Applications Invited for Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) 2025 Call for Proposals

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About the Organization

SNAPP, a first-of-its-kind scientific joint venture between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), is a tool for developing sustainable solutions to global conservation challenges. Since inception, SNAPP, through its working groups, has provided science and user-friendly tools backed by hard data to identify and quantify nature's role and value in preventing and solving some of the most complex challenges the world faces around food and water security, climate change, and energy.

Each year, SNAPP provides up to US $1 million total across 4-6 approved working groups, led by academic, governmental agency, multilateral, or nonprofit institutions. SNAPP funds teams of 12-15 people from diverse organizations to gather for 3-4 collaborative sessions over the course of 12-24 months. Between sessions, members collaborate remotely; work with long-term implementation partners; identify emerging opportunities for tangible, lasting change; develop and test tools and products; and publish research.

About the Grant

Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) 2025 Request for Proposals to fund expert teams to deliver rapid solutions to the most critical challenges facing humans and our planet.

SNAPP welcomes all proposals! Here is a list of what we can and cannot fund to help you determine which part of your proposal is a good fit for SNAPP.

We fund:

• Convening groups of interdisciplinary experts from different sectors who would not otherwise come together in retreat-like settings to tackle a problem at the intersection of people and nature that can be solved by rapidly synthesizing existing data, information and worldviews. These are SNAPP working groups.
• Salary, benefits and other direct costs of Research Fellows, who may be postdoctoral associates, graduate students and, in some cases, research assistants. (SNAPP maintains a 0% Indirect Cost Policy for all agreements. For more information, please review the "Indirect Costs" tab above)
• Independent contractors or the actual time of technical employees conducting analysis, graphic design, webpage development, and similar activities for the working group.
• Virtual and in-person meetings, including third-party neutral facilitators, meeting planners, hotel, catering, meeting venue and technology, as well as individual attendee travel expenses.

Full SNAPP proposals are evaluated on the following criteria:

• Research Question The question(s) that the proposal will address are clearly at the intersection of nature conservation and sustainable development, are critically important, and the proposed work will add value to the current state of knowledge.
• Methods: The proposal clearly incorporates both biophysical and socioeconomic methods and analysis. The choice of methods is appropriate for the question(s).
• Data: The data and information sources are interdisciplinary and include both biophysical and socioeconomic sciences. Datasets or sources of information the applicant anticipates using for this project are comprehensive and appropriate for addressing the question using methods described.
• Implementation: The proposal specifically outlines which organizations are eager for the scientific results from this group, and it is reasonably clear how they will be used to improve conservation and sustainable development policy and practice. Detailed letters of support are included from these organizations.
• Inclusion: The group composition includes confirmed members representing diversity in sectors and disciplines. This is a collaborative effort with no one or two organizations dominating. Group demographics and worldviews are varied and inclusive of the Global South and other groups less dominant in academic literature.
• Research Fellows: The proposal budget includes at least one full-time research fellow with a well-thought-out mentorship plan.

How to Apply

Accepting Concept Notes November 3, 2025 to January 6, 2026

New for 2025, the submission and approval of a concept note will be required prior to completion of a full proposal.

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