources Grants and Funding

The Land and Water Conservation Fund State and Local Assistance Program

This 1965 act established a federal reimbursement program for the acquisition and/or development of public outdoor recreation areas.

Recreational Trails Program

The Recreational Trails Program is a matching reimbursement program for building and rehabilitating trails and trail facilities and land acquisition for trail projects.

Trail Access Grants

The Trail Access Grants program is a 100% reimbursement program being offered in 2021 for trail projects that increase access to trail opportunities for people with disabilities.

Open Space Recreation and Conservation Fund

Virginians who are passionate about outdoor recreation, conservation practices and preserving the state’s natural areas may contribute to the Open Space Recreation and Conservation Fund by donating all, or a portion of, their state tax refunds.

Virginia Land Conservation Foundation

The foundation was established to help fund permanent conservation easements and to purchase open spaces and parklands, lands of historic or cultural significance, farmlands and forests, and natural areas.

Agricultural Cost-Share and Tax Credit Programs

Virginia Agricultural BMP Cost-Share (VACS) Program

The cost-share program supports various practices in conservation planning to treat cropland, pastureland, hay land and forested land.

Best Management Practices Tax Credit Program

The Virginia Agricultural BMP Tax Credit Program supports the voluntary installation of BMPs that support Virginia's nonpoint source pollution water quality objectives and results in tax credits to the agricultural producers.

Virginia Natural Resources Commitment Funds

Organizations supporting the implementation of agricultural cost-share practices often request an in-kind grant-fund match. VRNCF funds are used to satisfy these requests.

Land Conservation Federal and State Grants

  • Agricultural Conservation Easement Program
  • American Battlefield Acquisition Grants
  • Clean Water Financing and Assistance - Land Conservation Loan Program
  • Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program
  • Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
  • Get Outdoors
  • Forest Legacy Program
  • Historic Resources Incentives and Grants
  • National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program
  • North American Wetland Conservation Act
  • Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) Program Matching Funds
  • Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program
  • Virginia Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund
  • U.S. Department of Defense:
    • Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration program
    • Army Compatible Use Buffer program
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