National and International – SNAPP 2026 Science for Nature and People Partnership Working Group Grants (November 2 Concept Notes)

FundingThe official program-wide funding pool is up to US $1,000,000 across approximately 4-6 working groups. No individual working-group award maximum was published in the accessible official overview. Do not use the $1 million combined pool as an applicant award.

DeadlineNovember 2, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST), required concept note stage; program opened September 14, 2026.

Last verifiedOctober 28, 2026

Required next actionRead the current SNAPP call at https://thenatureconservancy.smapply.us/prog/snapp/ . Prepare the concept note, team, 2-3 cross-organization principal investigators, proposed scientific synthesis and implementation impacts. Use the linked working-group roster and budget template, evaluation criteria and financial FAQs. Submit the required concept note through the official SurveyMonkey Apply portal by November 2, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Do not email a concept note. The linked financial documents and exact individual funding conditions need further verification.

Broad Eligibility

Cross-sector teams with 2-3 Principal Investigators from different organizations and sectors, and approximately 12-15 interdisciplinary representatives including conservation scientists, nonprofit and government partners, Indigenous/community leadership, research institutions and implementation collaborators. Cross-sector applied conservation science to benefit nature and people; individual eligibility and financial details require full official guidance.

Atlas Analysis

Official The Nature Conservancy SurveyMonkey Apply portal reviewed October 28, 2026. This is a legitimate competitive funded science-to-action working group opportunity, not a government procurement contract. The sponsor states a combined pool up to $1m spread across four to six groups, not an applicant award maximum. Collaborative 2-3 PI, 12-15 participant requirement and two-year working-group structure verified. Concept note deadline Nov 2 at 11:59 p.m. EST verified. The portal explicitly states a 0% indirect-cost/overhead policy and requires a budget and roster; financial FAQ, budget template and full evaluation PDFs linked through Box could not be retrieved, so detailed expense limits, possible matching and individual grant ceiling have not been independently confirmed. Preserve this substantive verification limitation; do not represent source URL screening alone as full application verification.

The Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP), a collaboration of The Nature Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society, is accepting required concept notes for its 2026 funding call through November 2, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This is an applicant-facing competitive research and collaboration grant program, not a government vendor procurement. The official application portal at https://thenatureconservancy.smapply.us/prog/snapp/ opened September 14, 2026. The full application stage follows the required concept-note stage and may be restricted to selected teams. SNAPP states that it provides up to $1 million in combined funding across approximately four to six approved working groups per annual call. This is the program-wide funding pool, not the maximum individual team award; an individual working-group award cap was not published on the accessible official portal. Teams must identify two or three principal investigators from different organizations and sectors and assemble about 12 to 15 representatives spanning appropriate scientific, nonprofit, government, Indigenous, community or other participating institutions and implementation partners. SNAPP supports applied, interdisciplinary science linking conservation, biodiversity, sustainability, human well-being and decision-making, with working-group convenings over roughly two years and an associated Research Fellow. The official portal links a mandatory budget template and working-group roster template, concept-note guidance, financial FAQs, and proposal evaluation criteria. It states a 0 percent indirect-cost/overhead policy on awards and subawards. Concept notes must be submitted through the official SurveyMonkey Apply program, not by email. Program guidance does not specify a universal matching-fund requirement on the publicly readable portal; applicants must check the controlling budget/financial guidance and detailed application fields. The linked Box-hosted financial FAQs and templates were not independently retrievable in this research, so full budget eligibility and restriction verification remains incomplete and this opportunity is held for review rather than approved for public release. Official program page: https://snappartnership.net/innovation-hub/ . Verified against the official funder application portal October 28, 2026.

Source verificationReferenced source · thenatureconservancy.smapply.usAtlas last verified this record October 28, 2026. Always use the funder's current application materials, amendments and portal instructions as the controlling source.View source and application materials ↗